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"A beautiful Berkeley mom with a radical past vanishes while hiking, leaving her family to piece together her secrets, in this keenly observed novel for readers of Emma Straub and Maria Semple--from the bestselling author ofAll We Ever Wanted Was Everything"--
"Billie is a beautiful Berkeley mom with a radical past--a teenage runaway from Northern California who took up with a group of environmental activists wanted by the FBI, lived dangerously,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This book is an investigation into the types, physiological sources, and cultural resonances of hallucinations traces everything from the disorientations of sleep and intoxication to the manifestations of injury and illness. Have you ever seen something that was not really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don't belong wholly to the insane. Much more...
3) Fear of rain
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A girl living with schizophrenia struggles with terrifying hallucinations as she begins to suspect her neighbor has kidnapped a child. The only person who believes her is Caleb, a boy she isn't even sure exists.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Alicen McCaffrey has the life her mother always dreamed for her: beautiful home, successful husband, adorable daughter. Then tragedy blows it to pieces. Worse -- Alicen feels solely responsible. At rock bottom, she accompanies a friend back to Red Lodge, Montana, where they spent summers together as kids. But when Alicen starts hearing voices and seeing mysterious figures near the river in the woods, she begins to fear she's completely lost her sanity."...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The American debut of a highly acclaimed young Spanish writer: a darkly funny, acerbic novel about love -- and the end of love -- and how hard it can be to let go. There's a lot about Joan-Marc that his estranged second wife doesn't know -- but which he now sets out to tell her. He begins with the failure of his first marriage to an American woman named Helen, describing a vacation they took in a last-ditch attempt to salvage their once-passionate...
7) Find me
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Haunted by sightings of his girlfriend who has committed suicide, Jarlath Costello is drawn into a dark underworld when her aunt gives him a hard drive containing a diary that reveals information about her suspicious death.
9) Oasis
Author
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In this young adult thriller, a group of teens are saved when they come across a mysterious oasis. But who will save them from the oasis? Alif had exciting summer plans: working on her father's archaeological dig site in the desert with four close friends...and a very cute research assistant. Then the sandstorm hit. Their camp wiped away, Alif and the others find themselves lost on the sands, seemingly doomed...until they find the oasis. It has...
10) The illusionist
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed illusionist Eisenheim has not only captured the imaginations of all of Vienna, but also the interest of the ambitious Crown Prince Leopold. When Leopold's new fiancée rekindles a childhood fascination with Eisenheim, the Prince's interest evolves into obsession. Suddenly the city's Chief Inspector finds himself investigating a shocking crime. But even as the Inspector engages him in a dramatic challenge of wills, Eisenheim prepares...
11) Tár
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Set in the international world of classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.
Publisher
Lucid Artist
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Classically trained master illusionist, Harris "The Third," has spent the majority of his young life dazzling audiences. His performances have been featured on literally thousands of stages throughout the United States, and his magic-with-a-message has captured the spotlight in over 15 countries on five continents. In this highly anticipated project, Harris III takes you on a journey filled with wonder, inspiration and life-changing truth. Through...
13) Harvey
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A good-natured eccentric man believes he has a six-foot rabbit for a friend.
14) Donnie Darko
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"[A]n edgy, psychological thriller about a suburban teen coming face-to-face with his dark destiny. [Donnie Darko is] a delusional high-school student visited by a demonic rabbit with eerie visions of the past, and deadly predictions for the future."--Container.
15) The rough pearl
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In this graphic novel, Adam Kline is an aspiring artist with bleak prospects, stuck in a thankless adjunct teaching gig and married to an ambitious woman tired of supporting his starry-eyed pipe dreams. Just as things seem to be looking up for hapless Adam, he begins to black out at random and awaken in a pitch-dark void surrounded by billions of probing eyes. When these uncanny visions appear in his real life, he starts to worry that he's losing...
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