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  Publication Date:  October 3, 2017 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Coming of Age/Fiction Publisher:  Thomas Dunne      Length:  432 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the Midwestern meth lab backdrop of their lives. As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the field...

Release Date:  November 5, 2019 Publisher:  Grand Central Publishing Format:  Audio Length:  11 hours 3  minutes Narrator:  Susannah Cahalan & Christie Moreau Genre:  Psychology, history Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness - how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what  it  is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people - sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society - went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to remain inside until they'd "proven" themselves sane, all eight emerged with alarming diagnoses and even more troubling stories of their treatment. Rosenhan's watershed study broke open the field of psychiatry, closing down institutions and changing mental ...

Title:   The Farm by Tom Rob Smith Publisher:  Grand Central Publishing 368 pages Genre: Thriller I received an e-galley of this book from the publisher through netgalley.com in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis:  If you refuse to believe me, I will no longer consider you my son. Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden. But with a single phone call, everything changes. Your mother...she's not well , his father tells him.  She's been imagining things - terrible, terrible things . She's had a psychotic breakdown, and been committed to a mental hospital. Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls:  Everything that man has told you is a lie. I'm not mad... I need the police... Meet me at Heathrow. Caught between his parents, and unsure of who to believe or trust, Daniel becomes his mother's unwilling judge and jury as she tells him an urgent tale of secrets, of lies, of ...