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The heart is a star / by Rogers, Megan,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Layla Byrnes is exhausted. She's juggling a demanding job as an anaesthetist, a disintegrating marriage, her young kids, and a needy lover. And most particularly she's managing her histrionically unstable mother, who repeatedly threatens to kill herself. But this year, it's different. When her mother rings just before Christmas, she doesn't follow the usual script. Instead, she tells Layla that there's something she needs to tell her about her much-loved father. In response, Layla drops everything to rush to her childhood home on the wild west coast of Tasmania. She's determined to finally confront her mother - and find out what really happened to her father - and lay some demons to rest.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Family secrets; Fathers; Mental illness; Mothers and daughters; Parent and child; Parents;
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Professor T. [videorecording] / by Aubrey, Juliet,1969-actor.; De la Tour, Frances,1944-actor.; Gathergood, Andy,1974-actor.; Miller, Ben,1966-actor.; Naomi, Emma,actor.; Piedfort, Paul,creator.; Reith, Douglas,actor.; Vos, Dries,television director.; White, Barney,actor.; Woodward, Sarah,actor.; Beta Film GmbH,production company.; Caviar (Firm),production company.; Eagle Eye Drama,production company.; PBS Distribution,distributor.; Screen Flanders (Flanders, Belgium),production company.;
Ben Miller, Frances de la Tour, Emma Naomi, Barney White, Sarah Woodward, Juliet Aubrey, Andy Gathergood, Douglas Reith.Every aspect of Professor Jasper Tempest's life is precisely calibrated and rigidly structured. Impeccably dressed and meticulously punctual, he lectures daily at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology, teaching students imaginatively, if pedantically, about the science of crime. And each evening, he returns home to his apartment, which is as sterile and systematically ordered as a science lab. Thanks to this strictly regimented approach, his OCD and germaphobia are under control. But Professor T's buttoned-down world is slowly undone when he is persuaded by one of his former students, Detective Sergeant Lisa Donckers, to assist her in investigating a serial rapist.14A.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; stereophonic.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Detective and mystery television programs.; Television programs.; Television crime shows.; College teachers; Criminal investigation; Criminologists; Family secrets; Mentally ill; Mothers and sons; Obsessive-compulsive disorder; Serial rape investigation;
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Visitations [graphic novel] / by Egbert, Corey,1988-author,illustrator.;
Corey's mom has always made him feel safe. Especially after his parents' divorce, and the dreaded visitations with his dad begin. But as Corey grows older, he can't ignore his mother's increasingly wild accusations. Her insistence that Corey act as his sister's protector. Her declaration that Corey's father is the devil. Soon, she whisks Corey and his sister away from their home and into the boiling Nevada desert. There, they struggle to survive with little food and the police on their trail. Meanwhile, under the night sky, Corey is visited by a flickering ghost, a girl who urges him to fight for a different world--one outside of his mother's spoon-fed tales, one Corey must find before it's too late.
Subjects: Autobiographical fiction.; Coming-of-age comics.; Graphic novels.; Egbert, Corey, 1988-; Children of divorced parents; Children of mentally ill mothers; Dysfunctional families; Latter Day Saints; Parental kidnapping; Siblings;
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The nobleman's guide to scandal and shipwrecks / by Lee, Mackenzi.;
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Subjects: Historical fiction.; Brothers and sisters; Mental illness; Family secrets; Quests (Expeditions); Travel; Mothers;
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Hereditary [videorecording] / by Aster, Ari,film director,screenwriter.; Byrne, Gabriel,1950-actor.; Collette, Toni,actor.; Frakes, Kevin Scott,1978-film producer.; Knudson, Lars,film producer.; Patrick, Buddy,1984-film producer.; Shapiro, Milly,actor.; Wolff, Alex,1997-actor.; Elevation Pictures,film distributor.;
Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd.When her mentally ill mother passes away, a woman named Annie (Toni Collette) and her husband (Gabriel Byrne), son (Alex Wolff) and daughter (Milly Shapiro) all mourn her loss. The family turn to different means to handle their grief, including Annie and her daughter both flirting with the supernatural. They each begin to have disturbing, otherworldly experiences linked to the sinister secrets and emotional trauma that have been passed through the generations of their family.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA Rating: R; for horror violence, disturbing images, language, drug use and brief graphic nudity.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Feature films.; Horror films.; Family secrets; Heredity; Mothers and daughters; Supernatural; Demoniac possession; Demonology;
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The spark : a mother's story of nurturing genius / by Barnett, Kristine.;
Kristine Barnett, the mother of an autistic child, shares the strategies she utilized for tapping her son's potential.LSC
Subjects: Barnett, Kristine.; Barnett, Jacob, 1998-; Parents of autistic children; Autistic children; Mothers and sons; Genius;
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Stone mothers / by Kelly, Erin,1976-author.;
Erin Kelly, master of suspense, returns with her next thrilling standalone featuring an abandoned mental asylum and the secrets it holds. Marianne was never supposed to return to town, the town where she grew up in the shadow of the Nazareth Mental Hospital. Her mother may be suffering from dementia nearby, but she had thought she'd left that place, and its dark secrets, behind her. That is, until her husband buys a flat in its newly renovated interior so that she can be close enough to help her mother, and Marianne can't tell him why the place fills her with such dread, she can't risk destroying the careful life she's built.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Family secrets; Psychiatric hospitals; Sick parents; Teachers; Politicians; Mentally ill;
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This bright future : a memoir / by Hall, Bobby,author.;
"A raw and unfiltered journey into the life and mind of Bobby Hall, who emerged from the wreckage of a horrifically abusive childhood to become an era-defining artist ... A self-described orphan with parents, Bobby Hall began life as Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, the only child of an alcoholic, mentally ill mother on welfare and an absent, crack-addicted father. After enduring seventeen years of abuse and neglect, Bobby ran away from home and--with nothing more than a discarded laptop and a ninth-grade education--he found his voice in the world of hip-hop and a new home in a place he never expected: the untamed and uncharted wilderness of the social media age"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Hall, Bobby.; Adult child abuse victims; Adult children of alcoholics; Adult children of drug addicts; Adult children of dysfunctional families; Internet personalities; Rap musicians;
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How do I draw these memories? [graphic novel] / by Joshua, Jonell,author,illustrator.;
"Jonell Joshua spent her childhood shuttling back and forth between Savannah and New Jersey-living in grandparents' homes during the times her mother, struggling with mental illness, could not take care of her and her brothers. Together the family found a way to keep going even in the darkest of times. How Do I Draw These Memories? is a graphic novel memoir about nostalgia, faith, the preciousness of life, and unconditional love. From Jonell's devastatingly brilliant pen as a writer and an artist, it plumbs the depths of what family can be, and how joy and hope can be found in the most ordinary and extraordinary moments"--
Subjects: Biographical comics.; Nonfiction comics.; Autobiographical comics.; Graphic novels.; Personal narratives.; Joshua, Jonell; Joshua, Jonell; African American families; Cartoonists; Families; Families; Illustrators;
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While you were out : an intimate family portrait of mental illness in an era of silence / by Kissinger, Meg,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them. Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg Kissinger's family seemed to live a charmed life. With eight kids and two loving parents, the Kissingers radiated a warm, boisterous energy. Whether they were spending summer days on the shores of Lake Michigan, barreling down the ski slopes, or navigating the trials of their Catholic school, the Kissingers always knew how to live large and play hard. But behind closed doors, a harsher reality was unfolding. A heavily-medicated mother hospitalized for anxiety and depression, a manic father prone to violence, and children in the throes of bipolar disorder and depression, two of whom would take their own lives. Through it all, the Kissingers faced the world with their signature dark humor and the unspoken family rule--never talk about it. While You Were Out begins as the personal story of one family's struggles, then opens outward as Kissinger details how childhood tragedy catalyzed a journalism career focused on exposing our country's flawed mental health care. Combining the intimacy of memoir with the rigor of investigative reporting, the book explores the consequences of shame, the havoc of botched public policy, and the hope offered by new treatment strategies. This is a story of one family's love and devotion in the face of relentless struggle. It is a book for anyone who cares about someone with mental illness. In other words, it is a book for everyone"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Kissinger, Meg.; Kissinger, Meg; Kissinger family.; Families of the mentally ill; Mental illness; Mentally ill; Photography of families.;
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