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Asylum : inside the closed world of state mental hospitals / by Payne, Christopher,1968-(CARDINAL)667375; Sacks, Oliver,1933-2015.(CARDINAL)347933;
Includes bibliographical references.Asylum / Oliver Sacks -- The state mental hospitals / Christopher Payne -- The photographs -- Afterword.
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Payne, Christopher, 1968-; Photography.; Psychiatric hospitals; Psychiatric hospitals;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Asylum : a personal, historical, natural inquiry in 103 lyric sections / by Bialosky, Jill,author.(CARDINAL)347698;
"This book-length poem by the critically acclaimed poet is a seeker's story, revealing personal and historical traumas and how we search for understanding and meaning in their wake. In Asylum, poet Jill Bialosky embarks on a Virgilian journey, building a narrative from 103 elegant short poems and prose sections that cohere in their intensity and their need to explore darkness and sustenance both. Taken together, these piercing understated pieces--about her nascent calling as a writer; her sister's suicide and its still unfolding aftermath; the horror unleashed by World War II; the life cycle of the Monarch butterfly, and of the woods where she seeks asylum--form a moving sequence, powerfully braiding despair, survival, and hope, as Bialosky considers the oppositions that govern us: our reason and unreason, our need to both preserve and destruct. "What are words when they meet the action of what they attempt to modify?" she asks, exploring the possible salve of language in the face of pain and grief. What Asylum delivers is a form of hard-won grace, a coming to terms with grief and the cycles of life, in work that carries Bialosky's art to a new level of urgency and achievement"--
Subjects: Poetry.; Grief;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Asylum: a survivor's flight from Nazi-occupied Vienna through wartime France / by Scheyer, Moriz,1886-1949,author.(CARDINAL)536723; Singer, P. N.(Peter N.),1962-translator.(CARDINAL)638447;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-305)."'It may be that the way in which the words, the sentences, the pages have been put together is the result of a certain intellectual effort. But their content, their essence, has a quite different source. And that source is a profound emotional anguish. An anguish in which the wretched sufferer is able only to keep repeating the same stammering question: How could it all have happened?' As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers before the German invasion in 1938, Moriz Scheyer knew many of the city's great artists, from Stefan Zweig and Arthur Schnitzler to Bruno Walter, and was an important literary journalist in his own right. But when the vicious, brutal hands of Nazism grabbed hold of Austria, Scheyer was forced from his position and his home. In 1943, while in hiding at a convent in the Dordogne region of France, Scheyer began drafting what would become this book--his memoir. Tracing events from the Anschluss in Austria through life in Paris, both prewar and under German occupation, the Exodus from Paris, his experiences of a French concentration camp, an escape attempt and contact with the Resistance, and a final, dramatic rescue and clandestine life in the convent, Asylum is tense, raw, and riveting in its immediate perspective and the minute details of those terrifying, endless days. After Scheyer's death in 1949, his stepson--who disliked the book and its emotive anti-German rhetoric--destroyed the manuscript. Or thought he did. Recently a carbon copy was discovered in the family's attic by P. N. Singer, the author's step-grandson, who has translated the work and provided an epilogue."--Dust jacket.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Scheyer, Moriz, 1886-1949.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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Asylum : a memoir & manifesto / by Okporo, Edafe,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Growing up (and coming out) in Nigeria -- becoming a refugee and claiming asylum -- being a new immigrant in America -- being a black gay man in America -- faith in America and West Africa -- the courage to lead around the world -- risking it all for freedom."A poignant, moving memoir and urgent call to action for immigration justice by a Nigerian asylee and global gay rights and immigration activist Edafe Okporo. On the eve of Edafe Okporo's twenty-sixth birthday, he was awoken to a violent mob outside his window in Abuja, Nigeria. The mob threatened his life after discovering the secret Edafe had been hiding for years -- that he is a gay man. Left with no other choice, he purchased a one-way plane ticket to New York City and fled for his life. Though America had always been painted to him as a land of freedom and opportunity, it was anything but when he arrived just days before the tumultuous 2016 Presidential Election. Edafe would go on to spend the next six months at an immigration detention center in Elizabeth, New Jersey. After navigating the confusing, often draconian, US immigration and legal system, he was finally granted asylum. But he would soon realize that America is exceptionally good at keeping people locked up but is seriously lacking in integrating freed refugees into society. Asylum is Edafe's eye-opening, thought-provoking memoir and manifesto, which documents his experiences growing up gay in Nigeria, fleeing to America, navigating the immigration system, and making a life for himself as a Black, gay immigrant. Alongside his personal story is a blaring call to action -- not only for immigration reform but for a just immigration system for refugees everywhere. This book imagines a future where immigrants and asylees are treated with fairness, transparency, and compassion. It aims to help us understand that home is not just where you feel safe and welcome but also how you can make it feel safe and welcome for others." --
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Okporo, Edafe.; Asylum, Right of; Asylum, Right of; Emigration and immigration law; Political refugees; Immigrants; Nigerians; Gay men; Homophobia; Gay men.; Homophobia.;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 9
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The asylum / by Theorin, Johan,1963-author.(CARDINAL)553583; Delargy, Marlaine,translator.(CARDINAL)342215;
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Dark Asylum. by Thomson, E. S.(CARDINAL)353533;
Dr. Rutherford, principal physician to the insane, is found dead in grotesque fashion. The police direct their attention toward Angel Meadow's inmates, but to Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain, the crime is an act of calculated retribution, rather than one of madness.
Subjects: Fiction.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cold asylum [sound recording] / by Axler, James,author(CARDINAL)778386;
Generations after global annihilation, Kansas is a mutated landscape of dense, deciduous forest. Gone are the amber waves of grain, another hideous result of nuclear devastation that changed the face of the earth forever. Now it's survival of the freakish.Mature audiences.System requirements: CD/MP3 player or MP3 playback software.
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Science fiction.; Audiobooks.; Nuclear explosions; Radiation; Twenty-first century; Nuclear warfare;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The asylum / by Smith, L. J.(Lisa J.)(CARDINAL)756734; Williamson, Kevin,1965-(CARDINAL)534016; Plec, Julie.(CARDINAL)502792;
Driven from their hometown of Mystic Falls, both Stefan Salvatore and his brother, Damon, arrived in Europe looking for a fresh start. But Samuel, a wealthy and cunning vampire, has other plans for them. First he ruined Stefan's peaceful existence and now he's framing Damon for the most gruesome murders London has ever seen. United against their common enemy, Stefan and Damon are stunned when they realize that the source of Samuel's rage lies in their past, tied up with the woman who forever changed their lives. Haunted by the memory of katherine, the brothers find that their uneasy alliance is tested. Can they overcome their rivalry to defeat Samuel before he exacts his final revenge?Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Paranormal fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Romance fiction.; Horror fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Interpersonal relations; Brothers; Vampires; Paranormal fiction; Supernatural; Salvatore, Stefan (Fictitious character); Salvatore, Damon (Fictitious character); Occultism; Man-woman relationships;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 16
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Blue asylum [large print] / by Hepinstall, Kathy.(CARDINAL)658144;
Subjects: Large print books.; Historical fiction.; Romance fiction.; Plantation owners' spouses; Psychiatric hospital patients; Asylums;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Asylum seekers / by Senker, Cath.(CARDINAL)382965;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Sadil's story -- Mary's story -- Fareiba's story -- Muhammad's story -- Aida's story -- Marek's story -- Lamara's story -- Aguek's story -- Jonathan's story -- Faisal's story -- Flores's story -- Samira's story -- Emily and Breyen's story -- Paula's story.
Subjects: Political refugees; Forced migration;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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