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42) Jane Slayre
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Language
English
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This clever and funny literary mash-up rewrites Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" so that Jane is a vampire slayer and Rochester's wife is a werewolf. After learning of her parents' history as slayers, Jane must follow her true calling while trying to remain true to her heart.
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English
Description
"In 1963 Sylvia Plath took her own life in her London flat. Her death was the culmination of a brief, brilliant life lived in the shadow of clinical depression--a condition exacerbated by her tempestuous relationship with mercurial poet Ted Hughes. The ensuing years saw Plath rise to martyr status while Hughes was cast as the cause of her suicide, his infidelity at the heart of her demise. For decades, Hughes never bore witness to the truth of their...
46) Stay with me
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Series
Stay with me volume 1
Language
English
Description
After a violent act of defiance, nineteen-year-old Mia Rose Jett is sent to Dolor University, a reformatory college in the UK that boards unstable and dangerous young adults who treat the private institution as their own personal pleasure ground. --
49) Stella Maris
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Language
Polish
Description
"Stella Maris" to kontynuacja powieści "Pasażer", która wciąga i intryguje już od pierwszych stron. Tytułowym miejscem jest bowiem szpital psychiatryczny, do którego w 1972 roku trafia niejaka Alicia Western - doktorantka matematyki na Uniwersytecie w Chicago, wybitna skrzypaczka oraz córka naukowca współpracującego z amerykańskim rządem przy tajnym projekcie badawczym mającym na celu stworzenie zupełnie nowego typu broni. Choć wydawało...
50) Smutek i rozkosz
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Language
Polish
Description
Pushing away her devoted husband, a once-successful writer moves back into her bohemian childhood home, where she struggles to come to terms with the mental illness that has overshadowed her life.
"To jest opowieść o Marcie. Ale mogłaby być o każdym z nas. Odkąd sięga pamięcią, Martha czuła, że coś jest z nią nie w porządku. Wszyscy mówili jej: „Weź się w garść". Próbowała. Naprawdę wolałaby żyć tak jak inni. Ale przez...
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Hindi
Description
Novel about a girl, who is a mental patient, hoping to return to a nomal life. Ankita has fought a mental disorder, been through hell, and survived two suicide attempts. Now in Mumbai, surrounded by her loving and supportive parents, everything seems idyllic. She is not on medication. She is in a college she loves, studying her dream subject: Creative Writing. At last leading a normal life, she immerses herself in every bit of it. Underneath the surface,...