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"1951. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to an isolated mental asylum by her husband. Run by a pioneering psychiatrist, the hospital is at first Esther's prison but soon surprisingly becomes her refuge. 2018. Free-spirited marine scientist Rachel Parker embarks on a research posting in the Isles of Scilly, off the Cornish coast. When a violent storm forces her to take shelter on a far-flung island, she discovers a collection of hidden...
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"At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in an adopted family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate. He learned that his real name was not Norman. It was Lemn Sissay. He was British and Ethiopian. And he learned that his mother had been pleading for his safe return to her since his birth. This is Lemn's story: a story of neglect and determination, misfortune and hope, cruelty and triumph. Sissay reflects...
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Deanie is a beautiful and sensitive teenager who would do whatever her mother and her 1928 Kansas hometown find proper. Her boyfriend, Bud, has intense desires for Deanie and the two are very much in love. But, sexual pressures in society creates a rift in their relationship. She restrains herself while Bud acts on them, but with another girl. Bud's actions drive Deanie to madness. She is committed into an institution while Bud reluctantly obeys his...
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The unforgettable true story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker who uncovered one of the most controversial scandals of recent times: the organized deportation of innocent children from the UK to Australia, where they were thought to be lost in the system forever. Against overwhelming odds, and with little regard for her own safety, Humphreys reunited thousands of families and brought worldwide attention to a corrupt system and an extraordinary...
46) The orphans of Davenport: eugenics, the Great Depression, and the war over children's intelligence
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"The fascinating-and eerily timely-tale of the forgotten Depression-era psychologists who overthrew long-accepted racist and classist views of childhood development. "Doomed from birth" was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs, Skeels and his colleague Marie Skodak assumed that the girls had inherited their parents' low intelligence and sent...
47) Grandma
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Oscar loves Grandma, and their time together is always lots of fun. As she becomes less able to look after herself, she has to go into a care home. More and more children are encountering dementia and its effects on their families. This touching story, told in Oscar's own words, is a positive and practical tale about the experience. The factual page about dementia helps children talk about their feelings and find new ways to enjoy the changing relationship....
48) The unloved
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A powerful and personal look at the strength and resilience of youth. Tells the story of eleven-year-old Lucy seeking refuge as a ward of the state from her abusive father. Placed in a tumultuous foster home, Lucy befriends her rebellious teenage roommate Lauren, and together they navigate the cold and uncaring world before them. Captures the subtle magic and melancholy of childhood while painting an honest portrait of a girl torn between a broken...
49) Bustin' loose
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Joe is an ex-con given a second chance after violating his parole. He has been hired by a schoolteacher to drive a group of special kids to their new home. Joe's a bit unnerved by their mental problems, but soon they bond and become friends.
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"There was a huge public outpouring to the recent articles in The New York Times about Family Foundation School, a last-resort institution for troubled teens in upstate New York. It described the near 50% death rate of alumni-including many by suicide-and how the survivors lived with their trauma in the years after leaving the school. A follow-up piece this January covered the shocking facts that came to light through multiple lawsuits and the continuing...
51) The missing ones
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"The hole they dug was not deep. A white flour bag encased the little body. Three small faces watched from the window, eyes black with terror. The child in the middle spoke without turning his head. "I wonder which one of us will be next?" When a woman's body is discovered in a cathedral and hours later a young man is found hanging from a tree outside his home, Detective Lottie Parker is called in to lead the investigation. Both bodies have the same...
52) Strait-jacket
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Lucy Harbin goes berserk when she finds her husband in bed with another woman. With her three-year-old daughter accidentally witnessing the grisly act, Lucy axes the couple to death, then spends twenty years in a mental institution for the double murder. After she is released, she moves in with her brother, his wife, and her own daughter, now age twenty-three. Her nightmare is over, or is it? When a series of axe murders suddenly occurs in the neighborhood,...
53) The institute ; written by Matt Rager & Adam Rager ; directed by Pamela Romanowsky & James Franco
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In 19th century Baltimore, Isabel Porter--stricken with grief from her parents' untimely death--voluntarily checks herself into the Rosewood Institute. There, she is subjected to bizarre and increasingly violent pseudo-scientific experiments in personality modification, brainwashing, and mind control. Now she must escape the clutches of the Rosewood, and exact her revenge.
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The nearly forgotten story of the American Plan, a government program to regulate women's bodies and sexuality--and how they fought back--told through the lens of one of its survivors. In 1918, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, Nina McCall was told to report to the local health officer to be examined for sexually transmitted infections. Confused and humiliated, Nina did as she was told, and the health officer performed a hasty (and invasive)...
56) Nobody's child
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Based on the heart-wrenching true story of Marie Balter. Abused and victimized, she beats impossible odds to build a normal life after spending 20 years locked away in a mental institution.
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It's 1960. Norman Bates is in the State Hospital for the Criminally Insane and it's up to Dr. Felix Reed to bring him out of his catatonic state. But Norman and Dr. Reed have obstacles in twisted fellow patients and staff members who think of the institution as a prison rather than a place of healing. And the greatest obstacle is the building itself, once a private sanitarium, rumored to be haunted. A wild card appears in the persona of Robert Newman,...
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