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Pub. Date
2012
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The "poet laureate of medicine" (The New York Times) and author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat weaves together stories of mind-altering experiences to reveal what they tell us about our brains, our folklore and culture, and why the potential for hallucination exists in us all.
"Sacks has turned hallucinations from something bizarre and frightening into something that seems part of...
"Sacks has turned hallucinations from something bizarre and frightening into something that seems part of...
2) The factory
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In an unnamed Japanese city, three seemingly normal and unrelated characters find work at a sprawling industrial factory. They each focus intently on their specific jobs: one studies moss, one shreds paper, and the other proofreads incomprehensible documents. Life in the factory has its own logic and momentum, and, eventually, the factory slowly expands and begins to take over everything, enveloping these poor workers. The very margins of reality...
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"Billie is a beautiful Berkeley mom with a radical past--a teenage runaway from Northern California who took up with a group of environmental activists wanted by the FBI, lived dangerously, but when she meets Jonathan, a tech magazine editor and all around good guy, she settles easily into the life of an eco-conscious, stay-at-home suburban yoga mom. Their daughter Olive, under her mother's watchful gaze, becomes a lovely, introverted, slightly eccentric...
4) Find me
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Haunted by sightings of his girlfriend who has committed suicide, Jarlath Costello is drawn into a dark underworld when her aunt gives him a hard drive containing a diary that reveals information about her suspicious death.
5) Woodshock
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color, 4 3/4 in
Description
Kirsten Dunst stars as Theresa, a haunted young woman spiraling in the wake of profound loss, torn between her fractured emotional state of a potent cannabinoid drug.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1959, psychiatrist Dr. Alan Stone arrives at a mental hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan armed with the radical belief that schizophrenic patients should be treated with empathy and understanding. As his first study, he takes on the particularly challenging case of three men: Joseph, Leon, and Clyde, each of whom believes they are Jesus Christ. Dr. Stone begins a risky, unprecedented experiment that will push the boundaries of psychiatric medicine...
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N is employed at a prestigious California university, where he has distinguished himself as an aloof and somewhat eccentric presence. His meticulous, ordered life is violently disrupted by the death of his estranged father-- unanticipated and, as it increasingly seems to N, surrounded by murky circumstances. After a chance meeting with a young doctor, N begins to have vivid, almost hallucinatory daydreams about the year he spent in Ottawa, and a shameful...
12) Cake
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A look into the darkly funny world of Claire Bennett who initiates a dubious relationship with a widower while confronting fantastical hallucinations of his dead wife. With her feisty housekeeper-cum-caretaker ever at her side, Claire searches for human connection and self-forgiveness in this tale of personal redemption.
13) Alive
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Stella Cross's heart is poisoned. After years on the transplant waiting list, she's running out of hope that she'll ever see her eighteenth birthday. Then, miraculously, Stella receives the transplant she needs to survive. Determined to embrace everything she came so close to losing, Stella throws herself into her new life. But her recovery is marred by strange side effects: Nightmares. Hallucinations. A recurring pain that flares every day at the...
14) Glamour in glass
Author
Series
Glamourist histories volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
334 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Newlyweds Jane and David Vincent travel to Belgium and their ability to create invisibility via glamour makes them a target for emperor Napoleon's returning forces.
16) Moon
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Astronaut Sam Bell is completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth's primary source of energy on the dark side of the moon: Helium-3. His declining health is causing headaches and hallucinations that lead to a near-fatal accident, rendering him unconscious. After recuperating, an unexpected discovery leads him to doubt his sanity, his identity, and the integrity of the company. Believing he is alone on his mission, his sole...
17) Blind owl
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Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xx, 87 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
"Written by one of the greatest Iranian writers of the twentieth century, Blind Owl tells a three-part story of a pen-case painter, an isolated narrator with a fragile relationship with time and reality. In part one, he relates his own story in the first person, in a string of hazy, dreamlike recollections fueled by opium and alcohol. He spends time painting the covers of pen cases only to paint the exact same scene: an old man wearing a cape and...
18) Brain games
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"[This] three-part series provides a fascinating window into the inner workings of the brain as never before. Through interactive experiments and tricks, [the programs] reveal how our brains create the illusion of a seamless reality. As these revealing experiments provide a unique view into our brains, the world's leading experts explain how and why these tests work." -- Container.
Bonus program: How to build a beating heart: "Scientists are using...
19) The illusionist
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The acclaimed illusionist Eisenheim has not only captured the imaginations of all of Vienna, but also the interest of the ambitious Crown Prince Leopold. When Leopold's new fiancée rekindles a childhood fascination with Eisenheim, the Prince's interest evolves into obsession. Suddenly the city's Chief Inspector finds himself investigating a shocking crime. But even as the Inspector engages him in a dramatic challenge of wills, Eisenheim prepares...
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