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1) Asylum
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"Buckle up for 'Asylum,' where the first page catapults you into a relentless chase. Lori and Shaun Tolliver find themselves in a lethal game with Peter Stroebel, on the run from a deadly agency. As time ticks down, they face gut-wrenching choices in a world rife with espionage and moral complexity. From nail-biting showdowns to sky-high stakes, this thriller grips you and doesn't let go. Ready for an unforgettable ride? Grab 'Asylum.'"
2) Asylum
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Barry James is detained in a quarantine facility in the blistering heat of the Great Karoo. Here he exists in two worlds: the unforgiving reality of his incarceration and the lyrical landscapes of his dreams.He has cut all ties with his previous life, his health is failing, and he has given up all hope. All he has to cling to are the meanderings of his restless mind, the daily round of pills and the journals he reluctantly keeps as testimony to a...
3) The Asylum
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Four nursing student friends head to an isolated family cabin in rural Victoria Australia, to get away and have a break from school and work. The fun begins with a road trip, drinks and music, until they find the basement with interesting contents. After investigating, they are curious to learn more and begin exploring. What they encounter is nothing like they expected and is now a matter of life and death.
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In the desolate outskirts of a forgotten town lies the decaying remnants of an asylum long lost to time. The air is thick with an oppressive silence, broken only by the occasional creaking of rusted gates and the distant echoes of tormented souls. "The Shadowed Asylum," once a place of supposed healing, has become a breeding ground for nightmares. A disparate group of individuals, haunted by shared visions of a malevolent presence, is drawn together...
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Private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham have to hunt down an escapee from a French asylum, in this new, gripping World's End Bureau Victorian mystery from critically-acclaimed author Alys Clare.
London, April 1882. When cool-headed Phyllida visits the World's End Investigation Bureau to offer a curious case concerning her fiance, proprietor Lily Raynor is intrigued - and privately excited. For accepting the case means taking an unexpected...
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National Book Award winner Paul Monette's acclaimed first book of poetry. Originally published in 1975, The Carpenter at the Asylum was Monette's first literary success. In this collection of poems, he writes with playfulness and candor of everything from fairy tales to the change of seasons. "All things glitter like fresh milk," he writes in one poem. And indeed, these works pull a sparklingly strange beauty from everyday objects and experiences....
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The author of the bestselling We, the Others: Allophones, Immigrants, and Belonging in Canada (LLP 2022), Toula Drimonis traces the history of sanctuary, examines myths about refugees and migrants, and interviews with migration.
Human migration and the right to seek asylum from harm have been constants throughout the history of human existence. But only recently has Canada been forced to confront a global displacement crisis that much of the rest...
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A fascinating introduction to the history of Broadmoor: Kate Summerscale, author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.
On 27 May 1863, three coaches pulled up at the gates of a new asylum, built amongst the tall, dense pines of Windsor Forest. Broadmoors first patients had arrived.
In Broadmoor Revealed, Mark Stevens writes about what life was like for the criminally insane, over one hundred years ago. From fresh research into the Broadmoor archives,...
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The city of London is celebrated as one of the most ethnically diverse capitals in the world, and has been a magnet of migration since its origin. Looking to London steps into the maelstrom of current and recent wars and the resulting migration crisis, telling the stories of women refugees who have made it to London to seek safe haven among the city's Kurdish, Somali, Tamil, Sudanese and Syrian communities, under the watchful eye of the security services.
Cynthia...
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Of the many state-enacted cruelties to which refugees and asylum seekers are subjected, detention and deportation loom largest in popular consciousness. But there is a third practice, perpetrating a slower violence, that remains hidden: dispersal.
Jonathan Darling provides the first detailed account of how dispersal - the system of accommodation and support for asylum seekers and refugees in Britain - both sustains and produces patterns of violence,...
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Life in the Victorian Asylum reconstructs the lost world of the nineteenth century public asylums. This fresh take on the history of mental health reveals why county asylums were built, the sort of people they housed and the treatments they received, as well as the enduring legacy of these remarkable institutions.
Mark Stevens, the best-selling author of Broadmoor Revealed, is a professional archivist and expert on asylum records. In this book, he...
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"A deeply reported, newsbreaking account the humanitarian crisis of our time by the journalist who has been at the center of the story: MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff, winner of the 2019 Walter Cronkite Award, offers a chilling expose of the human cost of the Trump administration's border and immigration policies"--
In June 2018, Donald Trumps most notorious decision as president-the systematic separation of thousands of desperate migrant families...
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