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The film is set in 1964 in a Bronx neighborhood called Five Corners, where a group of lower-middle-class young people is trying to deal with changing times. The incident that catalyzes the film's action is the return of Heinz, a psychotic bully who's been in prison for his attempted rape of Linda. Heinz carries a scar inflicted by Harry smashing during the rape attempt. Now, he wants to get even.

"A tour-de-force of comedy and reflection about the perilous journey from kindergarten to twelfth grade and beyond from the ... stand-up comic and creator of The Great Depresh"--

My name is Julia. This is the story of the summer I almost lost my mum, and found a shark older than trees. Don't worry though, that doesn't spoil the ending.

"This book is a work of narrative history set in Seattle, Washington, that explores the relationship between the health care safety net and homelessness. The book traces the social determinants of health from Seattle's earliest days"--

A mentally ill young woman who lives with her older brother finds her love in an eccentric young man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

More than fifty million people a year are diagnosed with some form of mental illness. It spares no sex, race, age, ethnicity, or income level. And left untreated, mental disorders can devastate our families and communities. Family members and friends are often the first to realize when someone has a problem, but it is hard to know how to help or where to turn. From understanding depression, bipolar illness and anxiety to eating and traumatic disorders,...

"In 1988, when Kimball is only four years old, her mother attempts suicide on Mother's Day--and this becomes one of many things Kimball's family never speaks about. As she searches for answers nearly thirty years later, Kimball embarks on a thrilling visual journey into the secrets her family has kept for decades. Using old diary entries, hospital records, home videos, and other archives, Margaret pieces together a narrative map of her childhood--her...

"On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick...

"From the wildly inventive mind of thriller master Sandrone Dazieri, whose first novel featuring investigators Colomba Caselli and Dante Torre, Kill the Father, was an international bestseller, comes the ingenious second novel in the series, Kill the Angel. In Rome, a high-speed train hurtles into the city's main station with a carriage full of dead bodies, the macabre discovery of which falls to Deputy Police Commissioner Colomba Caselli. Subsequently,...

Working at a homeless shelter, Laurel Estabrook encounters Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of secret photos, but when Bobbie dies suddenly, Laurel embarks on an obsessive search for the truth behind the photos.