West Routt Library District

This 1962 novel is set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, and depicts the chaos when McMurphy, a rebellious prison inmate who has faked insanity in order to finish his sentence in the hospital, incites the other patients to disobey the feared Nurse Ratched. An escalating series of incidents leads to a tragic conclusion.

Mystery writer Marty Stillwater's idyllic Southern California lifestyle is shattered when a stranger breaks into his house claiming to be the real Martin Stillwater--and waging a terrifying campaign to eliminate Marty. Unable to trust the police, the Stillwater family goes on the run, but there is no safe haven.

Kaysen writes of her experiences, augmented by pages from her medical record, in a psychiatric hospital and of the social and emotional assumptions that divide people into deviant or normal.

On a savage, storm-lashed night, Michael Hrubek - a dangerously paranoid schizophrenic - escapes from a mental hospital for the criminally insane by impersonating a dead man. He's on a mission - to find Lis Atcheson, the woman whose testimony identified him as the gruesome Indian Leap State Park murderer. He'll stalk her all the way home, where she waits in the cool autumn night...surrounded by her past. For Lis, the chief witness at Hrubek's trial,...

The tale of a scientist who discovers how to make his body become invisible, but, when he can't make himself visible again, becomes violently insane.