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"Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a seminal novel of the 1960s. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants--a counterculture classic that inspired the 1975 film adaptation, widely considered one of the greatest movies ever made"--
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Victoria Oliver will do anything to ensure that her troubled son has some semblance of a childhood. Danielle Burton is a dedicated nurse in a pediatric psych ward, but is haunted by a family tragedy. The anniversary of that tragedy approaches, and when veteran Boston police detective D. D. Warren shows up, Danielle realizes it has started again. The lives of these three women connect in unexpected ways as uncovered secrets reveal how tightly blood...
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Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald reigned as king and queen of the Jazz Age, but those close to them saw their inner turmoil. Committed to a Baltimore psychiatric hospital in 1932, Zelda vacillates between lucidity and madness as she fights to forge an identity independent of her famous husband. She finds a sympathetic ear in her nurse Anna Howard, who, drawn into the Fitzgeralds' tumultuous lives, wonders which of them is the true genius ..