Download or read book Hidden Valley Road written by Robert Kolker and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY • The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease. "Reads like a medical detective journey and sheds light on a topic so many of us face: mental illness." —Oprah Winfrey Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys, one after another, were diagnosed as schizophrenic. How could all this happen to one family? What took place inside the house on Hidden Valley Road was so extraordinary that the Galvins became one of the first families to be studied by the National Institute of Mental Health. Their story offers a shadow history of the science of schizophrenia, from the era of institutionalization, lobotomy, and the schizophrenogenic mother to the search for genetic markers for the disease, always amid profound disagreements about the nature of the illness itself. And unbeknownst to the Galvins, samples of their DNA informed decades of genetic research that continues today, offering paths to treatment, prediction, and even eradication of the disease for future generations. With clarity and compassion, bestselling and award-winning author Robert Kolker uncovers one family's unforgettable legacy of suffering, love, and hope.

Download or read book The Artists written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden in a remote place surrounded by high mountains, there lies a secret valley. There is an entrance, but you could pass by it a hundred times and still not see it... It's autumn in the hidden valley and there's a sense of change in the air. What better goodbye gift is there than a magical painting? None, of course!

Download or read book The Mystery of Hidden Valley The Mystery Series Book 3 written by Paul Moxham and published by Paul Moxham. This book was released on 2014-07-20 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you up for a thrilling adventure? While camping in Wales, it doesn't take long for the Mystery Kids to stumble across a long-lost tunnel that leads to a valley full of secrets. Follow the children as they are imprisoned in an old farmhouse, discover a hidden cave, sabotage a plane, rescue a missing man, undertake a perilous climb, and more! Book 3 in the Mystery Series, this adventure novel is set in 1950's Britain and will suit anyone who enjoys Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys or the Famous Five. THE MYSTERY SERIES This middle grade series set in 1950's UK will delight children of all ages. Perfect for fans of Enid Blyton (Famous Five/Secret Seven), Carolyn Keene (Nancy Drew), Franklin Dixon (Hardy Boys) and Gertrude Chandler Warner (The Boxcar Children). Suitable for children 6-8, 9-12, and even adults who love a clean and wholesome story. ~ ~ ~ Standalone Short Story: The Mystery of Santa Claus Standalone Unbelievable Adventures: Mystery of the Invisible Woman Escape from Inner Earth The Secret Alien Invasion Standalone Worldwide Adventures: International Spy and Midnight Intruder Haunted Lighthouse and Blizzard Peak Standalone Choose Your Own Way: Danger in Monrovia Lost in the Bermuda Triangle Escape From Sylvania Summer Holidays: The Mystery of Smugglers Cove The Mystery of the Missing Money The Mystery of the Missing Gnomes The Mystery of Adventure Island The Mystery of the Mysterious Man The Mystery of the Strange Notebook The Mystery of Hidden Valley Winter Holidays: The Mystery of Claw Mountain The Mystery of the Golden Elephant The Mystery of the Red Balloon The Mystery of the Golden Dragons The Mystery of the Howling Dog The Mystery of the Hidden Suitcase The Mystery of Treasure Island Easter Holidays: The Mystery of Four Towers The Mystery of the Burning Plane The Mystery of the Russian Spy The Mystery of Ghost Island The Mystery of the Perfect Thief The Mystery of the Underwater Car The Mystery of the Crown Jewels Summer Holidays: The Mystery of the Amphibious Jeep The Mystery of the Escaped Prisoner The Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle The Mystery of the Runaway King The Mystery of the Secret Lake The Mystery of Crocodile Island The Mystery of the Fake President Winter Holidays: The Mystery of the Secret Hideout

Download or read book Secrets of the Mysterious Valley written by Christopher O'Brien and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other region in North America features the variety and intensity of unusual phenomena found in the world’s largest alpine valley, the San Luis Valley of Colorado and New Mexico. Since 1989, Christopher O’Brien has documented thousands of high-strange accounts that report UFOs, ghosts, crypto-creatures, cattle mutilations, skinwalkers and sorcerers, along with portal areas, secret underground bases and covert military activity. This mysterious region at the top of North America has a higher incidence of UFO reports than any other area of the continent and is the publicized birthplace of the “cattle mutilation” mystery. Hundreds of animals have been found strangely slain during waves of anomalous aerial craft sightings. Is the government directly involved? Are there underground bases here? Does the military fly exotic aerial craft in this valley that are radar-invisible below 18,000 feet? These and many other questions are addressed in this all-new work by one of America’s top paranormal investigators. Take a fantastic journey through one of the world’s most enigmatic locales!

Download or read book The Mystery of Nida Valley written by Elaine Ouston and published by Morris Publishing Australia. This book was released on 2011 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Meg Sealy woke that fateful morning, she had no idea that by day's end the life that she had known would be gone forever. While saving her best friend Amanda, fourteen-yearold Meg Sealy and her older cousin Jaiden, stumble upon a secret valley where time stands still. The three friends are thrust into a dangerous world of magic, time travel, and creatures they believed extinct. Here they learn that it is their destiny to use their new magic skills to join the fight to save the valley from an evil break-away order, bent on exploitation. Follow their journey as undercover villains threaten Meg's life, and they fight to save the animals from extinction.

Download or read book The Hidden Valley Mystery written by Susan Ioannou and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book HIDDEN VALLEY written by Annie Seaton and published by ASA. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happily working on her family’s macadamia farm in the rolling hills of northern New South Wales, Dee Peters receives an enigmatic letter hinting of family secrets, and the prospect of her inheriting a cattle station in the Northern Territory outback. Torn in many directions: the request that she meet with a solicitor in Darwin, the evasive behaviour of her parents and the opposition of family friend and her—almost—fiancé, Rodney Andrews, Dee’s contented life is suddenly thrown into turmoil. The last thing she expects is to inherit a sprawling cattle station in the rugged outback, but she travels to the Territory to find the truth of the inheritance. Intrigued by the vague hints of the elderly solicitor, Dee decides to stay on the station for six months while she attempts to make sense of the past. Ryan Carey has managed Wilderness Springs cattle station since his father died suddenly. Devastated when he discovers the property has not been bequeathed to him, the last thing Ryan expects is the arrival of a woman, and one who is keen to take over the running of the property. With reluctance, he agrees to work with Dee, but as she tries to make sense of why the property was left to her, a chilling secret from the past will shock them both. As Dee and Ryan attempt to uncover the secrets of Wilderness Springs, it soon becomes very clear that someone will do anything to stop them discovering the truth. Set in the harsh countryside west of Kakadu National Park, this is a thrilling mystery about hidden family secrets and finding love in the harsh Australian outback.

Download or read book Terrene written by Eric Liu and published by Eric Liu. This book was released on 2011 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within every person lies the power to change one world. Within Flora lies the hope for two.In the isolated rural valley of Terrene, where technology is grown, not manufactured, Flora Karachi paints her anguish with flowers and yearns to travel outside the mountain walls that guard her village. But in a society which values harmony and symmetry above all else, her dangerous curiosity and her indelicate scars, earned from a lifetime of inexplicable blackouts, make her an outcast with few prospects for adventure. Then the dreams come. Lucid and overpowering, they throw Flora into a fascinatingly advanced world where she lives the life of Jane Ingram, an American scientist fighting global climate change while trying to raise a child in a society where interpersonal interaction is becoming obsolete. Flora "s blackouts open a window into knowledge lost long ago and possibilities that are yet to come. To unravel these mysteries, she must travel to the enigmatic Institute, an ancient enclave hidden in the surrounding mountains, where scholars guard the secrets of Terrene.Living two lives, Flora will fight to become an Institute scholar in her own world while struggling to save the planet from humanity's neglect in Jane's. Yet all of Flora's courage combined with all of Jane's experience may not be enough to defeat the powerful forces protecting the secret which ties their two worlds together. To find salvation for both worlds, Jane and Flora must sacrifice their own dreams, conquer their fears, and discover hope for a new beginning.Hailed as a clever blend between science fiction and fantasy, Terrene explores the challenges of accelerating technology and global climate change through the stories of two remarkable women in two worlds that are not as distant as they seem.

Download or read book Secret of the Andes written by Ann Nolan Clark and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1976-10-28 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Newbery Medal Winner An Incan boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his ancestors. "The story of an Incan boy who lives in a hidden valley high in the mountains of Peru with old Chuto the llama herder. Unknown to Cusi, he is of royal blood and is the 'chosen one.' A compelling story."—Booklist

Download or read book The Hanging Valley An Inspector Banks Mystery written by Peter Robinson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a faceless body is found in a tranquil valley just south of the village of Swainshead, Chief Inspector Alan Banks soon finds that no one in the village is willing to talk about it, except to say, “Not again.” An unsolved murder from five years before and the unsolved disappearance of a prominent local man’s girlfriend appear to be connected. As Banks delves deeper into the mystery, someone begins to intentionally slow down the investigation. When events take a turn, Inspector Banks must track his killer across the Atlantic and find a way to make a break in the case before time runs out. Fourth in the critically acclaimed Inspector Banks Mystery Series.

Download or read book Into the Hidden Valley written by Stuart Blackburn and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sins of the father ... Charles Taylor was raised in the typical British manner of the late Victorian era: distant from his father, George, a civil servant in India. The two grow closer as Charles ages, but after his father's untimely death, he finds himself on a path of discovery about George's life and his role in the pacification of tribes near the Tibetan border, especially his father's encounter with a powerful shaman and his son. A past as hidden as the Apatani valley, which protects its secrets well.

Download or read book Riding the Bus with My Sister written by Rachel Simon and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “heartwarming, life-affirming” memoir of a relationship with an intellectually disabled sibling: “Read this book. It might just change your life” (Boston Herald). Beth is a spirited woman with an intellectual disability who lives intensely and often joyfully, and spends most of her days riding the buses in Pennsylvania. The drivers, a lively group, are her mentors; her fellow passengers, her community—though some display less patience or kindness than others. Her sister, Rachel, a teacher and writer, camouflages her emotional isolation by leading a hyperbusy life. But one day, Beth asks Rachel to accompany her on public transportation for an entire year—and Rachel accepts. This wise, funny, deeply affecting book is the chronicle of that remarkable time, as Rachel learns how to live in the moment, how to pay attention to what really matters, how to change, how to love—and how to slow down and enjoy the ride. Weaving in anecdotes and memories of terrifying maternal abandonment, fierce sisterly loyalty, and astonishing forgiveness, Rachel Simon brings to light a world that is almost invisible to many people, finds unlikely heroes in everyday life, and, without sentimentality, wrestles with her own limitations and portrays Beth as the endearing, feisty, independent person she is. “With tenderness and fury, heartbreak and acceptance . . . Simon comes to the inescapable conclusion that we are all riders on the bus, and on the bus we are all the same.” —Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean

Download or read book Mystery at Hidden Valley Lodge written by B. A. Parra and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kylei Banks is an average 16-year-old girl who loves music and boys. When summer arrives, she's excited to escape with her best friend and her family on a two-week vacation. Kylei meets Tony Lukas, a 17-year-old who has a troubled past. He has been in and out of foster homes since he was 13. But he seems to be a nice guy and Kylei is instantly smitten. When her parents and her best friend meet Tony, they have a different opinion entirely. They all think he's more of a bad boy than a nice guy, but Kylei is in love and wants to prove them wrong. When a series of thefts occur in the area, all clues seem to point to Tony. Kylei's not ready to admit that Tony has anything to do with it, so she follows him one day. Kylei is in for more adventure than a summer love usually brings and it could prove to be very dangerous for her. Beverly Parra writes a riveting mystery that young readers will gobble up. With likeable characters and a sharp and twisty plotline, this author is sure to become a favorite among teens who love a great whodunit. Parra is an author, songwriter and retired school teacher. She has written 10 books and is currently writing adult fiction. She resides in Southern California. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/MysteryatHiddenValleyLodge.htm

Download or read book Secrets at Hidden Valley written by Willo Davis Roberts and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her father dead and her mother off on a movie shoot, Steffi has no where to go, except to her grandfather's remote RV camp in northern Michigan. He's grumpy and secretive. Everyone seems to be hiding something, Steffi soon discovers.

Download or read book Secrets at Hidden Valley written by Willo Davis Roberts and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steffi discovers a mystery at her grandparents' RV camp in northern Michigan.

Download or read book Secrets in September written by Doreen McAvoy and published by Elk Lake Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 2021-06-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will was looking forward to eighth grade. Will he even make it past September? Will Abbott expects his eighth-grade year at Fern Valley Middle School to be the same as the last seven-school, soccer, and lazy Saturdays. But when a rash of crime strikes his little town, it doesn't take long to realize something peculiar is going on. Will is certain the class bully, Beefy Boris, is involved and suspects he's getting help-from their own classmates! As Will and his friends investigate, they stumble upon clues leading them to suspect someone even more sinister is responsible. Can Will and his friends-including a new girl with a mysterious past-trap the criminal mastermind and reveal a secret that has haunted Fern Valley for twelve years?

Download or read book The Case of the Hidden Treasure written by Molly Mia Stewart and published by Sweet Valley. This book was released on 1993 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twins Elizabeth and Jessica see a strange woman acting suspiciously at the beach. Could the woman be searching for lost pirate booty?