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John Carpenter's Asylum volume 7
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As the story continues, Beckett and Duran are drawn to a small town in the Midwest where children have been kidnapped and murdered for decades in a pattern suggesting that a bigger Evil might be at work.
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Asylum volume Prequel
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Follows the experiences of teen Rick, who after being wrongfully committed to Brookline at the height of warden Crawford's regime, must escape before becoming a subject in an evil experiment and losing his mind to the forces haunting the asylum.
23) The Warden
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In this thrilling and creepy digital original story set in the world of Madeleine Roux's New York Times bestselling novel Asylum, a young nurse starts work at the Brookline asylum-and quickly discovers that there's more to its sinister warden than meets the eye.
When Jocelyn and her best friend, Madge, arrive at the gates of Brookline sanatorium-fresh out of nursing school-they are eager and excited to start their new careers. But from their very...
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The inmates of Arkham Asylum have taken over Gotham's detention center for the criminally insane on April Fool's Day, demanding Batman in exchange for their hostages. Accepting their demented challenge, Batman is forced to endure the personal hells of the Joker, Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, Two-Face and many other sworn enemies in order to save the innocents and retake the prison. During his run through this absurd gauntlet, the Dark Knight's must face...
25) L'asile
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Pour Dan Crawford, un ado de seize ans, un programme estival pour étudiants doués représente la chance d'une vie. Personne d'autre à son école ne comprend sa fascination étrange pour l'histoire et la science, mais au sein du programme préparatoire du Collège du New Hampshire, ces excentricités sont pratiquement des prérequis.
À son arrivée, Dan apprend que la résidence estivale habituelle a fermé ses portes, les étudiants à demeurer...
26) Le Sanctuaire
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LE PASSÉ REVIENT LES HANTER.
Dan, Abby et Jordan demeurent traumatisés par l'été qu'ils ont passé ensemble à l'asile de Brookline. Malgré tous leurs efforts pour tourner la page, quelqu'un est bien déterminé à garder la terreur vivante et envoie aux ados des photos d'un carnaval d'époque, sans nom ni message. Dan finit par recevoir une liste de coordonnées qui désignent des maisons abandonnées dans le village à proximité de Brookline...
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One of the greatest Batman stories ever told, Batman: Arkham Asylum is back in a new edition of the classic hardcover! The inmates of Arkham Asylum have taken over and are demanding Batman in exchange for their hostages. Accepting their demented challenge, Batman is forced to endure the personal hells of The Joker, the Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, Two-Face, and many other sworn enemies in order to save the innocents and retake the asylum. Includes newly...
28) Patient 1024
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They arrive alive. They leave dead. But first, they give me their confessions.
These are the patient files for the deathbed confessions of my patients.
This one you're about to read is for PATIENT #1024. He's known on my ward as The Chef and he has an interesting...appetite. His confession is included in The Asylum Confessions: Volume One
Fans of Stephen King, Joe Hill and like to read books like The Bird Box, The Haunting and can't get enough...
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Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a place of dismal corridors and oppressive shadows-a dark riddle in stone and timber, best left unsolved. Within its claustrophobic walls, the demented and deformed enemies of the Batman brood in padded cells and unlit cellars, dreaming of a day when they might rise up and overthrow the world of reason. That day has finally come. It is April 1, and the lunatics have taken over the asylum. Led by The Joker,...
30) Out of the Ring
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There's fighting to win. Fighting for love. And… Fighting to survive. At The Asylum a submissive might kneel to the right man, but a collar doesn't make him weak. Between lovers and found family, the core has created a foundation that nothing can break. More than can be contained between four walls. The journey begins at home. But it doesn't end there. No Good Very Bad Day at The Asylum Danny DiMarco made one huge mistake that morning. One he really...
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They arrive alive.
They leave dead.
But first, they give me their confessions.
These are the patient files for the deathbed confessions of my patients. This one you're about to read is for Patient number 1024.
He's known on my ward as Ken from the famous "Ken and Barbie" duo. They were the Bonnie & Clyde in the Asylum. His confession is included in The Asylum Confessions: Book 1.
Fans of Stephen King, Joe Hill, and those who can't get enough...
32) Beyond Justice
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Raised and trained by The Asylum Fight Club's most infamous owner, Reed Dane is almost untouchable. Might sound dope, but there are disadvantages to his 'privileged' status. His guardian's reputation makes a serious relationship impossible-turns out the club's members are addicted to breathing-and the one man Reed truly wants sees him only as a stray his former lover brought home.
An endless string of one-night stands lacks the intimacy Reed craves,...
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In the aftermath of World War I, international organizations descended upon the destitute children living in the rubble of Budapest and the city became a testing ground for how the West would handle the most vulnerable residents of a former enemy state.
Budapest's Children reconstructs how Budapest turned into a laboratory of transnational humanitarian intervention. Friederike Kind-Kovács explores the ways in which migration, hunger, and destitution...
34) Flawed Justice
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If there were an emergency number for adulthood, Matt Kincaid would have dialed it months ago. Raising his kid brother alone is already an uphill battle, nevermind when an ugly gang initiation lands the teen in lockup. Again. Only, this time for a hate crime against a local fight club, where settling debts isn't taken lightly. When the club offers to let Matt risk everything in a long-shot match with a man who's as brutally handsome as he is tough,...
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As unprecedented numbers of unaccompanied African minors requested asylum in Europe in 2015, Annika Lems witnessed a peculiar dynamic: despite inclusionary language in official policy and broader society, these children faced a deluge of exclusionary practices in the classroom and beyond.
“Frontiers of Belonging” traces the educational paths of refugee youth arriving in Switzerland amid the shifting sociopolitical terrain of the refugee crisis...
36) Hard Justice
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Scandalous headlines threaten to turn Jamie Kent from a pop star to a pariah on the regular, but this latest one is a little too close for comfort. The Asylum Fight Club seems like a good place to hide out...until he has to prove he belongs-deep in a lifestyle with a contract and rules he breaks within the first five minutes. Staying means complete surrender, but a lifetime scripting love songs didn't prepare him to give his heart to the one man who...
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Who helps in situations of forced displacement? How and why do they get involved?
In “Helping Familiar Strangers”, Louise Olliff focuses on one type of humanitarian group, refugee diaspora organizations (RDOs), to explore the complicated impulses, practices, and relationships between these activists and the "familiar strangers" they try to help. By documenting findings from ethnographic research and interviews with resettled and displaced persons,...
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Pay attention. You might learn a thing. Or two. If you make it to the end of class. In The Asylum Fight Club, submission goes beyond a kinky power exchange. Sometimes, it means protection. Healing. Growth. Or exploring the darker sides of pleasure, a release from all-too-real threats behind solid walls meant to keep those within safe. Being a Core sub can mean all of the above, but to those who are part of the Club's defenses? There is no pass or...
39) Ascendant
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The world has disintegrated. Civilization has collapsed. Chaos is the new normal.
But I, Lacy Monroe, intend to survive.
My lover Jace and I can't escape my corrupt uncle, Senator Thomas Monroe. He captures and separates us, forcing us to work for him. He sends me to Mexico City to secure an army to overthrow what remains of the US government. He sends Jace on a suicide mission to conquer New Mexico, the only remaining free state in the...
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Traditionally, humanitarianism is considered a nonpolitical urgent response to human suffering. However, this characterization ignores the politics that create and are created by the crises and the increasingly long-term dimension of relief.
In “The Politics of Crisis-Making”, by shedding light on how humanitarian practice becomes enmeshed with diverse forms of welfare and development, Estella Carpi exposes how the politics of defining crises...
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