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"A stunning achievement [that] . . . illuminates the tragedy of our treatment of those with mental and emotional problems."-Robert Whitaker, author of Mad in America

More than four hundred abandoned suitcases filled with patients' belongings were found when Willard Psychiatric Center closed in 1995 after 125 years of operation. In this fully-illustrated social history, they are skillfully examined and compared to the written record to create a moving-and devastating-group portrait of twentieth-century American psychiatric care.

Darby Penney is a leader in the human rights movement for people with psychiatric disabilities.

Peter Stastny is a psychiatrist and documentary filmmaker.

Lisa Rinzler is a prizewinning cinematographer.

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In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan. On the outside, in white paint, were these words: Hana Brady, May 16, 1931, and Waisenkind—the German word for orphan. Children who saw the suitcase on display were full of questions Who was Hana Brady? What happened to her? They wanted Fumiko Ishioka, the center's curator, to find the answers.

In a suspenseful journey, Fumiko searches for clues across Europe and North America. The mystery of the suitcase takes her back through seventy years, to a young Hana and her family, whose happy life in a small Czech town was turned upside down by the invasion of the Nazis..
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Mallory Marlowe is ready to turn a corner—one lined with palm trees, plastic pink flamingo lawn ornaments, and snack bars shaped like giant ice cream cones. Thanks to her new job as travel writer for the New York magazine The Good Life, recently widowed Mallory is zipping around Orlando, assigned to rediscover the glory days of “old Florida.” It’s the first of what she hopes will be many exciting adventures . . . but she’s about to discover that the Sunshine State has a dark side.

Settled in among the faux volcanoes and tiki torches of the Polynesian Princess Hotel, Mallory is on the lookout for quirky attractions like alligator farms and pirate-themed diners hidden amid the glitzy theme parks. But she’s not prepared to find a cranky journalist speared to death in the Bali Ballroom—or to find herself a suspect in his murder. With her trip coming to a close, Mallory has no choice but to figure out if one of her fellow travel writers is a killer. Because if she doesn’t get out of Florida soon, her career—and her life—are about to come to a dead end.

Includes Mallory’s article for The Good Life, with tips and reviews of real Florida attractions!.
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Felix is back in a brand new adventure! If Sophie hadn't bought the old book of fairy tales with the story of the flying suitcase, this never would have ahppended! Because that story gave Felix the idea of flying off in his suitcase in the middle of the night on another amazing adventure Felix's flying suitcase adventure takes him from Dracula's castle in deepest Romania to the Taj Mahal in India, to the Great Wall of China and even to the pyramids of Mexico! Like all the books in the bestselling innovative series, Felix's stories are told in letters, tucked into real envelopes, that tell funny, informative stories and teach children all sorts of interesting things about the world they live in..
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The whirlwind of Europe's longest war in half a century has produced this powerful collection of personal narratives--essays, letters, and poems--from refugees fleeing Bosnia and Croatia. Taking us behind the barrage of media coverage, these stories tell of perseverance, brutality, forced departure, exile, and courage. With startling immediacy and in moving detail, speakers tell of stuffing a few belongings--a handful of photographs, a rock from the garden, a change of clothes--into a suitcase and fleeing their homeland.
Contributors from all ethnic groups and every region of Bosnia and Croatia describe their sense of lost community, memories of those left behind, recollections of town squares that no longer exist, and homes now occupied by neighbors. The editors of The Suitcase, themselves representing the diverse peoples of the region, traveled to camps and temporary homes across the globe to collect these stories. An antidote to apathy, this work moves beyond and outside the vicissitudes of daily politics to portray the human tragedy at the center of present-day Bosnia and Croatia. Probing the intimate losses of countless individuals, it delivers a powerful indictment of injustice, militarism, prejudice, and warfare..
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In book 4 of the Bailey Fish Adventure series, Bailey Fish and her grandmother welcome the first guests at Keswick Inn. Elmo and Feather Phigg bring with them a mysterious, locked green suitcase that contains a Jamestown, Va., mystery. The children want to know what's inn it. Meanwhile, Sparrow, a purposefully mute foster child arrives and Bailey and her friends organize a party to make the child laugh or talk. The mystery deepens when another visitor appears..
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Since the opening up of South Africa, the country has become home to many refugees from the coups and civil wars of the rest of Africa. The most vulnerable of these are the children, some of who have arrived in South Africa without parents, family or friends. They face a daunting challenge to find acceptance, and a home, in this strange, sometimes hostile adoptive country.

Glynis Clacherty has become involved with a number of such children in Johannesburg. To help them deal with the trauma of their flight and arrival she provided them with suitcases on which to paint their personal stories and recent histories. These suitcases and the accompanying stories are the subject of this warm, challenging book.

Photographs of the painted suitcases together with narratives collected over a period of three years through interviews reveal a series of individual stories of hardship and longing, strength and resilience, and provide a unique insight into the past and present worlds of refugee children in South Africa.
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