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1) Inside out
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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A sixteen-year-old with schizophrenia is caught up in the events surrounding an attempted robbery by two other teens who eventually hold him hostage.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Fifteen-year-old Jeff wakes up on New Year's Day to find he has been admitted to the psychiatric ward after trying to kill himself and is offended that anyone would think he has anything in common with the other "crazies" in the hospital with him, but as his stay lengthens he begins to see he is more like them than he thought.
4) Beach music
Author
Language
English
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Description
Jack McCall, an American expatriate in Rome, has been scarred by his wife's betrayal and suicide, and his desperate search for peace over the next three generations draws him into an intimate search for the one haunting secret in his family's past that can bring peace to his broken heart.
5) Wonder boys
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
When James Leer, a troubled young writer, becomes obsessed with Hollywood suicides, he begins a series of madcap, startling adventures.
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Language
English
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When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
7) Impulse
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives.
Author
Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 4
Language
English
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Description
The charismatic and quirky Professor Jeremy Logan, renowned investigator of the strange and the inexplicable, as he uncovers a long-lost secret experiment only rumored to have existed.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly three hundred pounds, gets a new perspective on life when Curt, a semi-homeless teen who is a genius on guitar, asks Troy to be the drummer in a rock band.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The diabolical "Mercedes Killer" drives his enemies to suicide, and if Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney don't figure out a way to stop him, they'll be victims themselves. In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something has awakened. Something evil. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator of the Mercedes Massacre, where eight people were killed and many more were badly injured, has been in the clinic for five years, in a vegetative state....
11) The river knows
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
355 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London, wealthy and handsome Anthony Stalbridge is investigating prominent Society member Elwin Hastings, whom Anthony suspects of being involved in his fianc�ee's death. While snooping around Hastings' mansion, Anthony stumbles upon undercover reporter and young widow Louisa Bryce, who is sniffing out whether Hastings is a partner in a notorious brothel. Forced to join forces, Anthony and Louisa uncover plenty of danger, dark secrets,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Although Stone Barrington hadn't heard from his cousin, Dick Stone, in years, he had fond memories of a teenage summer spent at Dick's home in Maine. Those memories were what came to mind the moment he received the news that Dick had apparently committed suicide after killing his wife and daughter. Ironically Stone had received a package from Dick that very morning with instructions to open it only in the event of his death. Believing his cousin innocent,...
13) Flamingo Diner
Author
Language
English
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Description
Flamingo Diner has always been a friendly place where everyone knows your name. Unfortunately, in the small town of Winter Cove, Florida, it is also the place where everyone knows everything about you. As a teenager, Emma Killian didn't recognize what a remarkable business her family had created, and so she moved away.
14) Stay with me
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her sister kills herself, sixteen-old Leila goes looking for a reason and, instead, discovers great love, her family's true history, and what her own place in it is.
15) Torch
Author
Language
English
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Description
"When 17-year-old Pavol fatally sets himself on fire in Prague in 1969 to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, his three best friends must figure out how to survive an oppressive regime without him"--
18) Dead scared
Author
Series
Lacey Flint novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
378 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Going undercover as a vulnerable college student when a suspicious rash of suicides occurs at Cambridge University, DC Lacey Flint finds her tragic past and insecurities rendering her a more susceptible target than she realized.
19) Madame Bovary
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
The slow but inevitable moral degeneration of a weak woman. Describes the patient rendering of the squalor and narrowness of provincial life and of its effect on the woman's mind.
Author
Series
Jo Beckett series volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
355 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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