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42) Impulse
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Series
Language
English
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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.
43) The soulmate
Author
Language
English
Description
"Get ready for a thrilling, addictive novel about marriage, betrayal, and the secrets that push us to the edge in Sally Hepworth's The Soulmate. There's a cottage on a cliff. Gabe and Pippa's dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their perfect house hides something sinister. The tall cliffs have become a popular spot for people to end their lives. Night after night Gabe comes to their rescue, literally talking them off the ledge. Until he doesn't....
44) Hold still
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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As Caitlin struggles to cope with her best friend Ingrid's suicide, she turns inward and quiet, but finding Ingrid's hidden journal, a new classmate, and new projects help Caitlin find a way to reach out again.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
422 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
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""A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be." In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace--and will touch lives in ways she...
46) I swear
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
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p. cm.
Language
English
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"After Leslie Gatlin kills herself, her bullies reflect on how things got so far"--
48) The walking dead
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
413 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows the parallel stories of an armed protection officer in London and a would-be suicide bomber, who begin to question their identities as they incrementally view themselves fom one another's perspectives.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
279 p. map 24 cm.
Language
English
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Retired heart surgeon Ben Givens, diagnosed with terminal colon cancer, decides to take one last hunting trip in the Columbia Basin of central Washington where he plans to end his life, but the people he meets and the situations he faces along the way cause him to change his mind.
Author
Series
Alex Morrow novels volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
390 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a notorious millionaire banker hangs himself, his death attracts no sympathy. But the legacy of a lifetime of selfishness is widespread, and the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his family. Meanwhile, in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow, a young woman is found savagely murdered. The community is stunned by what appears to be a vicious, random attack. When Detective Inspector Alex Morrow, heavily pregnant with twins, is called...
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
254 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, genealogical table ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A fractured reckoning with the legacy and inheritance of suicide in one American family"--
2009. Patterson earned her father had died by suicide. His death was part of a disturbing pattern in her family, and over the months that followed she kept returning to one question: Why? Why had her family lost so many men, so many fathers, and what lay beneath the silence that had taken hold? Sifting through the few belongings her father left behind, looking...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
433 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Prominent businessman Pal Maciver locked himself in his study and shot himself. It's an open-and-shut case, as far as Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel is concerned. Except...Maciver's father died in an almost identical manner ten years earlier, and "Fat Andy" was the investigating officer. Pal's strange and strained relationship with his beautiful, enigmatic stepmother, Kay Kafka, also raises warning flags. And the family's shady corporate dealings...
53) The Treatment
Author
Series
The Program. Main series volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
344 p.
Language
English
Description
Working with rebels to bring down The Program, a suicide prevention treatment in which painful memories are erased, Sloane and James consider taking The Treatment to unlock their memories.
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,...
55) Summer sons
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lee Mandelo's debut Summer Sons is a sweltering, queer Southern Gothic that crosses Appalachian street racing with academic intrigue, all haunted by a hungry ghost. Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddie left Andrew behind to start his graduate program at Vanderbilt. Six months later, only days before Andrew was to join him in Nashville, Eddie dies of an apparent suicide. He leaves Andrew...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Carson McCullers was all of twenty-three when she published her first novel, "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter." She became an overnight literary sensation, and soon such authors as Tennessee Williams were calling her "the greatest prose writer that the South [has] produced." "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" tells an unforgettable tale of moral isolation in a small southern mill town in the 1930s.
57) The vanishers
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Julia, a student at an elite institute for psychics, has a tense relationship with her mentor, Madame Ackerman, who is afflicted by jealousy and refuses to pass the torch to Julia. Instead, she forces Julia to relive her mother's suicide. Then she launches a psychic attack on Julia that leaves her with a crippling ailment and investigating her mother's life making a surprising discovery.
58) The heirloom
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 97 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Twenty years ago, an inexplicable unsolved mass suicide occurred in the millionaire Yang household. Only one heir secretly survived and years later he inherits the family mansion and returns there with his fiancee. Mysterious and deadly events begin to take place, the demented legacy of the Yang family curse is reborn and history is soon poised to repeat itself.
59) The Departure
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
Ittetsu Nemoto, a former punk-turned-Buddhist priest in Japan, has made a career out of helping suicidal people find reasons to live. But this work has come increasingly at the cost of his own family and health, as he refuses to draw lines between those he counsels and himself.
60) Shatter
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
433 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Joe O'Loughlin knows what he's doing when he's called on to talk down a woman from the Clifton Suspension Bridge who is bent on suicide. He's done it many times before. The only problem is, this woman seems more determined to listen to the voices in her head than to Joe. His attempt fails and she plunges to her death. Afterward, he finds himself comforting the woman's teen daughter and becoming more deeply involved in the police investigation, much...
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