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61) 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.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
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.
63) Out of range
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Game warden Joe Pickett's attempts to enjoy his mother-in-law's wedding to a local big-shot rancher is disturbed when Joe receives word that a fellow warden and friend, Will Jensen, has killed himself, leaving Joe to temporarily run his district and investigate the suspicious circumstances surrounding his friend's death.
64) 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Masha Mironova alights in Moscow at the turn of the century, with a modest inheritance and a determination to shed her provincial Siberian upbringing, she becomes Columbine: reckless and daring--and with the dramatic outfits to prove it. In her quest for danger and passion, Columbine soon discovers the Lovers of Death--a small gathering of poets who conduct séances to determine death's next chosen lover. Once named at a séance, the chosen...
66) Haunted
Author
Series
Hannah Smith novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
The house is historic, some say haunted. It is also slated to be razed and replaced by condos, unless Hannah Smith can do something about it. She's been hired by a wealthy Palm Beach widow to prove that the house's seller didn't disclose everything he knew about the place when he unloaded it, including its role in a bloody Civil War skirmish (in which two of Hannah's own distant relations had had a part), and the suicides--or where they murders?--of...
67) Sound of insects
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 88 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In a remote forest, a hunter discovers a mummified corpse and a diary, detailing the man's thoughts as he commits suicide through self-imposed starvation. Based on an incredible true story, the Sound of insects is a stunning investigation into the man's enigmatic self-destructive motivations.
Author
Series
Jo Beckett series volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
355 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Amy and Brian's world was changed forever with his diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's. Forced to confront the daily frustrations and realities of the disease and its impact on their lives and marriage, Brian resolved not to let it dictate his life and instead asked himself: What makes life meaningful, and how do I want to live the rest of mine? His decision led them to learn about Dignitas and to fly to Zürich for a peaceful ending of Brian's...
Publisher
Rocks In My Pockets
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This acclaimed New York Times "Critic's Pick" is an animated, sweeping 100-year family history of mystery, mental health, redemption and survival. The film is based on true events involving five women of filmmaker Signe Baumane's family, including herself, and their encounters with depression and suicide. Using animation, visual metaphors and a healthy dose of humor, Baumane leads us on an adventure filled with romance, marriage, nature, business,...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2009, Edie had New York’s social world in her thrall. Mercurial and beguiling, she was the shining star of a group of recent graduates living in a Brooklyn loft and treating New York like their playground. When Edie’s body was found near a suicide note at the end of a long, drunken night, no one could believe it. Grief, shock, and resentment scattered the group and brought the era to an abrupt end.
A decade later, Lindsay has come a long way...
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
Kill or be killed volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dylan is just an average, depressed grad student until a failed suicide attempt changes everything he knows and propels him, against his will, into a life of vigilante justice."--page 4 of cover
75) Father's Day
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 39 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Haunted by his inability to prevent his father's death at age 17, the making of this film came to span twenty years as Lipman tried to construct an image of his father from relatives' memories and psychiatric records unearthed from hospital archives. The film circles around to become an inquiry into his own life - the choices he has made and how his father's life resonates within his own. Using evocative home movies and poetic imagery, Father's Day...
76) Crimson gold
Publisher
Wellsprings Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
Behind the headline of a murder and a suicide, lies the story of a lonely man whose deep feelings of humiliation push him over the edge.
78) A likeable woman
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"She's back in her affluent hometown for the first time in years and determined to unravel the secrets of her mother's death hidden in the unpublished memoir she left behind...even if it kills her... After her troublemaker mother's mysterious death, Kira fled her wealthy Texas town and never looked back. Now, decades later, Kira is invited to an old frenemy's vow renewal party. Though she is reluctant to go, there are things calling her back . . ....
80) Memento Mori
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 97 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Korean
Description
Min-Ah discovers a shared diary and is fascinated to learn that two schoolmates she thought to be close friends have, in fact, begun a forbidden romance. Unable to tear her eyes away, the secret allure of the diary begins to consume her. When one of the diary's writers is found dead from an apparent suicide, rumors spread and Min-Ah begins to sense a strange presence. The once tranquil school is transformed into a morbid place of terror, as if the...
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