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121) The levelling
Language
English
Formats
Description
Somerset, England. Trainee veterinarian Clover Catto (Ellie Kendrick, Game of Thrones) returns to the farm where she grew up after hearing news that her brother Harry has died - in what appears to be a suicide.. Finding the family home in a state of horrendous disrepair following the 2014 floods that devastated the area, Clover is forced to confront her father Aubrey - about the farm, the livestock and, crucially, the details surrounding Harry's death....
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (118 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul, Rebecca, one of the world's top war photojournalists, gets badly hurt. Back home, another bomb drops as her husband and daughters give her an ultimatum: her work or her family.
123) Goth Girl rising
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kyra, who is also known as Goth Girl, returns home from the Maryland Mental Health Unit to find out that things have changed, particularly her friend Fanboy, who has transformed into somebody she barely recognizes, which causes her anger and dark memories to return.
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Alexi Pappas was four years old, her mother committed suicide, drastically altering the course of Pappas's life and setting her on a perpetual search for female role models. When her father started signing her up for sports teams as a way to keep his bereaved daughter busy, female athletes became some of the first women Pappas looked up to, and she became a girl with a goal: to be an Olympian. Despite setbacks and hardships, Pappas held fast...
125) Love Liza
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Edition
[Widescreen version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Successful web designer Wilson Joel's life spirals out of control after the sudden suicide of his wife. Unable to read the note she left him, Wilson forges new, unpredictable relationships with friends, co-workers and his stunned mother-in-law. But when he starts taking a dangerous drug, it could take what's left of his blown-apart life and extinguish it completely.
Author
Publisher
L. Brown and Sons
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
xii, 248 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In late December of 1957, dairy farmer Orville Gibson had a dispute with his hired hand, Eri Martin, because he had spilled some milk. After allegedly beating Martin because of the spill, Gibson receives a threatening telephone call a few days later warning him to not come into the village of Newbury, Vermont, due to the sympathy for Martin and against Gibson. On December 31, 1957, Gibson leaves his house for his barn chores and is not seen alive...
127) Do no harm
Author
Series
Dr Lucas Page novels volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Robert Pobi's thriller Do No Harm, a series of suicides and accidental deaths in the medical community are actually well-disguised murders and only Lucas Page can see the pattern and discern the truth that no one else believes. Lucas Page is a polymath, astrophysicist, professor, husband, father of five adopted children, bestselling author, and ex-FBI agent-emphasis on "ex." Severely wounded after being caught in an explosion, Page left the FBI...
128) For my father
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 10
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col., digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
For my Father : Tarek is a young Palestinian who has been blackmailed into a suicide mission. When the device does not explode Tarek must wait for its repair and live among the people he planned to kill. He meets beautiful Keren and feels the urge to live his life. Now he faces the most important decision he will ever make.
Ali & the Ball : Eight-year-old Ali lives in a refugee detention centre with his mother and little sister Fatima. When his mother's...
129) Broken blossoms
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 88 min., 54 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
D. W. Griffith reached a pinnacle of expressiveness in this tender yet tragic tale of love and suffering in the seedy Limehouse district of London. Richard Barthelmess gives a sensitive portrayal of a Chinese man who travels to England to spread the pacifist teachings of the Orient, but it is Lillian Gish who illuminates the screen. In this, the most heart-rending performance of her career, she plays a fifteen-year-old street urchin who longs to escape...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Teen
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
345 pages 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Brynn is obsessed with death, and her severe anxiety leaves her feeling isolated, but when her parents decide she is going to spend the summer on her father's houseboat, she meets--and starts crushing on--sultry and confident Skylar, who is hiding a dark secret.
Fifteen-year-old Brynn can't stop thinking about death. Her intrusive thoughts and severe anxiety leave her feeling helpless--and hopeless. So after her mom interprets one...
131) Steal
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Imagine everyone’s surprise when Carter von Oehson, a sophomore in Dr. Dylan Reinhart’s Abnormal Psychology class, posts on Instagram that he plans to kill himself. 24 hours later and still no one has seen him.
Release the hounds. A massive search ensues. But when Carter’s sailboat rolls in with the tide without him or anyone else on it, the worst seems to be confirmed. He really did it . . . Or did he?
The one person convinced he’s still...
132) We are the ants
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Description
Henry Denton has been abducted by aliens on several occasions over the years. His boyfriend killed himself, his mom barely makes ends meet, his brother is an unemployed dropout with a baby on the way, and his grandmother is losing her battle with Alzheimer's. When aliens tell Henry the world is about to end, he has 144 days to decide whether to push the button that will save Earth...or welcome the end of his miserable, messed-up life.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In Seoul, South Korea, Min, devastated by the suicide of his girlfriend, throws himself into finding out why she wanted to die, and the more he learns about her, the more he realizes he never really knew her at all.
134) List of ten
Author
Publisher
Sterling Teen
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A suicidal teen fighting the symptoms of Tourette syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder creates a bucket list of ten goals to achieve by the tenth anniversary of his diagnosis, before a newcomer with her own troubled history unknowingly offers him more hopeful perspectives.
135) After you'd gone
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A solitary London girl decides to go home to Scotland, but, in a public toilet, she witnesses something so shocking that she cannot process it. Immediately returning to London, she walks in front of a car and winds up in a coma--and as she lies there, the story of her past and the secrets of her family unfold.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Arabic
Description
A fictional account of the lives of the men responsible for the suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003.
Ten year-old Yachine and his thirteen-year-old brother Hamid live in the slums. Hamid works hard to support his family, but eventually gets in with the wrong crowd and goes to prison. After years in jail, Hamid returns home an Islamic fundamentalist. He persuades Yachine and his pals to join him. Their spiritual leader trains them and one day...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Mexican American Yami Flores starts Catholic school, determined to keep her brother out of trouble and keep herself closeted, but her priorities shift when Yami discovers that her openly gay classmate Bo is also annoyingly cute.
Author
Series
Jo Beckett series volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
355 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
139) Motherthing
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Vintage Books edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law. Abby Lamb has done it. She's found the Great Good in her husband, Ralph, and together they will start a family and put all the darkness in her childhood to rest. But then the Lambs move in with Ralph's mother, Laura, whose depression has made it impossible for her to live on her own. She's...
140) Monsieur Lazhar
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 94 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Monsieur Lazhar tells the poignant story of a Montreal middle school class shaken by the death of their well-liked teacher. Bachir Lazhar (Fellag), a 55-year-old Algerian immigrant, offers the school his services as a substitute teacher and is quickly hired. As he helps the children heal, he also learns to accept his own painful past. This moving film features exquisite performances by Fellag...
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