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Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"According to the Centers for Disease Control, 47,500 people killed themselves in in the US in 2019, which is about one death every eleven minutes. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. The shock of it and immediacy of the grief makes a suicidal death different from many other deaths people can experience"--
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
An investigation into the suicide of Jennifer Rockwell, a woman with everything going for her--health, looks, man--plus a job as an astrophysicist. Question is, can a person shoot herself in the head three times? As she investigates the victim's background, policewoman Mike Hoolihan thinks she can. By the author of The Information.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Zee Finch, a psychotherapist, has come home to Salem to take care of her ailing father and to try to figure out her own life after the suicide of one of her patients, which was made even more difficult by Zee's past--her mother committed suicide herself, in front of her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2011
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
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"For ten years, Alexandra 'Cat' Rucker has been on the run from her past. With an endless supply of bourbon and a series of meaningless jobs, Cat is struggling to forget her Ohio hometown and the rural farmhouse she once called home. But a sudden call from an old neighbor forces Cat to return to the home and family she never intended to see again. It seems that Cat's mother is dead. What Cat finds at the old farmhouse is disturbing and confusing:...
10) Backwards
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Is it possible to fix a tragic future by changing the past -- while experiencing life backwards? At the moment Dan's life ends, the Rider's begins. Unwillingly tied to Dan, who seems to be shuffling through life, the Rider finds himself moving backwards in time, each day revealing more of the series of events that led to Dan's suicide. As the Rider struggles to figure out what he's meant to do, he revels in the life Dan ignores. Beyond the simple...
11) Saint maybe
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Saint Maybe is the rich and absorbing story of a young man's guilt over his brother's death and his struggle to atone for the wrong he feels he has done. On a quiet street in Baltimore in 1965, seventeen-year-old Ian Bedloe lives with his family in an "ideal, apple-pie household," enjoying the comfort of family traditions and indulging in all the usual dreams of the future. Until one night, when Ian's stinging words to his brother bring tragedy --...
12) The Amen sisters
Author
Publisher
Walk Worthy Press
Pub. Date
2007, c2005
Language
English
Description
Blaming herself when a disbelieved sexually abused congregation member commits suicide, minister Francine Amen struggles to rebuild her ministry and endeavors to regain the trust of those who were hurt.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Shares the author's experiences after the suicide of her ex-husband, as well as the most recent insights into suicide from the medical community.
When her ex-husband killed himself soon after their divorce, Ashton's world--and that of her children--was shattered. At once a deeply personal trauma, and a devastating public epidemic, suicide affects millions who are left behind and must work through their grief--and sometimes shame--as survivors. In...
Author
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
It is a beautiful spring day, and Luna is having a picnic in the park with her family, wearing her Mum's red hat. Luna's Mum died one year ago and she still finds it difficult to understand why. She feels that it may have been her fault and worries that her Dad might leave her in the same way. Her Dad talks to her to explain what happened and together they think about all the happy memories they have of Mum.
16) Tea: a novel
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Of all the women in Isabel's life, the one who still eludes her is herself. Funny, poignant, and sexy, "Tea" speaks to those who discovered they were gay and had to find a way to tell the rest of the world.
18) The vanishers
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A power struggle between a leading student at an elite institute for psychics and her jealous legendary mentor culminates in the student being forced to relive her mother's suicide during a brutal psychic attack.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, social circuit is electrified with parties and dances. At the center of the social elite stand Julian and Caroline English. But in one rash moment born inside a highball glass, Julian breaks with polite society and begins a rapid descent toward self-destruction"--Amazon.com.
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