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Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Bering survived. And in addition to relief, the fading of his suicidal thoughts brought curiosity. Where had they come from? Would they return? Is the suicidal impulse found in other animals? Or is our vulnerability to suicide a uniquely human evolutionary development? In Suicidal, Bering answers all these questions and more, taking us through the science and psychology of suicide, revealing its cognitive secrets and the subtle tricks our minds play...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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Three months ago, Lena Nguyen's estranged twin sister, Cambry, drove to a remote bridge sixty miles outside of Missoula, Montana, and jumped two hundred feet to her death. At least, that is the official police version. But Lena isn't buying it. Now she's come to that very bridge, driving her dead twin's car and armed with a cassette recorder, determined to find out what really happened by interviewing the highway patrolman who allegedly discovered...
4) Mercy
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"Dr. Julie Devereux is an outspoken advocate for the right to die - until a motorcycle accident leaves her fiancé, Sam Talbot, a quadriplegic. He begs to die, but Julie sees hope in a life together. With the help of an organization that opposes physician-assisted suicide, Julie has Sam coming around to her point of view when he suddenly dies from an unexpected heart attack. An autopsy reveals that Sam died of an unusual heart defect, one seen only...
Author
Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 4
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Enigmalogist Jeremy Logan who specializes in investigating inexplicable phenomena probes strange happenings at the Newport, RI, mansion that houses the Symposikon think tank.
7) Maborosi
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Yumiko is a vibrant and happy young wife and mother who is haunted by the childhood memory of watching her grandmother walk away from the family home, never to be seen again. When her husband dies a mysterious suicide, Yumiko is devastated by shock and grief. She struggles to care for her toddler son in the couple's cramped Osaka apartment.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sam is a troubled single mother who risks losing custody of her young daughter following a failed suicide attempt. Over the next few shaky weeks, Sam is released from the hospital into the care of her overbearing older sister, finds a job, makes tentative steps toward a new romance, and tries to reconnect with her child. But lives, and depression, sometimes have a way of making their own rules. Can a woman lost somewhere between hope and despair find...
Author
Series
Joanne Ross novels volume 6
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Joanne Ross investigates the death of an artist and alleged witch, who was found dead in her home on a remote glen in Scotland.
11) Blackbird
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lily and Paul summon their loved ones to their country house for one final gathering after Lily decides to end her life on her terms after a long battle with ALS. The couple is planning a loving weekend complete with holiday traditions, but the mood becomes strained when unresolved issues surface between Lily's daughters Jennifer and Anna. Joining the collective farewell is Lily's son in law, her lifelong friend, daughter's partner, and grandson.
12) The patient one
Author
Series
Walnut Creek volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Seven former best friends reunite and struggle to heal after the tragic death of one of their own in this evocative and heartrending novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Gift and Her Secret."--
Author
Appears on list
Description
When high school student Clay Jensen receives a box in the mail containing several 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.
Author
Publisher
Editorial Almuzara
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
El suicidio anualmente se cobra alrededor de 1.000.000 de vidas en el mundo, y por cada persona que lo consigue más de veinte lo intentan. Además, el número de allegados a los que afecta es incontable. Sin embargo apenas hablamos de ello, y este silencio dificulta que quien se plantea esa salida como última alternativa encuentre la ayuda que necesita. El estigma asociado a la salud mental, los mitos sobre el suicidio o los tabúes generados en...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
When the Seoul police inform Min that his girlfriend Yu-jin has committed suicide, he’s sure it can't be true. She was successful, ambitious, happy, just on the cusp of graduating from university and claiming the future she’d always dreamed of. Min, on the other hand, born to an American father and Korean mother, has never felt quite the same certainty as Yu-jin about his life’s path. After growing up in California, where he always felt “too...
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Kate is in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughter's exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Amelia has been suspended, effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter now. But Kate's stress over leaving work quickly turns to panic when she arrives at the school and finds it surrounded by police officers, fire trucks, and an ambulance. By then it's already...
Author
Series
Maxie and Stretch mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
214 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Description
Maxie McNabb and her miniature dachshund, Stretch, investigate a murder that shatters the quiet in their hometown of Homer, Alaska.
18) Facing suicide
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This film explores the stories of Americans impacted by suicide, and journeys to the frontlines of medical and scientific research to meet some of the people who are wroking to curb the suicide crisis.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
An emotional, heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand about a grieving family that finds solace where they least expect it. Celebrity chef Deacon Rowe is struggling with addiction, depression and not one, but two scandals. As summer nears, he travels to the idyllic Eastern bluff of Nantucket, where he takes his own life. In the shocking wake of Deacon's suicide, his first wife and childhood sweetheart, Laurel Rowe,...
20) Epic game
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Kat is a tough, independent woman who makes her living as a professional poker player. She is single, childless, and happy about it. But when her best friend, Josie, commits suicide, Kat becomes the temporary guardian of Josie's ten-year-old son, David. As the days pass, Kat begins to realize that all the money and success in the world don't mean a thing unless you have someone to share it with.
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