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21) Anna Karenina
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A famous legend surrounding the creation of Anna Karenina tells us that Tolstoy began writing a cautionary tale about adultery and ended up by falling in love with his magnificent heroine. It is rare to find a reader of the book who doesn't experience the same kind of emotional upheaval: Anna Karenina is filled with major and minor characters who exist in their own right and fully embody their mid-nineteenth-century Russian milieu, but it still belongs...
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
2012
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xi, 309 p., [14] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
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The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most photographed structures in the world. It's also the most deadly. Since it opened in 1937, more than 1,500 people have died jumping off the bridge, making it the top suicide site on earth. This title leads us on a journey that uncovers the reasons for the design decision that led to so many deaths.
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Human Life Alliance
Pub. Date
[2017]
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1 DVD (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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This documentary examines euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide and highlights the testimonies of those who have been most intimately impacted. In order to make informed decisions about critical medical issues, citizens need the unvarnished truth about these vitally important topics. The program features an impressive array of experts who share crucial information about current trends in the healthcare system and offer advice about making important...
24) La vérité
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The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Beautiful, troubled Dominique Marceau came to bohemian Paris to escape the suffocation of provincial life, only to wind up in a courtroom, accused of a terrible crime: the murder of her lover. As the trial commences and the lawyers begin tangling over Dominique's fate, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Oscar-nominated La vérité delves into her past, reconstructing her struggle to find a foothold in the city.
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Alex Morrow novels volume 2
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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...
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Joanne Ross novels volume 6
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Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2015.
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356 pages ; 21 cm
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Joanne Ross investigates the death of an artist and alleged witch, who was found dead in her home on a remote glen in Scotland.
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Scout Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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viii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Nick Hornby meets Chuck Palahniuk in this powerful, provocative, and heartfelt epistolary novel from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski. Life has other plans for a group of strangers who want to end it all on a cross-country road trip, but then bond in ways they never could have imagined"--
28) The nice guys
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Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 blu-ray (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A pair of private investigators look into the alleged suicide of a porn star.
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Monkeewrench volume 9
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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325 pages ; 24 cm.
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Gregory Norwood is Minnesota's most beloved philanthropist, and the story of his son's overdose was splashed across the front page of all the papers. When a photojournalist sets out to get a candid shot of the highly successful businessman on the one year anniversary of his son's death, he's shocked to find Norwood dead with a smoking gun in his hand. The city is devastated, and Minneapolis detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are called in to...
30) The patient one
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Walnut Creek volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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286 pages ; 24 cm.
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"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."--
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The Day I Die is a major work of nonfiction that tackles the one issue we'll all eventually come to face--our final days, hours, and minutes. With clarity and empathy, award-winning anthropologist Anita Hannig uncovers the stigma against the practice of assisted dying, untangles the legalities and logistics of pursuing an assisted death in America today, and profiles the dedicated advocates and medical personnel involved. In intimate, lyrical detail,...
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Appears on list
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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.
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Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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310 pages ; 22 cm
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Determined to find answers as to why her older sister committed suicide, Sloan searches a list of places and people her sister left behind.
Ever since her older sister Talley died, Sloane has been fixated on a list of random places, unfamiliar names, and a phone number for a boy named Adam. Is the list the key to understanding why Talley took her own life? But it seems to be pointing to California, and Talley had never even been there... right? Adam...
36) The celebration
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Dogme) volume 1
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The family and friends of prominent Danish patriarch Helge Klingenfeldt gather at his country estate to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Two months prior to this event, Helge's daughter committed suicide. Her twin brother, Christian, makes a birthday toast that brings a barrage of family secrets out into the open.
37) Her perfect life
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"Clare Collins crafts her novels like she crafts her life: perfectly. So the world is stunned when the world-famous author is found dead on the beach from suicide, the morning after her latest book hits shelves. While reading through her last novel, estranged sister Eileen discovers a clue that will tear apart the image her sister had so carefully polished. Suddenly, the life that Eileen had envied doesn't seem so sparkling. For fans of Diane Chamberlin...
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Este libro consiste en una reflexión filosófica sobre el problema del suicidio. Se trata de una reflexión mediante la cual se espera brindar elementos que ayuden en nuestra comprensión del fenómeno de la muerte voluntaria, desde una perspectiva distinta a las tradicionales. Razón por la cual se habla de esta práctica no en términos antropológicos o sociales, sino fundamentalmente morales. Es decir, el suicidio visto como un fenómeno moral,...
39) After the Rain
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When a child is born they're a blank canvas. A canvas that is later moulded by the influences of the world around them. Those influences determine that child's future, but they are not always kind. Some of those children will enter adulthood easily, unscathed by the harshness of life, but for others, that journey is not an easy path to follow.And then there are those, who's journey's are cut short.He only ever wanted ….. to fit in. He only ever...
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