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381) Rank 6: Firestorm
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The terror of fire is known to all but when fire erupts into its most terrifying form, Rank 6, mayhem and death are often not far behind. So the question is: Why would someone willingly approach an inferno that swirls with fireballs and whirls with temperatures that can reach 1000 degrees Celsius? For Emily who makes such a decision, there is no quick, easy answer. She already knows something about destructive power. Her struggles with depression...
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Do you need a break from the stress of life? Or, have you wondered if there is a better life for you? Do you feel stagnant, stressed, and ready for a change?
Are you terrified of wasting your life with too many tiring years and too little peace? If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll never break the cycle. Is this positive for you?
Living Danishly: A Beginner's Guide To Celebrate Life The Danish Way, Eliminate Stress With The Rules of...
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A celebration and an elegy, Scenes with My Son sensitively renders the terrible privilege of grief in the wake of suicide.
After years of battling clinical depression exacerbated by autism, Auggie Hubbard died by suicide at the age of 19. In this poignant tribute to his son, Robert Hubbard-a theatre scholar and actor-stages Auggie's life in a series of vivid and tender scenes: Auggie's insatiable hunger for Accelerated Reader points. His tireless...
386) Inheritance
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The Lifeboat: All night in his lifeboat my father sang to keep the voices of the other men who cried in the wreckage from reaching him, he sang what he knew of the requiem, of the hit parade and the bits of hymns, he sang until he would never sing again, scalding his raw throat with sea-water until his ribs heaved, until the salt wept from his eyes on dry land, flecked at his lips in his squalling rages, streaked the sheets in his night sweats as...
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After Dr. Jack Stapleton's near-death confrontation with a medical serial killer, his wife, New York City Chief Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery, is carrying the load both at home and at work. When Laurie insists Dr. Ryan Sullivan, an under-performing senior pathology resident who is spending his required month at the medical examiner's office but who truly detests doing forensic autopsies, assist her on a suicide autopsy in hopes of stimulating...
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Scribner
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2016.
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224 pages ; cm
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"An award-winning, candid, and compelling story of an adoptive father's search for the truth about his teenage daughter's suicide: "Rarely have the subjects of suicide, adoption, adolescence, and parenting been explored so openly and honestly" (John Bateson, Former Executive Director, Contra Costa Crisis Center, and author of The Final Leap: Suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge). Early one Tuesday morning John Brooks went to his teenage daughter's room...
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Récit bouleversant d'une mère face au suicide de son enfant
Denis venait d'avoir treize ans. Jeune adolescent, il débordait de vitalité, de joie de vivre.
Rien dans son comportement ne laissait présager qu'un jour il mettrait fin à sa vie. Suicide ou accident? Nous ne connaissons pas la réponse.
Il ne semble pas exister de mots pour décrire l'atrocité de la situation du parent qui perd son enfant. Au bout de dix années, Pascale Bauwens...
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Eighteen-year-old Del is in a healthier place than she was a year and a half ago: She's sober, getting treatment for her depression and anxiety, and volunteering at a suicide-prevention hotline. Her own suicide attempt is in the past, and living in San Francisco with her beloved aunt has helped her see a future for herself.
But when Aunt Fran is diagnosed with terminal cancer, Del's equilibrium is shattered. She's dedicated herself to saving every...
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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in our returning combat troops is one of the most catastrophic issues confronting our nation. Yet, despite the fact that nearly 20 percent of the over half million troops that have left the military since 2003 have been diagnosed with PTSD, and that many who suffer symptoms are unlikely to seek help because of the stigma of this terrible disease, our government and media have remained silent. Moving A Nation to...
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On a glorious, if blisteringly hot, Saturday in August 2010, Margaret Thomson's world is suddenly shattered by the incomprehensible news that her twenty-two-year-old son, a medic in the army, has taken his life.
In a deep state of shock, Thomson and her husband immediately travel to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where their son Kieran was stationed, in an effort to assist their daughter-in-law. Upon their arrival, though, the couple find themselves...
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Delacorte Press
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2023.
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xiv, 221 pages ; 22 cm
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Olympic runner, actress, filmmaker, and writer Alexi Pappas shares the touchstone moments in her life that helped her learn about confidence and self-reliance, compassion and forgiveness, and loss and hope. Adapted for young readers from Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas (The Dial Press; 2021).
394) Steal: a novel
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Instinct (James Patterson) volume 3
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2022.
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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 alive is his...
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Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
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2021.
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337 pages ; 25 cm
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"Daniel Russell was only thirteen years old when his father tried to kill them both by driving their car into Moon Lake. Miraculously surviving the crash and growing into adulthood, Daniel returns to the site of this traumatic incident in the hopes of recovering his father's car and bones. As he attempts to finally put to rest the memories that have plagued him for years, he discovers something even more shocking among the wreckage that has ties to...
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YOU DON'T HAVE TO COPE ALONE
Depression and mental illness don't discriminate. Even in the most picture-perfect life, confusion and turmoil are often lurking beneath the surface. For a teenager in a world where anxiety, depression, and other mental illnesses are commonplace, life can sometimes feel impossible. Whether or not you or someone you love is suffering from any of these issues, it's important to be able to recognize the warning signs...
397) Taste of cherry
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Criterion collection volume 45
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Criterion Collection
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[2020]
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1 blu-ray (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A Muslim man drives around Tehran to find someone who will bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.
398) Baby & Solo
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Candlewick Press
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2021.
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406 pages ; 24 cm
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"Joel's new job at the video store is just what the therapist ordered. But what happens if the first true friend he's made in years finds out about What Was Wrong With Him? Seventeen-year-old Joel Teague has a new prescription from his therapist--a part-time job--the first step toward the elusive Normal life he's been so desperate to live ever since The Bad Thing happened. Lucky for Joel, ROYO Video is hiring. It's the perfect fresh start--Joel even...
399) The Greats
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Winning a national high-school geography competition should be the high point of Jomon's life. So why does he find himself running through the streets of Georgetown, Guyana, later that same night - so angry and desperate? Why does he heave his hard-won medal through the front window of a liquor store?
Why does a teenaged boy decide life is not worth living?
Arrested by police and detained in a jail cell, Jomon is jolted out of his suicidal thoughts...
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A sublimely elegant, fractured reckoning with the legacy and inheritance of suicide in one American family. In 2009, Juliet Patterson was recovering from a serious car accident when she learned her father had died by suicide. His death was part of a disturbing pattern in her family. Her father's father had taken his own life, so had her mother's. Over the weeks and months that followed, grieving and in physical pain, Patterson kept returning to one...
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