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Author
Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Enigmalogist Jeremy Logan who specializes in investigating inexplicable phenomena probes strange happenings at the Newport, RI, mansion that houses the Symposikon think tank.
Author
Language
English
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Description
A pastor's wife's shattering yet ultimately hopeful story of her husband's death by suicide, her journey to understand mental illness, and the light she found in the darkness. On August 25, 2018, Kayla Stoecklein lost her husband, Andrew--mega church pastor of Inland Hills Church in Chino, California--to suicide. In the wake of the tragedy, she embarked on a brave journey to better understand his harrowing battle with mental illness and, ultimately,...
24) Mercy
Author
Language
English
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Description
"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
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Scout Press hardcover edition
Physical Desc
viii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Author
Publisher
Editorial Almuzara
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
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...
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Series
Language
Español
Description
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,...
29) After the Rain
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
In every age of the world and in the history of almost every country, we find instances, more or less numerous, of men and women who, preferring the dim uncertainty of the future to the painful realities of the present, have sought relief from all their troubles by suddenly terminating their own existence. Misery and pain have been the lot of the human race ever since the dawn of history, and these causes have from the earliest times induced persons...
Author
Language
English
Description
Moira Farr discovered Daniel Jones' body on Valentine's Day, 1994. Struggling with deep depression, he had killed himself using a method clearly outlined in the bestselling book, Final Exit. Six years later, in an account both deeply personal and thoughtfully political, Farr reflects on Daniel's suicide and its consequences. After Daniel is not a sensational tell-all, a self-help book on grieving, or an academic review of suicide theories. It is one...
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.
34) Madame Bovary
Author
Language
English
Description
The classic tale of a woman who craves passion and intimacy, but finds only greed, betrayal, and heartbreak, as she stumbles towards suicide.
35) Death knot
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Indonesian
Description
A brother and sister return home for the funeral of their estranged mother, who mysteriously hanged herself. Soon after, the inexplicable suicides of several other villagers follow, and the superstitious locals begin to threaten and confront the two. Can they uncover the mystery of these dark and haunting events before it's too late?
36) The heirloom
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 97 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Twenty years ago, an inexplicable unsolved mass suicide occurred in the millionaire Yang household. Only one heir secretly survived and years later he inherits the family mansion and returns there with his fiancee. Mysterious and deadly events begin to take place, the demented legacy of the Yang family curse is reborn and history is soon poised to repeat itself.
37) The Departure
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
Ittetsu Nemoto, a former punk-turned-Buddhist priest in Japan, has made a career out of helping suicidal people find reasons to live. But this work has come increasingly at the cost of his own family and health, as he refuses to draw lines between those he counsels and himself.
Author
Series
Strange truth volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Winship Academy mascot jumps off a bridge during a halftime show, she leaves behind a lot of questions, and two students who witnessed the scene firsthand are determined to find out what really happened.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"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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Language
English
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Emily Hunt went missing from her affluent liberal arts school on graduation weekend. Her body was found floating in a river, and a quiet loner who most people on campus really didn't know died by suicide. A tenuous link--one text--bound the two dead students together and was enough for law enforcement to close the case. But they got it wrong and now someone is determined to set it right. Twelve years later, college friends gather to celebrate an engagement...
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