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Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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""I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling words left behind by a man who had everything to live for--but took his own life. In the aftermath, his widow, Jane Hawk, does what all her grief, fear, and fury demand: find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people admired and happy and sound of mind, have been committing suicide in surprising numbers. When Jane seeks to learn why, she becomes the most-wanted fugitive...
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Publisher
Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 431 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"From the acclaimed author of How to Sell--and based on his viral Huffington Post article--comes a deeply intimate, insightful, and at times even funny portrait of the suicidal mind, combining the author's personal experience with a philosophical, literary, and journalistic inquiry into the subject. 'If you're going to write a book about suicide, you have to be willing to say the true things, the scary things, the humiliating things. Because everybody...
83) Madame Bovary
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Español
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An ordinary woman's unfulfilled dreams of romantic love lead her to a series of desperate acts, including adultery, in a classic novel set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century bourgeois France.
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English
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Project Semicolon began in 2013 to spread a message of hope: No one struggling with a mental illness is alone; you, too, can survive and live a life filled with joy and love. In support of the project and its message, thousands of people all over the world have gotten semicolon tattoos and shared photos of them, often alongside stories of hardship, growth, and rebirth. Project Semicolon: Your Story Isn't Over reveals dozens of new portraits and stories...
85) The patient one
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English
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When word got out that Andy Warner had committed suicide, everyone in Walnut Creek, Ohio, was shocked. For seven men and women-- some Amish, some Mennonite, and some English-- each of whom had once counted his or herself as one of Andy's best friends, it had been extremely painful. They'd drifted apart, but thought their bond was still strong. Grieving, Marie Hartman returns to Walnut Creek seeking comfort-- and vowing to reconnect with childhood...
86) Grave memory
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Alex Craft novels volume 3
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English
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Solving murders by raising the dead, grave witch Alex Craft is hired to investigate a suicide in Nekros City and discovers a new kind of magic that can overcome the human will to survive.
87) The client
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Mark Sway, 11, witnesses a Mafia lawyer's suicide, which puts him in danger from Barry the Blade & a politically ambitious U.S. attorney. In the two years since The Firm first captured the imagination of America's readers, John Grisham, with three consecutive number-one bestsellers, has become one of the most popular authors of our time. Now, in The Client, he has written a novel so irresistible, so thoroughly entertaining and satisfying, that it...
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Europa editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
131 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Irina's life with her husband and her twin daughters is orderly. An Italian living in Switzerland, she works as a lawyer. One day, something breaks. The marriage ends without apparent trauma, but on a weekend seemingly like any other, the girls' father takes Alessia and Livia away with him. They disappear. A few days later the man takes his own life. Of the girls, there is no trace. Concita De Gregorio takes the unadorned, terrible facts of this true...
89) Things I know
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English
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"Saoirse can't wait to leave school--but just before the Leaving Cert her ex-boyfriend dies by suicide. Everyone blames Saoirse, and her rumbling anxieties spiral out of control. Saoirse feels herself flailing in swirling waters that threaten to suck her into the depths. No one can save her--not her lovely man; not the gorgeous boy who tries hard to love her; not her fabulous best friend; and certainly not her cheap-wisdom counselor. Can Saoirse,...
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Nora Watts novels volume 2
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English
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"Growing up, Nora Watts only knew one parent--her father. When he killed himself, she denied her grief and carried on with her life. Then a chance encounter with a veteran who knew him raises disturbing questions Nora can't ignore--and dark emotions she can't control. To make her peace with the past, she has to confront it. Finding the truth about her father's life and his violent death takes her from Vancouver to Detroit where Sam Watts grew up,...
91) Marebito
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 92 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
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Masuoka (played by cult filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto, director of Tetsuo and star of Ichi The killer), is a solitary cameraman obsessed with the desire to understand fear. He watches grisly footage of a man committing suicide in the subway, and desperate to understand the madman's intentions, Masuoka returns to the scene inadvertently opening a door into a bizarre and horrifying underworld. Here among the ghosts and creatures he finds a strange and...
92) Lovesickness
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Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
402 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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"Ryusuke returns to the town he once lived in because rumors are swirling about girls killing themselves after encountering a bewitchingly handsome young man. Harboring his own secret from time spent in this town, Ryusuke attempts to capture the beautiful boy and close the case... Starting with the strikingly bloody 'Lovesickness,' this volume collects ten stories showcasing horror master Junji Ito in peak form, including 'The Strange Hikizuri Siblings'...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 108 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In 1994, Oregon became the first state in the U.S. to legalize physician aid-in-dying. At the time, only two countries (Switzerland and the Netherlands) permitted the practice, but more than 500 Oregonians have since ended their life using the law. The intimate Sundance Award-winning documentary How To Die in Oregon is a powerful, compassionate exploration of Oregon's historic and controversial Death with Dignity Act, which legalizes physician aid-in-dying...
94) Act of terror
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Jericho Quinn novels volume 2
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English
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From coast to coast, the nation is witnessing a new wave of terror--suicide bombers incite blind panic and paralyzing fear, a flight attendant tries to crash an airliner, a police officer opens fire on fans in a stadium, and at CIA headquarters, a deputy director goes on a murderous rampage. The perpetrators appear to be American but are actually covert agents in a vast network of terror, selected and trained for one purpose only: the complete annihilation...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 531 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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A portrait of the cult leader behind the Jonestown Massacre examines his personal life, from his extramarital affairs and drug use to his fraudulent faith healing practices and his decision to move his followers to Guyana, sharing new details about the events leading to the 1978 tragedy.
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English
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While meaning and purpose are often seen as synonymous, this book argues that they sometimes are in opposition, the search for meaning at times suicidal, and living with purpose life-enhancing and invigorating.
No people seemed to search for meaning in their lives more than did the ancient and classical Greeks. They were not content with living simple lives but oftentimes took on gargantuan tasks which resulted in a great deal of upheaval and unpleasantness...
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English
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The hole gapes still. It always will. And I fall in periodically. Durban-based journalist Glynis Horning and her husband Chris woke one Sunday morning to the devastating discovery of their 25-year-old son Spencer dead in his bed. Surrounded by loving family and friends, Horning pieces together the puzzle of his death, writing with a visceral intensity of loss and grief, but also of the joys of celebrating her son's life. Waterboy will touch anyone,...
98) The Mental Health Workbook: A Practical Guide to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), DBT & ACT fo
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English
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Discover How You Can Overcome Your Mental Illnesses Naturally, Without The Need For Pills Or Pharmaceutical Drugs! Do you suffer from mental health issues?Do you want a holistic & natural blueprint to overcome your mental health struggles?Do you want a practical guide to becoming the happiest, healthiest version of yourself?Since you're reading this, I'm guessing you answered yes to one or more of those questions, or someone you love & care for profoundly...
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English
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Here in the United States, suicide claims the lives of more than ten thousand people every year, but behind this number were individual lives, people with a story. No story is ever the same. The reasons and circumstances why someone chooses suicide areat times left for the grieving survivors and communities to wonder and try to interpet, "Why?" In 1986 I survived a near fatal suicide attempt. I was sixteen and I was never the same after this attempt....
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Suicide is a sensitive subject. This book is a companion book to the "Happiness Is No Charge" podcast on the emotions of suicide. This book teaches the technique discussed in that podcast, which the author has used to stop suicidal episodes. Despondency as an emotion and a depressed state can be helped and stopped with the technique in this book.Thoughts and imagining suicide have been found to stop when the emotion behind them is stopped. A person...
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