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Publisher:
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date:
[2023]
Language:
English
Description:
"According to the Centers for Disease Control, 47,500 people killed themselves in in the US in 2019, which is about one death every eleven minutes. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. The shock of it and immediacy of the grief makes a suicidal death different from many other deaths people can experience"--
Author:
Publisher:
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date:
[2023]
Language:
English
Description:
"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...
Author:
Publisher:
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date:
[2022]
Language:
English
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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Series:
Publisher:
Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LCC
Pub. Date:
[2014]
Language:
English
Description:
"Delving into a topic of perennial interest and concern, particularly among teenagers, this important volume addresses the full range of issues relative to suicide and suggests ways to help those who struggle"--
"While the risk of suicide is increasing across age groups, the good news is that with timely intervention, most suicides are preventable. Written primarily for high school and college students as well as for their teachers and parents, this...
Author:
Publisher:
SFWP
Pub. Date:
[2024]
Language:
English
Description:
"When a state trooper appeared at Rachel Zimmerman's door to report that her husband had jumped to his death off a nearby bridge, she fell to her knees, unable to fully absorb the news. How could her husband, a devoted father and robotics professor at MIT, have committed such a violent act? How would she explain this to her young daughters? And could she have stopped him? A longtime journalist, she probed obsessively, believing answers would help...
Author:
Publisher:
Apprentice House Press
Pub. Date:
[2023]
Language:
English
Description:
"When her fifteen-year-old daughter Lydia ends her life, Eileen finds support in a community of bereaved parents who understand her pain on a level others cannot. No one in the group places a time limit on this grief. As the years pass, Eileen finds ways to honor the memories. She even learns to laugh again. In Love in the Archives, a collection of linked narrative essays incorporating themes of surviving suicide loss, Judaism, interfaith marriage,...
Author:
NoveList Series:
Kindle County novels volume 2.
Series:
Kindle County novels volume 2
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Description:
The sequel to "Presumed Innocent", in which the same main character appears. Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, the most celebrated defense lawyer in the Mid-western city where he lives, comes home from a business trip to find that Clara, his wife of 30 years, has committed suicide.
Author:
Publisher:
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date:
[2019]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Jake Buchanan is a successful writer with an eight-year-old daughter and an imploding marriage. When he gets on a plane and discovers an instant connection with seatmate Clara Stowe, he's delighted. But when Clara confesses that she's going to Colorado to kill herself, Jake searches frantically for a way to convince her not to go through with her plan. The Dead Girl in 2A is the story of what happens to Jake and Clara after they get off that plane...
Author:
Pub. Date:
[2021]
Language:
English
Description:
"Nathalie decides to end her life when she loses her mother and entire hometown of Mason in an uexplained explosion. But the end becomes a beginning when a stranger she calls Gray shows up to save her from herself. And the superpowered ninja teens trying to capture her for an organization called the KiTeku."-back cover
Author:
Publisher:
Harper
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Average Rating:
2 stars
Description:
Zee Finch, a psychotherapist, has come home to Salem to take care of her ailing father and to try to figure out her own life after the suicide of one of her patients, which was made even more difficult by Zee's past--her mother committed suicide herself, in front of her.
Author:
Series:
Shaw confessions volume 2
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date:
[2018]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Legacies are revealed, lies unraveled, and old alliances forged as Noah tries to escape the consequences of his choices and move forward without first confronting his past.
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