Szumski, Bonnie
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 362.28 SZUGoldsmith, Connie
Summary: What causes people to take their lives? How can suicides be prevented? Looking beyond common myths and misconceptions, Understanding Suicide examines common risk factors including mental illness, substance abuse, domestic abuse, and bullying.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 362.2 GOLPowell, Jillian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: 616.85/82 J POWJamison, Kay R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8584 JAMJoiner, Thomas E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.858445 JOISummary: Losing a loved one is devastating at any age, but it can be especially trying for those going through the changes that adolescence brings. These engrossing stories offer first-person narratives of young adults coping with the death of someone close to them. As these teens work through their grief, they find strength within themselves while they struggle to move on from these tragedies. One teen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen YA 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 155 TEEKuklin, Susan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.28 KUKThornton, Bruce S.
Summary: "Once a colossus dominating the globe, Europe today is a doddering convalescent. Sluggish economic growth, high unemployment, an addiction to expensive social welfare entitlements, a dwindling birth-rate among native Europeans, and most important, an increasing Islamic immigrant population chronically underemployed yet demographically prolific - all point to a future in which Europe will be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encounter Books 2007
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Summary: "During her junior year at Poplar Grove High School, Aria found herself sliding into a worsening depression. She had what she described as the perfect life, including fabulous vacations, her dream car, and more importantly, a big loving family, close friends, and a boyfriend she adored, but daily life had become unbearable. Though she knew how badly her suicide would hurt everyone around her,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2024
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Summary: From the Publisher: Whether you are struggling with fresh grief at a loved one's death by suicide or your loss happened years ago, you should know that you are not alone. 5 million Americans are affected-directly or indirectly-by this tragedy each year. And it sends us on a lifelong search for answers, both to the practical questions and the deepest question of all: Why? In this definitive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Lukas, Christopher.
Contents: Introduction: Lukas's story -- What happens to the survivor after someone commits suicide -- Emotional reactions to suicide -- A family's story -- The bargain : a deal we make with life -- Bargains : the long good-bye -- Bargains : scapegoating -- Bargains : "I am guilty; I am a victim" -- Bargains : cutting off -- Bargains : a miscellany -- The saddest bargain : "because you died, I'll die" --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.28 LUKGriffin, Gail B.
Contents: Prologue: October 18, 1999 -- Fair Arcadian Hill -- Millennium girl -- Wounded bird -- So scared and so lost -- Homecoming -- This endless night -- Hold fast -- Fault lines -- Another sad chapter -- All survivors are victims -- The why of everything -- Conclusion: hauntings and visitations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 GRISzasz, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Praeger 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.7 SZAWrobleski, Adina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. Wrobleski 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.28 WROBialosky, Jill.
Summary: The author presents an account of her sister's suicide, and the lifelong impact that the suicide has had on her own life and the lives of the other members of her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.28 BIAAntrim, Donald
Summary: "A searing and brave memoir that offers a new understanding of suicide as a distinct mental illness. As the sun lowered in the sky one Friday afternoon in April 2006, acclaimed author Donald Antrim found himself on the roof of his Brooklyn apartment building, afraid for his life. In this moving memoir, Antrim vividly recounts what led him to the roof and what happened after he came back down:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANTRIM, DONALD ANTLane, Nick.
Summary: "Today, mitochondria are central to research into human prehistory, genetic diseases, cell suicide, fertility, ageing, bioenergetics, sex, and the eukaryotic cell. Piecing together puzzles from the forefront of research, this book paints a sweeping canvas that will thrill all who are interested in biology, while also contributing to evolutionary thinking and debate. This is a book full of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 571.657 LANHumphry, Derek
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hemlock Society 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.28 HUMFine, Carla.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.28 FINBuchanan, Patrick J. (Patrick Joseph)
Summary: Buchanan's latest polemic exposes the risks America faces today and what those dangers will mean for the country's future. He warns against not only the dangers that the country faces under Obama, but also the risk of sliding into irrelevancy that the Republican party faces if it chooses to forget its core values.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 BUCLevitt, Steven D.
Summary: Whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically, Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling to show how people respond to incentives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 LEVMartin, Clancy W.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTIN, CLANCY W MARHemingway, Mariel.
Summary: "A moving, compelling memoir about growing up and escaping the tragic legacy of mental illness, suicide, addiction, and depression in one of America's most famous families: the Hemingways"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 HEMINGWAY, MARIEL HEMSmith, Wesley J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 1997