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Lesbians Fiction Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.) Fiction Niagara Falls (N.Y.) Fiction Philadelphia (Pa.) Fiction Suicide victims Family relationships Suicide victims Family relationships Fiction Waterfalls Fiction Widows Fiction Women New York (State) Fiction Young women Identity FictionSummary: Haunted by the mysterious loss of her grandmother many years before, a beautiful young mother (Makiko Esumi as Yumiko) struggles to come to terms with the sudden loss of her husband. Yumiko remarries and with her young son moves to her new husband's home in a remote village on the wild, untamed Sea of Japan. There, with time, she awakens to find love, understanding, happiness and a sense of peace.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MABBryant, Kobe
Summary: Gus channels all his emotions-about his older brother and his death by suicide-into training to earn a spot on the Olympic swim team.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Granity Studios 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BRYConroy, Pat.
Summary: Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother commits suicide at the age of thirteen, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his death. Eventually he becomes part of a tightly knit group of high...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CONStraub, Peter
Summary: "Nancy Underhill commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son--fifteen-year-old Mark--vanishes. The boy's uncle, novelist Timothy Underhill, searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help unravel this horrible dual mystery. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before Nancy's suicide, Mark had become...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STRBusbee, Shirlee.
Summary: Returning to her hometown after her brother's suicide, a young woman tries to heal the shattered past and face the questions that remain unanswered.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHornbacher, Marya
Summary: In the aftermath of her husband's devastating suicide, Claire Schiller moves with their two young children into the home of her in-laws during an oppressive Minnesota winter and shares unexpected moments of comfort, healing, and humor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOROates, Joyce Carol
Summary: A stunning, major achievement from Joyce Carol Oates, "one of the great artistic forces of our time" ( The Nation ). A haunting story of the powerful spell Niagara Falls casts upon two generations of a family, leading to tragedy, love, loss, and, ultimately, redemption. A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. A newlywed, he has left behind his wife, Ariah Erskine, in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATD'Erasmo, Stacey.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2000