Mackintosh, Clare
Summary: Two years ago, Tom and Caroline Johnson committed suicide, one seemingly unable to live without the other. Their adult daughter Anna is struggling to come to terms with her parents' deaths, unable to comprehend why they chose to end their lives. Now with a young baby herself, she feels her mother's presence keenly and is determined to find out what really happened to her parents. But as Anna...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MACBlackburn, Venita
Summary: Coral is the first person to discover her brother Jay's dead body in the wake of his suicide. There's no note, only a drably furnished bachelor pad in Long Beach, California, and a cell phone with a handful of numbers in it. Coral pockets the phone. And then she starts responding to texts as her dead brother. Over the course of one week, Coral, the successful yet lonely author of a hit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD / Farrar Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: FIC BLAPalahniuk, Chuck
Summary: Tender Branson--last surviving member of the so-called Creedish Death Cult--is dictating his life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast Australian outback. But before it does, he will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PALBishop, Avery
Summary: Part of a group of six girls called the Harpies bullied a girl to her breaking point years ago. Now therapist Emily Bennett finds the past catching up to her as members of the Harpies start dying one by one, causing her to question her sanity and reality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BISEllison, J. T.
Summary: A popular transfer student at an elite prep school races to protect a dangerous secret when a killer sets her up for a string of murders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ELLStraczynski, J. Michael
Summary: Mark Antonelli, a failed young writer looking down the barrel at thirty, is planning a cross-country road trip. He buys a beat-up old tour bus. He hires a young army vet to drive it. He puts out an ad for others to join him along the way. But this will be a road trip like no other: His passengers are all fellow disheartened souls who have decided that this will be their final journey. Upon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC STRBarry, Brunonia.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARMiranda, Megan
Summary: A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school trip crashed into a Tennessee ravine--a tragedy that claimed the lives of multiple classmates and teachers. The nine students who escaped the river were irrevocably changed. A year later, after one of the survivors dies by suicide, the rest of them make a pact to come together each year to commemorate that terrible night. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: More than forty years after his best friend's father shoots and kills a state senator in Bismarck, North Dakota, and then commits suicide, a writer attempts to unravel the mystery behind one man's tragic actions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WATHepworth, Sally
Summary: Gabe and Pippa Gerard have just moved into their dream house: a cliffside cottage in a sleepy coastal town outside Melbourne. It's a fresh start to their marriage, and the perfect place to raise their two young daughters. But the houses perfect facade hides something more sinister: The Spot, where the tall cliffs have become a popular place for those wishing to end their lives. After talking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HEPBartz, Andrea
Summary: In 2009, Edie had New York's social world in her thrall, the shining star of a group of recent graduates living in a Brooklyn loft. When Edie's body was found near a suicide note at the end of a long, drunken night, no one could believe it. Grief, shock, and resentment scattered the friends and brought the era to an abrupt end. A decade later, her best friend Lindsay has come a long way from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARByers, Michael.
Summary: Specializing in a rare disease that causes children to age drastically, Dr. Henry Moss is confronted with an ethical dilemma when he meets a family whose two children are affected in dramatically different ways by the same disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANCobb, May
Summary: "She's back in her affluent hometown for the first time in years and determined to unravel the secrets of her mother's death hidden in the unpublished memoir she left behind...even if it kills her... After her troublemaker mother's mysterious death, Kira fled her wealthy Texas town and never looked back. Now, decades later, Kira is invited to an old frenemy's vow renewal party. Though she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COBEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: While her undertaker husband practices the art of making victims of the untamed American west presentable and dignified after death, a woman devotes her time to safeguarding her marriage in the face of local challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTGangi, Stephanie
Summary: "A woman looks back at the events that shaped her life, especially the scandals and family secrets that stand in the way of her making peace with her past"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GANKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: "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 void that remains stands his widow, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief, fear, confusion, and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. There is no one else to speak for him--or the others...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KOOMackintosh, Clare
Summary: "In the newest psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of I Let You Go and I See You, Clare Mackintosh brings us a gripping story about how those who love us never really leave us... Two years ago, Tom and Caroline Johnson committed suicide, one seemingly unable to live without the other. Their adult daughter, Anna, is struggling to come to terms with her parents'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMcCullers, Carson
Summary: With the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1960
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCO'Hara, John
Summary: Already a frequent contributor of well-crafted stories to The New Yorker when he turned to the larger canvas of the novel, John OHara wrote with unusual acuity about the power of status and class in American life. His reputation as a novelist rests largely on four extraordinary books published from 1934 to 1940. These early novels, like those of his contemporaries Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OHAPessl, Marisha.
Summary: When the daughter of a cult horror film director is found dead in an abandoned Manhattan warehouse, investigative journalist Scott McGrath, disbelieving the official suicide ruling, probes into the strange circumstances of the young woman's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Greenwich Village, 1959. Claire Bishop sits for a portrait—a gift from her husband—only to discover that what the artist has actually depicted is Claire’s suicide. Haunted by the painting, Claire is forced to redefine herself within a failing marriage and a family history of madness. Shifting ahead to 2004, we meet West, a young man with schizophrenia obsessed with a painting he encounters in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dzanc Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANCross-Smith, Leesa
Summary: "On a rainy October night in Kentucky, recently divorced therapist Tallie Clark is on her way home when she spots a man precariously standing on the edge of a bridge. Without a second thought, Tallie pulls over and jumps out of the car into the pouring rain. She convinces the man to join her for a cup of coffee, and he eventually agrees to come back to her house, where he finally, reluctantly,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CROIshiguro, Kazuo
Summary: A middle-aged Japanese woman, now living in England, relives her horrifying childhood memories of the bombing of Nagasaki.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1990