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 SZUJoiner, 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 JOIRosenblum, Cameron Kelly
Summary: From debut author Cameron Kelly Rosenblum comes a stunning teen novel that tackles love, grief, and mental health as one girl must process her friend's death and ultimately learn how to stand in her own light. Perfect for fans of All the Bright Places and We Were Liars. It's the summer before senior year. Reid is in the thick of Scofield High's in-crowd thanks to her best friend, Hattie, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books 2020
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC ROSMackintosh, 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 MACSummary: To the stunned disbelief of his colleagues and patients, a London psychologist appears to have taken his own life. However, his daughter refuses to believe it, and instead is convinced it was murder. She recruits one of his former patients for help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY THISummary: A grieving father seeks answers after his fourteen-year-old son dies by suicide. He uncovers painful truths about the lives of teens, the impact of unfettered access to internet and social media, and the shocking rise of depression among America's youth. The journey brings him together with young suicide survivors, prevention experts, and parents trying to understand the 70% increase in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TELPalahniuk, 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 PALSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MABMcKenzie, Emilia
Summary: "Emilia first met Charlotte in their school locker room in the late '90s. They quickly bonded over indie music, feminist literature, a love of purple, and a shared sense of outsiderness. Their joyful, intense friendship evolved through the years--until Charlotte died in 2018 following a long struggle with depression. Now, Emilia assembles her memories into a graphic memoir reflecting on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.28 MCKSummary: There is a train station on the other side of death, yet not all who arrive on the platform will be judged ready for passage onwards. For one unready soul, there will be both a test and a second chance. Rather than be reborn, this soul will awake in the body of 14-year-old suicide, Makoto Kobayashi, where it must not only find a way to fit into Makoto's existence, but also unravel two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN COLSummary: This lighthearted, metaphysical sci-fi horror film is a bizarre celebration of death, resurrection, and insanity. Think Harold and Maude meets Groundhog Day. Richie is a suicidal young man who, every time he kills himself, finds himself very much alive but with a dead body of him in his apartment. His sister comes to the rescue, but as the bodies pile up, the pair think that a vagina-like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DEASummary: Zombie teenager Kieren Walker isn't comfortable in his 'undead' state. He didn't want to come back, he wanted to be dead. After his suicide four years ago, his friends and family thought they'd never see him again. But then, shortly after his funeral, thousands rose from the dead; and after a catastrophic war, imprisonment, months of rehabilitation and medication, the zombies are gradually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INFlaubert, Gustave
Summary: A powerful nineteenth-century French classic depicting the moral degeneration of a weak-willed woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Heritage Press 1978
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLASummary: "Winner of top prizes at the Venice and Mumbai film festivals, Chaitanya Tamhane's Court is a quietly devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, caste prejudice, and venal politics in contemporary India. An elderly folk singer and grassroots organizer, dubbed the 'people's poet,' is arrested on a trumped-up charge of inciting a sewage worker to commit suicide. His trial is a ridiculous and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COUSummary: Kieren, a recovered zombie (Partially Diseased Syndrome (PDS) sufferer) is keeping his head down and squirreling money into his "escape fund" for Paris. But in the wider world, fear is in the air. With the arrival of new and explosive characters from both Victus and the ULA, Kieren's plans are thrown into disarray as both set their sights on him. As Kieren finds himself caught in the emotional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INBarry, 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 BARDe Veer, Elizabeth
Summary: Of three sisters, Riley has long been estranged from the family. Alex and Colleen are determined to reconcile with Riley. But the more they try to find their missing sister, the more they fear they may find only secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DEBryant, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Granity Studios 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BRYPan, Emily X. R.
Summary: Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: when her mother committed suicide, she turned into a bird and flew to her native Taiwan. On her journey to find her mother, Leigh must face her family's past and move towards a future of forgiveness and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PANHill, Toni
Summary: "After a company retreat in a remote country house, senior employees of Alemany Cosmetics return with a dark secret. They've each received an anonymous, menacing email of only two words: 'never forget.' What's worse, the message is accompanied by a nightmarish photo attachment showing the bodies of dogs hung to death from a tree near the very same farm estate they just visited. When they begin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILHughes, Lorena
Summary: "A generational saga that mixes historical fiction with the romance and intrigue of a Latin soap opera. When Malena Sevilla's tidy, carefully planned world collapses following her father's mysterious suicide, she finds a letter-signed with an "A"--Which reveals that her mother is very much alive and living in San Isidro, a quaint town tucked in the Andes Mountains. Intent on meeting her, Malena...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUGPatterson, James
Summary: Imagine everyone's surprise when Carter von Oehson, a sophomore in Dr. Dylan Reinhart's Abnormal Psychology class, posts on Instagram that he plans to kill himself. Twenty-four hours later and still no one has seen him. The one person convinced he's still alive is his father, Mathias von Oehson. But what Mathias knows and how he knows it would ultimately reveal a secret so damaging that it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PATChild, Lincoln.
Summary: The Thorpes were the perfect couple: young, attractive, and ideally matched. But the veil of perfection can mask many secrets. When the Thorpes are found dead in their tasteful Flagstaff living room after having committed double suicide, alarms go off in the executive offices of Eden, Incorporated, the worldwide matchmaking phenomenon that uses its astonishing artificial intelligence and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHIGillmor, Don
Summary: "An eloquent and haunting exploration of suicide in which one of Canada's most gifted writers attempts to understand why his brother took his own life. Which leads him to another powerful question: Why are boomers killing themselves at a far greater rate than the Silent Generation before them or the generations that have followed? In the spring of 2006, Don Gillmor travelled to Whitehorse to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Canada 2018