Summary: In the late 1980s, 61-year-old former pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian launched a crusade to provide what he considered a humane and dignified option for the terminally ill--assisted suicide. Aided by his loyal friend Neal Nicol, and his older sister Margo Janus, Kevorkian begins offering his "death counseling" services to a grateful and burgeoning clientele. He earns the support of Hemlock...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Films 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie You 2010Summary: Designed to give users comprehensive conversational language and grammar skills. The basic course (10 lessons) focuses on polite greetings and small talk and is perfect for patrons who are planning a short trip to a foreign country, or for those who want to get a taste of a foreign language and culture. The complete course (100 lessons) is designed for patrons who already know the basics of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mango Languages 2009
Green, Stefanie
Summary: "Dr. Stefanie Green has been forging new paths in the field of medical assistance in dying since 2016. In her landmark memoir, Dr. Green reveals the reasons a patient might seek an assisted death, how the process works, what the event itself can look like, the reactions of those involved, and what it feels like to oversee proceedings and administer medications that hasten death. She describes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GREEN, STEFANIE GRESummary: Mr. Badii, ceaselessly driving through the red-brown hills around Tehran in search of assistance in his suicide, receives from each of the men he asks for help a viewpoint on life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TASPatterson, James
Summary: Carter von Oehson posts on Instagram that he plans to kill himself. When no body turns up, Carter's father knows he's still alive. He only trusts Dr. Dylan Reinhart and Elizabeth Needham with the secret to how he knows this.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATHepworth, Sally
Summary: "There's a cottage on a cliff. Gabe and Pippa's dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their perfect house hides something sinister. The tall cliffs have become a popular spot for people to end their lives. Night after night Gabe comes to their rescue, literally talking them off the ledge. Until he doesn't. When Pippa discovers Gabe knew the victim, the questions spiral... Did the victim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: Aaron and Tillie do not know each other, but they both feel suicidal and arrive at the George Washington Bridge at the same time, intending to jump. Includes resources about suicide prevention and suicide prevention for LGBTQIA+ youth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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Summary: "Felix Pink is a retired widower leading a boring life and hoping to die a boring death. He volunteers as an Exiteer-someone who sits with terminally ill people as they die by suicide, assisting with logistics and lending moral support, then removing the evidence to take the burden off their loved ones. When Felix lets himself in to Number 3 Black Lane, he's there to perform an act of kindness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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Summary: In Japan, teenaged Abe Sora, who is afflicted with "Lou Gehrig's Disease," finds friends online and elicits their help to end his suffering.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster/BFYR 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BENCook, Robin
Summary: "Due to Jack Stapleton's ongoing recovery from his near-death confrontation with a serial killer, his wife Laurie Montgomery, the NYC chief medical examiner, is carrying the load both at work and at home. She insists a pathology resident named Ryan Sullivan assist her on a suicide autopsy, and when Ryan himself appears on the medical examiner's table days later, an apparent death by suicide,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: A psychological thriller that explores the morality of euthanasia traces the high-profile case of probation officer Cate Austin, who confronts an impossible choice when she must recommend the sentence of a woman charged with assisted suicide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUGAndō, Natsumi.
Summary: She's Awake! Having wandered the realm between life and death, Arisa finally awakens. But, she doesn't remember anything...?! Then when Midori suddenly appears at the hospital and hands her something, she disappears! What is the relationship between Midori "The King" and Arisa?!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ARIYanagihara, Hanya
Summary: When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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Summary: "Dr. Julie Devereux is an outspoken advocate for the right to die - until a motorcycle accident leaves her fiancé, Sam Talbot, a quadriplegic. He begs to die, but Julie sees hope in a life together. With the help of an organization that opposes physician-assisted suicide, Julie has Sam coming around to her point of view when he suddenly dies from an unexpected heart attack. An autopsy reveals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Palmer 2016Kellerman, Jonathan.
Summary: LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis and his friend, psychologist Alex Delaware try to find the murderer of a physician known for his work in assisted suicide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELSummary: When André suffers a debilitating stroke and calls on his daughter Emmanuèle to help him die with dignity, she finds herself faced with a painful decision. Based on Emmanuèle Bernheim's memoir and an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, the film's matter-of-factness elicits moments of humor that renders an otherwise weighty topic accessible. Steering clear of the moral arguments such...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: A worm and a caterpillar are best friends. When one of them is about to go through a big change, they both learn what is inside is what counts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Faith comes face-to-face with failure as a 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber. There is no explanation as to why she has come to her conviction, only that she believes in her decision absolutely. She decides to bring terror to New York with a mission to bomb Times Square. Inspired by actual events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DAYPatterson, 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 PATStuart, Scott
Summary: Inspired by the author's own little boy, 'Shadow's' main character likes princesses, fairies and things 'not for boys'... he soon learns (through the support of his dad) that everyone has a shadow that they sometimes feel they need to hide. This is an important book for a new generation of children (and adults alike) which exemplifies the concepts of unconditional love, respect and positive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Larrikin House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STUTate, Nikki
Summary: "This nonfiction book for teens examines the complex issue of medical assistance in dying from multiple perspectives."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Books Publishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Magazines, Call number: YA 179.7 TATBradley, Kimberly Brubaker
Summary: "Ten-year-old Della has always had her older sister, Suki. When their mom went to prison, Della had Suki. When their mom's boyfriend took them in, Della had Suki. When that same boyfriend did something so awful they had to run fast, Della had Suki. Suki is Della's own wolf -- her protector. But who has been protecting Suki? Della might get told off for swearing at school, but she has always...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRARuzzier, Sergio
Summary: "It's time for dinner, but when Fish finds a new friend instead, who knows what games are in store?"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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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