Summary: 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 TELSzumski, 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 GOLPettit, Jeremy W.
Summary: "Suicide is the second leading cause of death among teens in the US, and the need for effective prevention has never been greater. Written by two adolescent suicide experts, this gentle and effective guide will help teens overcome suicidal thoughts by reducing emotional pain, increasing hope, and building meaningful connections. Readers will learn specific skills grounded in evidence-based...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Instant Help Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 362.28 PETBreggin, Peter Roger
Summary: In a study of the side effects of psychotropic drugs that are being used to treat a variety of mental and emotional ailments, it looks at the influence of antidepressants, stimulants and tranquilizers in a scathing indictment of the pharmaceutical industry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.86 BREMcKenzie, 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 MCKJoiner, 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 JOIMartin, 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 MARSummary: This film explores the stories of Americans impacted by suicide, and journeys to the frontlines of medical and scientific research to meet some of the people who are wroking to curb the suicide crisis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FACGillmor, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILLMOR, DON GILButler, Blake
Summary: "Blake Butler and Molly Brodak instantly connected, fell in love, married and built a life together. Both writers with deep roots in contemporary American literature, their union was an iconic joining of forces between two major and beloved talents. Nearly three years into their marriage, grappling with mental illness and a lifetime of trauma, Molly took her own life. In the days and weeks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archway Editions 2023
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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 KUKGreen, 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: A startling look at preacher Jim Jones, his life prior to the mass-suicides in Guyana, and the event that took place leading up to that fateful day in 1978.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JONAshton, Jennifer
Summary: Shares the author's experiences after the suicide of her ex-husband, as well as the most recent insights into suicide from the medical community. When her ex-husband killed himself soon after their divorce, Ashton's world-- and that of her children-- was shattered. At once a deeply personal trauma, and a devastating public epidemic, suicide affects millions who are left behind and must work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.28 ASHSummary: In Physician Suicide Letters—Answered, Dr. Wible exposes the pervasive and largely hidden medical culture of bullying, hazing, and abuse that claims the lives of countless medical students, doctors, and patients. Now—for the first time released to the public—here are private letters and last words from our doctors who could no longer bear the pain of an abusive medical system. What you don’t...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Wible, M.D., Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 816 PHYSummary: Learn the secret history of the suicide bomber, from the child martyrs of the Iran-Iraq war, the truck bombers in southern Lebanon, to the young men and women who now strap explosives to their bodies with former CIA agent Robert Baer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation Company 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CULBialosky, 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 BIAMyers, Michael F.
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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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.28 FINSummary: Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne begins making a film for Zachary, son of his oldest friend who was murdered by Zachary's mother. The film's focus shifts to Zachary's grandparents as they fight to win custody of Zachary from the woman who took their son's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2009
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEAGerardot, Mark
Summary: Mark and Jennair Gerardot had been married nearly 25 years when Mark met someone who changed everything he had known about love. When what had begun as a harmless flirtation blossomed into a passionate love affair, Mark confessed his infidelity and began taking the painful steps toward what he thought was an amicable but long-overdue divorce. What he didn't realize, however, was that Jennair...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Green Heart Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 GERHumphry, 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 HUMLevine, Liz
Summary: "In November of 2016, Liz Levine's younger sister, Tamara, reached a breaking point after years of living with mental illness. In the dark hours before dawn, she sent a final message to her family and committed suicide. In Nobody Every Talks About Anything But the End, Liz weaves the story of what happened to Tamara with another significant death--that of Liz's childhood love, Judson, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019