Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Jeremy Logan volume 4
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Jeremy Logan (The Third Gate, Deep Storm) is an "enigmalogist"—an investigator who specializes in analyzing phenomena that have no obvious explanation. In this newest novel Logan finds himself on the storied coastline of Newport, Rhode Island, where he has been retained by Lux, one of the oldest and most respected think tanks in America. Just days earlier, a series of frightening events took place in the sprawling seaside mansion that houses the...
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Wake Up: Stories from the Frontlines of Suicide Prevention sheds light on four different groups with varied stories to tell about suicide American veterans, members of the LGBT community, university students, and gun owners. Through their testimony, the film weaves a diverse tapestry of experiences into a multifaceted narrative of the heroes on the frontlines. As it delves deeper into their experiences, Wake Up confronts tragedy with a call to action:...
4) Suicide
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of the issues surrounding suicide, including the history, risk factors, causes, prevention, treatment, and counseling.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Hartes and the Golds, professional folk living next door in an affluent New Hampshire town, are close friends, and their children, Chris Harte and Emily Gold, have been inseparable all through childhood. When they slipped into the tempestuous realm of love in high school, it was a transition their parents fully expected and welcomed. But Emily is secretly appalled by the incestuous nature of her relationship with Chris, and when she discovers...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"'Dear Anna, What I have to tell you is difficult to write, but I know it will be far more difficult for you to hear, and I'm so sorry ... ' The unfinished letter is the only clue Tara and Emerson have to the reason behind their close friend Noelle's suicide. Everything they knew about Noelle--her calling as a midwife, her passion for causes, her love for her friends and family--described a woman who embraced life. Yet there was so much they didn't...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
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 through their grief--and sometimes shame--as survivors. In offering the most recent insights into suicide from the medical community, Ashton shows how conversation and community play an important part in recovering...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Anita Hannig uncovers the stigma against the practice of assisted dying, untangles the legalities and logistics of pursuing an assisted death in America today, and profiles the dedicated advocates and medical personnel involved. In intimate, lyrical detail, Hannig explains why someone might choose an assisted death and how that decision impacts their loved ones. In a time when nearly 80 percent of Americans die in hospitals and nursing homes, medical...
Author
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Amanda Sinclair has to fight harder than most for everything she has after fleeing the cult that left her brother dead at her mother’s hand. Amanda works a quiet job in quality control for a small cosmetics company, trying to leave her past behind her―until she learns that her mother has committed suicide in the mental ward where she’s been locked away for the past ten years. But when Amanda receives her mother’s personal belongings, she finds...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Christine Steinmeyer thought the anonymous suicide note she found in her mailbox on Christmas Eve wasn't meant for her. But the man calling in to her radio show seems convinced otherwise. Bit by bit, her life is turned upside down. But who among her friends and family hates her enough to want to destroy her? And why?
14) Night shift
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
At Midnight's local pawnshop, weapons are flying off the shelves--only to be used in sudden and dramatic suicides right at the main crossroads in town. Who better to figure out why blood is being spilled than the vampire Lemuel, who, while translating mysterious texts, discovers what makes Midnight the town it is? There's a reason why witches and werewolves, killers and psychics, have been drawn to this place. And now they must come together to stop...
15) Death match
Author
Publisher
Random House Inc
Pub. Date
2012, 2004
Language
English
Description
Everyone's looking for the perfect match, a life-long partner, and Lewis and Lindsay Thorpe have found theirs, thanks to hi-tech matchmaker Eden Inc. But when the happy couple's life together ends in what looks like a double suicide, Eden Inc. has some explaining to do. So they hire forensic psychologist Christopher Lash to figure out what went wrong. And then another perfect match ends in death.
16) Two she-bears
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the year 1930, three farmers committed suicide here...but contrary to the chronicles of our committee and the conclusions of the British policeman, the people of the moshava knew that only two of the suicides had actually taken their own lives, whereas the third suicide had been murdered." This is the contention of Ruta Tavori, a high school teacher and independent thinker in this small farming community, writing seventy years later about that...
17) I swear
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"After Leslie Gatlin kills herself, her bullies reflect on how things got so far"--
18) Blackbird
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Lily and Paul summon their loved ones to their country house for one final gathering after Lily decides to end her life on her terms after a long battle with ALS. The couple is planning a loving weekend complete with holiday traditions, but the mood becomes strained when unresolved issues surface between Lily's daughters Jennifer and Anna. Joining the collective farewell is Lily's son in law, her lifelong friend, daughter's partner, and grandson.
19) Dr. Death
Author
Series
Alex Delaware volume 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Dr. Eldon Mate, a passionate advocate of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, is found dead, murdered by one of his own death machines, LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis and his friend Dr. Alex Delaware are on the case.
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Pub
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
This resource educates teens about risk factors, suicidal thoughts, and how to cope with them. Through medication, counseling, and other tools, most people who seriously consider suicide are able to recover and go on to lead healthy, adaptive lives. --Provided by the publisher.
In MNLINK
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by East Central Regional Library can be requested from other MNLINK libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request