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©2008
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English
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Life in Sweden seems like an endless winter for three sisters after their mother's and father's suicides. Ellin writes to her relatives in Chicago, pleading for help. Joining 16 million other immigrants who leave their homelands for America between 1890 and 1920, Ellin, Kirsten, and Sophia begin the long, difficult journey fraught with hardships.
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2020.
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English
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"A total stranger on the subway platform whispers, "Take my baby." She places her child in your arms. She says your name. Then she jumps.... In a split second, Morgan Kincaid's life changes forever. She's on her way home from work when a mother begs her to take her baby, then places the infant in her arms. Before Morgan can stop her, the distraught mother jumps in front of an oncoming train. Morgan has never seen this woman before, and she can't understand...
83) Survive
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Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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A troubled girl is stranded in an arctic winter terrain after a plane crash and must fight for survival with the only other boy left alive.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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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 the drug-addled world of Calhoun Lofts. She has devoted...
85) Knife music
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Hank Madden novels volume 1
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English
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Six months after saving the life of teenage accident victim Kristen Kroiter, emergency room surgeon Ted Cogan is shocked when he is questioned by police in the wake of her baffling suicide, which causes the womanizing Cogan to be wrongly accused of rape.
86) Home field
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"As the high school football coach in his small, rural Maryland town, Dean is a hero who reorganized the athletic program and brought the state championship to the community. When he married Nicole, the beloved town sweetheart, he seemed to have it all--until his troubled wife committed suicide. Now, everything Dean thought he knew is thrown off kilter as Nicole's death forces him to re-evaluate all of his relationships, including those with his team...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"I had but one delusion, which I held onto with all my willpower: we once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I'm doing it over again, this time by words.' In a world created outside of time, Li and the son who died talk about their lives. Deeply intimate and moving, this story cycle of grief captures the love and humor in a relationship which goes on now in a mother's heart, between a mother and child, even as it captures the pain of Li's...
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2020
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English
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"A pastor's wife's shattering yet ultimately hopeful story of her husband's death by suicide, her journey to understand mental illness, and the light she found in the darkness. On August 25, 2018, Kayla Stoecklein lost her husband, Andrew--mega church pastor of Inland Hills Church in Chino, California--to suicide. In the wake of the tragedy, she embarked on a brave journey to better understand his harrowing battle with mental illness and, ultimately,...
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Español
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El autor es Licenciado en Psicología egresado en la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Magister en Metodología de Investigación de la Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral y Perito Oficial en el Poder Judicial de la Provincia de Santa Cruz, además de poseer una amplia experiencia tanto en el Área Clínica como en el Área Forense. Dentro del ámbito judicial al que pertenece ha realizado más de treinta casos de autopsia psicológica sobre las...
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English
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"There Are No Two Marrows" explores, with great humour, a real modern-day dilemma. Archie, a somewhat eccentric retired coal miner with traditional northern passions and pastimes, informs his family, out of the blue, that he intends to take his own life and wants their help in celebrating it. The story traces his reasons, the impact of his decision on his dysfunctional family life, the reaction of the community and the realisation that the best-laid...
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English
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In these snapshots from on-going sagas, you'll read about grim realities - terrible group homes, suicides, adult children killed by police, incarcerations, solitary confinement, lack of beds, family chaos, substance abuse, ineffective medications, heart-breaking HIPAA restrictions, hallucinations, homelessness, sorrow, hurt, and anger. Simultaneously, you'll read about profound love, caregiving, gratitude, forgiveness, hope, strength, persistence,...
93) Attempt
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Attempt details the true story of a broken home and mental illness that led to a suicide attempt. After certain providential interventions, as detailed in the book, it becomes clear that God was still being gracious and merciful. The inspirational account details true events as they happened during a psychological crisis. It brings awareness to major depressive disorder (MDD) while giving definitions and actual examples of mental illness. This disorder...
94) Scars to Stars
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English
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"Sobbing so uncontrollably I could not take a breath, the pain was unbearable.
I washed down the pills with an open bottle of wine I grabbed from the fridge.
I just wanted it all to stop... the pain... the fighting... the lies..."
Scars to Stars is a series of online summits, live events, and books. These writers vulnerably share their personal, authentic stories of overcoming adversity to motivate and inspire you, wherever you might be along...
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Español
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Desde reconocer las señ ales de alarma, entender las motivaciones, distinguir los posibles trastornos que envuelven el suicidio, hasta dar herramientas para prevenirlo, Pensamiento suicida explica los diversos senderos que puede recorrer esta problemá tica. Con escalas y cuestionarios para detectar ideas suicidas y modelos breves para atender emergencias psicoló gicas, está guí a es un texto...
96) Haunted
Author
Series
Hannah Smith novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The house is historic, some say haunted. It is also slated to be razed and replaced by condos, unless Hannah Smith can do something about it. She's been hired by a wealthy Palm Beach widow to prove that the house's seller didn't disclose everything he knew about the place when he unloaded it, including its role in a bloody Civil War skirmish (in which two of Hannah's own distant relations had had a part), and the suicides--or where they murders?--of...
97) The fall
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English
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In writing in his journal about middle school classmate Morgan Mallen's suicide from bullying, Sam explores whether he was a friend, or one of the bullies who ignored her at school and tormented her online.
98) Remember me
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Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"Teen hacker Wick Tate has to decide between right and wrong as she tries to solve another murder and discover the truth about her mother's suicide"--
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Casey Benedict, star reporter at the Post, has infiltrated the lives and exposed the lies of countless politicians and power players. Using her network of contacts, Casey is always on the search for the next big story, no matter how much danger this might place her in, no matter what cost emotionally. Tipped off by an overheard conversation at an exclusive London nightclub, she begins to investigate the apparent suicide of a wealthy young British...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A novel about a journalist in pursuit of a story about a child who survived a cult mass suicide, which may not be all that it appeared to be, told in Janice Hallett's signature original and innovative style of emails, messages, news clips, and screenplay excerpts"--
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