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4) The suicides
Author
Series
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
"A stymied reporter in his early thirties embarks on an investigation of three unconnected suicides. All he has to go on are photos of the faces of the dead. Other suicides begin to proliferate, while a colleague in the archives sends him historical justifications of self-murder by thinkers of all sorts: Diogenes, David Hume, Emile Durkheim, Margaret Mead. His investigation becomes an obsession, and he finds himself ever more attracted to its subject...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"After his mom kills herself, Tyler shuts out the world--until falling in love with Jordyn helps him find his way toward a hopeful future"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In the vein of such classic family sagas as Fall on Your Knees, A Reunion of Ghosts is the confessional of three sisters who have decided to kill themselves on the very last day of the 20th century; in it they tell the story of a family haunted by suicide ever since the sisters' great-grandfather, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, developed the first poison gas used in warfare and also the lethal agent used in the Third Reich's gas chambers--inspired...
7) Mercy
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Julie Devereux is an outspoken advocate for the right to die - until a motorcycle accident leaves her fianc�e, 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 that Sam died of an unusual heart defect, one seen only...
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Nick Hornby meets Chuck Palahniuk in this powerful, provocative, and heartfelt epistolary novel from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski. Life has other plans for a group of strangers who want to end it all on a cross-country road trip, but then bond in ways they never could have imagined"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Suffering from anxiety and depression, sixteen-year-old Mehreen Miah joins MementoMori, a website that allocates matches a method and date of death, and meets Cara and Olivia, but as the girls grow closer they realize the value of living, starting a sinister game as the website will not let them go.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
12) Shatter
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
When Joe O'Loughlin fails to save a naked and distraught woman sobbing on a cell phone from jumping off a bridge into a flooded gorge below, he is shattered by the suicide, until her teenage daughter finds him and reveals that she never would have committed such a desperate act.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Told in alternating timelines, as Natalie grieves her best friend Jules's death by suicide, Jules's influencer mother plans to release a book about it, which causes Natalie and Jules's boyfriend to band together and expose the truth behind Jules' tragic death.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something has awakened. Something evil. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator of the Mercedes Massacre, where eight people were killed and many more were badly injured, has been in the clinic for five years, in a vegetative state. According to his doctors, anything approaching a complete recovery is unlikely. But behind the drool and stare, Brady is awake, and in possession of deadly new powers...
16) Friends for life
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Francis Meredith is a boy who is interested in fashion and costuming, which has made him a target at school, but when he meets Jessica and Andi his life begins to change--Andi is an athletic girl with a reputation for fighting and family in the fashion business, and Jessica is a ghost who has no idea how she died.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The wheels are coming off in America. Opioid addictions accelerate unstoppably. Environmental collapse can be read in every weather report. Vigilante bands take over streets at night, wearing clown face makeup. The very idea of government, of citizenship, is challenged daily. And something is happening to teenagers across the country, spreading through memes only they understand. At the Float Anxiety Abatement Center, in a suburb of Chicago, Simon...
19) Motherthing
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law. Abby Lamb has done it. She's found the Great Good in her husband, Ralph, and together they will start a family and put all the darkness in her childhood to rest. But then the Lambs move in with Ralph's mother, Laura, whose depression has made it impossible for her to live on her own. She's...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Cadence "Cady" Archer arrives on Harvard's campus searching for answers about her brother, a schizophrenic genius who leapt from his dorm room window the year before. Eric's brilliance overshadowed Cady growing up, but she worshipped and adored him--even as he became more unstable, retreating deeper into his secretive work on multidimensional spacetime and isolating himself from everyone around him. Losing Eric has left a black hole in Cady's life,...
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