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Author
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Joe Allston, the retired literary agent of Stegner's National Book Award-winning novel, The Spectator Bird, returns in this disquieting and keenly observed novel. Scarred by the senseless death of their son and baffled by the engulfing chaos of the 1960s, Allston and his wife, Ruth, have left the coast for a California retreat. And although their new home looks like Eden, it also has serpents: Jim Peck, a messianic exponent of drugs, yoga, and sex;...
43) Steal
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"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, founder and CEO of the world's largest hedge fund. But what Mathias knows and how he knows it would ultimately reveal a secret so damaging that it would...
44) Demon's door
Author
Series
Jim Rook series volume 7
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Feeling out of sorts, English teacher and psychic Jim Rook's life goes from bad to worse when, on the first day of the Fall semester, he runs over and kills his pet cat, Tiddles, a situation that turns more bizarre when his new Korean student Kim Dong Wook arrives in class with a basket containing Tiddles, who is alive.
Author
Series
Alex Morrow novels volume 2
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When a notorious millionaire banker hangs himself, his death attracts no sympathy. But the legacy of a lifetime of selfishness is widespread, and the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his family. Meanwhile, in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow, a young woman is found savagely murdered. The community is stunned by what appears to be a vicious, random attack. When Detective Inspector Alex Morrow, heavily pregnant with twins, is called...
46) Let me lie
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The stunning new novel from Clare Mackintosh, the international bestselling author of I Let You Go and I See You. The police say it was suicide. Anna says it was murder. They're both wrong. Last year, Tom and Caroline Johnson chose to end their lives; one seemingly unable to live without the other. Their daughter Anna is struggling to come to terms with her parents' deaths, unwilling to accept the verdict of suicide. Now with a young baby herself,...
Author
Series
Joanne Ross novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Joanne Ross investigates the death of an artist and alleged witch, who was found dead in her home on a remote glen in Scotland.
48) The vanishers
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A power struggle between a leading student at an elite institute for psychics and her jealous legendary mentor culminates in the student being forced to relive her mother's suicide during a brutal psychic attack.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Maddie is left reeling after the unexpected passing of her beloved father. No one has any idea why he betrayed them all so spectacularly, but that's exactly what his death feels like: a betrayal. With their world shattered, Maddie's grieving mother sends her to spend a few months with her grandparents, thinking a change of scenery will do her good. Susan and Frank, Maddie's grandparents, are heartbroken over the loss of their son,...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
It is a beautiful spring day, and Luna is having a picnic in the park with her family, wearing her Mum's red hat. Luna's Mum died one year ago and she still finds it difficult to understand why. She feels that it may have been her fault and worries that her Dad might leave her in the same way. Her Dad talks to her to explain what happened and together they think about all the happy memories they have of Mum.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Daphne Bowman, a bookish drama nerd in public school, might never have crossed paths with Oliver, the popular, outgoing mascot for his private school's football team, but one event has bound them inextricably. Daphne's older sister, Emily, and Oliver's older brother, Jason, who were high school sweethearts, committed suicide together seven years earlier. When Daphne uncovers Emily and Jason's bucket list--a list comprised of their...
58) Court
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
Multiple
Description
An aging folk singer is accused of performing an inflammatory song which might have incited a sewage worker to commit suicide. As the trial unfolds, the personal lives of the lawyers and the judge involved in the case are observed outside the court.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Writing from the unique point of view of a suicide survivor who is also a psychologist, Sarah Neustadter presents a selection of the emails she sent to John, her deceased beloved, over a three-year period following his death. Documenting the raw emotions she experienced during this time period-grief, despair, abandonment, confusion, and the seductive feeling of wanting to die-she seeks to answer the hard existential and psychological questions: Why...
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