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1) The bell jar
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English
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The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under--maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experiece as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche...
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English
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Elfrieda, a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. Yolandi, divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men as she tries to find true love: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive. But Elf's latest suicide attempt is a shock: she is three weeks away from the opening of her highly anticipated international tour. Can she be nursed back to "health" in time? Does it matter? As the situation becomes ever...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances.
Author
Publisher
Cavendish Square
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Between 2006 and 2016, the teen suicide rate in America increased by 70 percent. Suicide has become one of the leading causes of death for American teens, and many young people must contend with their own suicidal thoughts alongside the life-shattering consequences of classmates, friends, and family members dying by suicide. This must-have volume is filled with resources for how to manage depression and suicidal impulses, as well as how to heal from...
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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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
Omnigraphics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Provides updated information about suicide risks, causes, and prevention for teens. Discusses mental health disorders and life-threatening behaviors linked to suicide risk, including depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, substance abuse, and self-injury.
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English
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A collection of three thrilling James Patterson stories: a criminal defense attorney investigating a bullying accusation, the NYPD's most brilliant detective facing her darkest fears to prevent a string of crimes, and a woman investigating the murder of her brother-in-law.
The Family Lawyer with Robert Rotstein: Matthew Hovanes is living a parent's worst nightmare: his young daughter is accused of bullying another girl into suicide....
The Family Lawyer with Robert Rotstein: Matthew Hovanes is living a parent's worst nightmare: his young daughter is accused of bullying another girl into suicide....
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Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This book explores the reasons suicidal thoughts are on the increase, including mental illness, depression, and other factors. Through interviews with individuals who have these thoughts, the book investigates how people cope with them and how the thoughts develop and return to sometimes plague sufferers again and again. Finally, the book explores the many treatments available, including new findings on changes in the brain that may allow for more...
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Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
After his girlfriend ditches him for a boorish ski jock, Lane decides that suicide is the only answer. However, his increasingly inept attempts only bring him more agony and embarrassment. Filled with the wildest teen nightmares, a family you can't help but identify with, and a host of wonderful comic characters, Savage Steve Holland's writing/directorial debut is a masterful look at those painfully funny teen years.
10) Breath
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Korean
Description
While waiting on death row, Jang Jin (Chen Chang) tries to commit suicide in the most bizarre way, using a sharpened toothbrush handle as his main tool. The details of his desperate attempt reach Yeon, a young female sculptor who doesn't know the inmate personally, but feels compelled to seek him out after discovering her husband's betrayal with another woman. A peculiar connection begins to grow between Jang Jin, who has become unable to speak, and...
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English
Description
"By all appearances, Frank and Maggie share a happy, loving marriage. But for the past six months, they have not spoken. Not a sentence, not a single word. Maggie isn't sure what, exactly, provoked Frank's silence, though she has a few ideas... Then Frank finds Maggie collapsed in the kitchen, unconscious, an empty package of sleeping pills on the table. Rushed to the hospital, she is placed in a medically induced coma while the doctors assess the...
13) Girl on the line
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English
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Journey hadn't planned for a future, but when her suicide attempt fails she finds the life she never meant to live challenging in more ways than before: her parents don't trust her, her friends have moved on for their own good, her bipolar disorder is overwhelming. At odds with herself and lacking concrete goals, she begins volunteering at a local helpline, where she finds a community as strong yet broken as she is.
14) The soulmate
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Get ready for a thrilling, addictive novel about marriage, betrayal, and the secrets that push us to the edge in Sally Hepworth's The Soulmate. There's a cottage on a cliff. Gabe and Pippa's dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their perfect house hides something sinister. The tall cliffs have become a popular spot for people to end their lives. Night after night Gabe comes to their rescue, literally talking them off the ledge. Until he doesn't....
15) Teen suicide
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Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The rate of teens who struggle with suicidal ideation is increasing. This book explores risk factors for teens of varying backgrounds and how to identify warning signs for someone who is suicidal. It addresses mental health, stigma in society, and the efforts to provide preventive measures and raise awareness for teen mental health.
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English
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The five Lisbon sisters are brought up in a strict household, and when the youngest kills herself, the oppression of the remaining sisters intensifies. As Therese, Mary, Bonnie and Lux are pulled deeper into isolation by their domineering mother, a group of neighborhood boys become obsessed with liberating the sisters. But what the boys don't know is, the Lisbon girls are beyond saving.
17) Yo antes de ti
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Series
Language
Español
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"Louisa Clark sabe muchas cosas. Sabe cuántos pasos hay entre la parada del autobús y su casa. Sabe que le gusta trabajar en el café The Buttered Bun y sabe que quizá no quiera a su novio Patrick. Lo que Lou no sabe es que está a punto de perder su trabajo. Will Traynor sabe que un accidente de moto se llevó sus ganas de vivir. Sabe que ahora todo le parece insignificante y triste y sabe exactamente cómo va a solucionarlo. Lo que Will...
18) Fighting words
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
Depending on an older sister who protected her when their mother went to prison and their mother's boyfriend committed a terrible act, 10-year-old Della tries to figure out what to do when her older sister attempts suicide.
"Ten-year-old Della can rely on her older sister, Suki, for anything, but when Suki attempts suicide, Della must seek help and speak out about the sexual abuse they've both suffered at the hands of their mother's boyfriend"--...
19) A Man Called Ove
Author
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Swedish
Description
Ill-tempered widower Ove spends his days enforcing the neighborhood association rules and making clumsy attempts at suicide until he forms an unlikely friendship with a boisterous young immigrant family who has moved in next door.
20) Scent of a Woman
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Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Hoping to earn extra money, an innocent and reserved scholarship student at an exclusive prep school agrees to look after a blind, retired Lieutenant Colonel, who takes him off for a wild weekend in New York City.
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