A lyrical, powerful, and richly textured novel about three lives that intertwine across oceans and time. On the banks of the River Seine in 1899, a young woman takes her final breath before plunging into the icy water. Although she does...
Suicide
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Author:Leipciger, SarahSummary: - Author:Von Carolsfeld, WiebkeSummary:
How to survive the unthinkable? This is the question nine-year-old Tom has to face after witnessing his father kill his mother and then turn the gun on himself. After the horrific event, Tom refuses to speak. At first, he moves in with...
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Author:Muchnick, IrvinSummary:The Benoit murder-suicide in 2007 was one of the most shocking stories of the year, and a seminal event in the history of wrestling. It laid bare the devastating prevalence of steroids and its effects on users.
In order to tackle...
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Author:WINTON, TimSummary:Breath opens with Bruce Pike, now a paramedic, arriving too late to save a teenage boy's life. Pike's partner wonders why the boy killed himself. Pike knows he didn't. He doesn't know the boy, but he knows the story...
- Author:Lamontagne, DianeSummary:
Comment vit-on après le deuil d’un être cher qui choisit quitter ce monde ? Un jour ou l’autre, nous vivons tous de l’impuissance face à notre destin. La vie est faite de petites morts et un jour, voilà qu’arrive cette grande mort. Sans...
- Author:Baldwin, JamesSummary:
Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race, and America in the 1950s. Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz musician...
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Author:Holubitsky, KatherineSummary:Fourteen year old Pamela Collins is struggling to come to terms with her mother's death. Somewhat shy, Pamela is thoughtful, full of passion, often funny and sometimes tearful as she learns to cope with the emotional overload the...
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Author:Bennett, JonathanSummary:While most of the action takes place in Sydney, Australia, and Toronto, this whirlwind tour of long-separated twins also lands in Hawaii, London, Scotland, Madrid, and Mallorca. The twins — Curt, an Australian jazz musician, and William...
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Author:Heneghan, JamesSummary:Vancouver city councilor George Hamilton Nash has left his wife of twenty years and moved into a posh West End condo. A wealthy man about town, Nash appears to be enjoying all the pleasures the city has to offer, until he turns up dead...
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Author:Huber, FlorianSummary:By the end of April 1945 in Germany, the Third Reich had fallen and invasion was underway. As the Red Army advanced, horrifying stories spread about the depravity of its soldiers. For many German people, there seemed to be nothing left...
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