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Lost boy lost girl Lost boy lost girl Peter Straub A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son--beautiful, troubled fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill--vanishes from the face of the earth. To his uncle, horror novelist Timothy … OL114292W
Dead midnight Dead midnight Marcia Muller Sharon McCone has decided to throw herself into work so she can get past her brother's suicide, but the wrongful-death suit she is working on hits too close to home. It's a civil case in which the fa… OL14870421W
After the death of Anna Gonzales After the death of Anna Gonzales Terri Fields Poems written in the voices of forty-seven people, including students, teachers, and other school staff, record the aftermath of a high school student's suicide and the preoccupations of teen life. OL14952401W
Suicide Suicide Karen Zeinert Surveys the issue of suicide, including its history, causes, and psychology. OL15845388W
Envy Envy Gregg Olsen Fifteen-year-old twins Hayley and Taylor Ryan of Port Gamble, WA, known as "Empty Coffin" because of a local legend, investigate a former friend's Christmas suicide and, along the way, discover a se… OL15991361W
Dark sparkler Dark sparkler Amber Tamblyn Summary:Here is the American starlet: discovered, disrobed, displaced, disused, disgorged. In more than thirty haunting, visceral poetic portraits, acclaimed poet and actress Amber Tamblyn contemplat… OL17900762W
Moon's crossing Moon's crossing Barbara Croft The dreamer, Jim Moon, provides the common thread to *Moon's Crossing*. Moon fought in the Civil War, traveled across the West, married a much younger woman and tried his hand at farming and being a… OL1835151W
A Washington tragedy A Washington tragedy Dan E. Moldea In A Washington Tragedy, veteran true-crime reporter and bestselling author Dan Moldea investigates all the details surrounding the death of Vincent Foster. Was Vincent Foster murdered? What did he k… OL1860181W
Survivor Survivor Chuck Palahniuk Tender Branson, the last surviving member of the Creedish death cult, has commandeered a Boeing 747, emptied of passengers, in order to tell his story to the plane’s black box before it crashes. Brou… OL18939W
The sisters of Alameda Street The sisters of Alameda Street Lorena Hughes "A generational saga that mixes historical fiction with the romance and intrigue of a Latin soap opera. When Malena Sevilla's tidy, carefully planned world collapses following her father's mysterious… OL19715519W
Twilight at the Equator Twilight at the Equator Jaime Manrique **From Amazon.com:** Colombian-born Santiago Martinez starts his adult life as a young gay writer living in Spain. Years later, as a university professor in New York City, Santiago is called back … OL1995071W
The ghosts of November The ghosts of November Jeffrey Brailey This work represents the first book to be written by a participant in the clean-up operation of Jonestown. It is nonfiction horror written in its most descriptive form. The further you get into this … OL2040039W
Sleeping in Eden Sleeping in Eden Nicole Baart On a chilly morning in the northwest Iowa town of Blackhawk, Dr. Lucas Hudson is filling in for the vacationing coroner on a seemingly open-and-shut suicide case. His own life is crumbling around him… OL20895669W
Death in the peaceable kingdom Death in the peaceable kingdom Dimitry Anastakis Death in the Peaceable Kingdom is an intelligent, innovative response to the incorrect assumption that Canadian history is dry and uninspiring. Using the "hooks" of murder, execution, assassination, … OL21446296W
Who's afraid of Leonard Woolf? Who's afraid of Leonard Woolf? Irene Coates Was Virginia Woolf suicidal, or was she betrayed and driven to taking her own life? Irene Coates argues, with forensic precision, that Leonard Woolf was responsible for the unravelling of his wife's … OL221630W
Juniper Tree Burning Juniper Tree Burning Goldberry Long "Jennifer Braverman was once named Juniper Tree Burning, and she hates that name. It represents the childhood she escaped: her hippie mother, Faith, caught up in mind-altering salvation; her wellmean… OL222071W
Another Country Another Country James Baldwin Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race and liberal America in the 1960s. Set in Greenwhich Village, Harlem and France, ANOTHER COUNTRY tells the story of the s… OL228715W
Split Image Split Image Mel Glenn A series of poems reflect the thoughts and feelings of various people--students, the librarian, parents, the principal, and others--about the seemingly perfect Laura Li and her life inside and out of… OL489909W
The truth about Ruby Valentine The truth about Ruby Valentine Alison Bond Imagine being a nobodyWhen hollywood legend Ruby Valentine shocks the world with her mysterious suicide, Kelly's father reveals something even more shocking - she's Ruby's daughter. Who suddenly beco… OL5718050W
I'll Never Be Long Gone I'll Never Be Long Gone Thomas Christopher Greene The lives of brothers Charlie and Owen Bender are changed forever on the night their father walks into the Vermont woods with a death wish and a shotgun. The second shock comes when his suicide note … OL5847055W
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