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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
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
The heart is a lonely hunter	Carson McCullers	Set in 1930s Georgia, the novel centers around a deaf and mute man, John Singer. Singer has been devastated by the loss of his dear friend, Antonapoulos, who was committed to an asylum for bad behavi…	OL14864437W
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
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 4 1993	Christina Baker Kline,Jeanne Williams,John Grisham,Barbara J. Morgan,Gordon Glasco	[Client](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL77022W/The_Client) / by John Grisham Sweet Water / by Christina Baker Kline Slow through Eden / by Gordon Glasco Longest road / by Jeanne Williams.	OL15411299W
Suicide	Karen Zeinert	Surveys the issue of suicide, including its history, causes, and psychology.	OL15845388W
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
Smoke	Lisa Miscione	When her former writing student, reporter Lily Samuels, vanishes while looking into her brother's supposed suicide, crime writer Lydia Strong and her husband, private detective Jeff Mark, launch an i…	OL16070266W
Half in love	Linda Gray Sexton	Reveals how, as the daughter of the poet Anne Sexton, the author comes to deal with her mother's life and suicide, and with the support of her family, therapy, and medication, is able to control her …	OL17735084W
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
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	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
Suicidal thoughts	Max Malikow	Suicidal Thoughts is a compilation of some of the most moving and insightful writing accomplished on the topic of suicide. It presents the thoughts and experiences of fifteen writers who have contemp…	OL19904885W
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
Superando el duelo después de un suicidio	Jessica Wolf	The mounting challenges of life today have devastating consequences for mental health, including an increased risk of suicidal thoughts. This book presents several individuals' first-person accounts …	OL20054124W
Dog Star (Mentor Books)	Donald Windham	The Dog Star is a novel by American writer Donald Windham, first published in 1950. It tells the story of a young Southern man who is haunted by the suicide of his best friend from reform school.	OL2039712W
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
Maggie	Stephen Crane	Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is an 1893 novella by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). The story centers on Maggie, a young girl from the Bowery who is driven to unfortunate circumstances by …	OL20843W
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?	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
The Devil's Footprints	John Burnside	Michael Gardiner has lived in Coldhaven all his life yet still feels like an outsider. Married but rather distant from his wife, he reads in the local paper that a school friend, Moira Birnie, has ki…	OL2428263W