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Madame Bovary, often ranked among the greatest novels of all time, is considered Gustave Flaubert’s masterpiece, with authors from Henry James to Proust to Nabokov heaping it with praise.
The novel tells the story of Madame Bovary, a commoner wife of a country doctor, and her attempts to escape the drudgery
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ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"According to the Centers for Disease Control, 47,500 people killed themselves in in the US in 2019, which is about one death every eleven minutes. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. The shock of it and immediacy of the grief makes a suicidal death different from many other deaths people can experience"--
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English
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Zee Finch, a therapist, decides to walk away from her practice after one of her patients commits suicide and returns home to care for her father, who has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, but finds herself confronted with locked away feelings of grief she has kept hidden about her mother's own suicide.
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
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Twenty-four-year-old Veronika wakes up in a mental hospital after a failed suicide attempt and learns that the pills she took damaged her heart so severely that she has only days to live, and in the week that follows, Veronika learns some important lessons about life and love.
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English
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Joe Allston, the retired literary agent in 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 its serpents: Jim Peck, a messianic exponent of drugs, yoga, and...
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English
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This masterpiece of modern literature by the author of Orlando is an intimate and probing account of a single day in the life of a London society woman. It's the spring of 1923 and Clarissa Dalloway must prepare her Westminster home for the guests she will receive this evening. As the wife of a Parliament Minister, proper decorum is of upmost importance, and she decides to buy the flowers herself. Walking through the streets of London, Clarissa's...
10) Memento Mori
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Korean
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Min-Ah discovers a shared diary and is fascinated to learn that two schoolmates she thought to be close friends have, in fact, begun a forbidden romance. Unable to tear her eyes away, the secret allure of the diary begins to consume her. When one of the diary's writers is found dead from an apparent suicide, rumors spread and Min-Ah begins to sense a strange presence. The once tranquil school is transformed into a morbid place of terror, as if the...
14) Marebito
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
日本語
Description
Masuoka (played by cult filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto, director of Tetsuo and star of Ichi The killer), is a solitary cameraman obsessed with the desire to understand fear. He watches grisly footage of a man committing suicide in the subway, and desperate to understand the madman's intentions, Masuoka returns to the scene inadvertently opening a door into a bizarre and horrifying underworld. Here among the ghosts and creatures he finds a strange and...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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" " William Styron's stunning debut: a classic portrait of one Southern family's tragic spiral into destruction " First published to wide critical acclaim in 1951, Lie Down in Darkness centers on the Loftis family--Milton and Helen and their daughters, Peyton and Maudie. The story, told through a series of flashbacks on the day of Peyton's funeral, is a powerful depiction of a family doomed by its failure to forget and its inability to love. " Written...
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Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A memoir in which singer Judy Collins looks back on her life, recalling some of the places, people, triumphs, and tragedies she has experienced in her long career, and discussing how she fought to deal with the 1992 suicide of her beloved son Clark. Includes a four-song CD.
17) Dorm
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Thai
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In Thailand, the young Ton Chatree is sent to a boarding school by his father to study harder and have less entertainment with television. Once in the school, Ton feels outcast and misses his family and friends. He becomes scared with the ghost stories his new schoolmates tell about a boy that died in the swimming pool and a young pregnant woman that committed suicide. He becomes a close friend of the also lonely boy Vichien, and later Ton realizes...
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English
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Two sisters can't stand to live together, but can't bear to be apart. One worships the flashy world of Nashville, the other is a devout Pentecostal. One falls into the lap of any man, the other is afraid to even date. One gets pregnant in a flash, the other desperately wants to have child.
This is what's at the heart of Silas House's third, masterful novel, which tells the story of Easter and Anneth, tragically left parentles as children, who must...
19) The vanishers
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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Julia Severn, a student at an institute for psychics, is subjected to the humiliation of reliving her mother's suicide when Julia was an infant causing her mentor Madame Ackermann to launch a desperate psychic attack that leaves her the victim of a crippling ailment.
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English
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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 bequeaths the family's restaurant to Charlie alone, while leaving Owen with instructions to follow his own path, wherever it may take him.
Years later, the restaurant is a success. The void in Charlie's life, created by his beloved brother's absence,...
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