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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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Rocks In My Pockets
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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This acclaimed New York Times "Critic's Pick" is an animated, sweeping 100-year family history of mystery, mental health, redemption and survival. The film is based on true events involving five women of filmmaker Signe Baumane's family, including herself, and their encounters with depression and suicide. Using animation, visual metaphors and a healthy dose of humor, Baumane leads us on an adventure filled with romance, marriage, nature, business,...
44) A long way down
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A former talk-show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother, each intending to commit suicide, find themselves together on the roof of a London building and begin to contemplate their individual choices and circumstances.
45) Father's Day
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Haunted by his inability to prevent his father's death at age 17, the making of this film came to span twenty years as Lipman tried to construct an image of his father from relatives' memories and psychiatric records unearthed from hospital archives. The film circles around to become an inquiry into his own life - the choices he has made and how his father's life resonates within his own. Using evocative home movies and poetic imagery, Father's Day...
46) Mrs. Dalloway
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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...
47) I liked my life
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English
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"Maddy is a devoted stay-at-home wife and mother, host of excellent parties, giver of thoughtful gifts, and bestower of a searingly perceptive piece of advice or two. She is the cornerstone of her family, a true matriarch...until she commits suicide, leaving her husband Brady and teenage daughter Eve heartbroken and reeling, wondering what happened. How could the exuberant, exacting woman they loved disappear so abruptly, seemingly without reason,...
48) The river knows
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English
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From New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick comes a delightful romp filled with breathtaking suspense, dazzling wit, and steamy Victorian passion . . .
The first kiss occurred in a dimly lit hallway on the upper floor of Elwin Hastings's grand house. Louisa Bryce never saw it coming. Of course, handsome, wealthy Anthony Stalbridge couldn't possibly have had romantic intentions. The kiss was merely meant to distract the armed guard about to...
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Publisher
Vivid Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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A suicide. A new hometown. A new beginning. Thats just what the Millers need after the death of their beloved daughter and twin sister, Haylie. But how can Jayde move forward when each night her nightmares take her back. Back to search for answers, to search for herself. Will she be strong enough to handle what she discovers?
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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Jo Beckett, a forensic psychiatrist with the San Francisco Police Department, is hired to investigate the lives of several prominent people who committed suicide and discovers that an organization called the Dirty Secrets Club is behind the deaths and that a former member may be responsible for the incidents.
52) Memento Mori
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Korean
Description
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...
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Español
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El autor es Licenciado en Psicología egresado en la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Magister en Metodología de Investigación de la Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral y Perito Oficial en el Poder Judicial de la Provincia de Santa Cruz, además de poseer una amplia experiencia tanto en el Área Clínica como en el Área Forense. Dentro del ámbito judicial al que pertenece ha realizado más de treinta casos de autopsia psicológica sobre las...
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English
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"There Are No Two Marrows" explores, with great humour, a real modern-day dilemma. Archie, a somewhat eccentric retired coal miner with traditional northern passions and pastimes, informs his family, out of the blue, that he intends to take his own life and wants their help in celebrating it. The story traces his reasons, the impact of his decision on his dysfunctional family life, the reaction of the community and the realisation that the best-laid...
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Español
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Por qué se suicida un adolescente y, en general, los seres humanos, es la pregunta que atraviesa la investigación de la que testimonia este libro. Nos servimos, en la exposición del problema, de conceptos auxiliares que permiten profundizar y ampliar la presente reflexión: pasaje al acto, urgencia subjetiva, acto y acting-out. Estos conceptos son orientadores, sobre todo el primero, que entra en estrecha relación con el suicidio, no solo desde...
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English
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In these snapshots from on-going sagas, you'll read about grim realities - terrible group homes, suicides, adult children killed by police, incarcerations, solitary confinement, lack of beds, family chaos, substance abuse, ineffective medications, heart-breaking HIPAA restrictions, hallucinations, homelessness, sorrow, hurt, and anger. Simultaneously, you'll read about profound love, caregiving, gratitude, forgiveness, hope, strength, persistence,...
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Español
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Es el suicidio un problema únicamente psicológico y de tratamiento individual? ¿Se puede realmente ayudar a personas que han decidido acabar con sus vidas? Estos son solo algunos de los cuestionamientos que permitieron el surgimiento de la Suicidología, disciplina que estudia el proceso suicida individual y grupal.
En la actualidad, son muy pocas las facultades de Psicología que ofrecen cursos de Suicidología; en el Perú hasta el momento no...
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Español
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Este libro actualiza el conocimiento sobre los comportamientos autolesivos con fines suicidas, en relación con la frecuencia, las posibles causas biológicas, psicológicas, sociales, culturales y políticas; es decir, aborda el suicidio desde una visión amplia, no reduccionista, y considera la complejidad del fenómeno.
La fuente de la información son las investigaciones científicas más recientes-preferiblemente, revisiones sistemáticas y...
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English
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This volume addresses the question of what it is like to be depressed. Despite the vast amount of research that has been conducted into the causes and treatment of depression, the experience of depression remains poorly understood. Indeed, many depression memoirs state that the experience is impossible for others to understand. However, it is at least clear that changes in emotion, mood, and bodily feeling are central to all forms of depression, and...
60) Attempt
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English
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Attempt details the true story of a broken home and mental illness that led to a suicide attempt. After certain providential interventions, as detailed in the book, it becomes clear that God was still being gracious and merciful. The inspirational account details true events as they happened during a psychological crisis. It brings awareness to major depressive disorder (MDD) while giving definitions and actual examples of mental illness. This disorder...
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