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Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Description
An epidemic of international proportions, suicide has touched the lives of nearly half of all Americans, yet is rarely talked about openly. In this timely and important book, Susan Blauner breaks the silence to offer guidance and hope for those contemplating ending their lives-and for the loved ones who want to help them. A survivor of multiple suicide attempts, Blauner eloquently describes the feelings and fantasies surrounding suicide. In a direct,...
Author
Publisher
F.A. Davis Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Whether it's an entire course on psychiatric nursing or integrating these principles into an existing course, this is the text that's concise, engaging and informative. It offers a holistic approach to mental health nursing that explores nursing diagnoses for both physiological and psychological disorders."--Publisher's website.
Easy to read and easy to understand, this is the text that makes complex concepts easy to master. It offers a holistic...
3) The soulmate
Author
Description
"Get ready for a thrilling, addictive novel about marriage, betrayal, and the secrets that push us to the edge in Sally Hepworth's The Soulmate. There's a cottage on a cliff. Gabe and Pippa's dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their perfect house hides something sinister. The tall cliffs have become a popular spot for people to end their lives. Night after night Gabe comes to their rescue, literally talking them off the ledge. Until he doesn't....
4) Teen suicide
Author
Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Describes issues surrounding teen suicide, how these issues affect individuals and society, and how they are being addressed"--
Author
Series
Program volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Working with rebels to bring down The Program, a suicide prevention treatment in which painful memories are erased, Sloane and James consider taking The Treatment to unlock their memories.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A powerful, vibrant novel about the life-changing weekend shared between two strangers, from the award-winning writer Roxane Gay calls "a consummate storyteller." On a rainy October night in Kentucky, recently divorced therapist Tallie Clark is on her way home when she spots a man precariously standing on the edge of a bridge. Without a second thought, Tallie pulls over and jumps out of the car into the pouring rain. She convinces the man to join...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
Shares the author's experiences after the suicide of her ex-husband, as well as the most recent insights into suicide from the medical community.
When her ex-husband killed himself soon after their divorce, Ashton's world--and that of her children--was shattered. At once a deeply personal trauma, and a devastating public epidemic, suicide affects millions who are left behind and must work through their grief--and sometimes shame--as survivors. In...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"From the acclaimed author of How to Sell--and based on his viral Huffington Post article--comes a deeply intimate, insightful, and at times even funny portrait of the suicidal mind, combining the author's personal experience with a philosophical, literary, and journalistic inquiry into the subject "If you're going to write a book about suicide, you have to be willing to say the true things, the scary things, the humiliating things. Because everybody...
10) Suicide
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2012
Description
"Suicide: Global Suicide Trends; Policies to Address Suicide; Political, Social, and Economic Factors Contributing to Suicide; Suicide As an Act of Terrorism"--
11) The bridge
Publisher
Distributed by Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"In 2004, 24 people jumped to their deaths from the Golden Gate Bridge. More people have chosen to end their lives at the Golden Gate Bridge than anywhere else in the world."--End titles. What makes the suicides at the bridge so unusual is that they take place in broad daylight, in front of people in a busy place - unlike most suicides, which are enacted in extreme privacy. Filmmaker Eric Steel and his crew spent 2004 filming the bridge during daylight...
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
1996
Description
Fantasy stories involving characters from Neil Gaiman's comic book The Sandman. In Will Shetterly's Splatter, killers decide to show a novelist how it's really done, Karen Haber's A Bone Dry Place is set in a suicide-prevention clinic, and in John Ford's Chain Home, Low a sleeping virus strikes a group of wartime pilots.
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