"'No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you do this.' These are the words that ring in the mind of mild-mannered, beloved schoolteacher Cora Gundersun--just before she takes her own life, and many others, in a shocking act of carnage. When the disturbing contents of her secret journal are discovered, it seems certain that she must have been insane. But Jane Hawk knows better. In the wake of her husband's inexplicable...

After committing suicide just before high school graduation, Ellie Walker haunts her home and school, reflecting on her life of domestic violence, friendship with August, and dreams of a writing career. Includes list of resources for people in crisis.

"As her high school graduation draws near, Glory O'Brien begins having powerful and terrifying visions of the future as she struggles with her long-buried grief over her mother's suicide"--

"Seventeen-year-old Aysel's hobby--planning her own death--take a new path when she meets a boy who has similar plan of his own"--

"Seven former best friends reunite and struggle to heal after the tragic death of one of their own in this evocative and heartrending novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Gift and Her Secret"--

In order to understand and prevent suicides, we must begin to explore the topic with a new perspective and spirit of hope. In Suicide: Fast or Slow, part of the GET A GRIP series, therapist and author Derek O'Neill shares knowledge gained from 20 years of working with suicidal clients and their families, to offer a powerful guide for support and healing. Looking at both the internal and external influences that can steer a person to considering ending...

Deep, Dark, Black Hole, written in narrative form, describes the harrowing anguish a pastor and his wife experienced "walking out" his devastating health crisis. The title symbolizes the terror of many who suffer anxiety and depression and the consequent sense of hopelessness and despair they experience. This book emphasizes the importance of family, friends, and faith as well as the collaborative support needed between medicine and ministry to survive...

She didn't understand why he called her that day. Five years of silence and suddenly they were both hiking the familiar trail they both enjoyed long ago. It wasn't until they reached the edge of a beautiful cliff overlooking the beautiful canyon that he explained the spontaneous meeting. Looking down at the blood stain spilled across the rock he ominously told her, "This is where I killed myself."

Three wickedly funny sisters. One family's extraordinary legacy. A single suicide note that spans a century... Meet the Alter sisters-Lady, Vee, and Delph-three delightfully witty, complicated women who live together in their family's apartment on the Upper West Side. Though they love each other fiercely, being an Alter isn't easy. Bad luck is in their genes, passed down through the generations. But no matter what curves life throws at these siblings,...

"A forensic reconstruction of novelist and journalist Jeremy Gavron's mother's state of mind, and a portrait of her complex, charismatic short life and of the events that precipitated her suicide when he was only four years old"--Provided by publisher.