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Publisher
BayView Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
With impeccable timing, a middle-aged man on the verge of ending his own life receives a huge inheritance. His instant wealth coincides with a likable young woman and her precocious young daughter entering his pleasure-free life. As his feelings for the two grow, his plan to have the money go toward caring for his abusive, mentally-disturbed mother starts going by the wayside.
62) A Long Way Down
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In this touching comedy, four strangers decide to end it all on New Year’s Eve. But when they meet by chance on a London rooftop, they agree to halt their plans for six weeks. They soon discover that even accidental families make life worth living.
63) The sea of trees
Publisher
A24 / Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Powerful story of love and redemption of an American professor, Arthur, who travels to Japan. He embarks on a spiritual and life-changing journey with Takumi, whom he found lost near the base of Mount Fuji. Takumi had gotten lost after attempting to commit suicide, now they fight for their survival while they are on their journey of reflection. Arthur's will to live reconnects him to his love for his wife.
64) The ledge
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Gavin is on the ledge. Hollis, who just learned that he is not the biological father of his children, has the task of talking Gavin down. Gavin reveals his deep-rooted conflict with his fundamentalist Christian neighbor Joe, whose theological opposition to Gavin was intensified by Gavin's gay roommate and later by Joe's wife's infidelity. The negotiations take a dramatic turn when Hollis learns that Gavin has a deadline, and his life is not the only...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
It's a wonderful life: A man is saved from a suicide attempt by an angel and is then shown how important he is to the people who love him. A Christmas classic.
White Christmas:Two song-and-dance men team up in show business after the war. Joining forces with a sister act, they trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. The real adventure starts when Crosby and Kaye discover that the inn is run by their old army general who's now in financial trouble....
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In this spine-tingling, atmospheric debut for fans of Jennifer McMahon, Simone St. James, and Chris Bohjalian, a woman returns to her hometown after her childhood friend attempts suicide at a local haunted house-the same place where a traumatic incident shattered their lives twenty years ago. Few in sleepy Sumner's Mills have stumbled across the Octagon House hidden deep in the woods. Even fewer are brave enough to trespass. A man had killed his...
Author
Series
Publisher
Instant Help Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Suicide is the second leading cause of death among teens in the US, and the need for effective prevention has never been greater. Written by two adolescent suicide experts, this gentle and effective guide will help teens overcome suicidal thoughts by reducing emotional pain, increasing hope, and building meaningful connections. Readers will learn specific skills grounded in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), including how to establish...
69) Three
Author
Publisher
And Other Stories
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Three opens with the death of a young woman, identified only as S, possibly a suicide. Following her death, Ruth and Leonard -- a middle-aged British couple whose marriage has devolved into pithy and bitter conversations -- review the time S spent at their summer house. In a lyrical prose style likened to that of such diverse writers as Virginia Woolf and William Burroughs, Ann Quin presents the enigmatic intricacies of the relationship between these...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
On March 11, 2001, seventeen-year-old Will ingested a near-fatal dose of his antidepressant medication, an event that would forever change his life and the lives of his family. In Will's Choice, his mother, Gail Griffith, tells the story of her family's struggle to renew Will's interest in life and to regain their equilibrium in the aftermath.
Griffith intersperses her own finely wrought prose with dozens of letters and journal entries from family...
72) The bell jar
Publisher
New Star Video
Pub. Date
2005, [1979]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the mental breakdown of Esther Greenwood, a brilliant, beautiful, talented, and successful young woman
Author
Publisher
Multnomah Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
This is a remarkable story of life beyond despair and hope that triumphs over tragedy. Kristen Anderson thought she had the picture perfect life until strokes of gray dimmed her outlook: three friends and her grandmother died within two years. Still reeling from these losses, she was raped by a friend she thought she could trust. She soon spiraled into a seemingly bottomless depression. One January night, the seventeen year old decided she no longer...
74) Drama/Mex
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Español
Description
Two interlaced stories unfold over the course of the same long, hot day in the once lush and now decadent resort town of Acapulco. The first involves the beautiful and cool Fernanda, who is forced to deal with the sudden emergence of her ex-lover, Chino. Her boyfriend, Gonzalo, must now compete with the intense sexual tension Fernanda and Chino share. The second story concerns Jamie, an office worker with hidden indiscretions, attempting suicide in...
Publisher
level FILM
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After 27-year-old William fails at his ninth attempt at suicide, he decides to take up a genial 65-year-old hitman, Leslie, on his offer to help out. Leslie has quotas to meet to keep his membership in an assassins guild, but when William meets the woman of his dreams things get more complicated for both men.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Transgender author Kate Bornstein provides guidance for suicidal teenagers, relating personal emotional struggles; discussing bullies, identity, and freedom; and describing 101 activities teens can use to cope and keep themselves alive.
78) Down in the zero
Author
Series
Burke novels volume 7
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
A rash of suicides among wealthy teenagers in a Connecticut town is the subject of an investigation by PI Burke. To solve the case he is forced to play the stud, endearing himself to a housewife who runs a secret porn ring. By the author of Shella.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"On the morning of his fortieth birthday, Randy Clark believes the only way he can help his family is to end it all. Standing on the Tennessee River Bridge in Decatur, Alabama, with his dreams of a pro golf career long gone, his marriage struggling, and facing financial ruin, Randy sees no other alternative to help his wife and daughter but to jump, which he plans to do in the next twenty-four hours. But his plans are put on hold when the ghost of...
80) Boy interrupted
Publisher
HBO Documentary Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"On the night of Oct. 2, 2005, Hart and Dana Perry's 15-year-old son Evan jumped to his death from his New York City bedroom window. This moving film is the story, told by his filmmaker parents and others who knew him, of Evan's life and death, and life-long struggle with bipolar disorder. ... In showing how one family deals with generations of loss and grief, the film defies the stigma related to mental illness and suicide..."--Container.
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