suicide

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13 reasons why

When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
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Survivor

a novel
Tender Branson, the last surviving member of a death cult, recounts his life story as he flies all alone in an airplane that is set to crash.
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St. Michael's scales

Keegan Flannery, feeling responsible for his twin brother's death and his mother's mental illness, believes he must atone by commiting suicide before his sixteenth birthday, but he gains new insights when he joins his school's wrestling team.
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A long way down

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.
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Orchards

Sent to Japan for the summer after an eighth-grade classmate's suicide, half-Japanese, half-Jewish Kana Goldberg tries to fit in with relatives she barely knows and reflects on the guilt she feels over the tragedy back home.
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Luna's red hat

an illustrated storybook to help children cope with loss and suicide
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Teen suicide

a book for friends, family, and classmates
Discusses what is known about suicide, the myths, misconceptions, causes, and warning signs, and uses hypothetical case studies to demonstrate methods of prevention and coping with grief and guilt after a suicide.
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Madame Bovary

A nineteenth-century French woman pursues her romantic dreams through a series of lovers.

Death, the high cost of living

A graphic novel in which Death, going about her business ushering the about-to-die into the afterlife, meets up with Sexton, a New York teen who is contemplating suicide.

Tunnel vision

After 15-year-old Anthony hangs himself, his family, friends, girlfriend, and a teacher must deal with their feelings of guilt and bewilderment.

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