suicide

Poems written in the voices of forty-seven people, including students, teachers, and other school staff, record the aftermath of a high school student's suicide and the preoccupations of teen life.

After Shane's kid sister, Destiny, commits suicide, his only solace is to turn to his friend, David, both of whom must hide their deeper relationship from their community on the Indian reservation. Shane had hoped to go to university and escape, but with his mother grieving and David refusing to leave, that hope is dashed, and he will need a miracle to find his place in the world.

When a corpse is found and immediately labeled a suicide, Inspector August Emmerich, longing to join the Viennese major crimes unit, uses this case as his opportunity to prove himself and discovers an insidious and homicidal urge lurking in this city scarred by World War I.

These engrossing stories offer first-person narratives of young adults coping with the death of someone close to them.

"Daphne and Oliver have almost nothing in common . . . Seventeen-year-old Daphne Bowman, a bookish drama nerd in public school, might never have crossed paths with Oliver, the popular, outgoing mascot for his private school's football team, but one event has bound them inextricably. Daphne's older sister, Emily, and Oliver's older brother, Jason, who were high school sweethearts, committed suicide together seven years earlier. When Daphne uncovers Emily and Jason's bucket list--a list comprised of their 'Top ten' places to visit before they die--she knows she has to tell someone. The one person who might actually get what she's going through and who might not think it's silly that she wants to complete the list, is also someone she's never spoken to--Oliver Pagano. Throwing caution to the wind, Daphne sends Oliver a Facebook message that will come to change the course of their senior years -- and maybe their entire lives"--Provided by publisher.

"After his girlfriend commits suicide, a teenage history buff looks back at their relationship and tries to understand what lead to the tragedy"--.

Presents the true story of Brent Runyon who at fourteen set himself on fire and sustained burns over eighty percent of his body, and describes the months of physical and mental rehabilitation that followed as he attempted to pull his life together.

Evan goes from being a nobody to everyone's hero and a social media superstar after a chance encounter with Connor just before his suicide leads others to believe Evan was his only friend.

In an attempt to understand why her best friend committed suicide, eighteen-year-old Cody Reynolds retraces her dead friend's footsteps and makes some startling discoveries.

"When the Winship Academy mascot jumps off a bridge during a halftime show, she leaves behind a lot of questions, and two students who witnessed the scene firsthand are determined to find out what really happened"--Provided by publisher.