death

When a hunting accident claims a boy's life, his best friends all come under suspicion.

Death Jr. - you've played HIS PSP game, you've read HIS comic! Now get ready as we turn the tables and shine the spotlight on a force as powerful as the son of Death himself -- his girlfriend! Pandora discovers a secret portal that sends her to the future and into the body of her teenage self. Besides having to grapple with teenage angst, she must save the future DJ from his greatest enemy yet -- a snake-haired foreign exchange student with a deadly gaze and even deadlier intentions!.

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

After an accident tears her family apart, Ruby Jane Galbraith is drawn by a charismatic new friend, Fox, to the Institute of the Boundless Sublime, but instead of peace she finds sinister secrets.

Five years after his death, the ghost of perpetually seven-year-old Denis Egan joins his twin brother Matt in solving the mystery of his death. But the longer he stays with his brother, the more painful things become, and Matt?s growing obsession with the death drives a wedge between himself and his grieving parents.

After her sister and songwriting partner, Lea, dies in an automobile accident, seventeen-year-old Rumi is sent to Hawaii with an aunt she barely knows while she and her mother grieve separately.

A surgeon advocates for an approach to end-of-life care that emphasizes quality of life as the desired goal, rather than extending life at the cost of increased or extended suffering.

"A group of teens who all attended the same elite prep school reunite a year after graduation. After a night on the town, the teens are faced with an impossible choice--only one of them can live and the decision must be unanimous"--.

Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better. She describes how we over-prepare and worry way too much about what is inevitable. One by one, Ehrenreich topples the shibboleths that guide our attempts to live a long, healthy life, from the importance of preventive medical screenings to the concepts of wellness and mindfulness, from dietary fads to fitness culture. We tend to believe we have agency over our bodies, our minds, and even over the manner of our deaths. But the latest science shows that the microscopic subunits of our bodies make their own "decisions," and not always in our favor. We may buy expensive anti-aging products or cosmetic surgery, get preventive screenings and eat more kale, or throw ourselves into meditation and spirituality. But all these things offer only the illusion of control. How to live well, even joyously, while accepting our mortality -- that is the philosophical challenge of this book.