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The dry

2017
Federal Agent Aaron Falk finds himself swept up in his past after attending the funeral of his best friend.

Within reach

a novel
2016
"Dying wasn't on seventeen-year-old Xander Hemlock's summer to-do-list. Finding ways to spend more time with his girlfriend, Lila, was the most critical thinking he planned on doing. But that was before he found himself trapped in a realm of only darkness with thirty days to convince Lila he's not actually dead--well, not completely, anyway"--Amazon.com.

Fear my mortality

2015
"The future is bright for 16-year-old Ava Holland and the residents of Evereach. They don't have to worry about old age or even getting sick. In their world, humans regenerate, heal, and live for hundreds of years. Mortality isn't something to fear. Disease has been all but eradicated. Everything changes when Ava watches her brother die and he doesn't regenerate. Ava's genetics are called into question by the government, scientists, extremists, and Ava herself. Could her genes hold the answer to mortality? Is she an anomaly or something to be feared? Determined not to become anyone's guinea pig, Ava doesn't stick around to find out. She wants answers too, but the only person who can help her is 17-year-old Michael Bradley, the boy who killed her brother. If either of them have even the slightest chance ofsurvival, they must find the genetic keys hidden in Ava's DNA before it's too late."--Back cover.

Beyond knowing

mysteries and messages of death and life from a forensic pathologist
2006
A collection of stories that describes some of the unusual and spiritual connections and events that happen between the dying and their loved ones.

Blackfin sky

When Skylar Rousseau is told that she has been believed to be dead for three months when she has experienced life as usual, she must unravel both the present and the past to solve the mystery of her existence.

The waking dark

When the residents of the town of Oleander, Kansas, start acting strangely, the witnesses of a series of suicide-killings must band together to save the town from whatever has come over it.

If I stay

a novel
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.

Fish

2014
It is the summer after Milo's mother and father were involved in a fatal accident and his cousins are visiting at his Grandparents' crowded house in the Cote D'Azur. Despite the warm, familiar setting, Milo cannot escape the grim specter of death that seems to loom everywhere--he is morbidly fascinated by its presence. He sees it wherever he looks, whatever he does, and the fragility of his own existence plagues his every thought. So, when a missing girl is found drowned on a public beach, Milo thinks that seeing her will finally lift the veil of the great unknown and provide him with answers to the questions that have overwhelmed him since the day he lost everything.

The sittin' up

2015
"When the patriarch of twelve-year-old Bean's sharecropping community dies, Bean gets a lesson in not only what it means to lose someone you love, but also in how his family and friends care for their dead"--Provided by publisher.

The last execution

2016
"Based on the ... true story of the last execution in Denmark's history, this ... novel asks a question that plagues a small Danish town: does a fifteen-year-old boy deserve to be put to death?"--Google Books.

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