violent deaths

"For Cara and her family, every October is inexplicably accident prone. Some years it's bad, like the season when her father died, and some years it's just cuts and scrapes. But this accident season--when Cara, her ex-stepbrother Sam, and her best friend Bea are seventeen--none of that will make a difference. Because the lines between fantasy and reality are starting to blur, and some secrets are threatening to be revealed." -- page [4] of cover.

Explores the mortality risks in everyday actions and behaviors, including sports, vaccinations, crime, driving, flying, sex, and eating.

Judy Collins shares seven powerful steps that can help people find comfort and hope in the aftermath of tragedy and loss.

Offers advice for people who are trying to cope with the violent death of a loved one, looking specifically at the death of a daughter/son, brother/sister, mate/lover, or parent; and includes discussion of suicide, handling holidays, spirituality, professional counseling, coping with the criminal justice system, and financial issues.

During a bone-chilling snap of record cold weather, a series of enigmatic drowning deaths of young men frightens a small summer resort community on Long Island's Shinnecock Bay. Local college professor Deacon Kane, still recovering from the accidental drowning of his only son years ago, is implicated in the deaths. Kane befriends a hypnotically alluring bartender named Colette and quickly continues his brutal, alcoholic spiral downward with little regard for self-preservation. The police want to know Kane's connection to the young men who have died. But as it becomes clear that Kane himself may not know the extent of his own involvement, it is apparent that something dark and sinister is at work in Southampton.