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I'll write your name on every beach : a mother's quest for comfort, courage and clarity after suicide loss / by Auerbach, Susan,author.(CARDINAL)859783;
Includes bibliographical references.Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Prologue: happier days -- Stepping into the wilderness -- The body takes a hit : shock & tears -- What they say & don't say : dealing with others -- The unfinished puzzle : why and what-if? -- Forever 21 : birthdays, anniversaries & memorials -- Living the nightmare : parenting & family life -- Grief holiday : hallmark occasions -- Who shall live and who shall die : spirituality & the Jewish year -- What is left : remembering & forgetting -- Soothing our grieving selves : comfort & healing -- The hard stuff : guilt, anger, shame & forgiveness -- Inside out : mental states & mental illness -- Phases and stages : the passing of time -- Climbing into the day : re-integration & looking ahead -- Beyond surviving : suggestions for survivors / by Iris Bolton -- References -- Recommended resources on suicide & suicide loss : a sampling.
Subjects: Children and death.; Suicide.; Mothers of suicide victims.; Parental grief.; Loss (Psychology);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Things in nature merely grow / by Li, Yiyun,1972-author.(CARDINAL)469870;
"There is no good way to say this," Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book. "There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged. My husband and I had two children and lost them Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose suicide, and both died not far from home." There is no good way to say this--because words fall short. It takes only an instant for death to become fact, "a single point in a timeline." Living now on this single point, Li turns to thinking and reasoning and searching for words that might hold a place for James. Li does what she "doing the things that work," including not just writing but gardening, reading Camus and Wittgenstein, learning the piano, and living thinkingly alongside death. This is a book for James, but it is not a book about grieving or mourning. As Li writes, "The verb that does not die is to be. Vincent was and is and will always be Vincent. James was and is and will always be James. We were and are and will always be their parents. There is no now and then, now and later, only, now and now and now and now." Things in Nature Merely Grow is a testament to Li's indomitable spirit." -- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Personal narratives.; Creative nonfiction.; Li, Yiyun, 1972-; Bereavement.; Mothers and sons.; Sons; Suicide.; Mothers of suicide victims.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 9
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The coldest night : a family's experience of suicide / by Milton, Carol Anne.(CARDINAL)592103;
"The Coldest Night tells the story of a mother's loss of her son through suicide. The author brings us from the moment she learned her son had taken his own life, through the postmortem, the funeral and the subsequent months of bewilderment and shock as she and her family tried to come to terms with a changed life and family structure. She emerges eventually, a different but stronger person, with a deep desire to help young people who are suffering the pain of depression and suicidal ideation, and to continue to be involved in nurturing their spirituality, which she believes is key to a healthy sense of self-worth and value"--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Milton, Carol Anne; Mothers of suicide victims; Suicide victims; Bereavement;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The good house : a novel / by Due, Tananarive,1966-author.(CARDINAL)389104;
The home that belonged to Angela Toussaint's late grandmother is so beloved that the townspeople in Sacajawea, Washington call it the Good House. But that all changes one summer when an unexpected tragedy takes place behind its closed doors, and the Toussaint's family history--and future--is dramatically transformed. Angela has not returned to the Good House since her son, Corey, died there two years ago. But now, Angela is finally ready to return to her hometown and go beyond the grave to unearth the truth about Corey's death. Could it be related to a terrifying entity Angela's grandmother battled seven decades ago? And what about the other senseless calamities that Sacajawea has seen in recent years? Has Angela's grandmother, an African American woman reputed to have "powers," put a curse on the entire community?
Subjects: Paranormal fiction.; Horror fiction.; Novels.; African American women; African American women lawyers; Mothers of suicide victims; Vodou;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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The vanishers / by Julavits, Heidi.(CARDINAL)702919;
A power struggle between a leading student at an elite institute for psychics and her jealous legendary mentor culminates in the student being forced to relive her mother's suicide during a brutal psychic attack.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Children of suicide victims; Missing persons; Mothers and daughters; Women psychics;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 14
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Leaving the hall light on : a mother's memoir of living with her son's bipolar disorder and surviving his suicide / by Sharples, Madeline.(CARDINAL)391153;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Biographies.; People with bipolar disorder; People with bipolar disorder; Suicide victims; Mothers of suicide victims;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Stepping back from the ledge : a daughter's search for truth and renewal / by Trujillo, Laura,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-188).Searching for answers -- A growing distance -- A cruel summer -- The fear: I was becoming my mom -- Learning to understand suicide -- Finding Hope -- Getting better -- Hiking with my mother -- Piecing together my mom's life -- My mother's daughter -- Moving forward."When Laura Trujillo's mother jumps off a ledge in the Grand Canyon and falls to her death, Laura sets out to discover what drove her mother's actions, and begins to explore the painful secrets they shared. As a young girl, Laura was happy that her mother, divorced and remarried, seemed happy again, and so she hides it when her stepfather begins to abuse her. Now grown up with a family of her own, after her mother dies, Laura goes in search of the truth of her mother's life, and of their mutually protective relationship. Breaking the silence that surrounds the subjects of abuse and suicide, Laura explores her own struggle with loss and the trauma of the sexual assault that marked her youth, and candidly recounts how she came to find understanding and hope again"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Trujillo, Laura.; Trujillo, Laura; Children of suicide victims; Sexually abused teenagers; Mothers and daughters;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8
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Lost boy lost girl [large print] : a novel / by Straub, Peter,1943-2022.(CARDINAL)721249;
A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son-beautiful, troubled fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill-vanishes from the face of the earth. To his uncle, horror novelist Timothy Underhill, Mark's inexplicable absence feels like a second death. After his sister-in-law's funeral, Tim searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help him unravel this mystery of death and disappearance. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before his mother's suicide Mark had become obsessed with an abandoned house where he imagined the killer might have taken refuge. No mere empty building, the house on Michigan Street whispers from attic to basement with the echoes of a long-hidden true-life horror story, and Tim Underhill comes to fear that in investigating its unspeakable history, Mark stumbled across its last and greatest secret: a ghostly lost girl who may have coaxed the needy, suggestible boy into her mysterious domain.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Large print books.; Thrillers (Fiction); Abandoned houses; Coming of age.; Crime scenes; Girls; Mothers; Suicide victims; Teenage boys; Girls.; Mothers.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6
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Unfinished woman : a memoir / by Davidson, Robyn,1950-author.(CARDINAL)514234;
In 1977, twenty-seven-year-old Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four camels to cross 1,700 miles of Australian desert to the sea. A life of almost constant traveling followed. From the deserts of Australia, to Sydney's underworld; from Sixties street life, to the London literary scene; from migrating with nomads in Tibet, to 'marrying' an Indian prince, Davidson's quest was motivated by an unquenchable curiosity about other ways of seeing and understanding the world. Davidson threw bombs over her shoulder and seeds into her future on the assumption that something would be growing when she got there. The only terrain she had no interest in exploring was the past. In Unfinished Woman Davidson turns at last to explore that long avoided country. Through this brave and revealing memoir, she delves into her childhood and youth to uncover the forces that set her on her path, and confront the cataclysm of her early loss. Unfinished Woman is an unforgettable investigation of time and memory, and a powerful interrogation of how we can live with and find beauty in the uncertainty and strangeness of being.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Davidson, Robyn, 1950-; Davidson, Robyn, 1950-; Davidson, Robyn, 1950-; Travel writers; Women authors, Australian; Children of suicide victims; Mothers and daughters; Authors, Australian;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Code 6 : a novel / by Grippando, James,1958-author.(CARDINAL)351204;
"Aspiring playwright, Kate Gamble, is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western World. Kate's father adores her, and a play about the dark side of Big Data would be the ultimate betrayal in his eyes. But Kate is compelled to tell this story--not only as an artist exploring the personal information catastrophe that affects us all, but as a daughter trying to understand her mother's apparent loss of purpose, made even more disturbing by the suicide note she left behind: I did it for Kate. Then Patrick Battle comes back into her life, changing everything she has ever thought about her play, her father, and her mother's tragic death. Patrick is a childhood friend, but he is now Buck's golden boy with security clearance to the company's most sensitive projects. When Buck comes under investigation by the Justice Department and Patrick suddenly goes missing, Kate doesn't know who to trust. A phone call confirms her worst nightmare: Patrick has been kidnapped, and the ransom demand is "Code 6"--the most secret and potentially dangerous technology her father's company has ever developed. Kate's fight to bring Patrick home safely reveals a conspiracy and cover up that may implicate one of the most powerful executives in the tech industry, while the development of Kate's play unleashes family secrets and the demons behind her mother's cryptic final note. The two paths converge in explosive fashion, leading to a shocking and terrifying discovery that puts Kate and Patrick in the crosshairs of forces who will stop at nothing to control Code 6"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Data privacy; Technology; Dramatists; Big data; Data integration (Computer science); Mothers; Fathers and daughters; Kidnapping; Women dramatists; Children of suicide victims; Ransom; Conspiracies; Man-woman relationships; Mothers; Mothers.;
Available copies: 109 / Total copies: 121
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