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1) Forest ghost
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English
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After a troop of boy scouts and their leaders commit suicide while camping, Jack Wallace looks into the tragedy when his autistic son senses a malign presence in the woods, trying to discover what is causing people to panic in the forest.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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From the author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie, a new novel that millions of fans have been waiting for.
"Every family is a ghost story . . ."
Mitch Albom mesmerized readers around the world with his number one New York Times bestsellers, The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie. Now he returns with a beautiful, haunting novel about the family...
"Every family is a ghost story . . ."
Mitch Albom mesmerized readers around the world with his number one New York Times bestsellers, The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie. Now he returns with a beautiful, haunting novel about the family...
4) The bell jar
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Esther Greenwood is a talented and intelligent, just beginning her promising career with a magazine internship in New York City. However, Esther is restless and unhappy, disoriented by life in the big city and finding her job increasingly difficult to deal with. After the completion of her internship, she returns to her family home in Massachusetts where her restlessness only multiplies. Hoping to make her living as an author, Esther feels unsure...
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English
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The narrator of Salley Vickers' new novel is a male doctor in a psychiatric hospital on the south coast of England. He becomes increasingly fascinated by one of his patients, the enigmatic and mysterious Penelope Cruickshank, a woman who has recently tried to commit suicide.
9) The homesman
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Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
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English
10) A thousand cuts
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English
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In the aftermath of a school shooting in which a teacher killed three students and a colleague before turning the gun on himself, Detective Inspector Lucia May pieces together witness testimonies and discovers a more sinister truth that her superiors arenot interested in revealing.
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English
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When Christine is called into action again to stop thirty-four-year-old Adam jumping off a bridge, she will do anything to stop him. She makes a rash deal - she must convince Adam that life is worth living by his thirty-fifth birthday, otherwise he will take his own life. Christine only has a few weeks to try and help Adam see the everyday beauty in life, find happiness again, and - most of all - win back the love of his life. A thoughtful, captivating,...
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Hamish Hamilton
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English
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From the bestselling author of MISTAKES TO RUN WITH, a heartrending tale of a mother hell-bent on saving her family after her daughter's suicide attempt--despite the destruction it might mean for herself. When Rose's 17-year-old daughter, Juliet, attempts suicide, she does everything she can to hold her family together despite the inevitable unravelling that follows. Her husband Syd thinks their daughter is fine, that she's going through a phase,...
14) Perfect crime
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English
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"Stephen Berry is about to jump off a bridge until a suicide prevention counsellor stops him. A week later, Stephen is dead. Found at the bottom of a cliff, DI Luc Callanach and DCI Ava Turner are drafted in to investigate whether he jumped or whether he was pushed. As they dig deeper, more would-be suicides roll in: a woman found dead in a bath; a man violently electrocuted. But these are carefully curated deaths--nothing like the impulsive suicide...
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English
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"Get ready for a thrilling, addictive novel about marriage, betrayal, and the secrets that push us to the edge ... There's a cottage on a cliff. Gabe and Pippa's dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their perfect house hides something sinister. The tall cliffs have become a popular spot for people to end their lives. Night after night Gabe comes to their rescue, literally talking them off the ledge. Until he doesn't. When Pippa discovers Gabe...
16) Life for sale
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Vintage International/Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC
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English
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"After botching a suicide attempt, salaryman Hanio Yamada decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper. But what begins as mere nihilism takes a turn for the unexpected as interested parties come calling with increasingly bizarre requests. What follows is a madcap comedy of errors, involving a jealous husband, a drug-addled heiress, poisoned carrots--even a vampire. For someone who just wants to die, Hanio can't...
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Atria Books
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English
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"In this spine-tingling, atmospheric debut for fans of Jennifer McMahon, Simone St. James, and Chris Bohjalian, a woman returns to her hometown after her childhood friend attempts suicide at a local haunted house-the same place where a traumatic incident shattered their lives twenty years ago. Few in sleepy Sumner's Mills have stumbled across the Octagon House hidden deep in the woods. Even fewer are brave enough to trespass. A man had killed his...
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