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A Million Drops
by Víctor del Árbol
A lawyer with a monotonous existence discovers that his estranged sister killed herself under dramatic circumstances and begins investigating the shocking events that led her down such a dark path, including having murdered a Russian gangster who had kidnapped her son. Original.
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13 Reasons Why
by Jay Asher
When Clay Jensen receives a box containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends the night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death
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The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes
Follows a middle-aged man as he reflects on a past he thought was behind him, until he is presented with a legacy that forces him to reconsider different decisions, and to revise his place in the world
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The Butterfly Lampshade : a novel
by Aimee Bender
Unable to explain bizarre phenomena that accompanied the most formative events of her youth, Francie reflects on how the perceptions of childhood can take on near-magical qualities that sometimes carry over into an adult world that fluctuates between realities.
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The Pisces : a novel
by Melissa Broder
Bottoming out after a dramatic breakup, doctoral student Lucy accepts her sister's invitation to dog-sit at her home on Venice Beach for the summer, where she meets an eerily attractive swimmer whose Sirenic identity transforms her understanding of what real love looks like
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The Midwife's Confession
by Diane Chamberlain
When they stumble upon an unfinished letter--the only clue to their friend Noelle's suicide--Tara and Emerson discover that Noelle--a midwife who embraced life--was hiding a legacy of guilt that changes all of their lives, and the life of a desperate stranger, forever.
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The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
A tale set in 1970s suburbia follows the experiences of a group of men whose lives have been irrevocably changed by their obsessions with five doomed sisters, a sibling group that committed a dramatic mass suicide.
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Home field : a novel
by Hannah Gersen
When his seemingly charmed life is shattered by his beloved wife's suicide, high school football coach Dean questions everything he believed about his community and perspectives while his three children rebelliously struggle to come to terms with their loss.
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Turtles All the Way Down
by John Green
Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Pickett's son Davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
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Imagine Me Gone : a novel
by Adam Haslett
Electing to marry her fiancé despite his depression, Margaret commits to decades of love involving their brilliant eldest son, their responsible daughter, and a tightly controlled younger son who helps her care for her troubled husband
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A Long Way Down
by Nick Hornby
Meeting on New Year's Eve on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination infamous as a last stop for suicidal people, a talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother share stories about their circumstances and decisions
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Everything here is beautiful
by Mira T. Lee
The bond between a responsible, self-contained older sister and her mentally ill, impulsive younger sister is shaped and tested over years marked by the loss of their mother, an impetuous first marriage, a fling that results in the birth of a baby and painful sacrifices. A first novel.
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Reconstructing Amelia : a novel
by Kimberly McCreight
When her high-achieving 15-year-old daughter Amelia supposedly commits suicide after she is caught cheating, litigation lawyer and single mother Kate Baron, leveled by grief, must reconstruct the pieces of Amelia's life to find the truth and vindicate the memory of the daughter whose life she could not save.
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Everything I Never Told You
by Celeste Ng
"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet." So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. When Lydia's body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together tumbles into chaos, forcing them to confront the long-kept secrets that have been slowly pulling them apart.
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All the Bright Places
by Jennifer Niven
Meeting on the ledge of their school's bell tower, misfit Theodore Finch and suicidal Violet Markey find acceptance and healing that are overshadowed by Finch's fears about Violet's growing social world
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The Bell Jar : a novel
by Sylvia Plath
Chronicles one young woman's emotional breakdown as she journeys from the glamorous world of Manhattan publishing to the isolation of the asylum
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Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
Beautiful and wealthy Antoinette Cosway's passionate love for an English aristocrat threatens to destroy her idyllic West Indian island existence and her very life.
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Challenger Deep
by Neal Shusterman
As he struggles with schizophrenia, a teenage boy believes he is on a journey to reach the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest place on Earth
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Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
As Clarissa Dalloway prepares for a party in the evening, seemingly trivial incidents prompt her to undertake a searching reconnaissance into her memory, where she dwells on missed opportunities and aborted relationships. Set during the course of twenty-four hours, the novel draws subtle parallels between Clarissa, a polished high-society lady, and the shell-shocked war veteran, Septimus Smith; both are similarly transfixed by their pasts.
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