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The Last Policeman Trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2012
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Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There?s no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months until impact. � The Last Policeman presents a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States. The economy spirals downward while crops rot in the fields. Churches and synagogues are packed. People all over the world are walking off the job-but not Hank Palace. He?s investigating a death by...
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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?One person dies by suicide every 40 seconds. But sadly, for the most part, we are reluctant to talk about it. It is one of the last remaining taboos.? Professor Rory O?Connor is here to change this. He believes it is crucial we all talk about suicide so that no one ever has to feel alone again. Bringing together decades of work on suicide prevention research, Professor O?Connor?s own experience and other peoples stories, When It Is Darkest gets to...
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Adam Basil and Christine Rose are thrown together late one night, when Christine is crossing the Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin. Adam is there, poised, threatening to jump. Adam is desperate - but Christine makes a crazy deal with him. His 35th birthday is looming and she bets him that before then she can show him that life is worth living. Despite her
4) Case study
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London, 1965. An unworldly young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has driven her sister to suicide. Intent on confirming her suspicions, she assumes a false identity and presents herself to him as a client, recording her experiences in a series of notebooks. But she soon finds herself drawn into a world in which she can no longer be certain of anything. Even her own character. In Case Study, Graeme Macrae Burnet...
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Pub. Date
2015
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Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, 'Reasons to Stay Alive' is more than a memoir. I
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Pub. Date
2017
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You went to bed at home, just like every other night. You woke up in the back of a taxi, over 250 miles away. You have no idea how you got there and no memory of the last 10 hours. You have no phone, no money; just a suicide note in your coat pocket, in your own writing. You know you weren?t planning to kill yourself. Your family and friends think you are lying. Someone knows exactly what happened to you. But they?re not telling ?.
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Eli Hagin can?t finish anything. He hates his job, but can?t seem to quit. He doesn?t want to be with his girlfriend, but doesn?t know how end things with her, either. Eli wants to write a novel, but he?s never taken a story beyond the first chapter. Eli also has trouble separating reality from fiction. When his best friend kills himself, Eli is motivated, for the first time in his life, to finally end something himself, just as Mike did ? Except...
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Jack Reacher volume 13
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Featuring Jack Reacher, hero of the new blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise, as he faces his most implacable enemy yet. Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. There are twelve things to look for.No one who has worked in law enforcement will ever forget them. New York City.The subway, two o'clock in the morning. Jack Reacher studies his fellow passengers. Four are OK. The fifth isn't. The train brakes for Grand...
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Hannah Ives Mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
2011
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Hannah is stunned when a stranger stops her on the street to deliver a message from her long-dead mother. Susan Parker, Hannah learns, is a popular television medium whose accurate predictions leave fans and critics alike puzzled and intrigued. In spite of her scepticism, Hannah schedules a private reading. But on the morning they are to meet, Susan is struck by a hit-and-run driver. An accident? Hannah doesn't think so - especially when she discovers...
10) The 13th target
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Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2012
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From the author of Blackman's Coffin, one of Amazon's Top 10 Mysteries for 2008 When his wife dies of ovarian cancer, Russell Mullins quits the Secret Service to repurpose his life. He joins a Washington D.C. private protection company and is assigned to guard Paul Luguire, a Federal Reserve executive and its chief liaison with the U.S. Treasury. Mullins and Luguire form a strong friendship. So when a police detective calls in the middle of the night...
11) No plan B
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Jack Reacher volume 27
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'Lee and Andrew Child nail it again with No Plan B' Richard Osman When your name is Jack Reacher, the truth is always worth doing time for. Gerrardsville, Colorado. One tragic event. Two witnesses. Two conflicting accounts. One witness sees a woman throw herself in front of a bus - clearly suicide. The other witness is Jack Reacher. And he sees what really happened - a man in grey hoodie and jeans, swift and silent as a shadow, pushing the victim...
12) The pact
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Until the phone calls came at 3:00 A.M. on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and Emily, began showing signs that their relationship was moving beyond that of lifelong friends. But now seventeen-year-old Emily has been shot to death by her beloved and devoted Chris as part of an apparent suicide pact -- leaving two devastated families...
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