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Eleven-year-old Mark Sway witnesses the bizarre suicide of a New Orleans attorney and is left with a deadly secret concerning the recent murder of a Louisiana senator.

Young people talk about the effects of a suicide on them and on friends and family members.

A series of poems reflect the thoughts and feelings of various people-- students, the librarian, parents, the principal, and others-- about the seemingly perfect Laura Li and her life inside and out of Tower High School.

A deaf-mute who has lost his only friend to a hospital for the insane becomes the recipient of the confidences of several other town residents.

Poems written in the voices of forty-seven people, including students, teachers, and other school staff, record the aftermath of a high school student's suicide and the preoccupations of teen life.

Features the tale of a pretty young girl driven to brutal excesses by poverty and loneliness, and includes five additional short stories by Stephen Crane.

Surveys the issue of suicide, including its history, causes, and psychology.

Presents Stephen Crane's 1893 novel about Maggie, a beautiful young tenement girl whose life takes a downward spin when she becomes involved with Pete; and features additional writings by Crane, including "George's Mother" and other Bowery tales, and a selection of New York journalism.

Jordan's life takes a surreal turn when her ex-boyfriend Michael, who died two days earlier, shows up outside her window begging to be let in, and even though she knows it would mean her own destruction, she is very, very tempted, especially when he keeps coming back, night after night.

"Flaubert's tragic novel stands as a brilliant portrayal of infidelity, an incisive psychological portrait of a woman town between duty and desire.

Direct and vivid in its telling of the details of a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, the novel manages ultimately to deliver much more.

A nineteenth-century French woman pursues her romantic dreams through a series of lovers.

Examines the lives and deaths of twenty-five authors who committed suicide between 1894 and 1991, including Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, and others.

An unexpected accident cuts Chris Nielsen's life short, and now he must discover the nature of life after death when tragedy threatens to separate him from his beloved wife forever.

The family of Dirk Burnaby, a New York State lawyer representing victims of Love Canal, and his wife, Ariah, whose first husband widowed her on their wedding night by jumping into Niagara Falls, is pulled apart by Dirk's obsession with his case and Ariah's fear that her history will repeat itself.