One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival

2021-10-12 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Donald Antrim
Release : 2021-10-12
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 572/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival by : Donald Antrim

Download or read book One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival written by Donald Antrim. This book was released on 2021-10-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2021 One of BuzzFeed's Best Books of 2021 One of Vulture's Best Books of 2021 Named one of the Most Anticipated of Books of 2021 by the Los Angeles Times, Literary Hub, and The Millions A searing and brave memoir that offers a new understanding of suicide as a distinct mental illness. As the sun lowered in the sky one Friday afternoon in April 2006, acclaimed author Donald Antrim found himself on the roof of his Brooklyn apartment building, afraid for his life. In this moving memoir, Antrim vividly recounts what led him to the roof and what happened after he came back down: two hospitalizations, weeks of fruitless clinical trials, the terror of submitting to ECT—and the saving call from David Foster Wallace that convinced him to try it—as well as years of fitful recovery and setback. Through a clear and haunting reckoning with the author’s own story, One Friday in April confronts the limits of our understanding of suicide. Donald Antrim’s personal insights reframe suicide—whether in thought or in action—as an illness in its own right, a unique consequence of trauma and personal isolation, rather than the choice of a depressed person. A necessary companion to William Styron’s classic? Darkness Visible, this profound, insightful work sheds light on the tragedy and mystery of suicide, offering solace that may save lives.

We'll Never Tell

2023-05-16 Young Adult Fiction

Author : Wendy Heard
Release : 2023-05-16
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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Book Rating : 65X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book We'll Never Tell written by Wendy Heard. This book was released on 2023-05-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Those who love One of Us Is Lying, will devour this page-turner." (Buzzfeed) Delve into a murderous, twisty whodunit doused in juicy Hollywood lore. No one at Hollywood High knows who’s behind We'll Never Tell—a viral YouTube channel where the anonymous creators trespass behind the scenes of LA's most intriguing locales. The team includes CASEY, quiet researcher and trivia champ; JACOB, voice narrator and video editor, who is secretly dating EDDIE, aspiring filmmaker; and ZOE, coder and breaking-and-entering extraordinaire. Now senior year is winding down and with their lives heading in different directions, the YouTubers vow to go out with a bang. Their last episode will be filmed at the infamous Valentini “murder house,” which has been left abandoned, bloodstained, and untouched since a shocking murder/suicide in 1972. When the teens break in, they capture epic footage. But someone trips an alarm, and it’s a mad dash to get out before the police arrive—at which point they realize only three of them escaped instead of four. Jacob is still inside, slain and bleeding out. Is his attack connected to the historic murder, or is one of their crew responsible? A week of suspicions and cover-ups unfolds as Casey and her remaining friends try to stay alive long enough to solve murder mysteries past and present. If they do, their friendship may not survive. If they don't, the house will claim more victims.

Of Blood and Blackwater

2006-08-28 Fiction

Author : T. C. Heffernan
Release : 2006-08-28
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 544/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Of Blood and Blackwater written by T. C. Heffernan. This book was released on 2006-08-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weve all had nightmares. But what if you started to believe your scary dreams were somehow related to a series of grisly murders? Ethnobotanist Gareth McKenna faces just such a dilemma. In Of Blood and Blackwater, he struggles to piece together nightmares he cant quite remember. Dreams that leave him thinking of the years he spent living with an indigenous Amazon tribe. When a curare-laced dart recovered at one of the crime scenes matches the analytical fingerprint from a sample he collected years earlier in the Amazon, Gareth finds himself the lone suspect. His life begins to crumble as his name surfaces in the press. With nowhere else to turn, Gareth must do the unthinkable; he must look beyond science and trust in the strange dreams that offer the only clues to the killers identity. He travels back to the Amazon, and deep in the rainforest, makes a chilling discovery. One that sends him racing home, desperate to stop a brutal murderer intent on destroying his family.

Wagon Wheels A'Rollin'

1999-12 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Daisy B. Ackley
Release : 1999-12
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 336/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Wagon Wheels A'Rollin' written by Daisy B. Ackley. This book was released on 1999-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daisy Bell Catherine Brown was only eight years old in 1880, when her physician father, her mother, grandmother, siblings and other relatives decided to join the wagon train in May Day, Kansas, and head for Oregon on the Old Oregon Trail. This is her story, which she began writing seventy-two years later when she was eighty years old. In the meantime, she married three times: First to David Pier, at the age of sixteen, to whom she bore eight children. When he died, she married Al Goldsby, and after his death, Charles Ackley, whom she also outlived. She died at the age of ninety-three. Daisy saw it all, from a wagon train crossing the plains to astronauts in space. She tells how it was on the American frontier, when men were men and women were glad of it. "A remarkable story by a remarkable lady, who is much revered by her hundreds of descendants." --Her grandson, Joseph Pierre who edited and illustrated the book

Sydney Omarr's Day-by-Day Astrological Guide for the Year 2013: Leo

2012-06-05 Body, Mind & Spirit

Author : Trish MacGregor
Release : 2012-06-05
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
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Book Rating : 834/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Sydney Omarr's Day-by-Day Astrological Guide for the Year 2013: Leo by : Trish MacGregor

Download or read book Sydney Omarr's Day-by-Day Astrological Guide for the Year 2013: Leo written by Trish MacGregor. This book was released on 2012-06-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LET THE STARS BRIGHTEN YOUR 2011 WITH LOVE, HAPPINESS, HEALTH, AND SUCCESS! Whether you’re seeking a sparkling new romance, a bold career move, or stellar success, this remarkable guide will help you take control of your destiny and make your dreams come true. Here are the year’s picks and predictions, along with 18 months of exciting, on-target daily horoscopes—from July 2012 to December 2013. You will also discover: • What your rising sign says about your personality • How to use the moon and planets for health and well-being • How to use the stars for help with money matters • Online astrology and how to use it • How to heat up your love life with the stars as your guide —And much more! SYDNEY OMARR’S® Day-by-Day Astrological Guide for LEO / 2013 July 23-August 22

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