Product Description: Book by Bassano, Sharon

Product Description: Fiction

Product Description: The second edition of this accessible book features a new chapter on Nietzsche and an entirely new Part III that covers contemporary utilitarianism, rights-based ethical theories, contractarian ethics and virtue ethics, and recent debates between realism and anti-realism in ethics...read more

Uses animal characters to illustrate such good behaviors as washing, sharing and picking up toys, and taking turns

Gathers selected masterpieces of drama, fiction, poetry, and prose from the earliest known literature to the present (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Concurrency is at the heart of many topics within computer science and is the focus of this book from Jean Bacon. The successful straightfoward approach, coupled with new material on operating system functions, synchronization, shared memory, middleware, mobile computing and transaction processing will make this book a key core text for courses on concurrent or distributed systems The coverage in this third edition is now wholly relevant to a distributed computing course It provides students with the most up-to-date knowledge of the theory behind modern distributed systems, enabling them to move seamlessly from a first programming course to being able to program operating systems...read more

A suicide pact made within her circle of friends leads Eilean, with unexpected help from school bully Ron, on a race against time: Jamie is dead, Sarah is in the hospital, and Cathy can't be found.

Product Description: The rumor: An underground rock concert is coming soon in which the band and the audience will all commit suicide.

'Another of Coelho's spiritual journeys, this time by the 24-year-old protagonist who, after a failed suicide attempt, rediscovers in an insane asylum in Slovenia the preciousness and precariousness of life. Costa's translation is competent, but cannot save Coelho's novel from its by now familiar and conventionally inspirational tone and message'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/Feeling that someone significant is lacking from her life, twenty-three-year-old Veronika attempts suicide and injures herself to the point that she only has a few days of life remaining, during which she experiences a heightened state of awareness

Veronika is young and pretty, and has everything she could wish for - yet one morning she takes an overdose of sleeping pills, only to wake up in the local hospital. There she is told that her heart is damaged, and she has only a few days to live. The story follows Veronika through these intense days as she starts to question her ideas about life.

Product Description: When rejection comes back to bite you... Jordan's life sucks. Her boyfriend, Michael, dumped her, slept his way through half the student body, and then killed himself. But now, somehow, he appears at her window every night, begging her to let him in...read more

In Michael Robotham’s latest thriller, psychologist Joe O’Loughlin—the appealing hero of Suspect—tries to prevent a suicide and finds himself locked in a deadly duel with a very clever killer. Joe O'Loughlin is on familiar territory—standing on a bridge high above a flooded gorge, trying to stop a distraught woman from jumping. She is naked, wearing only high-heel shoes, sobbing into a cell phone. Suddenly, she turns to him and whispers, “You don’t understand,” and lets go. Joe is shattered by the suicide and haunted by his failure to save the woman, until her teenage daughter finds him and reveals that her mother would never have committed suicide—not like that. She was terrified of heights. Compelled to investigate, Joe is soon obsessed with discovering who was on the other end of the phone. What could have driven her to commit such a desperate act? Whose voice? What evil?Having devoted his career to repairing damaged minds, Joe must now confront an adversary who tears them apart: a man who searches for the cracks in a person’s psyche and claws his fingers inside, destroying what makes them whole.With pitch-perfect dialogue, believable characters, and intriguingly unpredictable plot twists, Shatter is guaranteed to keep even the most avid thriller readers riveted long into the night.

Product Description: When Kate Nardek discovers her neighbor’s suicide, she feels only horror and despair. She doesn’t know the tragedy will spawn new hope for both her troubled son and her long-forgotten dreams.Falling into the Sun explores spiritual truths of Hindu, Native American and Judeo-Christian traditions as it unfolds the spiritual journey of a mother intent on helping her increasingly volatile, bipolar son...read more

Product Description: Two lovers arrive at a seaside hotel in 1920's Brittany. The other guests soon become obsessed with the man, the equivocal unsettling Allan. One by one they realise who he is-that Death has come to spend the summer with them. Amid the ceaseless thunder of the waves, the wild and often surreal Breton landscape, the group that gravitates around Allan-an uncannily contemporary figure-gradually disintegrates...read more

Product Description: Since the night Inspector Haritos had the brilliant idea to offer his chest as a shield in order to save Elena Kousta from a bullet fired by her stepson, his life has changed radically. Haritos' long convalescence has given his wife the opportunity to take control and, now, subdued and tamed, he witnesses a shocking suicide captured live on TV...read more

Product Description: Now from the bestselling author of The Cure for Modern Life and Once Upon a Day comes a riveting story of suspense about a literature professor whose carefully constructed life is shattered after the death of her twin brother and the unraveling of the secret world they shared...read more

Product Description: A powerful legal thriller featuring the hero of An Innocent Client, Joe Dillard Prosecutor Joe Dillard watched in shock as friend and fellow lawyer Ray Miller was pushed to the brink of suicide in the court of Judge Leonard Green...read more

Product Description: Casey Maldonado’s life is over – at least as she knows it.  In one brief moment of fire and wrenching metal, everything important was gone.  The car manufacturer was generous with its settlement, but it can never be enough.  Her family and friends – not to mention her lawyers – want her to go for more...read more