A desperate GI commits suicide after he gets taken by a grafter and his cronies. After being questioned by suspicious police chief they're told about the GI's mentally deranged brother looking for payback.

In the three months since her father's suicide, Lila has followed two unbreakable rules: The only people who can truly hurt you are the ones you love, therefore, love no one; Stay away from liars; liars are the worst. When Lila's mother sends her to a summer-long grief camp, it's harder for Lila to follow these rules. Potential new friends and an unexpected crush threaten to drag her back into life. Facing the truth about what happened to her family...

"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,...

New York City cop Barry Sutton investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome -- a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. Neuroscientist Helena Smith dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious moments of our pasts. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment...

"When famed true-crime writer Julian Wells' body is found in a boat drifting on a Montauk pond, the question is not how he died, but why? The death is obviously a suicide. But why would Julian Wells have taken his own life? And was this his only crime? These are the questions that first intrigue and then obsess Philip Anders, Wells' best friend and the chief defender of both his moral and his literary legacies. Anders's first clue is an Argentinean...

Valerie "Val" Chesterfield is a linguist trained in the most esoteric of disciplines: dead Nordic languages. Despite her successful career, she leads a sheltered life and languishes in the shadow of her twin brother Andy, an accomplished climate scientist stationed on a remote island off Greenland's barren coast. But Andy is gone: a victim of suicide, having willfully ventured unprotected into 50 degree below zero weather. Val is inconsolable--and...