death

Joel Espen could never really be who he truly was in the small town of Haven. Even the way he died was different: helping others. As the six teenagers who were closest to Joel try to find out the meaning behind his death, they begin to realize that tragedy can sometimes free those who are left behind.

After the death of her beloved, a woman is plagued by questions, but as she opens her eyes to the beauty of the world around her, she begins to see that angels are everywhere.

Bright, precocious but socially awkward Lydia Pasternak reports on the aftermath of her older brother's disappearance. Danny was everything Lydia wasn't: at ease with their parents, popular in school, physically imposing, beloved by the opposite sex. Danny went from being Lydia's playmate in their youth to her tormentor in high school, so his disappearance leaves Lydia with some very mixed feelings, one of which is relief. As time goes on and the weekend search parties prove more and more fruitless, Lydia struggles with the fact that her geeky best friend, David, has feelings for her; she also obsesses over the private investigator hired by the family and allows herself to be sucked into the social world Danny once dominated.

The unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an infamous American family. A decade ago the Rampikes were destroyed by the murder of Skyler's six-year-old ice-skating champion sister, Bliss, and the media scrutiny that followed. Part investigation into the unsolved murder; part elegy for the lost Bliss and for Skyler's own lost childhood; and part corrosively funny expose of the pretensions of upper-middle-class American suburbia, this captivating novel explores with unexpected sympathy and subtlety the intimate lives of those who dwell in Tabloid Hell.

A story within a story in which the memoir of World War II era button heiress Iris Chase alternates with a science fiction romance about a blind killer who falls in love with a mute virgin.

Explores the circumstances, suspects, and evidence concerning ten mysterious deaths and disappearances, including Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Hoffa, David Kelly, and Lee Harvey Oswald.

Alphabetically arranged entries provide information on the lives and careers of 840 men and women from the entertainment industry who committed suicide between 1905 and 2000.

Shares the words of five-year-old Jack as he struggled to understand the death of his sister Libby, a child born with a rare disorder.