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Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
From one of theater's most outrageous comic talents, two plays-one a Pulitzer Prize in Drama finalist, the other a twisted take on Christmas classics.
In this book, Christopher Durang, the criminally funny author of Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, presents two plays about death, religion, and a creamy Christmas pudding. In Miss Witherspoon-named one of the Ten Best Plays of 2005 by both Time and Newsday-Veronica, a recent suicide whose...
Language
English
Description
An unstoppable event threatens the world's population by attacking the most basic human instinct of all: survival. Elliot Moore is an ordinary man who is trying to save his family from a terrifying, invisible killer. As Elliot discovers the incredible possibility of what is happening, it becomes very clear that no one is safe.
3) Blackbird
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Lily and Paul summon their loved ones to their country house for one final gathering after Lily decides to end her life on her terms after a long battle with ALS. The couple is planning a loving weekend complete with holiday traditions, but the mood becomes strained when unresolved issues surface between Lily's daughters Jennifer and Anna. Joining the collective farewell is Lily's son in law, her lifelong friend, daughter's partner, and grandson.
5) The forest
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A woman goes into Japan's suicide forest to find her twin sister, and confronts supernatural terror.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Don and Pam have lived together most of their lives, the kids have grown up and moved on, but now, suddenly,she wants to leave him -- or that's how it seems to him at least. And No More Shall We Part looks at what happens to a relationship when death comes into the room."
10) Joyful partaking
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Interrelated stories of Walter Majeski, a man planning his suicide, and his neighbors showing how small acts of kindness or thoughtlessness can deeply affect a life.
11) Christine
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The story of a woman who finds herself caught in the crosshairs of a spiraling personal life and career crisis. Christine, always the smartest person in the room at her local Sarasota, Florida news station, feels like she is destined for bigger things and is relentless in her pursuit of an on-air position in a larger market.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A searing two-character drama about the choices people frequently make: to go on or give in to despair. Set in a New York tenement apartment, the story focuses on two very different men: a black ex-con who claims to hear the voice of Jesus, and the white professor he stopped from throwing himself in front of an oncoming train.
14) Angel-A
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
[Widescreen édition].
Language
Français
Description
When a down-on-his-luck gambler tries to drown himself, he winds up rescuing a gorgeous and mysterious blonde. As they set out on a mission across Paris, he discovers that his smart, spontaneous, sexy companion may really be Heaven-sent.
15) About Alex
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A circle of twenty-something friends reunite for a weekend away to console a suicidal member of their group. Yet, despite their best efforts to enjoy themselves, a tinderbox of old jealousies, unrequited love, and widening political differences leads to an explosion of drama that, coupled with the flammable combination of drugs, wine, and risotto, cannot be contained.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The season picks up in the aftermath of Hannah's death and the start of our characters' complicated journeys toward healing and recovery. Liberty High prepares to go on trial, but someone will stop at nothing to keep the truth surrounding Hannah's death concealed. A series of ominous Polaroids lead Clay and his classmates to the discovery that Hannah wasn't the only one to suffer at the hands of Liberty's elite. When the whole truth is exposed, no...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Lola managers her personal life the same ruthless efficiency she uses to succeed in the business world. But when she receives the news that her older sister Conny has attempted suicide, Lola's secrets begin to unravel into the workplace. As she tries to do what's best for her sister without jeapardizing all she's worked hard for, Lola slowly finds her own grip on reality slipping away.
20) It's my party
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
A bright young L.A. architect who is about to lose his battle with AIDS decides to end his life rather than face debilitation, but first he decides to throw the greatest farewell party of all time.
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