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1) Mercy
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Two cousins are driven to extremes by the power of love, as one helps his terminally ill wife commit suicide and the other becomes involved in a passionate affair with his wife's new assistant.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Wanting to organize an assisted death on her own terms, world-weary octogenarian Eudora Honeysett forges an unexpected bond with exuberant ten-year-old Rose, who drags her to tea parties, shopping sprees, and other social excursions.
Eudora Honeysett has lived a full life, and witnessed the indignities and suffering of old age. At eighty-five, her end will be on her terms. A call to a clinic in Switzerland sets the plan in motion. Then she meets...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (6 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nathan Lucius, 31, is an ad salesman at a Cape Town newspaper. Disaffected, hard-drinking and plagued by blackouts, Nathan lives alone and has only one true friend, a woman named Madge. But Madge is dying slowly of cancer, and when she asks Nathan to end her pain, she sets off a shocking string of events.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Four female mercenaries known as Boneless Mercies, weary of roaming Vorseland, ignored and forgotten until they are needed for mercy killings, decide to seek glory by going after a legendary monster in this reimagining of Beowulf.
5) Euthanasia
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
112 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines some fundamental issues related to euthanasia and the practice of assisted suicide. It explains euthanasia in its various forms, provides information on the "right-to-die movement," and explores some alternatives to euthanasia.