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A collection of stories from those who were adopted at birth and those who have found joy in parenthood through adoption.

Twelve years after his mother's death, Mark is still haunted by his memories of the night she died, causing him to wonder if his father is responsible for the fall that killed her.

Accompanied by a mysterious lost boy and a rowdy family with strange powers, fourteen-year-old Beatriz searches for her missing parents while evading a band of slave traders and a vengeful witch.

When Lindsey loses her parents in an accident and moves to Lincoln, Connecticut, she becomes one of the Mystyx, people with supernatural powers.

Through prose and poetry, Nia Wyn recounts her struggles to find help for her son, who was diagnosed with severe cerebral palsy shortly after birth, and shares the triumphs she felt at every small breakthrough and triumph.

Fourteen months after the disappearance of their son, Paul and Carol Gabriel hire private investigator Frank Behr to look into the case and are soon on an adventure which leads them to Mexico in search of a drug-dealing real estate tycoon who may be responsible for abducting the boy.

Twin brothers Robert and Mark reluctantly accompany their scientist mother on an Arctic island expedition that turns into an extraordinary journey, teaching them old Inuit legends, an environmental lesson, and new insight into themselves and their family.

Former child prodigy Benjamin Ziskind, pushed by his twin sister Sara into attending a singles' cocktail hour at a Jewish art museum, steals a Marc Chagall painting that once hung in his home, and begins investigating the provenance of the work in an effort to learn how it came to the museum, while urging Sara, an artist, to create a forgery to take its place.

A memoir in which the author tells about her experiences growing up in Ohio with a tomboy mother and a brusque, distant father who, over the course of her teen years, became a loving, transgendered woman.