forgiveness

The arrival of a new family of rabbits in the village causes one of Mrs. Cottontail's Thanksgiving pies to disappear but provides the opportunity for everyone to show forgiveness and generosity.

Presents new responses to the ethical question posed by the author in the 1976 edition of "The Sunflower" in which he tells how he, as a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp, was called upon to offer absolution to a dying member of the SS.

A group of philosophers, critics, and writers weigh the moral issues involved in a young Jews' response to a dying Nazi's confession of mass murder.

When Shannon Moroney married in October of 2005, she had no idea that her idyllic life as a newlywed was about to come crashing down around her. Just weeks after her wedding a police officer arrived at her door to tell her that her husband, Jason, had been arrested and charged in the brutal assault and kidnapping of two women. In the aftermath of these crimes, Shannon deals with unimaginable grief, the stress and publicity of a major criminal investigation, and the painful stigma of guilt-by-association?all while attempting to understand what made her beloved husband turn to such violence.

Laura Bartone, now in her fifties, is forced to face unpleasant truths from the past when her troubled sister Caroline calls on the eve of a family reunion and asks to meet with her and their brother to discuss the abuses she believes she suffered at their hands of their emotionally distant mother.

A brother and sister who are angry with each other learn from their father the benefits of forgiveness through a series of symbolic images. Contains a note to parents.

Linda Fallon travels to a literary festival to give a reading from her latest work, but while she is there she encounters her former lover, Thomas James, and together, the couple share memories of their past affair.

After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the Native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.

In March of 1941, when a severe blizzard suddenly hits Bismarck, North Dakota, a girl trying to save her stranded father and brother inadvertently helps the man who killed her mother four years before.

While her father serves his term in a detention center, twelve-year-old Glennis learns that "not all prisons are made out of stone, and spiders aren't the only ones who can weave webs.".