separation (psychology)

Presents the annotated text of "The Mayor of Casterbridge," a novel about a man whose past misdeeds come back to haunt him after he rises to a position of wealth and power; and includes articles on backgrounds and contexts, as well as seventeen critical essays.

David Winkler is blessed with the ability to see things before they happen, but when he dreams that his infant daughter will drown in a flood, he travels thousands of miles away from his home in the hopes of preventing the dream from coming true.

Presents more than sixty poems by such writers as Deborah Garrison, Langston Hughes, Andrew Marvell, and Grace Paley on the act of cutting one's losses and starting over.

Presents a fictional tale set during the Middle Ages about a little princess who learns to survive amidst the pain of her parent's divorce and how the separation effected her in her adult life.

Although tough-talking Harry Sue Clotkin would like to start a life of crime in order to be "sent up" and find her incarcerated mother, she must first protect the children at her neglectful grandmother's home day care center and befriend a paralyzed boy.

In early 1940s Poland, ten-year-old Felix and his friend Zelda escape from a cattle car headed to the Nazi death camps and struggle to survive, first on their own and then with Genia, a farmer with her own reasons for hating Germans.

When three high school friends experience breakups on the same night, a fourth writes "The Break up Code," which all agree to follow as they try to get over the bad relationships and get back in touch with themselves and one another.