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Jill Kelly, wife of Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly, reflects on her son Hunter's genetic disease, which took his life at the age of eight, and how his illness and the times she shared with him affected her life, marriage, family, and faith.

A biography of the author's son, who died at seventeen after a fourteen-month illness caused by a brain tumor.

The author describes his and his family's experiences after his fifteen-year-old daughter Sally had her first manic episode in 1996 and had to be committed to a New York psychiatric facility for treatment.

The author, a neurobiologist, describes the challenges she encountered as she made the choice to care for her mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, along with carrying out the duties of a mother and wife.

Clara Claiborne Park recounts her daughter Jessy's struggles with autism, discussing how Jessy has overcome many social and emotional problems to lead a promising life.

Presents parts one and two of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning stage drama "Angels in America," which follows the thread of AIDS through the lives of several gay men.

The author, an alumnus of Brandeis University, tells of his meetings with a former professor suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease and of the lessons he learned about life and death from his college mentor.

After suffering a heart attack, an African-American theater actor named Leo Proudhammer recounts his passionate and conflicted life, shaped by childhood loss, love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, and constant racial tension in the society through which he moves.

Taking online correspondence courses while she battles cancer, fifteen-year-old Kaleigh Wyse collaborates with several new cyber-friends on an astrology-themed science project and finds that electronic relationships can be deceiving.

The dynamics of the Schwartz family are drastically changed when Bernard, father of the sarcastic Chris and devout Cathy, wakes up from a coma--accidentally induced by the ingestion of two classes of antidepressants--physically and mentally impaired, and at the mercy of his children.