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"A couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years."--Provided by publisher.

"After the shocking death of two teenage boys tears apart a community in the Pacific Northwest, a mysterious pregnant girl emerges out of the woods and into the lives of those same boys' families--a moving and hopeful novel about forgiveness and human connection. In misty, coastal Washington state, Isaac lives alone with his dog, grieving the recent death of his teenage son Daniel. Next door, Lorrie, a working single mother, struggles with a heinous act committed by her own teenage son. Separated by only a silvery stretch of trees, the two parents are emotionally stranded, isolated by their great losses--until an unfamiliar sixteen year-old girl shows up, bridges the gap, and changes everything. Evangeline's arrival at first feels like a blessing, but she is also clearly hiding something"--Provided by publisher.

"A . . . novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer. Agnes understands plants and potions better than she does people, but once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose gifts as a writer are just beginning to awaken when his beloved young son succumbs to bubonic plague"--Provided by publisher.

Mal, Evie, Jay, and Carlos are the offspring of some of the cruelest, most evil villains of all time--Maleficent, Evil Queen, Jafar, and Cruella De Vil, to name names. They've spent their whole lives on the Isle of the Lost, a broken-down place filled with the worst of the worst baddies, brutes, and lowlifes. But when Prince Ben, son of Belle and Beast, declares that the "innocent" children of the Isle of the Lost should be given a second chance, they're brought to live on Auradon with all the "good" folks. Little does Ben know that Mal and her friends have a sinister plot to take down his kingdom!.

Tragedy strikes the Peterson family when their seventeen-year-old son Johnny dies in a car accident, but in the days that follow the accident, Johnny appears to his mother and younger brother to offer them hope and strength for the future.

Reclusive author M.M. "Mimi" Banning has been holed up in her Bel Air mansion for years after her finances were destroyed in a Ponzi scheme, but a chance encounter with a new assistant for Frank, her nine-year-old son, changes the dynamic of Mimi's relationship with him forever.

When George Hodgman left Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he found himself (an unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cook) in a head-on collision with his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will. Can George lure her into assisted living? When hell freezes over. He can't bring himself to force her from the home both treasure--the place where his father's voice lingers, the scene of shared jokes, skirmishes, and, behind the dusty antiques, a rarely acknowledged conflict: Betty, who speaks her mind but cannot quite reveal her heart, has never really accepted the fact that her son is gay. As they try to bring their different worlds together, Hodgman reveals the challenges of Betty's life and his own struggle for self-respect, moving readers from their small town life to the star-studded corridors of Vanity Fair where he once worked.

"You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay. . ." The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge and war"--.

After her twenty-two-year-old son Cully dies in an avalanche, talk show host Sarah St. John is visited by a young woman who shares a secret about Cully which causes Sarah to question whether she ever really knew him.

Discusses ways of answering various questions from teen boys, offering biblical strategies for guiding them from adolescence into manhood.