despair

When her own world and Valley are threatened with an endless winter, Rage and her friends seek to stop the powerful Stormlord from using the despair of others to create the bleak weather.

Persephone Hadley, six-months pregnant with a mixed-race baby, risks her own life to save the brother of the man she loves, who was hanged for terrorism months earlier.

A portrait of one day in the life of Tommy Wilhelm, a man on the brink of despair.

Examines the causes of the rising crime rates involving middle-class adolescents and drug abuse, violence, and suicide and maintains that today's teens live in a culture of exclusion and neglect that has left them with few options among an unforgiving society.

Twenty-three-year-old Jennifer Stempler, her mother dead, her father remarried, and deserted by her lover, makes a failed attempt to kill herself, but her obvious call for help is answered by her beloved grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, who takes Jennifer to her home in New York, and tries to give her a reason for living.

Dawn Rochelle, a seventeen-year-old girl with leukemia, suffers partial paralysis after three years in remission and, despite her doctors' optimism about her recovery, she wonders how she can find the strength to go on living with her disease.

Thirteen-year-old Emmy, grieving over her mother who died of AIDS, resentful of having to live with her father and pregnant stepmother, and despairing about her future, finds hope at a summer camp for HIV-positive girls like herself. Includes facts about Elizabeth Glaser, one of the founders of the Pediatric AIDS Foundation.