loss (psychology)

"At age twenty-eight, Mira Ptacin discovered she was pregnant. Though it was unplanned, she soon embraced the pregnancy and became engaged to Andrew, the father. Five months later, an ultrasound revealed birth defects that would give the child no chance of survival outside the womb. Mira was given three options: terminate her pregnancy, induce early delivery, or wait and inevitably miscarry. Mira's story is woven together with the story of her mother, who emigrated from Poland, also at the age of twenty-eight, and adopted a son, Julian. Julian would die tragically, bringing her an unimaginable grief. A memoir about loss and self-preservation, grief and recovery, and mothers and daughters, Poor Your Soul is a beautiful examination of free will, love, and the fierce bonds of family"--.

"For a teen, it can be especially difficult to lose a family member or friend through death. Explore the emotions involved and learn ways to get through this experience as well as how to support someone living through a loss"--Provided by the publisher.

Overwhelmed by a series of losses, including an accident that left his brother in a wheelchair, his father's abuse, and his mother's departure, sixteen-year-old Tosh escapes into a video game but soon, the game becomes much more real than his life.

Illustrations and brief text relate how a person might feel when they lose someone they love.

The world, itself, seems to bring together Henry, whose best friend died near their home in the mountains of Vermont, and Zavion, who lost his home in Hurricane Katrina, so that the boys can help each other heal.

Contains the text of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize-winning play about Will Kidder and his wife, Lily Dale, an aging couple whose only son has committed suicide for reasons they are trying very hard not to acknowledge.

After a boating accident takes her beautiful singing and speaking voice from her, Elyse d'Abreau, the youngest of six sisters, leaves her home in Tobago to stay in an Oregon seaside town where Christian Kane, a notorious playboy, challenges her to express herself and to overcome her fear of the sea.

Examines how the death of a parent affects the emotional, social, and personal lives of adults, and how that event alters an adult's beliefs, behavior, goals, and sense of self.

When Kate Marino's parents decide to sell their old, rambling farmhouse, she tries to sabotage the realtor's tours with the help of friends and a plan that has maximum stinkage potential.

During a vacation with her family in the Rocky Mountains, eighteen-year-old Caitlin Courtland disappears during a morning run. Over the next two years, her family fractures as they wrestle with their unresolved grief and personal demons.