loss (psychology)

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.

Deep below the university there is a broken web of ancient passageways and abandoned rooms. This is Auri's world. Full of mysteries, Auri is a broken girl trying to live in a broken world. One of the best-loved characters of the Kingkiller Chronicle series, this is her story.

As a series of increasingly bizarre events alter the perfect world of Soviet agent Anatoly Sukhanov, he begins to question the decisions he made more than twenty years ago that lead him away from his artistic lifestyle into a career that thrives on censorship.

Offers advice for families on how to deal with the grief that occurs when a loved one is lost under uncertain circumstances, such as in the case of a soldier missing in action, or a patient afflicted with Alzheimers.

A lonely professor travels to the nation's capital in order to escape his previous life and his grief over his mother's death, and, through the letters and journals of Mary Todd Lincoln, learns some unexpected truths about America and loss.