loss (psychology)

Katie Wilkinson, blissfully in love, is suddenly abandoned by the man who made her happy, left with only a diary written by a new mother named Suzanne for her infant son, Nicholas--and as Katie reads, she gains a new understanding of Matt, the man who left her.

Alice McGuire's secure and privileged world is torn apart after her best friend and soul mate vanishes on a trip to Mexico and she sets out to find answers.

Discusses what is known about suicide, the myths, misconceptions, causes, and warning signs, and uses hypothetical case studies to demonstrate methods of prevention and coping with grief and guilt after a suicide.

Presents a journal of three children who recorded their feelings and emotions following the death of their father, and offers guidance for others who have also suffered a loss.

Young Maggie Tulliver's loyalty to her beloved older brother, Tom, and to the rest of her family, is tragically tested when she falls in love with the son of her father's bitterest enemy.

Milla, still searching for her son ten years after he was kidnapped from her arms as an infant, now works through Finders, an agency she started to help find lost and missing children, but her quest puts her in touch with two very different and powerful men, one a generous contributor and one a reputed assassin, and she must decide who to trust and who wants her dead.

A Puerto Rican girl coming of age in the 1950s struggles to negotiate her own terms of survival within the confines of her culture.

Florian feels like he is losing everything, including his cancer patient sister, but after his parents don't pursue him when he decides to go to soccer camp instead of celebrating her birthday, he becomes concerned that something is wrong.