loss (psychology)

Miranda Tennant, hiding a tragic secret, hopes to lose herself in York, England, and avoid the ghosts said to haunt the quaint city, and meeting Nick, a mysterious and intense boy, proves a welcome distraction until her interest is captured by another, even more handsome boy, in a house across from hers, who seems to be trying to give her a message.

John Sanders, Jr. reunites with his sister Julia to plan the funeral of their estranged father, and although Junior believed himself to be unaffected by his father's death, his return to his childhood home sparks a quest for vengeance that soon has him raging out of control against even the people who love him the most.

Amy Kuebelbeck shares how she and her husband made the decision to forgo extreme measures to save her son Gabriel after learning at five months pregnant he suffered from hypoplastic left heart syndrome and discusses how they prepared for his inevitable death after being born.

Describes a boy's reactions of anger, grief, and eventual acceptance when his dog dies. Includes suggestions to parents for helping a child deal with loss.

Sarah struggles to come to terms with her best friend Jamie's accidental death, in which she played a role, and is having problems at home, at school, and with her boyfriend. But she gains an understanding of interconnectedness while working for Roy, an eccentric Christmas tree-farm owner dealing with his own tragedy.

After the death of her husband, Rocky Pelligrino begins to rebuild her life and finds stability with an adoring black Lab, a possible new romance, a new home, and a new job. But when a young woman contacts her, looking for information about her biological father, Rocky realizes there may be more to her husband than she ever realized, and worries her life will be thrown into turmoil once more.

With her mother stationed in Iraq as an Army nurse, Vanderbilt University student Arden Vogel, whose father was killed in a traffic accident a few years earlier, impulsively ends up on a tour of Europe with a group of college girls she meets on her way to attend to some family business in Sardinia.

On separate trips, Ernest and Magdalene discover their true thoughts about their families and begin to think about them and the past mistakes of their parents.

Three sisters deal with tragedy after the oldest, Elv, who was sexually abused by a stranger as a child, succumbs to drug addiction and a mental breakdown, the middle sister, Meg, falls ill, and the youngest, Claire, tries to cope with her feelings of guilt over what happened to Elv.