loss (psychology)

Chronicles the story of four people who are still wrestling with sorrow fifteen years after a school shooting incident occurred in their sleepy suburban town.

Maya Lange, owner of the Red Thread Adoption Agency, guides six sets of prospective parents through the process of adopting Chinese children, and through the journey they confide to her while she confronts the loss of her infant daughter in a freak accident.

Presents a narrative about an aged author who flees Nazi-occupied Poland, leaving his unpublished manuscript behind and a teenage girl in New York who was named after the heroine in Leo's book, which was published under a different man's name.

A collection of nine short stories by Julie Orringer about dealing with loss.

Contains eight short fiction stories that tell of the relationships and emotions of doctors, nurses, scientists, explorers, and collectors living and working around the world.

Describes different kinds of losses, including the death of a loved one, the end of a love affair, and the loss of virginity, and suggests such coping mechanisms as the natural grieving process, the finding of a creative outlet, and getting help from others.

A young girl describes the anger and sadness she feels after someone she loved dies, and makes a scrapbook to remember the things they did together.

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.