separation (psychology)

Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.

Presents the story of Lucy Snowe, which is loosely based upon Bronte's own personal experiences, and her struggles as a teacher in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette, and includes a chronology of Bronte's life along with explanatory notes.

When twin sisters become separated after a big fight, their strong sense of attachment leads them to find one another again.

Five years after their oldest son, Hugh, disappeared, the members of the Furey family try to move on with their lives, with his mother losing herself in a new career, his father leaving behind his faith, and his two siblings, Owen and Lena, trying to come to terms with the loss of their brother and their own adolescent crises.

Piper's older brother leaves Peek-A-Boo Island and Piper refuses to take off his old earmuffs, no matter what! Things are going from bad to worse... until she discovers The Fairy Tree.

In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Nadine goes to live with her father in Miami while her cousin Magdalie, raised as her sister, remains behind in a refugee camp, dreaming of joining Nadine but wondering if she must accept that her life and future are in Port-au-Prince.

After Mama takes a job in Chicago during World War II, Ada Ruth stays with Grandma but misses her mother who loves her more than rain and snow.

Robert Harlan writes a blockbuster novel based on his beloved wife's last few months with her father before he died of cancer, and is swept up in the trappings of success, causing him to lose sight of those things that are really important--until he meets a mysterious stranger who opens his eyes to the truth.

Relates an abandoned sock monkey's adventurous quest to reunite his owner with the one person she most longs to know.

Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.