life change events

Three friends, out of touch for nineteen years, come together on the occasion of their fortieth birthdays, and are granted the magical opportunity to relive any three weeks of their past in order to change the course of their future lives.

Seven women writers explore incidents from their teen years that had lasting impact on their lives.

A collection of personal narratives in which notable men and women reflect on the books that have changed their lives. Includes essays by Dave Barry, Stephen Covey, John Gray, Bernie Siegel, and Lou Holtz.

Seventeen-year-old Arlyn Singer, standing on the porch after her father's funeral, promises herself that the first man to walk down the street will be her one true love, and her confidence sets the stage for generations of heartache when she convinces John Moody, a Yale student who stopped to ask directions, that she is right.

When a sudden, shocking event strikes Rosemary Cooke's family, they are each affected and changed by it. As she struggles through the reality of the situation, she must also learn what it means for her personally as well as those she cares about.

Claire's life takes a dramatic turn and suddenly she has everything she thought she wanted; but soon Claire begins to worry that the cost of her success may be too high.

Sixteen-year-old Jon Mosher and his friends, Ray Cappicciano and Karen Dorsey, form a tight friendship in which they find in each other everything they lack at home, and plot to leave their dead-end town with tragic consequences.

Christine, suffering from a rare form of amnesia where she cannot retain memories from day to day, starts seeing a new doctor who recommends she keep a journal, and her life starts getting scary when she sees she has written "Dont' trust Ben," the man who claims to be her husband.

A group of diverse characters find their lives forever linked after they are caught in the crossfire of a restaurant shooting, and each struggles to come to terms with their own role in the tragedy as they move on with their lives.

Fourteen-year-old wannabe cowboy, Noah Odell and his widowed mother, leave Oregon to join Noah's Uncle Bud on a ranch near the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Between daily temperatures in excess of one hundred degrees, rattlesnakes, buzzards, coyotes, cattle, and an outdoor toilet overrun with black widow spiders, life is never dull. And then the Army tries to confiscate the ranch to expand the White Sands Missile Range.