In Dublin, during a snowstorm, a young woman recalls the events surrounding an affair that changed her life and gave her her twelve-year-old daughter, Evie.
Ricky and John Ryries are devastated when their infant son dies shortly after birth, and in the aftermath of the tragedy, as their family begins to fall apart and their other two children--ten-year-old Biscuit and thirteen-year-old Paul--begin to act out, they find long-suppressed uncertainties and problems in their marriage coming to the surface, causing them to question if they can overcome their sadness and find their way back to one another.
After the mostly human Emily rejects the elvish Seylin's marriage proposal, both undertake separate quests to learn about their true natures and discover a royal elf and orphaned goblin to bring to the goblin kingdom.
America, equality, and gay people's right to marry
Wolfson, Evan
2004
Examines the responsibilities and benefits of marriage, and looks at the issue of same-sex marriage in the U.S. as a civil rights issue which the author argues should be available to everyone.
Margaret Bonner, the young pastor of High Balsam's Episcopal church in the Smoky Mountains, enters a disturbing period of change when her life is invaded by a fiery female evangelist, a mysterious itinerant man, and a troubled boy.
The story of Jude Fawley, an impoverished stonemason who aspires to the ministry and fails to fulfill the opposite expectations of the two women he loves in Victorian society.
Provides information on various aspects of divorce, such as its psychological effects on children and spouses, the legal process, and generational divorce patterns, and features question-and-answer, "Teens Speak," and "Fact or Fiction?" sections.
Dramatizes a night of warfare between a professor and his wife, the daughter of the college president, as witnessed by a young couple newly arrived on campus.
