On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. She ascends to the Beyond where she's assigned to a Person named Martha, who allows Vivi to watch what happens below for one last summer. Vivi also is granted three "nudges" to change the outcome of events on earth, and with her daughter Willa on her third miscarriage,...

Participating in a first Carnival since her mother left to find a better job, Malaika fears she will not be able to dance in the parade without a costume and comes up with an idea to use scrap fabric to create a patchwork rainbow peacock outfit.

"In Poland, as World War II rages, a mother hides with her young daughter, a musical prodigy whose slightest sound may cost them their lives. As Nazi soldiers round up the Jews in their town, Róza and her 5-year-old daughter, Shira, flee, seeking shelter in a neighbor's barn. Hidden in the hayloft day and night, Shira struggles to stay still and quiet, as music pulses through her and the farmyard outside beckons. To soothe her daughter and pass the...

"Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come...

When twenty-year-old Laura Ann McGehee sold her eggs to a fertility clinic to pay her father's medical bills and to save the family's West Virginia farm, she tried to put it behind her, but the secret guilt she feels has her loved ones, especially her close friend Ian, worried about her. When a woman shows up at the farm, pregnant with one of Laura Ann's eggs, things get complicated, and soon Laura Ann finds hers

A mother and toddler have fun at suppertime.

Rhyming text describes what various animals do and what they love, as well as a baby who loves his bed and his mother.

When Bunny gets lost and can't find his mother, he fears that Mummy and his friends may not be able to find him to take him home.

In April 1990, Jessica Doyle's ex-husband kidnapped their children and took them to Iran. Getting no help from the police, Interpol, or the State Department, Jessica went to Iran with a daring plan to rescue her children.

Contains "Flowers in the Attic" in which four children are locked into the attic of their grandmother's home after the death of their father, and "Petals on the Wind" in which Cathy discovers that she has the power to revenge those childhood years lockedin an attic with her brothers and sister.