San Antonio College Library

Parents speak openly of their grief experience in dealing with the death of a child.

A stunning new novel from the internationally acclaimed author of A Heart of Stone plumbs the undercurrents of marriage and contemporary adolescence. Critics hailed Renate Dorrestein's A Heart of Stone as "stunning" (Time), "striking and finely tuned" (The New York Times), and "Hitchcockian" in its suspense (The Washington Post). In Without Mercy bestselling Dutch novelist Renate Dorrestein reenters the edgy, chilling domestic territory that won her...

The affluent Al-Menshawy family find their American dream shattered when a devastating turn of events leaves their eldest son and their neighbor's daughter dead, and, becoming pariahs in their upscale New Jersey community, they struggle to keep their family together.

" ... nine mothers whose children died as young adults lend comfort and direction to other bereaved parents ... candidly share what to expect in the first year and beyond"--Back cover. Contributions by Carol Barkin, Audrey Cohen, Lorenza Colletti, Barbara Eisenberg, Barbara J. Goldstein, Madelaine Perri Kasden, Phyllis Levine, Ariella Long, Rita Volpe.

In a novel chronicling the laying of the trans-Atlantic cable, American engineer Chester Ludlow, his wife Franny, journalist Jack Trace, and musician Katerina Lindt and her husband, Joachim, become caught up in the excitement of the project.

"Marriage, the Church of England, and the British university system all come under criticism in a story about two cousins who love each other and want to improve their lot in life." "In this haunting love story, a couple who have each fled a previous marriage find love and fulfillment together, only to have tragedy overwhelm them." "Both having left earlier marriages, Jude Fawley and Sue Brideshead find happiness in their relationship. Ironically,...

North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence -- but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich. The youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best friends with...

In New York, a father's worst nightmare arrives just before Christmas when Edward Ives learns his son Robert, 17, was murdered in the street for $10 by another teenager. The novel describes his coming to terms with his loss.

On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She has written an engrossing, unsentimental, beautifully poised account: as she struggles through the first months following the tragedy, furiously...