In this sensitive guide, Edward Myers offers sensible, compassionate advice to those coping with the death of a parent. He explores the complex feelings adult sons and daughters experience when a parent dies, whether the death follows a long illness, or is sudden, including the special issues raised by a murder or suicide. He discusses the psychological responses to a parent's death, such as shock, depression, and guilt, and offers suggestions on how to cope with and overcome these responses. Practical matters, such as dealing with funerals and estates are also discussed, and a resource guide...

When Will I Stop Hurting?: Teens, Loss, and Grief is a self-help guide for teenagers who are struggling with bereavement and the emotional difficulties it presents. This book provides an overview of grief as a painful but normal process, and it offers insights from bereavement experts as well as practical suggestions for coping with loss, including accounts from teens. This book closes a gap in the available literature on grief and bereavement that has tended to focus on adults and younger children. It provides a warm, accessible resource that will reassure teen readers about the normality of...

En route to visiting their father at a medical mission, two children and their teenage cousin narrowly escape death when their small plane crashes deep in the Peruvian rainforest. The plane's pilot dies in the crash, leaving Rus, Jodie, and Matt Cooper struggling to survive on their own in a lush but hostile environment. What follows is a harrowing tale of endurance, improvisation, and self-discovery. With its suspenseful plot, alternating points-of-view, and strong male and female protagonists, SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST is an adventure tale that will prove unforgettable to young readers.

Seething with rage toward what he regards as the sinful modern world, a thirty-eight-year-old survivalist named Cliff retreats to an uninhabited valley deep in the Rocky Moun-tains. He has rebuilt a 1930's-era miner's shack at timberline and has stocked it with food, cold-winter gear, equipment, and weapons. In this aerie Cliff awaits the collapse of civilization, the Tribulation, and the End of Days. He is ready for any and all of the calamities destined to befall humankind. Soon, however, Cliff starts to wonder if the Tribulation he experiences is taking place out in the world or inside his...

After a back-road car accident in the Colorado Rockies seriously injures their parents, athletic fourteen-year-old Danielle and her brainy younger brother, Jake, set out together to find help. Walking twenty miles through deep snow is the most obvious option but seems too risky. The teens decide instead to make a more audacious move: climbing a mountain that Jake believes is nearby and that has a manned weather station at its summit. As they head upward, Danielle and Jake soon realize that they've taken an all-or-nothing gamble: they must climb . . . or die.

After a back-road car accident in the Colorado Rockies seriously injures their parents, athletic fourteen-year-old Danielle and her brainy younger brother, Jake, set out together to find help. Walking twenty miles through deep snow is the most obvious option but seems too risky. The teens decide instead to make a more audacious move: climbing a mountain that Jake believes is nearby and that has a manned weather station at its summit. As they head upward, Danielle and Jake soon realize that they've taken an all-or-nothing gamble: they must climb . . . or die.