Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author and Queen of Suspense launched her career with this classic thriller following a woman whose past holds a terrible secret.
Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her hair, and left California for the windswept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two...

Unable to ignore the haunting photographs that Trevor Kennedy brings in to be developed, Crystal, a store clerk dealing with her own loss, finds her life colliding with this boy whose family is about to be pushed to the breaking point.

At bedtime, a little llama worries after his mother puts him to bed and goes downstairs.

Three owl babies whose mother has gone out in the night try to stay calm while she is gone.

In 1834 Barbados, after the master of the Providence plantation in Barbados refuses to let them go even though the king has decreed an end to slavery, Rachel escapes and embarks on a grueling, dangerous journey to find her five children who survived at birth and were sold.

Lyrical text and illustrations of baby animals and their mothers show the love of a parent.

A mother tells her baby about the farm they live on and the various animals there, as she stitches images of their home into a new quilt.

A young monster describes all the things its mother does to show she loves it.