Conceived to be a donor to her cancer-stricken sister, eleven-year-old Anna decides to sue her parents for emancipation.

Seventeen-year-old Evan struggles to deal with his mother's abuse and his new feelings for his friend Henry.

Natalie, a young girl whose soldier father has deployed to Iraq, tells the reader what life is like for her and her mother in the year that her father is away.

The author escribes the circumstances of his mother’s death at the hands of his younger brother, a patient with uncontrolled schizophrenia, whose disease the author painstakingly researched throughout a devastating murder trial.

Hazard is a poignant, unflinching memoir of the emotional intricacies of growing up with a severely disabled sibling. Margaret Combs shows how her Southern Baptist family coped with the reality of autism in an era of ignorance and shame, the 1950s through the 1970s, and shares her own tragedy and anguish of being torn between helping her brother and yearning for her own life.

Walter, a modest high school chemistry teacher, discovers a new purpose in life when he learns he has terminal cancer and turns to a life of crime using his chemical knowledge to provide for his family.

Abby Maslin shares an inspiring story of resilience and what it means to love someone who is suffering from an injury that changes that person to their very core.