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Walking backward

2009
Twelve-year-old Josh, his four-and-a-half-year-old brother Sammy, and his Dad struggle to find their own way to grieve his mothers death after she dies suddenly in an automobile accident but find that sharing memories and being close as a family is what works best.

Debatable deaths

2006
Examines seven mysterious disappearances and deaths throughout history including King Tutankhamen, England's Princes in the Towers, and Amelia Earhart.

Beyond repair

2011
Cam has been taking care of his family since his father's death, but when the man who killed his father seems to be stalking the family, Cam fears he is unable to handle the task and is unsure where to turn for help.

Liars and fools

2010
Fiona, struggling to cope with the accidental death of her mother a year earlier, decides she is going to expose all of the liars and fools in her life after her father's girlfriend claims to be a psychic who can communicate with the dead.

For one more day

2006
After years of drinking, being rejected by his wife and daughter, and a suicide attempt, ex-baseball star Charley Benetto returns to his childhood home where he encounters the ghost of his mother, who tells him family secrets and guides him in making his life better.

Porcupine

2007
After her father is killed in Afghanistan, twelve-year-old tomboy Jack Cooper and her siblings find themselves moving across the country to live on their great-grandmother's run-down farm, where Jack puts on a brave face to help her brother and sister adjust to their new lives.

Edge of dark water

2012
Teenagers Sue Ellen, Terry and Jinx dig up the body of their friend May Lynn in order to burn her body and spread her ashes in Hollywood but while on their journey they are chased by the sherrif who is after the money they stole for the trip and a legendary killer who just wants them dead.

Once upon a river

a novel
2011
Sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, family ties severed with the violent death of her father, takes to the Stark River in a rowboat left to her by her grandfather and sets out to find her runaway mother, using her knowledge of the natural world and ability to see into the hearts of men and women to survive.

The grief of others

2011
Ricky and John Ryries are devastated when their infant son dies shortly after birth, and in the aftermath of the tragedy, as their family begins to fall apart and their other two children--ten-year-old Biscuit and thirteen-year-old Paul--begin to act out, they find long-suppressed uncertainties and problems in their marriage coming to the surface, causing them to question if they can overcome their sadness and find their way back to one another.

Swamplandia!

2011
As their island home and alligator-wrestling theme park is threatened by a sophisticated competitor, twelve-year-old Ava struggles to cope with her mother's death while her sister, brother, and father all try to deal with their grief in their own unusual ways.

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