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Photographer Abby Mason's life is changed forever by the disappearance of the young girl with whom she had been walking on a cold and foggy beach, and her desperate search for the truth behind the child's vanishing.

Although not perfect, life for Dylan Styles is initially just the way he likes it. Once a professional student, he finds his footing in Digger, South Carolina, the small farming community where he grew up. Here on his grandparents' old farm, Dylan and his wife, Maggie, find happiness in the daily rhythms of the natural world. Maggie's pregnancy only adds to their contentment. However, a complicated delivery changes everything; their son is stillborn,...

Based on the National Magazine Award-winning story, a novel about love and death follows a family of three as they discover a beautiful terrace hidden in their closet that sets off a seismic chain of events, forever changing the shape of their tiny home—and the shape of the world.

"The fourth novel by Wendy Walker, author of All Is Not Forgotten"-- In Wendy Walker's thrilling novel Don't Look for Me, the greatest risk isnt running away. Its running out of time.The car abandoned miles from home.The note found at a nearby hotel.The shattered family that couldnt be put back together.They called it a walk away.It happens all the time.Women disappear, desperate to leave their lives behind and start over.But is that what really...

"On the eve of her daughter's wedding, June Reid's life is completely devastated when a shocking disaster takes the lives of her daughter, her daughter's fiancé, her ex-husband, and her boyfriend, Luke--her entire family, all gone in a moment. And June is the only survivor. Alone and directionless, June drives across the country, away from her small Connecticut town. In her wake, a community emerges, weaving a beautiful and surprising web of connections...

When Woodrow's mother suddenly disappears, he moves to his grandparents' home in a small Virginia town where he befriends his cousin and together they find the strength to face the terrible losses and fears in their lives.

Lily is moving into her grandmother's farm in Iowa, and she is sad about all the changes necessary in her life--but on the long drive her grandmother challenges her to find ten beautiful things that they can share together.

Milla Edge runs an organization called Finders, devoted to locating and recovering missing children. Finders gets most of its funding from businessman True Gallagher, and much of its information on child-snatching rings from a mercenary named Diaz. Both men have ulterior motives for helping Milla, and hope to achieve their secret goals by offering Milla what she wants above all else: the return of her own kidnapped son, Justin.

In the halls of Newport Academy, a unique private school that has attracted generations of rebels, outcasts, and visionaries, a poignant and unforgettable lesson in the eternal truths of sisterhood is about to begin for Maggie Shaw, her fourteen-year-old daughter Beck, and her sixteen-year-old son Travis.

When their son Jacob, who died tragically at his 8th birthday party in 1966, arrives on their doorstep, still 8 years old, Harold and Lucille Hargrave must navigate a strange new reality as chaos erupts around the world as people's loved ones are returned from beyond.