Describes how to prepare a funeral for a beloved pet, from choosing a box and backyard location to saying a few words and marking the spot.

Although he is a very tough pirate, Boris von der Borch cries when his parrots dies.

Months after her best friend, Aubrey, is killed in an accident, Dara returns to town to start her senior year and must face her grief and the responsibility she feels for her death, as well as the feelings she is starting to have for Aubrey's brother.

Ten years after his older brother George disappeared during World War II, Freddie Watson travels to France in search of peace and meets a young woman who tells him a story of persecution, resistance, and death, then leaves him to figure out the ghostly mystery hidden in her tale.

When a comment overheard by her teenage daughter forces Ginger to reveal a long-held family secret, she resolves to return to Marthas Vineyard and discover what really happened on that calamitous day and hopefully come to terms with it.

When Bear's grandfather dies, Chicken and Elephant try to comfort their friend.

"The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet--a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth and of his own most masterful stories, about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father"--

"Marion is hiding a secret from her past and Kurt is trying to figure out how to recover from his mother's death as they both find solace in each other"--

The affluent Al-Menshawy family find their American dream shattered when a devastating turn of events leaves their eldest son and their neighbor's daughter dead, and, becoming pariahs in their upscale New Jersey community, they struggle to keep their family together.

A year after losing her boyfriend, Trent, in an unexpected accident, Quinn Sullivan secretly tracks down the recipient of his donated heart in an attempt to heal, but ends up falling for him.