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Buckley and his mother cope with the loss of their father/husband by sending small wooden boats, built by Buckley, off into the ocean.

Deciding to visit each animal on the farm to find out who gives the best kiss, a puppy named Hugs discovers that the best kiss of all is the one he gets from his loving mother.

The Sun God chooses the village of Endwever to provide a mortal womb. The birthing of a star is always fatal for the mother, and Ceris Wenden, who considers herself an outsider, sacrifices herself to secure her family's honor and take control of her legacy. But after her star child is born, Ceris does what no other star mother has: she survives. When Ceris returns to Endwever, however, it's not nine months later--it's seven hundred years later. Inexplicably...

"Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the...

"On their last trip to the laundromat before moving, a mom invites her child to make a wish on a washing machine, which spurs everyone else in the laundromat to share their wishes."--

"Croac, croac, zaz, ziz, jiu, jiu ... se escucha a lo lejos. �Qu�e ser�a? Es la dulzura que se filtra entre los huecos de la noche, de los sonidos suaves y r�itmicos de mam�a acunando a su beb�e."--Page 4 of cover. What is that sound in the night? It's the sound of mom singing me a lullaby.

"You have to lose something first, before you can find it..." Bethany Taylor has been missing for twenty years. She just doesn't know it. She does know how to be the perfect hostess for her husband's corporate events. She knows how to fill out scholarship paperwork and set up dorm rooms for her boys. She knows how to create the perfect life for her entire family. And for twenty years that's exactly what she's been doing. Until the day her husband...