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Villette, by Charlotte Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies of contemporary...

Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken from their community.

"A nonfiction picture book that introduces very young children to the concept of separation and divorce in a resassuring and straightforward way."--

"Florence Day is the ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem: After a terrible breakup, she no longer believes in love. It's as good as dead. When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man, won't give her an extension on her book deadline, Florence prepares to kiss her career goodbye. But then she gets a phone call she never wanted to receive, and she must return home for the first time...

Sisters Maple and Willow miss each other when Maple starts school, leaving Willow behind at home.

A young reindeer lives with his mother and visits his father on weekends. The story of Lou Caribou will help small children come to terms with their own parents' separation. This book shows that parents who live apart still lovingly care for their child, and that their separation has not diminished their love for him. Translated from French, it is written by children's author Marie-Sabine Roger and illustrated by Natalie Choux.

"Eran María y Emiliano. Lo eran para todos, en todos lados...hasta que dejaron de serlo. Desde entonces, han descubierto que reconstruir dos vidas separadas es tan complicado como construir una sola juntos. El camino parece obvio: descubrir nuevos espacios, nuevos grupos, reinventar el reino de Todos los Días. Pero ¿cómo no ver rastros de tu ex en cada esquina, si él es cineasta y tú eres crítica de cine? Entre las ruinas de un relación que...

In a rhyming, dialog format, imagines the ways in which the sun, moon, and other elements in nature can communicate love to someone when people are separated.