Henry Carter Hull

A young boy describes to two other children how his two mommies help him with all his needs.

Chloe Pinter, a young social worker at an adoption agency in Portland, Oregon, sets off a disturbing chain of events when she warns wealthy and infertile Francie and John McAdoo that impoverished birth parents Penny and Jason, whose demands of the McAdoos have become increasingly strident, have purchased a bassinet and that the adoption may fall through.

The lives of three women, one an egg donor, one a surrogate, and one an adoptive mother become intertwined as they each play a role in having a baby.

A couple of bumbling parents with a hungry baby seek help from a tricky little witch, but it is a sweet black-eyed yak who really helps them to live happily ever after.

In China there is a belief that people who are destined to be together are connected by an invisible red thread. After losing her infant daughter in a freak accident, Maya Lange opens the Red Thread, an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from China with American families. Maya finds some comfort in her work, until a group of six couples share their personal stories of desire for a child. Their painful and courageous journey...

At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically.

Riddle James Camperdown's hope for a relaxing summer in 1971 goes out the window when she discovers a horrific crime in a neighbor's barn. Terrified, she keeps what she has seen to herself, but as the summer wears on and events heat up, she struggles for the courage to tell what she saw before her family is destroyed.

Alice Brill wakes up one day with a vague, but nagging sensation of unease in her chest that signals trouble. Is it her marriage-drifting along for years on auto pilot-that's so troubling? Her unrealized aspirations as a writer? Her unsettled younger son? Or is it something about her father, once a prominent surgeon but now slipping deeper into senility in a nursing home? There is also the matter of the writer whose book she's editing, in her new...