"A combat veteran returned from war, Thad Broom can't leave the hardened world of Afghanistan behind, nor can he forgive himself for what he saw there. His mother, April, is haunted by her own demons, a secret trauma she has carried for years. Between them is Aiden McCall, loyal to both but unable to hold them together. Connected by bonds of circumstance and duty, friendship and love, these three lives are blown apart when Aiden and Thad witness the...

"From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II. Ana will never forget her mother's face when she and her baby brother, Oskar, were sent out of their Polish ghetto and into the arms of a Christian friend. For Oskar, though, their new family is the only one he remembers. When a woman from a Jewish reclamation organization...

George seeks the quiet in the loud world around her when the past comes rushing back and sends her into the arms of a girl who brings hope and light into her otherwise dark life. On the water, with everything hushed above and below, George is steady, silent. Then her estranged dad says he needs to talk, and George’s past begins to wake up, looping around her ankles, trying to drag her under. George's best friend, Tess, is about to become a teen...

"Award-winning psychoanalyst Dr. Galit Atlas draws on her patients' stories--and her own life experiences--to shed light on how generational trauma affects our lives"-- The people we love and those who raised us live inside us. We experience their emotional pain, we dream their memories, and these things shape our lives in ways we don't always recognize. Atlas shows that family secrets can keep us from living to our full potential, and haunt us like...

"With simple language and illustrations, this little book will help teach your adult and adolescent clients how to understand their trauma symptoms and how Internal Family Systems (IFS) works to heal them. This powerful therapeutic tool translates complex ideas about trauma and parts work into material that is accessible and easy to understand"--

"Finding Comfort is about providing emotional and spiritual care following a mass fatality incident like a mass shooting, terrorist act or catastrophic natural disaster. Through examples and practical suggestions, it explores the needs of those who are suffering and how those needs can be met"--

Indigo finds a series of paintings made by her mother that could be the solution to their financial insecurities; however, her mother refuses to revive the series, so Indigo secretly takes up the brush herself and falls into the paintings' dangerous world which blurs fantasy and reality.

A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress leads to lifelong health problems and what we can do to break the cycle. For anyone who has faced a difficult childhood, or who cares about the millions of children who do, the innovative and acclaimed health interventions outlined in this book will represent vitally important hope for change. Print run 75,000.

"The stories and poems in this collection address the physical and psychological trauma of sexual assault from a variety of perspectives and voices"-- The twenty-first century has brought unprecedented evidence of the prevalence of sexual abuse and assault. As the world begins to recognize the depraved and hypocritical actions of people (chiefly men) in power, people are raising their voices against a culture that has allow this behavior to continue....

Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush-part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed. Beaton's natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws colossal machinery and mammoth vehicles set against a sublime...