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61) The stepchild
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Kensington mass market edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Kathi Ellison is an English literature major at the University of California in Berkeley living with her boyfriend off-campus. She is also the daughter of a candidate for the U.S. Senate and his wife, a role that could affect her life should her father win the election. But before she can consider her future, Kathi must first come to terms with her past. A car accident when she was four years old killed her mother and left her in a coma for several...
62) Gone wolf
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined -- to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is called a Blue -- the color of sadness. She lives in a small-small room with her dog, who is going wolf more often - he's pacing and imagining he's free. Inmate Eleven wants to go wolf too, she wants to know why she feels so Blue and what is beyond her small-small room. In the present, Imogen...
63) Be afraid
Author
Language
English
Description
Determined to find closure, forensic artist Jenna Thompson, haunted by the brutal murder of her family, returns to Nashville where she is faced with a new horror when she helps Detective Rick Morgan identify the remains of a young child that is linked to a recent spate of killings - and her past.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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, and she wants nothing more than to escape the unforgiving town that holds only bad memories. Between them is Aiden McCall, loyal to both but unable to hold them together. Connected by bonds of circumstance and...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvi, 251 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015].
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The heroic Sandy Hook teacher takes the lessons of that fateful day to present five sections--Purpose, Perspective, Choosing the Path, Choosing to Overcome, and finally Choosing Hope--that provide a clear and organized road map that will inspire and teach listeners to overcome their own personal tragedies, whatever they may be.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Paralyzed by guilt, eleven-year-old John Henry must come to terms with the events surrounding his Ma's near drowning and, with the help of his twin sister, Hattie, learn to embrace life again.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Emotionally guarded Daphne Amos always believed she'd found a kindred spirit in her fiancé, Heath. Both very private people, they've kept their pasts hidden from the world, and each other, until Heath's escalating nightmares begin to put an undeniable strain on their relationship. Determined to give their impending marriage the best chance of succeeding, Heath insists that Daphne join him on a seven-day retreat with Dr. Matthew Cerny, a psychologist...
70) Faceless
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"A masked robber, a gunshot, an endless nightmare left in its wake. Wynter Moore was just four years old when she witnessed the murder of her mother. For twenty-five years she's tried to blunt the trauma with ambition. Yet each year, she shuts down her popular Iowa restaurant to return to her small hometown of Pike, Wisconsin, to grieve. Only this time, her visit will be marked by new danger and shocking discoveries about the past--and about her mother....
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A memoir of family, the Holocaust, trauma, and identity, in which Adam Frankel, a former Obama speechwriter, must come to terms with the legacy of his family's painful past and discover who he is in the wake of a life-changing revelation about his own origins. Adam Frankel's maternal grandparents survived the Holocaust and built new lives, with new names, in Connecticut. Though they tried to leave the horrors of their past behind, the pain they suffered...
72) Dear Medusa
Author
Publisher
Labyrinth Road, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Alicia Rivers has a reputation that precedes her. But there's more to her story than the whispers that follow her throughout the hallways at school--whispers that splinter into a million different insults that really mean: a girl who has had sex. But what her classmates don't know is that Alicia was sexually abused by a popular teacher, and that trauma has rewritten every cell in her body into someone she doesn't recognize. To the...
Author
Publisher
Drawn and Quarterly
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
430 pages : chiefly illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013, c2012.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Ruled by fear and deep wounds, teenager Molly Fisk stays hidden away in the tiny tourist-town museum she and her mother call home, but everything changes when Claire Rodriguez, a woman from Molly's past, suddenly reappears.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jeska doesn't know why her mother keeps the curtains drawn so tightly every day. And what exactly is she trying to drown out when she floods the house with Mozart? What are they hiding from? When Jeska's grandmother accidentally calls her by a stranger's name, she seizes her first clue to uncovering her family's past, and hopefully to all that's gone unsaid....A true story of navigating generational trauma as a child, I'll Keep You Close is about...
Author
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
During the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, insurgencies erupted in imperial states and colonies around the world, including Britain's. As Nicole Rizzuto shows, the writings of Ukrainian-born Joseph Conrad, Anglo-Irish Rebecca West, Jamaicans H. G. de Lisser and V. S. Reid, and Kenyan Ng gi wa Thiong'o testify to contested events in colonial modernity in ways that question premises underlying approaches in...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Alejandra no longer knows who she is. To her husband, she is a wife, and to her children, a mother. To her own adoptive mother, she is a daughter. But they cannot see who Alejandra has become: a woman struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her. Nor can they see what Alejandra sees. In times of despair, a ghostly vision appears to her, the apparition of a crying woman in a ragged white gown. When Alejandra visits a therapist, she begins...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When her daughter Eden came home from the hospital, Lucy was profoundly relieved. Eden had survived a drowning incident and had no apparent brain damage, no serious injuries, not even a scratch on her. Lucy fervently welcomed having a second chance at being the good mother she should have been before her teenager's accident. Until Eden tells her that Eden isn't her name. Until she starts calling herself Eli. The name Lucy had reserved for Eden's...
80) Perish: a novel
Author
Publisher
Tiny Reparations Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
322 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"LaToya Watkins's Perish follows four members of the Turner clan: Julie B., a woman who regrets her wasted youth and the time spent under Helen Jean's thumb; Alex, a police officer grappling with a dark and twisted past; Jan, mother of two, who yearns to go to school and leave Jerusalem and all of its trauma behind for good; And Lydia, a woman whose marriage is falling apart because her body can't seem to stay pregnant; as they're called home to say...