Natalie DeAngelo lost everything when her two sons were killed in a school shooting. For relief from her loss, she volunteers as a veterinarian on an elephant sanctuary in Thailand. Still battling memories that torment her, Natalie must...
Post-traumatic stress disorder
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Author:Langley, Dawn RenoSummary: -
Author:Curtis, Christopher PaulSummary:Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and...
- Author:Robertson, RobinSummary:
Winner, Roehampton Poetry Prize, Finalist, Man Booker Prize, Finalist, Goldsmiths Prize. Walker is a D-Day veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder; he can't return home to rural Nova Scotia, and looks instead to the city for...
- Author:Landry, JaniceSummary:
Halifax author and journalist Janice Landry returns to her roots, as she revisits high-profile Canadian police investigations she covered as a novice television reporter during the 1980s and 1990s. One story involves the unsolved murder...
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Author:Van der Kolk, Bessel A.Summary:Trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk has spent decades working with survivors of traumatic life experiences. The Body Keeps the Score shows how to reclaim lives with innovative treatments including neurofeedback, mindfulness techniques,...
- Author:Dailey, JanetSummary:
In the heart of Arizona's Sonora Desert, a little girl in need of her father, a woman in need of forgiveness, and a war hero in need of love come together to create a family. Before he left for Afghanistan, Jake O'Reilly had...
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Author:Barnaby, J. P.Summary:It’s been nearly five years since Aaron woke up in the hospital so broken, he couldn’t stand the sight of his own face. The flashbacks no longer dominate his life, but he’s still unable to find intimacy with his lover, Spencer Thomas....
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Author:Sylvre, LouSummary:Sequel to 'Finding Jackie' Luki Vasquez and his still newlywed husband are back home after pulling off a harrowing desert rescue of their teenage nephew Jackie. But the events of the last couple of years have begun to catch up with Luki...
- Author:Vandal, Roland, Rummery, CarleneSummary:
Having been sexually abused by a boxing coach as a teen, and not knowing who to trust or tell, Roland Vandal found solace in drugs and alcohol. His battle with addiction, and his unwillingness to speak of his demons, led to failed...
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Author:Underdahl, S.T.Summary:Brian came home from Afghanistan.But he brought the war back with him. If life were a movie, my role would be Emo Kid/Family Loser. My brother Brian would star as Master of the Universe. You might think it would be easy to resent him,...
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Author:Grey, AndrewSummary:A Love Means... Story Years after his discharge from the Marines under “Don't Ask, Don't Tell,” Cody Culver lives in a PTSD-induced world all his own. On a mission, under misconceptions that Geoff and Eli are the enemy, Cody breaks into...
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Author:Peterson, Tanya J.Summary:In this insightful and evocative novel, Tanya J. Peterson delves deeply into the world of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and schizophrenia. When Oliver Graham's suicide attempt fails, he is admitted to Airhaven Behavioral...
- Author:Neale, Jen, McArthur, Sera-LysSummary:
A startling, moving magic realist debut. Almost immediately upon Julie Bird's return to the small port town where she was raised, everyday life is turned upside down. Julie's Gulf War vet father, Marty, has been on the losing...
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Author:Mailhot, Terese MarieSummary:Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing...
- Author:Courtenay, BryceSummary:
Sequel to The Persimmon Tree
- Author:Abbott, JeffSummary:
What causes a nightmare? For federal witness Miles Kendrick it is the crippling memory of killing his best friend. For teenager Amanda Groote it is the terror of being trapped in a car wreck next to her mother's mangled body. They...
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Author:Doucette, FredSummary:Fred Doucette always wanted to be a soldier. In the 1960s he joined the Canadian Armed Forces and served in Cyprus in the 1970s and ?80s and Bosnia in the 1990s. When he returned home to in 1999 after his last overseas tour, he was...
