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In 1976 twenty-six California children were kidnapped from their school bus and buried alive for motives never explained. All the children survived. This bizarre event signaled the beginning of Lenore Terr's landmark study on the effect of trauma on children. In this book Terr shows how trauma has affected not only the children she's treated but all of us. Lenore Terr, M.D., is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute...
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Can a long-forgotten memory of a horrible event suddenly resurface years later? How can we know whether a memory is true or false? Seven spellbinding cases shed light on why it is rare for a reclaimed memory to be wholly false. Here are unforgettable true stories of what happens when people remember what they've tried to forget -- plus one case of genuine false memory. In the best detective-story fashion, using her insights as a psychiatrist and the...
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The good fight: The battle against a big tobacco company hits home for a rookie lawyer when a close family friend begs her to take a stand against them.
The rendering: Ten years after surviving an attack on her life, an artist must re-live her trauma over again when she realizes that her husband is suspected of attacking several women.
The haunting of Lisa: When a young girl sees visions of a killer after a child is murdered, she and her mother...
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A collection of seventy-two poems written especially for girls ages twelve and up by the much-honored and beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye. First love, friendship, school, family, community, having a crush, loving your mother and hating your mother, sense of self, body image, hopes and dreams . . . these seventy-two poems by Naomi Shihab Nye-written expressly for this collection-will speak to girls of all ages. An honest, insightful, inspirational, and...