Author: Voss, Christopher, 1942- author.
Published: 2016
Call Number: 158.5
Format: Books
Summary: "A former FBI top hostage negotiator's field-tested tools for talking anyone into (or out of) just about anything"--Cover.
Author: Naigle, Nancy, author.
Published: 2016
Call Number: F NAIGLE
Format: Books
Summary: Megan Howard used to be a successful painter--but that was a long time ago. These days she's struggling to move forward, convinced her heart is permanently broken after her last relationship and grief stricken over the loss of her father. Clinging to memories of happier times, she holds tight to her father's most cherished possession: a 1958 DeSoto Adventurer. Though she needs the money, she'll never sell it--even loaning the prized automobile to her best friend on the day of her wedding stirs up painful memories. Avowed bachelor and car collector Noah Black has never seen a car he can live without ... or a woman he can live with. Reluctant to see his best friend condemned to matrimony, he flies to Boot Creek, North Carolina, from California to be the best man in the wedding. But after discovering that the gorgeous maid of honor owns the car of his dreams, Noah makes a pricey bet that he'll add the DeSoto to his collection, no matter what it takes.
Author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 author. Mowat, Barbara A. editor. Werstine, Paul, editor.
Published: 2015
Call Number: CL SHAKESPE
Format: Books
Summary: Presents Shakespeare's play about a shipwrecked Duke who learns to command the spirits.
Author: Van der Kolk, Bessel A., 1943- author.
Published: 2014
Call Number: 616.85 VANDERKO
Format: Books
Summary: This profoundly humane book offers a sweeping new understanding of the causes and consequences of trauma, offering hope and clarity to everyone touched by its devastation. Trauma has emerged as one of the great public health challenges of out time, not only because of its well-documented effects on combat veterans and on victims of accidents and crimes, but because of the hidden toll of sexual and family violence and of communities and schools devastated by abuse, neglect, and addiction. Drawing on more than thirty years at the forefront of research and clinical practice, Bessel van der Kolk shows that the terror and isolation ad the core of trauma literally reshape both brain and body. New insights into our survival instincts explain why traumatized people experience incomprehensive anxiety and numbing and intolerable rage, and how trauma affects their capacity to concentrate, to remember, to form trusting relationships, and even to feel at home in their own bodies. Having lost the sense of control of themselves and frustrated by failed therapies, they often fear that they are damaged beyond repair. The body keeps the score is the inspiring story of how a group of therapists and scientists together with their courageous and memorable patients has struggled to integrate recent advances in brain science, attachment research, and body awareness into treatments that can free trauma survivors from the tyranny of the past. These new paths to recovery activate the brain's natural neuroplasticity to rewire disturbed functioning and rebuild step by step the ability to "know what you know and feel what you feel." They also offer experiences that directly counteract the helplessness and invisibility associated with trauma, enabling both adults and children to reclaim ownership of their bodies and their lives. Readers will come away from this book with awe at human resilience and at the power of our relationships, whether in the intimacy of home or in our wider communities to both hurt and heel.
Author: Redfield, James, author.
Published: 1993
Call Number: 299.93
Format: Books
Summary: The unnamed hero takes on the Peruvian government, priests, guerrillas and drug dealers to find an ancient manuscript whose nine insights prophesy New Age spirituality. An adventure story replete with energy transfers and other psychic phenomena.
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