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Lesage, Marla

Summary: ". . . explores the realities of PTSD from a kid's perspective. The book includes an author's note and kid-friendly mental health resources. As a military child, eleven-year-old Leah moves . . . a lot. But this summer she will be the one left behind when her best friend's family is reassigned. To make matters worse, her mother will be away for training, leaving Leah at home with her father,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LES

Wilson, Carter

Summary: "How far are you willing to go for Mister Tender? At fourteen, Alice Hill was viciously attacked by two of her classmates and left to die. The teens claim she was a sacrifice for a man called Mister Tender, but that could never be true: Mister Tender doesn't exist. His sinister character is pop-culture fiction, created by Alice's own father in a series of popular graphic novels. Over a decade...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Echenique, Sara E.

Summary: A girl in Puerto Rico copes with the aftermath of a hurricane, including her family's temporary blue tarp roof and her brother's refusal to speak. Includes notes about the author's life in Puerto Rico and the yearly ritual of preparing for hurricanes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ECH

Maxfield, Marcie

Summary: Not your typical story about an American abroad. Instead, Marcie Maxfield pulls back the curtain on the globe-trotting world of an expat wife to explore issues of marriage and compromise. Moving backward and forward--both in time and between cities and countries--Em's Awful Good Fortune is woven together thematically by bits and pieces of Em's life: love, loss and betrayal, sexual assault and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAX

Todd, Anna

Summary: When the trust they've placed in each other is traumatically broken, Karina and Kael, a soldier scarred by his time in Afghanistan, try to find a way back to each other, but soon Karina must decide whether loving someone she doesn't want to live without is worth risking everything.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Frayed Pages 2023

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Burke, James Lee

Summary: While investigating a homicide, Dave Robicheaux, who is struggling with PTSD, alcoholism, and the loss of his wife, suspects he may have been the killer and endeavors to clear his name and make sense of the killing.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks, imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BUR

Hannah, Kristin

4 holds on 12 copies

Summary: "'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024

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Laukkanen, Owen

Summary: Could your closest friend be a killer? When a body washes up outside Deception Cove, Washington, Jess Winslow--once a US Marine, now a trainee sheriff's deputy--is assigned to investigate. But when she realizes it's "Bad" Brock Boyd, a hometown celebrity lately fallen from grace, things become complicated. The last person seen with Boyd was her own boyfriend, Mason Burke. An ex-convict and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAU

Littman, Sarah

Summary: Life has suddenly turned chaotic for high school student Stella since her brother, Rob, got home from his second tour of duty in Afghanistan: her school is on edge with ethnic tensions and her brother seems to be suffering from post-traumatic stress but will not talk about it. But when Rob's anger finally spirals out of control, Stella realizes she has to find the courage to take a stand...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIT

Todd, Anna

Summary: Karina and Kael have been trying to make it work for as long as they've been together. As the world around them starts to crumble, Kael is consumed by the darkness of his PTSD, and Karina struggles to overcome her anxiety, which is at an all-time high. Then someone from their past returns to invade their lives and wreak havoc on the fragile peace they've created. If they're going to have the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2024

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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC TOD

Austin, Lynn N.

Summary: "In this gripping portrait of war and its aftermath from bestselling author Lynn Austin, a young woman searches for the truth her childhood friend won't discuss after returning from World War II, revealing a story of courage, friendship, and faith. Peggy Serrano couldn't wait for her best friend to come home from the war. But the Jimmy Barnett who returns is much different from the Jimmy who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in New Fiction, Call number: LP FIC AUS

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC AUS

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Austin

Bowling, Dusti

Summary: A year after the death of her mother in a restaurant shooting, Nora is left struggling to stay alive when a climbing trip with her father goes terribly wrong.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BOW

Hoag, Tami.

Summary: "Dana Nolan was a promising young TV reporter until she was kidnapped by a notorious serial killer. A year has passed since she defeated her attacker, but Dana is still physically, emotionally, and psychologically scarred by her ordeal, with aftereffects including PTSD and memory loss. In an attempt to put herself back together after surviving the unthinkable, Dana returns to her hometown. But...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing Large Print 2015

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOA

Howard, Rosie

Summary: Maddy fled the idyllic market town of Havenbury Magna three years ago, the scene of a traumatic incident she revisits most clearly in her dreams. Even so, when she is called back to help at the Havenbury Arms when her godfather Patrick suffers a heart attack, she is unprepared for the welter of emotions her return provokes. Psychologist and ex-army officer Ben is sure he can help Maddy to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Allison & Busby 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOW

Kingfisher, T.

Summary: "The follow-up to T. Kingfisher's bestselling gothic novella, What Moves the Dead. Retired soldier, Alex Easton, returns in a horrifying new adventure. After their terrifying ordeal at the Usher manor, Alex Easton feels as if they just survived another war. All they crave is rest, routine, and sunshine, but instead, as a favor to Angus and Miss Potter, they find themself heading to their family...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIN

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kingfisher

Todd, Anna

Summary: "Karina and Kael have been trying to make it work for as long as they've been together. The two broken souls have a lot of individual healing to do before they'll be able to find happiness anywhere, never mind with each other. As the world around them starts to crumble, Kael is consumed by the darkness of his PTSD, and Karina struggles to overcome her anxiety, which is at an all time high. Then...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Frayed Pages 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC TOD

Todd, Charles

Summary: Although the Great War is nearing its end, the fighting rages on. While waiting for transport back to her post, Bess Crawford meets Captain Alan Travis from the island of Barbados. Later, when he's brought into her forward aid station disoriented from a head wound, Bess is alarmed that he believes his distant English cousin, Lieutenant James Travis, shot him. Then the Captain is brought back to...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC TOD

Caletti, Deb

Summary: Followed by Grandpa Ed in his RV and backed by her brother and friends, Annabelle, eighteen, runs from Seattle to Washington, D.C., becoming a reluctant activist as people connect her journey to her recent trauma.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CAL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAL

Colgan, Jenny

Summary: London nurse Lissie needs a change of scene. A rural Scotland paramedic trades places with her. Through email, they discover new feelings for their jobs and each other. What will happen when they meet?

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COL

Curtis, Christopher Paul

Summary: 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 the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CUR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CUR

Petrie, Nicholas

Summary: Fighting his post-traumatic claustrophobia, war veteran Peter Ash has no intention of getting on an airplane-- until a grieving woman asks Peter to find her young grandson. The woman's daughter has been murdered. Erik, the dead daughter's husband and the sole suspect, fled to Iceland with his son for the protection of Erik's lawless family. For reasons both unknown and unofficial, it seems that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PET

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PET

Phillips, Suzanne.

Summary: Bullied constantly during his freshman year in high school, Cameron's anger and isolation grows, leading to deadly consequences.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2008

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PHI

Steel, Danielle

Summary: "When she is only six years old, Allegra Dixon's party-loving mother leaves without so much as a goodbye. Her father, an emotionally distant military officer, is also unable--or unwilling--to care for her. Sent to live like a ghost in her grandparents' joyless home, Allegra finds her only solace through an escape into books. Attending boarding school, life finally takes a turn when she meets a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024

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Mehl, Nancy

Summary: "Former FBI behavioral analysts River Ryland and Tony St. Clair are asked to assist on a profile to catch the Snowman, a serial killer who has stayed hidden for over twenty years. As the killer's pattern emerges and danger mounts, River and Tony are in a race against the clock to catch a killer before he catches one of them"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEH

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