Melinda, a smart and spirited high school freshman, retreats into self-imposed silence after she is raped one night at a party. Eventually through her work in art class, she begins to reach out to others.

"In this richly depicted story, told in vignettes relative to markers of age and experience, Patricia Eagle reveals the heartbreak and destruction of her sexual abuse, from age four to thirteen, by her father. A victim of her father's anger and her mother's complacency with his abusive behavior, Eagle uses dissociation and numbing in response to the abuse, and as a way to block her own sense of self. How does a child confused by episodes of abuse...

A high school boy reluctantly moves with his mother to a small town in Southern Utah. There he visits his father in prison, meets a girl, makes the football team and befriends a mysterious Native American.

"Navy SEAL Thom Shea shares his combat experiences in Afghanistan, providing incredible insights sure to shift your views of yourself and provoke life-altering change!,"--NoveList.

Includes index. Bibliography: p. 406-407.

Here is a proven roadmap for overcoming the painful end of any romantic relationship, even divorce. Through her workshops and popular blog, Susan Elliott has helped thousands of clients and readers transform their love lives. Now, she'll help readers put their energy back where it belongs, on themselves. Her plan includes: The rules of disengagement: how and why to go 'no contact' with the ex; How to work through grief, move past fear, and take back...

Johnny Wrigley, a newly minted United States Marine, finds himself on a troop train headed for California - and then to an island in the Pacific where he is going to kill some "Japs" for America. During a brief coffee and donut stop in Kansas City, Johnny finds himself sexually involved with a young girl as innocent as he is. As Johnny fights in a brutal war, then slowly resumes his life back home, he never forgets the girl at the railroad station....