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Trauma and recovery : the aftermath of violence -- from domestic abuse to political terror / by Herman, Judith Lewis,1942-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist Judith L. Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as a vast literature on combat veterans and victims of political terror, she shows surprising parallels between private horrors like child abuse and public horrors like war. This edition includes a new epilogue by the author assessing what has -- and hasn't -- changed in understanding and treating trauma over the last three decades."--
Subjects: Post-traumatic stress disorder; Psychic trauma;

Study for obedience / by Bernstein, Sarah(Literature teacher),author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Hostility (Psychology); Housekeepers; Siblings; Threats of violence; Young women;

The bonobo sisterhood : revolution through female alliance / by Rosenfeld, Diane L.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Gender violence expert and law professor Diane L. Rosenfeld pulls from the natural world, specifically bonobo society, to present a roadmap for ending gendered violence through female allyship"--
Subjects: Bonobo; Women; Women; Women;

Hands are not for hitting = Las manos no son para pegar / by Agassi, Martine,1966-; Heinlen, Marieka.;
"Early childhood/Ages 0-3"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Violence; Anger; Hand; Spanish language materials;
© c2009., Free Spirit Pub.,

Babel : or the necessity of violence : an arcane history of the Oxford Translators' Revolution / by Kuang, R. F.(Rebecca F.),author.;
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes 'Babel', a thematic response to 'The Secret History' and a tonal retort to 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Anti-imperialist movements; Imperialism; Magic; Translating and interpreting;

Lola in the mirror / by Dalton, Trent,author.; Heppell, Paul,illustrator.;
A girl and her mother have been on the run for sixteen years, from police and the monster they left in their kitchen with a knife in his throat. They've found themselves a home inside a van with four flat tires parked in a scrapyard by the edge of the Brisbane River. The girl has no name because names are dangerous when you're on the run. But the girl has a dream. A vision of a life as an artist of international acclaim. There's only one person who can help make her dreams come true. That person is Lola and she carries all the answers. But to find Lola, the girl with no name must first do one of the hardest things we can ever do. She must look in the mirror.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Family violence; Fugitives from justice; Mothers and daughters;

Beneath a ruthless sun : a true story of violence, race, and justice lost and found / by King, Gilbert,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Daniels, Jesse Delbert, 1938-; Discrimination in criminal justice administration;

Run : a novel / by Crouch, Blake,author.;
"A gripping apocalyptic thriller about a man and his family running for their lives in an America gone mad-from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion. Five days ago, the epidemic of rage began. Four days ago, the rash of senseless murders swept the nation. Three days ago, the President addressed the country and begged for peace-even as the murders increased tenfold. Two days ago, the killers began to mobilize. One day ago, the power went out. And tonight, the killers are reading the names of those to be killed on the Emergency Broadcast System. Jack Colclough is listening over the battery-powered radio on his kitchen table in Albuquerque, and he just heard his name. People are coming to his house to kill him, his wife, his daughter, his son. He doesn't know why, but he doesn't have time to think about that anymore. He only has time to run. Following an ordinary family on a desperate race for safety through an America that's destroying itself, Run is a terrifying, brutally stripped-down thriller from master storyteller Blake Crouch"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Apocalyptic fiction.; Novels.; Families; Serial murders; Survival; Violence;

September 5 [videorecording] / by Binder, Moritz,screenwriter.; David, Alex,screenwriter.; Benesch, Leonie,1991-actor.; Chaplin, Ben,actor.; Fehlbaum, Tim,1982-film director.; Magaro, John,1983-actor.; Sarsgaard, Peter,actor.; Paramount Pictures Corporation,publisher.;
Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch.September 5 unveils the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today. Set during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, the film follows an American sports broadcasting team that quickly adapted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage. Through this lens, September 5 provides a powerful new perspective on the live broadcast seen globally by an estimated one billion people at the time.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for language.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Thrillers (Motion pictures); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Historical films.; Feature films.; Munaẓẓamat Aylūl al-Aswad; Israel. Sherut ha-biṭaḥon ha-kelali; Olympic Games 1972 : Munich, Germany); Athletes; Jewish athletes; Hostages; Israelis; Journalism; Broadcast journalism; Terrorism;
For private home use only.

If I go missing / by Jonnie, Brianna.; Shingoose, Nahanni.;
A graphic novel about the subject of missing and murdered Indigenous people. Combining fiction and non-fiction, this young adult graphic novel looks into one of the unique dangers of being an Indigenous teen in Canada today. The text of the book is derived from excerpts of a letter written to the Winnipeg Chief of Police by fourteen-year-old Brianna Jonnie--a letter that went viral and in which, Jonnie calls out the authorities for neglecting to immediately investigate and involve the public in the search for missing Indigenous people, and urges them to "not treat me as the Indigenous person I am proud to be" if she were to be reported missing.LSC
Subjects: Native women; Native women; Indigenous women; Indigenous women;

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