Product Description What happens when we're confronted with the worst? Conventional wisdom holds that trauma scars us for life, wreaking psychological havoc that affects everything from our sleep cycles to our relationships to our very will to live. But our popular conception of trauma ignores a startling fact: many people emerge from traumatic experiences stronger, wiser and more fulfilled, despite having endured great emotional pain.For the past twenty years, Joseph has worked with survivors of trauma and sufferers of post-traumatic stress. In this groundbreaking new book, he boldly challenges current notions about trauma and its aftermath. His studies have shown that a wide range of traumatic events from illness, divorce, separation, assault and bereavement to accidents, natural disasters and terrorism can act as catalysts for positive change strengthening relationships, changing one's perspective and revealing inner strengths.What Doesn't Kill Us reveals how all of us can navigate change and adversity traumatic or otherwise to find new meaning, purpose, and direction in life. About the Author Stephen Joseph is professor of psychology, health and social care at the University of Nottingham, where he is co-director of the Centre for Trauma, Resilience and Growth and an honorary consultant psychologist in psychotherapy.

What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Stronger: The New Psychology of Trauma and Transformation

Stephen, Joseph

Piatkus Books

Entrusted with the true piece of evidence, Rafe takes the long way home to England - a journey made even longer when he acquires some unwanted companions. After rescuing an old woman from footpads, he finds himself stuck with the woman's niece Loretta. Frustrated by the woman's presence, but unwilling to leave her to the Black Cobra's minions, he finds himself with an unexpected companion - and a surprisingly fierce defender. Loretta is not quite certain what Rafe is up to, but it's clearly dangerous. Drawn to him despite the obstacles he tries to place in their way, Loretta quickly realises that this particular rake is the one for her. His need to protect her at all costs is flattering, if annoying, and she has no intention of letting this newfound love go. Once they admit to their feelings, Rafe and Loretta form a forbidding team as they race to bring down the Black Cobra - and begin their happily ever after.

The Reckless Bride

Stephanie-Laurens

Dominic of the Dragonseeker lineage - one of the most powerful lines the Carpathian people has - ingests vampire blood laced with parasites in order to infiltrate the heart of the enemy camp and learn its plans. This is a one - way mission, and he knows he has little time once the parasites and blood go to work.He plans to get in fast, relay the information to the leader of the Carpathians living in the area and go out fighting - an honourable way to end his life. Solange Sangria is one of the last of the jaguar people, a royal pure-blood. Her people, once many, are now nearly extinct: a dying species that cannot recover from the choices they made over hundreds of years. She has long been alone fighting to save the remaining women who are able to shift from had of Brodrick the Terrible, her own father who slaughtered her family and everyone she loved. Wounded, weary, she plans one last battle, hoping to stop the man who has made an alliance with the vampires, accepting she will not come out alive.

Dark Peril (Carpathian)

Romance

CHRISTINE FEEHAN

Paranormal

Dominic of the Dragonseeker lineage - one of the most powerful lines the Carpathian people has - ingests vampire blood laced with parasites in order to infiltrate the heart of the enemy camp and learn their plans. This is a one-way mission. He plans to get in fast, relay the information to the leader of the Carpathians living in the area and go out fighting - an honourable way to end his life.  Solange Sangria is one of the last of the jaguar people, a royal pure-blood. Her people, once many, are now nearly extinct. She has long been alone fighting to save the remaining women who are able to shift from the hands of Brodrick the Terrible, her own father who slaughtered everyone she loved. Wounded, weary, she plans one last battle, hoping to stop the man who has made an alliance with the vampires, accepting she will not come out alive. They are two warriors who have lived their lives alone. Now, at the end of their time, they find each other, a complication neither sees coming.

Dark Peril: Number 21 in series (Dark Carpathian)

Literature & Fiction

Christine Feehan,Feehan C

Genre Fiction

Veil Of Night

Jaclyn Wilde is a wedding planner who loves her job - until the bride whose wedding she's organising is brutally killed, with everyone involved pointing fingers at everyone else. Jaclyn, at least, isn't a suspect, but only because she has an alibi. The others, from the cake-maker to the florist to the wedding-gown seller, are practically dancing in the streets because Carrie Edwards, a bridezilla of mythic nastiness, has met her end. Eric Wilder is the detective assigned to the case. There's too much evidence implicating too many people and compounding his problems is Jaclyn Wilde who keeps interfering with him, distracting him and somehow fouling up everything. To top things off, somehow she becomes the focus of the killer, and he finds himself with a completely different problem.

HOWARD, LINDA

Crave

J.R. Ward

Seven deadly sins. Seven souls to save. And a man and a woman treading the lines of danger, desire and deliverance ...As the son of a serial killer, homicide detective Thomas 'Veck' DelVecchio, Jr, grew up in the shadow of evil. Now, on the knife-edge between civic duty and blind retribution, he atones for the sins of his father - while fighting his inner demons. Assigned to monitor Veck is Internal Affairs officer Sophia Reilly, whose interest in him is both professional and arousingly personal. And Veck and Sophia have another link: Jim Heron, a mysterious stranger with too many answers ...to questions that are deadly. When Veck and Sophia are drawn into the ultimate battle between good and evil, their fallen angel saviour is the only thing that stands between them and eternal damnation.

Envy

Karen finds a sensual haven as an archivist in a stately home When Karen Heywood is offered a new job as assistant archivist, she hopes that the mysterious halls and old libraries of Blackwood Towers will finally reveal to her the inner strength and purpose she's spent her life searching for. But Karen realizes there's more to the job than she bargained for as dark secrets and desires begin to rise to the surface. Soon one man consumes her every waking thought, a man whose secrets she is dying to unravel—Blackwood's mysterious owner, Lord Mallory Burnet.

Velvet Touch

Devereux, Zara

British & Irish

A beautiful, sheltered heiress traveling to the Amazonian rainforests to search for an Incan treasure finds herself captured by a surprisingly friendly native tribe Merran Faulkner inherits her eccentric uncle's fortune, but there's one condition: as a world-famous explorer, it was his dying wish that she should travel to South America to search for a lost Incan treasure—certainly not what she had in mind for her next vacation. But as Merran treks her way through the jungle, her uncle's artifact isn't her only new discovery. Meeting the mysterious Don Miguel, Merran's Amazonian adventure becomes much more than her uncle's will ever entailed. And as Merran gets to know Don, with his temptingly exotic ways, suddenly the wild side she's tried so desperately hard to hide begins to come out and play.

Wild Silk

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What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Stronger: The New Psychology of Trauma and Transformation

The Reckless Bride

Dark Peril (Carpathian)

Dark Peril: Number 21 in series (Dark Carpathian)

Veil Of Night

Veil Of Night

Crave

Envy

Velvet Touch

Wild Silk