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The Healing Power of Play: Working with Abused Children

10 best books like The Healing Power of Play: Working with Abused Children (Eliana Gil): The Fates Divide, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, We Were the Mulvaneys, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, Resolution, The Concrete Blonde, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

The Fates Divide
AuthorVeronica Roth
ISBN0062426958
Fate brought them together. Now it will divide them.

The lives of Cyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth are ruled by their fates, spoken by the oracles at their births. The fates, once determined, are inescapable.

Akos is in love with Cyra, in spite of his fate: He will die in service to Cyra’s...
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
AuthorMariko Tamaki
Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend.

Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend, Doodle, introduces her to the Seek-Her,...
We Were the Mulvaneys
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0452282829
The Mulvaneys of High Point Farm in Mt. Ephraim, New York, are a large and fortunate clan, blessed with good looks, abundant charisma, and boundless promise. But over the twenty-five year span of this ambitious novel, the Mulvaneys will slide, almost imperceptibly at first, from the pinnacle of happiness,...
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
AuthorBruce D. Perry
ISBN0465056520
What happens when a young brain is traumatized? How does terror, abuse, or disaster affect a child's mind--and how can that mind recover? Child psychiatrist Bruce Perry has helped children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, murder witnesses, kidnapped teenagers, and victims...
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
AuthorElyn R. Saks
Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she's an endowed professor at the prestigious University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She has managed to achieve this in spite of being diagnosed as schizophrenic and given a "grave" prognosis—and suffering the effects of her illness throughout...
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
AuthorBessel A. van der Kolk
ISBN0670785938
A pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing.
 
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics;...
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
AuthorPeter A. Levine
Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that...
Resolution
AuthorRobert B. Parker
The New York Times–bestselling author’s richly imagined work of historical fiction: a powerful tale of the Old West from the acknowledged master of crime fiction.

I had an eight-gauge shotgun that I’d taken with me when I left Wells Fargo. It didn’t take too long for things to develop....
The Concrete Blonde
AuthorMichael Connelly

I'm not a big fan of novels about serial killers with distinctive M.O.'s who leave clues in notes sent to the lead detective, particularly when the supposed murderer has already been incarcerated or killed, and the possibility of a copycat--or an original injustice--emerges. Been there. Done...
Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
AuthorJonathan Kozol
ISBN0060976977
The children in this book defy the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented by the media. Tender, generous and often religiously devout, they speak with eloquence and honesty about the poverty and racial isolation that have wounded but not hardened them. The book does not romanticize or...
Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
AuthorJackie Hill Perry
ISBN1462751229
"I used to be a lesbian."

In Gay Girl, Good God , author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, offering practical tools that helped her in the process of finding wholeness. Jackie grew up fatherless, experienced gender confusion, and embraced both masculinity and homosexuality with every...
Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship
AuthorGarry L. Landreth
ISBN1583913270
Play Therapy, 2nd Edition, is a thorough update to the 1991 first edition best-selling books, the most widely used texts for play therapy courses. It refreshes the history and development in play therapy including results of research done in the past 10 years. A new chapter is included on current issues...
Fine Things
AuthorDanielle Steel
ISBN0440244056
Smart, likable, Bernie Fine was the wonder boy of  Wolff's, New York's most glamorous department  store. A senior VP moving up, he arrives in San  Fransisco to open a West Coast store. His career is  skyrocketing, but his life is lacking a center.  When he looks into the wide, innocent...
The Quest to Feel Good
AuthorPaul R. Rasmussen
ISBN0415965314
Emotions, rather than simply being the result of random or disordered biochemical processes, are adaptive mechanisms that are often overly relied upon as a function of basic learning processes. The Quest to Feel Good helps the reader understand that negative emotions serve a critical adaptive purpose...
It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
AuthorMegan Devine
ISBN1683640365
A New Resource for Those Experiencing Loss

With It’s OK That You’re Not OK, Megan Devine offers a profound new approach to both the experience of grief and the way we help others who have endured tragedy. Having experienced grief from both sides—as both a therapist and as a woman who witnessed...
Right Behind You
AuthorLisa Gardner
ISBN0525954589
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

Lisa Gardner's latest thriller following her runaway hit Find Her takes her wildly popular brand of suspense to new heights.

Eight years ago, Sharlah May Nash's older brother beat their drunken father to death with a baseball bat in order to save both...
Spare Change
AuthorRobert B. Parker
ISBN1842432079
Boston P.I. Sunny Randall joins forces with the most important man in her life-her father-to crack a thirty-year-old case.

Hi Phil,
You miss me? I got bored, so I thought I'd reestablish our relationship. Give us both something to do in our later years. Stay tuned.
Spare Change

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The Land Breakers
AuthorJohn Ehle
ISBN0977228371
My father was raised in Boone, NC, in the far northwestern corner of the Appalachians of that state, about 30 miles from the Tennessee line. His parents had a hillside farm there, and I can just barely remember seeing my grandfather behind a plow being pulled by a mule. Plowing furrows on the side of a mountain...
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