“Your world has collapsed; your life dreams have crashed. It feels as if your heart has been wounded deeply—shattered—broken beyond repair. You wonder when your heart will stop bleeding. I understand. I too have stumbled along the same path of betrayal that you are on right now. Walk with me through the background stories of my personal experience with infidelity. I vulnerably share my private journal entries and short vignettes of how I survived my husband's betrayal. You will identify with my pain and confusion during the difficult stages of recovery. My story of survival is dramatic, hopeful, and instructive; it will help you as you process through the wide variety of emotions and if you choose, you can eventually move beyond the hurt and devastation that this nightmare has caused. It is possible to survive nightmares in the heart, and upon awakening, a new life will be waiting for you.”-Patti SnodgrassAuthor Patti Snodgrass shares the intimate details of her personal journey with infidelity and what it took to overcome her suffering. Patti's story of survival brings clarity and sanity to the emotional injuries caused by an unfaithful spouse and offers immeasurable hope to those whose hearts has been wounded by an act of betrayal. Candid journal entries are interspersed with engaging chapters, where, among other directives, readers are encouraged to be angry but also embrace a wide range of emotions on a journey towards recovery. Patti questions the past and ponders what might have been, but also brings clarity in being able to identify the truth behind the transgression in order for one to begin moving on. Snodgrass' main objective is to bring stability and hope to the wounded heart. In a very meaningful way, this resource is a guide to the aftershocks of infidelity. It's a true compass to help those in the midst of their own wilderness walk to know that they're not alone—that they will survive. With spirited encouragement Snodgrass provides fellow survivors a tremendous lifeline. Surviving Your Worst Nightmare: A Guide for the Betrayed is a dramatic, hopeful, and instructive guide that helps readers work through the wide variety of emotions and move beyond the hurt. Yes you are changed forever, but this is not fatal, and the journey chronicled in this book will help the wounded survive nightmares of the heart.

Join a mother's trail of tears, if you dare. This story is perhaps every parent's worst nightmare come true: sibling sexual abuse. How do you survive? How can friends and family provide support? Don't be too quick to throw stones of judgement. Rather, gather your own stones of tragedy, injustice, and betrayal to memorialize all that has been lost.

This riveting memoir of survival and transformation reveals the brutal details of the worst that can happen to an ordinary family and how they triumphed over adversity. It describes the true story of a daughter's decline into alcohol and drug addiction, prostitution and homelessness, and her mother's attempts to rescue her yet protect herself and her other children. Written as a dual narrative, mother and daughter give their first hand accounts of the years lost to addiction and despair, and the subsequent recovery and reconciliation. formation reveals all the brutal details of the worst that can happen to an ordinary family and how they triumphed over adversity.

Reading, writing, and—wardrobe disasters? Stop tween troubles in their tracks with help from the series that has sold more than ten million copies worldwide. Homework, hormones, heartache . . . middle school has no shortage of perils. Never fear, the authors of the bestselling Worst-Case Scenario series return with a survival guide for those who are facing—or just about to face—this big transitional time in school and life. The handbook is packed with funny-but-useful tips for the trickiest situations that crop up in middle school, like taking charge of a too-busy homework schedule, dealing with a cold shoulder from a friend who has suddenly become just too cool, avoiding common e-mail and cell phone disasters, and more. Praise for the Worst-Case Scenario Survival series “What this book lacks in spiritual enlightenment, it more than makes up for with the practical advice you thought you’d never need.” —The Irish Times “Though neither written nor read in a humorous manner, the book nevertheless amuses in a strange way . . . affords some camp appeal in the tradition of outdated high school safety films.” —Publishers Weekly “There is something for everyone. It has a wide range of scenarios from dangerous to just downright irritating . . . It is fun, witty, entertaining and you learn something along the way too.” —Quill Quotes

Sandy Peckinpahs sixteen-year old son woke up with a fever and was dead the next morning of bacterial meningitis her life changed forever. She found herself in the depths of unimaginable despair. Then, someone gave her a journal, and writing opened her journey of self-discovery in learning how to live life without her beautiful child. Words illuminated her path of discovery and she began to document the things that helped her, and others like her, to find resilience. This is a practical, inspirational guide to coping with the many facets of bereavement; learning how to talk about your loss, the aftermath of sorrow, handling fear and anger, helping your living children adjust, strengthening your marriage, experiencing miracles, and the promise that you will regain a quality of life where youll feel joy once again. If youve lost a child or know someone who has, this story is one youll relate to and find comfort in knowing youre not alone. Sandy is a mother who has experienced it, and shes a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist from the Grief Recovery Institute in Los Angeles.

Two sons describe their journey from finding their murdered father, through the 911 call and on through the aftermath of the murder. It is also the story of their mother, a 911 operator, who finally reconciles grief, overcomes fear, and finds the strength to move her family forward to a healed life--Publisher.

We are facing ecological disasters that will affect our ability to survive and the crisis is forcing us to reexamine the entire value system that has governed our lives for the past two thousand years.

In bestselling author Christopher Golden's supernatural thriller Red Hands, sometimes a story is a warning. Sometimes the warning comes too late When a mysterious and devastating bioweapon causes its victims to develop Red Hands, the touch of death, weird science expert Ben Walker is called to investigate. A car plows through the crowd at a July 4th parade. The driver climbs out, sick and stumbling, reaching out...and everyone he touches drops dead within seconds. Maeve Sinclair watches in horror as people she loves begin to die and she knows she must take action. But in the aftermath of this terror, it’s Maeve who possesses that killing touch. Fleeing into the mountains, struggling with her own grief and confusion, Maeve faces the dawning realization that she will never be able to touch another human being again. "Weird s**t expert” Ben Walker is surprised to get a call from Alena Boudreau, director of the newly restructured Global Science Research Coalition. There’s an upheaval in the organization and she needs to send someone she can trust to Jericho Falls. Whoever finds Maeve Sinclair first will unravel the mystery of her death touch, and many are willing to kill her for that secret. Walker’s assignment is to get her off the mountain alive. But as Maeve searches for a hiding place, hunted and growing sicker by the moment, she begins to hear an insidious voice in her head, and the yearning, the need... the hunger to touch another human being continues to grow. When Walker and Maeve meet at last, they will unravel a stunning legacy of death and betrayal, and a malignant secret as old as history.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The authors bring extreme climbing to life. . . . Perhaps no author can rationalize why some choose to risk their lives . . . for the thrill of conquering a mountain. The Ledge comes perilously close and tells a ripping true story at the same time.”—The Denver Post In June 1992, best friends Jim Davidson and Mike Price stood atop Washington’s Mount Rainier, celebrating what they hoped would be the first of many milestones in their lives as passionate mountaineers. Then their triumph turned tragic when a cave-in plunged them deep inside a glacial crevasse—the pitch-black, ice-walled hell of every climber’s nightmares. An avid adventurer since youth, Davidson was a seasoned climber at the time of the Rainier ascent. But the harrowing free fall left him challenged by nature’s grandeur at its most unforgiving. Trapped on a narrow frozen shelf, deep below daylight, he desperately battled crumbling ice, snow that threatened to bury him alive, and crippling fear of the inescapable chasm below—all the while struggling to save his fatally injured friend. Finally, alone, with little equipment and rapidly dwindling hope, he confronted a fateful choice: the certainty of a slow, lonely death or the near impossibility of an agonizing climb for life. A story of heart-stopping adventure, heartfelt friendship, fleeting mortality, and implacable nature, The Ledge chronicles the elation and grief, dizzying heights and punishing depths, of a journey to hard-won wisdom. “Plunges readers into a dark, icy chasm from which escape seems impossible. Then it reveals the strength it takes to look up, and to start climbing.”—Jim Sheeler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the National Book Award finalist Final Salute “How [Davidson] rescued himself is the core of The Ledge, and its most gripping part. The physical effort and will involved are astonishing.”—The Plain Dealer “A moving portrait of friendship and loss.”—The Wall Street Journal