"Around the world, more than a million people die by suicide each year. Yet many of us know very little about a tragedy that may strike our own loved ones - and much of what we think we know is wrong. This clear and powerful book dismantles myth after myth to bring compassionate and accurate understanding of a massive international killer. "--Provided by publisher.

A longtime trauma worker, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky offers a deep and empathetic survey of the often-unrecognized toll taken on those working to make the world a better place. We may feel tired, cynical, or numb or like we can never do enough. These, and other symptoms, affect us individually and collectively, sapping the energy and effectiveness we so desperately need if we are to benefit humankind, other living things, and the planet itself. Lipsky...

"A fictional exploration of small town paranoia inspired by fear, false memory and confession and mob psychology juxtapositioned against religious fervor"--Provided by publisher.

"If countless books and movies are to be believed, America's Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain men-a man's world. Here, Chris Enss, in the latest of her popular books to take on this stereotype, tells the stories of seventeen courageous women who faced down schoolrooms full of children on the open prairies and in the mining towns of the Old West. Now with five new teachers...

Vampire prince Darren Shan returns to his home town where he finds his family under attack from the forces of his greatest enemy Steve Leopard, his rival to become the Lord of the Shadows.

The Hidden Persuaders is Vance Packard's pioneering and prescient work revealing how advertisers use psychological methods to tap into our unconscious desires in order to "persuade" us to buy the products they are selling. --from publisher description.

Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.

"Claire Everett, an overwhelmed single mother, enlists the help of a life coach to get a grip on the chaos in her life"--Provided by the publisher.

Joe Bowers is an average Joe. He is not the sharpest tool in the shed. He becomes part of a government experiment to go into hibernation. The experiment goes awry and Bowers awakens in the year 2505 to find a society so dumbed-dowm by mass commercialism and mindless TV programming that he's become the smartest guy on the planet. Now it's up to this average Joe to get human evolution back on the right track.

While on a mission to prove to Merlin that they can use magic wisely, Jack and Annie travel in their magic treehouse to seventeenth-century Venice, Italy, to save the city from disaster.