post-traumatic stress disorder

Examines the psychological effects of the Vietnam War on the men who fought in it, comparing them with those of the soldiers in the Iliad.

Draws on Homer's "Odyssey" to illuminate the real problems faced by combat veterans reentering civilian society.

Explains what post-traumatic stress disorder is, what causes it, how it affects daily life, possible treatments, and how people overcome it or learn to live with it.

Liz returns from war in Iraq and has a hard time readjusting to life in her small town, finding herself feeling alone and falling into a downward spiral of flashbacks and alcohol until her boyfriend almost hits a stray dog with his car and things change.

Half-blind, isolated, broken, and disillusioned, LeAnne Hogan used to be a rising military star in Afghanistan. Now a final blow comes in the form of the death of Marci, her hospital roommate. Compelled to find closure for her death, LeAnne travels to Marci's hometown only to find that Marci's eight-year-old daughter has vanished. Then LeAnne finds herself "adopted" by the town's dark, strong, inscrutable stray dog, and together woman and dog set out to find the missing child.

"Daisy has only ten weeks to prove her usefulness or else be sent back to the pound. Yet if she goes back, who will protect Colonel Victor from his PTSD attacks? Or save the littler human, Micah, from those infernal ear muzzles he calls earphones? What if no one ever adopts her again? Determined to become the elite protector the colonel needs, Daisy vows to ace the service dog test. She'll accept the ridiculous leash and learn to sit, heel, shake, even do your business, Daisy when told to. But Daisy must first learn how to face her own fears from the past or risk losing the family she's so desperate to guard-again."--Dust jacket.

A powerfully delivered narrative of a young soldier, his unlikely dream, and how he found his way out of darkness, Rise is inspiring, quintessentially American, and will resonate with anyone who has ever fought for what they what they wanted.

When her father, an ex-soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD, is arrested for murder, Emily's efforts to exonerate him take her into the woods to play the Game, an extreme version of childhood games.

In a war-torn future United States, fifteen-year-old Tessa and her friends Gideon and Dek, enter enemy territory and discover the shocking truth about a war that began more than seventy-five years earlier.