Frank Carlson Library

Dr. Pam Chubbuck, a world-wide respected therapist, has written the most comprehensive book to date on how to deal with the experience of losing a father. The workbook/art therapy aspect in Goodbye, Dad. I'll Always Love You is genius! There is no better way to help youngsters through their trauma than the combined art, writing, and emotional movement processes that Dr. Chubbuck masterfully shows us. Part one is for Kids. Part two, is for all caregivers:...

E.J. Rudsdale's role as a museum curator and air-raid shelter superintendent at Colchester Castle during the Second World War gave him the perfect opportunity to record life on the Home Front in his journals. Seventy years later, the selected extracts gathered here provide a remarkable insight into wartime life. Rudsdale's writing is characterised throughout by his wry observations of wartime officialdom and his lack of conformity with the prevailing...

Clara Kramer, the President of the Holocaust Resource Foundation at Kean University, recounts her life as a frightened, hungry Jewish teenager living in Zolkiew, Poland, during the Holocaust. She and her parents were rescued by Righteous Gertiles.

Learn to harness the power of journaling to calm your anxious mind.Do you often feel uneasy, uncertain, and overwhelmed?You are not alone. Anxiety makes us emotionally volatile, question our every decision, worry excessively about the future, and fills our days with dread. It depletes our energy, time, and resolve. Anxious thoughts can take control of our lives. But it doesn't have to be this way.If you're fed up with anxiety getting in the way of...

Sacred Self Care shares ideas on helping oneself so that one can learn and live one's Unique Divine Destiny to benefit oneself and others while honoring God.

Her name was Rosamond Pinchot: hailed as "The Loveliest Woman in America," she was a niece of Pennsylvania governor Gifford Pinchot; cousin to Edie Sedgwick; half sister of Mary Pinchot Meyer, JFK's lover; friend to Eleanor Roosevelt and Elizabeth Arden. At nineteen she was discovered aboard a cruise ship, at twenty-three she married the playboy scion of a political Boston family, but by thirty-three she was dead by her own hand. Seventy years later,...

The private diary of James G. McDonald (1886—1964) offers a unique and hitherto unknown source on the early history of the Nazi regime and the Roosevelt administration's reactions to Nazi persecution of German Jews. Considered for the post of US ambassador to Germany at the start of FDR's presidency, McDonald traveled to Germany in 1932 and met with Hitler soon after the Nazis came to power. Fearing Nazi intentions to remove or destroy Jews in Germany,...