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The path through trauma is one of the most difficult anyone can tread. With The Healing Trauma Summit, you’ll find that you don’t have to do so alone. Featuring some of the most prominent voices in the field, this audio collection will give you resources and options for the journey out of trauma and toward peace.

Thirteen plays about human connection, from some of BBC Radio's best writers exploring love, family, romances and life's ups and downs. This diverse collection of stories centres around family dynamics, relationships both romantic and platonic, and the diverse ways ordinary people navigate the vicissitudes of everyday life. Ranging from modern fairy tales to coming-of-age dramas, they feature a wide variety of styles, and are scripted by an array of writers from award-winning dramatists to first-time authors.

Someone's making a dangerous mistake - stealing cattle from John Worth, the man who runs the territory. He sets brutal giant Tom Hall on the man he suspects. Then a deadly stranger joins the wrong side.

Larry Scott is branded an outlaw, framed for murder and accused of cattle rustling. It would seem the only course open to Scott to prove his innocence is to find those really guilty. But that objective is unlikely in the extreme, after he is arrested, charged, and jailed.

The rope was already around Bill Peace's neck. He looked at Judge White, hardly able to believe that this man would lend himself to a lynching. But that was before the outlaw Al Sisson interfered. Bill realized that he would be trading certain death for the life of a fugitive, but the prize seemed worth the gamble.

The Sheepmans' Bank needs a new safe. Meanwhile the sheriff, his deputy and 20 men with shotguns are watching the money. Will someone still be tempted?

Joe Miles must save a family from the killing torrents of a flash flood while under fire from thieves after a railroad payroll. Once fired for being old, he's still young enough to be a hero.

At 62 Sheriff Clint Benbow is not a sound sleeper. He is awakened one night by the tremors of an explosion, and learns it came from the local bank. It is now his duty to venture into the blizzard outside and apprehend the robbers, but at his age the job seems impossible.

Joe Miles must save a family from the killing torrents of a flash flood - while under fire from thieves after a railroad payroll. Once fired for being old, he's still young enough to be a hero.

Bill Ash, an escaped convict returns to find his father murdered.

Dan Gentry's military career lies trampled in the dust beside the arrow-pierced bodies of the men who served under him. Deliberately cloaking a dead lieutenant's foolhardiness with his own silence, Dan Gentry is court-martialed and disgraced. An outcast, he finds pretty Faith Tipton, wounded and unconscious, the sole survivor of an Apache raid. Dan tries to protect her from the sinister designs of greedy, furtive Caleb Ash.

After five years of virtual banishment because he sold out his small outfit to the Middle Arizona Cattle Company, giving it a foothold on the Mesa Grande range, violent-tempered Joe Bonnyman is summoned back to Lodgepole by his father when it appears that a cattle war between the syndicate and the various rangers is imminent. During his short stay in town, Joe has an unpleasant meeting with Ed Merrill, the brother of a girl Joe had once courted.

Ray Kindred is a fugitive. Most of Kindred's remembered life has involved ignoring danger or fleeing from it. When he jumps off the freight train on which he has been hiding to enter a town at night, he feels he is only ignoring danger, no longer fleeing it.

The second shell exploded before the lamp hit the floor. Then he dove through a hail of bullets into the darkness. If he doesn't escape from the midnight raiders, he's finished and so is every rancher in the valley. Can evil and power be stopped? It will be decided now, in Shadow Canyon.

Lonesome Jim Barkley had once been a town-taming law man. Now he was a man with a reward on his head, wanted for robbery and murder. The banker, Tade Wardow, knows this and thinks he can turn it to his advantage in a way that will also make Barkley money. Yet, for Barkley, there is another consideration, one more urgent than robbing Wardow's bank.

A spellbinding novel of a diverse trail crew’s fight for new and limitless grasslands in the boundless western plains, the source of constant conflict, at times ending in victory, and sometimes with great loss.