Many children's lives are touched by a serious illness within their families, and some will be faced with the loss of a parent or grandparent, or the death of a sibling or beloved pet. How can adults help young people cope with these losses? How do they explain and console in language that a child can understand?

Dr. Daniel Schaefer, working with child psychologists and trauma experts, and drawing on more than three decades of experience with families in crisis, has written a practical guide for anyone who works or lives with children--parents, caregivers, counselors, or teachers--to respond to their inevitable questions about loss and change, life and death. He provides strategies to assist children with grief and trauma and offers time-tested advice and language that children can understand.

How Do We Tell the Children?

Now in its fourth edition, this classic guide includes new material on: dealing with the traumatic stress of a large-scale catastrophe handling the repercussions of school violence helping grandparents manage as caregivers advising employers about how to support employees going through a family loss.

The book also features an expanded quick-reference Crisis Section with conversation scripts and up-to-date resources, including websites, publications, and support groups.

In successive weeks, two New York landlords have been shot to death, one in Central Park and one in Brooklyn. Could these be the acts of a disgruntled tenant, a business rival, or is there a serial killer out there? Ross Cortese calls on Detective Ruth Wilson, formerly a profiler with the FBI, to join the squad and assist with the investigation. Meanwhile, Doschenko, an ex-KGB assassin, has been on the run from Interpol since Ross brought him down from near the pinnacle of power by foiling an attempted coup in Vienna. Fulfilling a contract killing in Oman, Doschenko is given the green light by his handler to come to New York, via Canada, for another assignment. It is the opportunity that he has been waiting for--to extract revenge by inflicting maximum pain on Ross and those he loves.

Peretz' first novel, The Mosel Legacy was called "a page-turner that goes straight to the heart and the conscience." His second, again features Ross Cortese, NYPD. The discovery of skeletal remains behind the wheel of a Mercedes sedan, at the muddy bottom of a remote, ice-covered Berkshire pond, leads Sally McDevitt, (Chief of Detectives, State Police), to join Ross in working this colder than cold case. Are there sinister, murderous forces behind an attempted hostile takeover of the Broderick Corporation, or is Edward Cadmus, CEO, deluded? The story takes us from boardrooms to bedrooms, psychiatric offices to Athens and Zurich, as the detectives seek to unravel the Broderick Curse.

Vienna. March 1938. A desperate woman slips through late-night streets, clutching a bundle in her arms. Drunken Nazi supporters roam streets like wild dogs, waiting for Hitler's Wehrmacht to cross into Austria. Flash forward fifty years to New York. Ross Cortese, NYPD detective, down on his luck, needs money. He takes Polaroids of two pieces of furniture in his possession to an auction house. In Vienna, Erich Hanfnagel, wealthy collector, learns that important pieces of Secession furniture have surfaced. Determined to add them to his collection, he sends his daughter to New York. Ross's discovery at the auction house and attraction to the beautiful Willi Hanfnagel, propel him on a journey to Vienna. Behind the baroque facade of the city in which Hitler learned the use of anti-Semitism as a political weapon, neo-Nazi forces plot to overthrow the government. The clock counts down to the final, terrifying stage of the conspiracy and the truth about Ross's enemies and those he loves.