While You Were Away; 101 Tips for Families
By Megan Egerton-Graham
Publisher: Egerton-Graham Consulting
ISBN: 978-0-9811436-0-6

"While You Were Away: 101 Tips for Families" is a resources designed to assist children in dealing with the extended absence of on or both of their parents, as occurs during a military deployment. It provides exercises and tips for identifying, understanding and managing the many emotions that occur during this period. It also provides practical tips for dealing with difficulties of separation.

Minefields of the Heart: A Mother's Stories of a Son at War
By Sue Diaz
Published By: Potomac Books
ISBN 978 1 59797 515 5

How do combat veterans and their loved ones bridge the divide that war, by its very nature, creates between them? How does someone who has fought in a war come home, especially after a tour of duty marked by near-daily mortar attacks, enemy fire, and roadside bombs? With a journalist’s eye and a mother’s warmth, Sue Diaz asks these questions as she chronicles the two deployments to Iraq of her son, Sgt. Roman Diaz, from the perspective of the home front.
http://minefieldsoftheheart.com/wp/

Returning Home from Iraq and Afghanistan: Preliminary Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Veterans, Service Members, and Their Families
By: Committee on the Initial Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Military Personnel, Veterans, and Their Families; Board on the Health of Selected Populations; Institute of Medicine
ISBN 0 309 14763 8

Nearly 1.9 million U.S. troops have been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq since October 2001. Most return successfully to their normal lives, but many have encountered serious challenges readjusting after their return home. In 2009, Congress asked the IOM to conduct a two-phase study to examine the physical, mental, and other needs of military personnel returning from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and of veterans and their family members. This preliminary report presents findings on the scope and magnitude of the problems facing these populations, and lays out a plan for the detailed assessment in the second phase. In the interim, this initial report makes several recommendations that the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) can act on now. 
http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2010/Returning-Home-from-Iraq-and-Afghanistan-Preliminary-Assessment.aspx 
 

The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of Our Soldiers
By Nancy Sherman
Published By W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN 978 0 393 06481 0

This book attempts, as its subtitle indicates, to expose the complexities of the soldier’s “inner war.” Sherman rightly construes it as a national “duty” to understand the soldier’s “healthy struggle . . . to remain alive to civilian sensibilities without losing the . . . steel and resilience” essential to military service and to facilitate healing of the psychic rifts war can cause. This is not a duty Americans have always been keen to embrace. A unique analysis of the moral weight of warfare today through the lenses of philosophy and psychology.

Recovering from Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Edited By Mary Ann Keatley, PhD, CCC and Laura L. Whittemore
ISBN 978-0-9824094-0-4

This handbook speaks to the military service men and women, who are casualties of mild traumatic brain injury. Use this guide as a compass to orient  to a new way of thinking about mild traumatic injury and the path of recovery.  For example, learn about the effects of barometric pressure and altitude on MTBI and the use of ear filters to minimize environmental noise.  Avoid the pitfalls along the way by arming yourself with the knowledge of cutting-edge information to expedite your recovery. 
www.BraininjuryHopeFoundation.org

101 Ways to Help the Cause in Afghanistan
By Jim Hake
ISBN 978-1-61658-527-3

Help the Cause describes 101 ways to help the Afghan people and to increase the safety, well-being and the success of our troops. It features the work of 65 organizations, including Spirit of America. All proceeds go to the organizations/projects featured in the book.
You can order at 1-800-431-1579

Deployed Fathers & Families: Deployment Guide for Enlisted Personnel
By National Fatherhood Initiative with the assistance of Parents Educating Parents, Inc.

Published by National Fatherhood InitiativeThis guide was written by military fathers and people close to the military helping make deployment easier to deal with through helpful advice, information, ideas, and resources for you and your family in preparing for the deployment.
www.fatherhood.org

Going Overboard: The Misadventures of a Military Wife
By Sarah Smiley
Published by Penguin Group (USA)
ISBN 0451218515

Sarah Smiley, raised a navy brat, wittily and poignantly writes about being a navy spouse left on base with two young children while her husband is on deployment overseas, just as the impending war in Iraq is dominating the headlines.

Surviving Deployment - A Guide for Military Families
By Karen M. Pavlicin
Published by Elva Resa Publishing
ISBN 0965748367

A must have book for all military family members - it explains the deployment process, how to cope with separation and the reunion with your loved one.
www.survivingdeployment.com

I'm Already Home
By Elaine Gray Dumler
Published by Frankly Speaking
ISBN 0974035904

Ideas for Predeployment, Deployment, and Post Deployment. Includes information about Family Service Centers.
www.imalreadyhome.com

While They're at War: The True Story of American Families on the Homefront
By Kristin Henderson, journalist and military spouse
Published by Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 0618773452

"This is a piece of often untold American history, and a must-read for those both in and out of uniform." - Senator John McCain

Love My Rifle More Than You - Young, Female and in the US Army
By Kayla Williams
ISBN 0393329224

Published by Orion Publishing Co. From basic training to being deployed in Iraq, this is a gripping memoir of life in the US army written by a woman with an unforgettable voice.

Mom's Field Guide: What You Need to Know to Make It Through Your Loved One's Military Deployment
By Sandy Doell
Published by Warrior Angel Press, 2006
ISBN 1932311203

The mother of a Soldier shares her experience of having a child deployed and provides advice for parents who want to know the best way to support their loved one.
www.momsfieldguide.com

Operation Homecoming is a collection of U.S. Servicemembers and their families' eyewitness accounts, private journals, short stories, letters, e-mails, poems, and other personal wartime experiences. The book offers a deeply personal, heart-breaking, intimate and sometimes funny record of how war is experienced both on the front line and the home front.