Elizabeth Smart on hope and healing

You’ll want to #BookmarkThis. Next Tuesday, join USA TODAY for a Facebook live chat with Elizabeth Smart about her new book, Where There’s Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up.

#BookmarkThis is a series of live video chats with best-selling authors, and fans can submit questions. (Details below.)

It’s a great opportunity to touch base with Smart, who in her 2013 bestselling memoir recounted her horrific abduction in 2002, when she was 14 years old. She was held captive for nine months.

In her new self-help book (St. Martin’s Press, on sale Tuesday), Smart shares how she has recovered from her trauma, and interviews others who have overcome adversity as well.

Smart, who grew up in a tight-knit Mormon family in Salt Lake City, was taken from her bedroom in the middle of the night by Brian David Mitchell. She was held by Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, in primitive conditions, chained, raped, and dressed in disguise. She was told she and her family would be killed if she escaped.

She was rescued on March 12, 2003. Mitchell and Barzee were convicted; Mitchell is serving life in prison.

Today, Smart, 30, is married and the mother of two young children. She is president of the Elizabeth Smart Foundation, which works to prevent crimes against children, and she speaks frequently about her experiences in hopes of helping others.

In Where There’s Hope, she talks to people both famous (Diane Von Furstenberg and Ann Romney) and not famous (such as Bre Lasley, who was stabbed by an intruder) who have experienced difficulties or trauma. And she talks about her own strength as a survivor, her faith, and the challenges she has faced.

As she writes in her new book, the people she interviews “share personal stories that are astounding, inspiring, and sometimes shocking . ... My hope is that through these conversations, you and I will both discover that we are all stronger than we imagined.”