The variety of voices provides a conversational account of issues a diabetic might encounter. In Balancing Diabetes: Conversations about Finding Happiness and Living Well, blogger Kerri Sparling recounts her lifelong experience with type... Read More

This intelligent, resourceful globe-trotting Welshman really has had quite a ride. In many ways, R. A. Lang has lived an ordinary enough life, full of drinks with friends, business troubles and successes, and health and relationship... Read More

A snappily cinematic retelling of the Gospel dramatizes Jesus’s biography. Mano Govindaraj believes the Gospel according to Matthew was written in Jesus’s lifetime, a hypothesis propounded in his previous book, The Authorized... Read More

For those who fear being trapped in the quicksand of a draconian legal system, Dahly’s unrelenting flow of travails is cautionary but educational. Trapped in a swamp of bureaucracy, politics, and personal animosity, Ron Dahly faced... Read More

Cassileth outlines several complementary cancer therapies in this encouraging, well-organized guide. No life, it seems, is untouched by cancer. Instead of tapping into the collective fear and dread surrounding illness, Survivorship... Read More

Complex questions are outlined in an easy-to-understand way, and are best savored slowly. "What Am I? And Why Do I Suffer?" by Iqubal Birdi is an intellectual examination of the complexities of human life that is at once personally... Read More

Jackson’s buoyancy infuses every word she writes, making this an easy book to read in spite of its sometimes-difficult subject matter. We read memoirs to confirm that we are not alone, that others have faced trials like our own. New... Read More

Front man of the seminal punk band Hüsker Dü opens up about growing up gay, his post-band life, and the music business. Bob Mould’s impetus for penning this memoir arose from his realization that, “With age, I was beginning to... Read More