Book Review
The Black Woman’s Guide to Coping with Stress
Cheryl W. Giscombé’s inspiring guide explores why Black women are extrasusceptible to the killing effects of stress, suggesting strategies for empowerment, self-care, and radiant health. Arguing that women must nourish their...
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Handbook for the Heartbroken
Sara Avant Stover’s compassionate guide for a heartbreak-illiterate world moves beyond grief and pain to nurture richer appreciation for life and the awakening of deeper, more mature personhood. Stover knows that heartbreak can be...
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Alive with Spirits
"Alive with Spirits" introduces a satisfying way of life based on respect, care, reverence, and relationships with the land and the spirits that inhabit it. Althaea Sebastiani declares that animistic witchcraft opens the door to a...
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Queering Contemplation
Exploring what contemplative spiritual practice might look like if it grew beyond entrenched eurocentric, heteronormative, and patriarchal traditions, "Queering Contemplation" envisions embracing and celebrating the vast array of human...
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Breaking the Curse
Alex DiFrancesco’s gripping memoir "Breaking the Curse" is about being unheard, misunderstood, abused, and traumatized by family members and society while growing up transgender. In childhood, DiFrancesco was forced to dress and...
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Unswerving
In Barbara Ridley’s gripping novel "Unswerving", a woman survives a car accident and contends with emotional trauma, harrowing rehabilitation, and a mystery surrounding the fate of her girlfriend. Tave, once a top athlete at her...
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The Beauty of Falling
Physicist Claudia de Rham’s intimate scientific memoir "The Beauty of Falling" reveals the ups and downs of a life obsessed with gravity. After besting over ten thousand applicants, de Rham’s dream of becoming an astronaut was dashed...
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The Mission of Maya and Methuselah
Realistic about the challenges of growing older, "The Mission of Maya and Methuselah" aims to equip those who are unprepared for the inadequacies of global health-care systems with thorough knowledge. Written for people aged forty and...