Book Review
The Opportunity Agenda
"The Opportunity Agenda" is a practical, persuasive blueprint for refocusing the Democratic Party to serve the concrete needs of the people. NYC real estate executive and social advocate Winston Fisher and former Kansas City mayor Sly...
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Hungry
Tethered to their smartphones and overwhelmed by news and work, people are looking for what really matters. Eve Turow-Paul’s terrific "Hungry" probes these and other aspects of modern life, including how people eat, shop, and commune,...
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An Unladylike Profession
Chris Dubbs’s "An Unladylike Profession" jumps into the trenches with the women reporters of World War I—groundbreaking journalists who explained the war to readers in the US, and who shared stories from the war’s brutal aftermath....
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Living Forward after Loss
Living Forward After Loss is a compassionate, practical book about surviving grief that’s designed to help others, too. Kathleen Ho’s memoir Living Forward After Loss is about processing grief after the death of a spouse. This short...
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Confessions of a Gay Priest
In "Confessions of a Gay Priest", Tom Rastrelli turns the hushed internal workings of Catholic priesthood inside out. Rastrelli joined the priesthood amid its national sex abuse scandals and despite abuses that he himself survived. In...
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Healing Racial Trauma
"Healing Racial Trauma" is an artful and ambitious examination of racism and faith. Identifying and describing the different, constant, and overlapping impacts of racism, the text will be educational to those for whom racism’s impacts...
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From Chernobyl with Love
Journalist Katya Cengel’s adventurous memoir "From Chernobyl with Love" begins in the 1990s, when, fresh out of college, she was posted to an assignment abroad. Cengel arrived in Latvia with the name of her new employer, school...
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This Is My Body
Cameron Dezen Hammon’s memoir "This Is My Body" is about both her career as a musical worship leader and her relationship struggles. It is a moving, valuable look at the social structures of evangelical Christianity, the treatment of...