Illustrated by his brother, Manni Coe’s touching memoir demonstrates how the patient rhythms of nature and family nurture can mitigate mental health crises. In November 2021, Coe was in Spain for work. He received a text from England,... Read More

Zoë Bossiere’s "Cactus Country" is a sensitive, searching memoir about gender fluidity. Cactus Country is the Tucson trailer park where Bossiere lived as a child, all year round, in a harsh desert environment that taught them... Read More

About faith, family, and an informal investigation into carcinogenic toxins, Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn’s memoir "Loose of Earth" is wrenching. Blackburn grew up in Texas surrounded by cotton fields. Her family was religious; their... Read More

Tony Jones’s meditative memoir "The God of Wild Places" is about leaving the ministry but remaining alive to spirituality through outdoor adventures in Minnesota and further afield. It was Jones’s childhood ambition to become a... Read More

In Lee Wind’s exciting novel "A Different Kind of Brave", two gay teenagers who emulate James Bond fall in love and crisscross the Americas to shut down a harsh conversion therapy institution. Sixteen-year-old Nico escapes Dr.... Read More

John Pavlovitz’s "Worth Fighting For" is a stirring playbook for Christians who strive to ensure that kindness triumphs over toxicity. Pavlovitz has an uncomfortable truth to break: God will not swoop in to solve the world’s... Read More

Faith coach Angela J. Herrington delivers a reassuring, practical guide for people who are questioning their commitments to Christianity or who are looking to trade “toxic, man-made religion” for something healthier. Here,... Read More

In her candid, inspirational memoir "The Only Way Through Is Out", Suzette Mullen traces the events leading to her midlife coming out—and her decision to leave her marriage, choosing “desire over safety.” As an empty-nester, while... Read More