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Before I Lose My Own Mind
by Katy Keffer
Drawing on personal experience and written with vulnerability and self-awareness, the memoir–cum–carer’s guide "Before I Lose My Own Mind" makes caregiving feel more manageable. Part memoir, part guide, clinical psychologist...
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When the Roman Bough Breaks
by Isaac Randel
Issuing a plea to Catholics to return to the original, unadulterated version of the gospel messages, "When the Roman Bough Breaks" is a passionate historical and theological survey. A fresh contribution to a centuries-old theological...
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The Longest War
A confessional and vulnerable memoir, "The Longest War" uses a bitter divorce as a vehicle to address childhood trauma, heartbreak, and pain with candor. Psychotherapist Catherine Harrington’s harrowing but uplifting memoir "The...
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The Butcher on Colfax Ave
In the thought-provoking historical novel "The Butcher on Colfax Ave", working-class people struggle in a changing world. In J. T. Tierney’s dynamic historical novel "The Butcher on Colfax Ave", people in late nineteenth-century...
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54 Miles
Family wounds are reopened in Leonard Pitts Jr.’s gripping historical novel "54 Miles", a coming-of-age story set during the civil rights movement. Adam was raised in New York by his attentive white father and somewhat distant Black...
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Rare Birds
A woman learns about her frightening family connection to gods and demons in L. B. Hazelthorn’s novel "Rare Birds". Rom knows almost nothing about her grandfather, Jasper, save that he was obsessed with the supernatural—or...
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Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene
by Meg Nola
"Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene" looks beyond the monolithic perception of the climate crisis and presents a methodology of observing and identifying socioecological “patches” of human-effected change. Coauthored by the...
