"Meditation: Liberation or Attachment?" is a thorough spiritual guide for gaining experiential insight into the nature of the world and one’s limiting mental patterns and perspectives. Bhikkhu Nyānadassana’s comprehensive guide to... Read More

Oscillating between piquing ideas and warm memories with abandon, "Life Sucks" is a charming essay collection. PS Conway’s introspective, gracious essay collection "Life Sucks" concentrates on childhood memories and popular culture.... Read More

"Such a Pretty Picture" is a shocking memoir about surviving sexual abuse. Andrea Leeb’s powerful memoir "Such a Pretty Picture" explicates the long-term consequences of and process of recovery from abuse. As a graduate student and... Read More

Focusing on hope and resilience in the face of terminal illnesses, "Last Nerve" is a compelling memoir. Mindy Uhrlaub’s revealing memoir "Last Nerve" is about living with a deadly neurodegenerative disease. The book begins in medias... Read More

A fortunate couple is tapped to help fight against climate change in the idealized romantic thriller "The Fulcrum". In Michael Decter’s romantic thriller "The Fulcrum", an academic couple is tasked with safeguarding against climate... Read More

Couples therapist Isabelle Morley’s enlightening relationship guide They’re Not Gaslighting You is about understanding human behavior through a clinical lens. Addressing the widespread inappropriate use of clinical terminology in... Read More

In Shokoofeh Azar’s intricate fabulistic novel "The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen", an Iranian girl comes of age in a time of war. When a gowkaran tree—likened to the Tree of Life, though no one seems certain about its... Read More

Soon-to-be mothers struggle with cult brainwashing in Alexandria Faulkenbury’s question-filled novel "Somewhere Past the End". Disowned after her teenage pregnancy, Teresa finds a new family with Richmond and his alternative religious... Read More