Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See by Frank Harmon is a fascinating book that will give a new perspective on the places we come from and the lives we lead. The author helps us realize that home is just not the place we...

Above the Best: The Remarkable Life of Seeley E. Ralphs by DM Coffman tells the inspiring story of Seeley Ralphs, an adventurous man who graduated from the California Highway Patrol Academy, a father who embraced a way of life that set him on a path...

A collection of essays is far from what I would usually choose to read, but a title like Empty the Pews was irresistible. This collection, edited by Chrissy Stroop and Lauren O’Neal, had to have something to do with organized religion...one of my biggest personal...

The Journey of a Wounded Healer: The Mystical Web of Mental Illness and Spirituality by Carol L. Chambers is a memoir and spiritual odyssey that can be summarized in the author’s own words: “My journey has been mysterious, wild, and liberating! My spiritual pathways have...

Practice Makes PURPOSE: Six Spiritual Practices that Will Change Your Life and Transform Your Community by C. Paul Schroeder proposes a path that helps readers to be more human, to unlock the floodgates of joy and happiness and create a life of meaning. This author...

Betrayal comes in all shapes and sizes. After reading Kathryn Taylor's Two Minus One: A Memoir, I am pretty confident that there is no easy way to separate an honest person from a dishonest one. Jim said all the right words and stood by Kathryn...

When God Calls by Dawn Thomas is a book that will help anyone who is suffering from grief or personal loss. A death in the family can have a serious impact on the lives of everyone, but the people closest to them have the hardest...

Paddle for a Purpose is a work of memoir non-fiction penned by author Barb Geiger. Following an incredible ambition and the heartfelt journey that it inspired along the way, this book tracks the progress of Barb and her husband Gene as they embark on a...

The Ache of Healing: 105 Sonnets of Love and Contemplation by Christine Maalouf Abi Najm is a book of poems that is divided into four categories. The four categories are Roses and Prickles, Spirits and Souls, Places and Contemplation. She uses these to show different...

Picking Up The Shards by Anita M. Oommen is a poignant memoir that throws light on the author's traumatic experience of being rejected and abandoned by her mother and how she found solace in God during her times of trouble and struggle. The betrayal that...