Take It To The House by Shae Pratcher begins with Jordan receiving a message from Danielle, a woman who says she did not know Marcus had a fiancée. One sentence turns Jordan’s home life into something different, especially when Marcus’s first answers leave her feeling...

In Keith Thorn’s Worth the Trade, time is the currency behind every decision. Thorn begins with money because it is the cost people count, then changes the question from what a thing costs to what it asks of a life. A possession has a receipt,...

Relationships can be complicated. Couples in the modern era are prone to all sorts of relationship problems. According to veteran couple therapist Jake Thiessen, working on "Tiny Shifts" can go a long way in ensuring healthy, long-lasting relationships between couples. Alongside illustrations by Robinson Smith,...

In Rise and Climb, Ben Barbic looks back on a childhood shaped by his father’s motorcycle world in the Santa Cruz Mountains, where racing trophies made ambition feel almost normal. A wildfire destroys the family home when he is five, then the Loma Prieta earthquake...

The original five "love languages" gave couples tools to understand each other's needs. That traditional framework also encouraged intentional acts of kindness between them. But according to Dr. A.M. Benjamin, the framework had its limitations. He has come up with a newer version of that...

The Communal Heart: A Return to Belonging in a World Pulling Us Apart by Claudia Dommaschk offers hope for our fragmented world. Using her knowledge and experience as a marriage and family therapist, Dommaschk presents a multi-faceted look at what prevents us from creating community...

Belle Gayer’s Are Relationships For Suckers? delivers a heart-to-heart roadmap designed to help people navigate the complex world of long-term romance. She takes thousands of real-world internet questions and shapes them into a guide that targets why popular dating tips fail so miserably. Instead of...

We always hear that men don't like to talk about their feelings. According to veteran therapist Barry Johnson, men are emotionally under-practiced because they have been taught not to "open up" and thus end up keeping their feelings bottled up. In Just Standing Here, Johnson...

In Cassandra's Daughter, author Destiny Arnold tells the true story of her mother through her own perspective. Her mother, Cassandra, was only fourteen years of age when she gave birth to Destiny. Her father was seventeen. Because of her young age, Cassandra didn't really know...

In To Me You See by Leo and Debbie Hamblin is a bold, unconventional memoir about two people who found each other as teenagers in 1979 in Monett, Missouri, lost each other to life, religion, marriages, and distance, and then found each other again nearly...