Have you tried true Japanese cuisine? Have you wondered about its simplicity? In fact, as Aurelian Marchesi explains in The Logic of Japanese Cuisine, it’s actually refined, possibly described as minimalist. When presented with the fine makings of Japanese cuisine, one might feel the quantity...

Helena Blavatsky (1831 - 1891) was a Russian mystic, spiritualist, and philosopher who based her writings on the teachings of Tibetan sages. Although guided by eastern practices, she struck a harmonious balance between east and west that remains relevant to this day. Her better-known publications...

Behind The Torn Veil by Itotko argues that many biblical disputes come from treating scripture as a record of physical events instead of a symbolic account of spiritual reality. Itotko revisits key passages that readers often quote as literal fact and tests them for internal...

Life is full of twists and turns, ups and downs. How do we manage unexpectedly anxious moments? Unexpected Aldars is written by a group of authors called Oakland Community's Unexpected Altars. One of the many contributing authors, Brian Greenfield, writes comparatively about how life is...

Michal Mendelsohn’s Rabbi, Your Cleavage Is Showing is a memoir that traces an extraordinary and unconventional path from a turbulent childhood to a historic role in North American Jewish life. Mendelsohn introduces herself as a young girl growing up in Manhattan, shaped by isolation, family...

Fragments of Self: A Constellation of Being by Susan A. Knight is a collection of poems, short stories, and essays that explore identity and human connection. The book is divided into three main parts called Existence, Fractures, and Beautiful Encounters. In the first part, the...

Carry the Cross with Padre Pio by Susan De Bartoli is a Catholic daily devotional meant for the Lenten season. The book is set up by weeks and days, slowly guiding the reader through Lent using reflections taken from the life of St. Padre Pio....

What Does Jesus See in You? by Coleen Aquino and Conrad Aquino isn’t a typical 20-day devotional. It’s more of a guided journey into how we view ourselves versus how Jesus actually sees us. The book is built on the idea that most of us...

With the dawn of the digital age, the world is changing so fast that we need a new way of understanding Black theology in the context of its three permutations: the humanist, the liberationist, and the prosperity. In Demystifying God Remastered, author Shahidi Islam introduces...

Biblical Evolution: Reconciling Science and the Bible by Bill Thormodson is a fascinating book that seeks to reconcile the Bible and science from the standpoint of a lay enthusiast. The author discusses the origins of the universe and Earth, comparing passages from Genesis with scientific...