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...

The Path of Least Regret by Parul Somani is a deeply personal guide to making hard decisions with clarity instead of certainty. Somani opens with the moment her own life was upended: a breast cancer diagnosis just days after giving birth, and the discovery that...

In Be Selfish: Live the Golden Rule, Richard Gephardt, a former congressman, writes about a lesson his mother taught him as a child: treat others the way you would like to be treated. Her advice is part of the Golden Rule. He says she believed...

Did you know that jellyfish's bodies are 98% water? Or the fact that 70% of our own body mass is water? Why is ice lighter than liquid water? In The Mystery of Water, physicist Dr. Johanna Blomqvist offers readers a range of varied perspectives on...

A M Lavender’s The Permission Slip follows the period after the life the author has spent holding together finally breaks apart. In August 2025, secret gambling and debt have driven his wife from the house, and he is left alone trying to look functional while...

Heroes, Hope, and Healing -- Accepting Your Inner Daredevil by Kenneth Rogers Jr. uses Marvel's Daredevil as a framework for understanding and healing from adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Rogers draws a careful parallel between Matt Murdock's origins, a boy in Hell's Kitchen raised by a...

The Character Route Tree is a self-help memoir with author Marc R Schneider’s account of growing up in a household shaped by his mother Kiki’s anger, his father’s silence, and the fear rituals Schneider used to feel safe. His memoir traces the effect of that...

Embodied Grace by Stacey Webb begins with a moonlit night in India, where Webb hears a call to stop withholding love from herself. From that moment, the author presents grace as something the body can receive before the mind has words for it. The guide...

Candace Plattor’s Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself begins inside the disorder created when addiction takes over a relationship. Plattor shows how the loved one can become trapped in secrecy while rescue begins to pass for love. Greg’s cocaine use moves from party behavior into daily...

Leading Without Shrinking by Dr. Jessica Saulsberry is a well-written book that discusses a common challenge most leaders, business professionals, and executives struggle with: a pattern of shrinking themselves and gradually moving away from who they are. These patterns occur in three forms, which include...