Making My Way by Damaris Melo-Gyasi is an inspiring story that follows the journey of a Brazilian girl with a dream of becoming an architect. After seeing an architect discussing a plan for her family’s future home with her parents, Damaris decided she was going...

Mixtape: A Memoir by Johnzelle Anderson tells the story of a life through music, memory, and hard-earned self-understanding. Structured as a playlist, the book unfolds track by track, beginning with Anderson’s birth in Roanoke, Virginia, and the complicated family world that surrounds him. Early chapters...

The Purple Pill: How to Balance Success in a Divided World presents Kiani Mills’s account of realizing that her life was shaped by learned patterns absorbed long before she could evaluate them. She describes how early conditioning guided her toward functioning efficiently in social and...

In No Name Bastard, Tori DaCosta talks about how a person learns compliance long before understanding choice, and how that habit endures across a lifetime. DaCosta traces a pattern that begins with a childhood injury caused by proceeding despite doubt, and how similar moments recur...

Music defines us in ways we often don’t appreciate to the fullest. Music is history in sound, history that is heard and shared, and history that is a reflection of who we are. In Terry Blade’s Of Bloodlines and Blue Notes, the author shares his...

Little Deaths All in a Row by Elizabeth Earley surprised me in ways I never expected with its depth and the author’s ability to communicate complex thoughts so that readers not only understand but also enjoy it. The author examines the paradoxical relationship between sex...

In his self-help book Deleting Anxiety: Why Your Anxiety Is Lying to You and How to Push Back by Brian J. Fernandez, LMFT, anxiety is described as a survival alarm, misapplied in settings where it is wholly unnecessary. Fernandez explains how the brain converts the...

A Brief Letter of Love and Grief to the Cat I’ve Lost by Michael Koehn is about the part of his life he shared with his beloved Snowflake. He talks about how the death of Snowflake altered his understanding of attachment and loss. Koehn traces...

The In-Between: Living Through the Collapse of the Old Social Contract by E. Imboden is a book for today. It attempts to analyze why the world is in a state of chaos right now. The Old Order, as so many of us knew it, had...

Michael LeBlanc's What If Anger Is the Answer? A Harvard Marine's Guide to Shaping Aggression is an intense look at how we view aggression. He basically argues that instead of just suppressing anger, we should be using it as a tool for a stronger...