The Healing Heart by A. L. Whyte is a haunting, inspiring spiritual odyssey that examines Mike Smith’s journey toward healing from trauma and pain. Mike Smith is a charismatic seminar leader who was severely abused as a child and suffered the loss of his brother,...

Dale Zurawski’s The Travel Bitch: Bouncing Across the Globe on a Bipolar High really begins after an Amazon trip sends her back to childhood, in a home changed by her father’s death. Later, a bipolar diagnosis gives a name to the behavior that had already...

Swimming Upstream: The Little Tennessee Valley Educational Cooperative by Jerry Morton is a candid and absorbing memoir about one man's decades-long effort to build something that had never existed before in rural East Tennessee. In 1973, Morton, a freshly minted doctoral school psychologist, was hired...

I expected to find a compendium of philosophical sayings and thoughts in B. R. Jallipalli's Waves of Thoughts: Thoughts That Changed the World, but discovered something meticulous and thoughtful. It is a book that shows how thought evolved from the time of primitive survival to...

Listening to Chopin While Fighting Nazis by Alex Charns brings together a novella and a memoir about a Polish-American family's multigenerational battle against fascism. The first part, Twenty Angels on Her Roof, is a fictional story set during World War II in Poland. It follows...

Chad K. Smith’s Resilient Mental Health for Teens is a practical self-help guide designed to help teenagers navigate social media spaces and master emotional control. The book explains the "white bear effect" to show why suppressing negative emotions backfires. It also uses an Emotion Wheel...

The Department of Obvious Reforms by Ram Rajcoomar is a manifesto on how to turn public policy into a simple exchange between state and citizen: reduce public cost, then receive public reward. Ram builds that case through reforms that treat responsibility as something recorded, priced,...

Alesa Lightbourne’s Bad Ass Grandma: Living Large, Finding Awe redefines what it means for an older woman to be Bad Ass after all the former trappings of the rat race begin to lose their old authority. Lightbourne shows that this identity is not built through...

How we see the world around us is reflected in the way we live our lives. One Minute Motivation for Mindset is a practical self-help guide to help readers avoid the pitfalls of negative thinking, false narratives, self-doubt, and fear. Through one-minute affirmations and motivational...

Always Here — When a Dog Dies by Jesse Kuhn is a helpful guide for anyone grieving the loss of their beloved dog. When one loses a pet, things change. Other people may not notice the change in routines, the nervous system trying to adjust...