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...

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...

Patricia Mortlock loves animals. She tells about their lives in much the same way as the Chicken Soup animal-lover stories. Animals Speak: Communication with Animals - Both Living and in Spirit is different from Chicken Soup in one important aspect: Mortlock is an 'intuitive.' You...

The Shining Within Me: Communications from the Afterlife is a spiritualist memoir written by Freddie Rivera. Rivera grew up sensing, hearing and even seeing presences as a young child. At first, he thought that this was something everyone experienced, but later he came to see...

Why Don't We Listen Better? Communicating & Connecting in Relationships by Dr. James C. Petersen is a self help guide to sharpening communication skills. This book is drawn from both personal experience and the study of communication. Dr. James C. Petersen has worked with several...

Beyond Earth Through Heaven's Gates: Communications and Insights from Our Spiritual World by Ward Edward Barcafer, Jr. is a spiritual book that is mind-blowing, uplifting, and filled with hope, a book that reassures readers that there is life beyond death and a whole universe beyond...

Spirit Baby: Communicate With Your Unborn Baby. Ease Your Birth by Helena Clare is a non-fiction spiritual guide to assist parents in connecting with the child who selects them as their own prior to and during the stages of pregnancy and birth. Clare structures the...

With the rise of social media and the internet, it feels like there has been an exacerbation of underlying hostility among people who refuse to simmer down anytime soon. In this modern era, communication is critical to bridging relationships and reaching across the political spectrum...

The Power of the Question by Michael S. Phillips is a self-help guide that aims to help readers get better at connecting with people by staying curious and actually listening in the moment. The author discusses the importance of emotional self-awareness and how different experiences...

Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?: Amazing Brain. Human Communication, Creativity and Free Will by James Tagg is a scientific treatise written in a wonderfully entertaining way that can reach the lay person. Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? is a book that explores the human mind...

Analyze, Act, Advance by Agustin Argelich is an insightful and helpful book of thoughts which is a compendium of both technical training and self-taught humanism. The book has four sections: The Challenge, Obstacles and barriers to be overcome, Strategies and available tools, and The Life...

Fag Hags, Divas and Moms: The Legacy of Straight Women in the AIDS Community by Victoria Noe throws light on the straight women who have had HIV/AIDS and their stories, struggles, and challenges which have often been pushed aside by focusing more on stories from...

Speaking With the Heart by Dr. Heather Browne, PsyD, LMFT provides insights on how to save your marriage. Browne gets to the heart of communication, stripping it down to its essentials. With each chapter, you become more aware of yourself, your strengths, your shortcomings, your...

Do you ever wonder if animals have souls? And just where did your furry friend go when he or she passed away? In her book "Other Nations", author Elizabeth Eiler takes us on a journey to the spiritual life of animals. Some of the things...

Shut Up and Talk - An Effective Guide to Communication Skills by Bill Calhoun is a helpful guide to anyone looking to improve their communication skills. The book describes the importance of having good basic communication skills and offers excellent advice on how to improve...

Telling your story and receiving the attention that your non-profit organization deserves is a combination of art and proven scientific methods. Ben DeLaney, in Ben DeLaney’s Non-Profit Marketing Handbook demonstrates how utilizing some of the best practices of for-profit marketing campaigns also works very well...

Faith is described in the book of Hebrews as "the substance of things hoped for" and "the evidence of things not seen." In The Evidence of Things Unseen: Faith Revealed in a Family, in a Community and a Nation, Jerry Aveta describes it as the...

Saving Bobby: Heroes and Heroin in One Small Community by Renee Hodges is an insightful book for all readers who deal with people with addiction. Bobby’s story is heartrending and chronicles his journey from an addict having suicidal tendencies to getting himself back on track....

Colette McNeil is an author with over twenty years of experience in teaching children with autism and related disorders between the ages of three to twenty-two. She shares her vast knowledge regarding how carefully selected words, when used in communication, can build the relationship between...

Practice Makes PURPOSE: Six Spiritual Practices that Will Change Your Life and Transform Your Community by C. Paul Schroeder proposes a path that helps readers to be more human, to unlock the floodgates of joy and happiness and create a life of meaning. This author...