B. Lou Guckian unflinchingly tells her story from an abused childhood to a broken person to healing in Heart Knocks: From Strayed to Straight, a searing memoir. Her childhood memories maintain the image of a mother with mental illness and a father who prided himself...

Jojo Asi’s Clarity over Doubt takes on the issue of professionals whose private thought patterns begin quietly affecting every part of daily life. Michael cannot stop replaying earlier mistakes during major projects, while designer Sarah begins interpreting silence from clients as hidden rejection. Asi leans...

In Your Animal, Your Soul Mirror, Tammy Billups shares the connection between unresolved emotional pain in humans and behavioral reactions in animals. She argues that survival responses formed during early experiences continue shaping daily life long after the original harm disappears from conscious memory. Billups...

Stacie Webb's Breaking the Chain: Cutting Toxic Family Ties & Reclaiming Your Life addresses an ailment that plagues many people but that many hardly talk about. It is the hurt that people endure because of toxic relationships that can result from dysfunctional family dynamics, unhealthy...

The Rule of Three by Jennifer Granville is a heartwarming, humorous tale of betrayal and revenge. Julia Bennett has discovered her husband’s affair. They’ve been married for 25 years, and he’s decided it’s time for a younger model. What’s a girl to do? Discover herself,...

In Rivers and Forests, Wayne Westphal Barrow’s anthology of original essays leans into Caribbean life. Barrow's memories become a way for him to show wider social attitudes through familiar situations. Getting Older and the Benefits of Gardening follows a retired Barbadian man who slowly withdraws...

From Coercion to Courage takes a hard look at how manipulation gradually changes the way victims interpret their lives until obedience begins feeling safer than resistance. Dr. Stevie Carnegie takes her personal experience and puts it next to the Epstein files, telling us that coercion...

Chiwueze Ihebuzor's Ndáwí: A Story That Refused to Be Silenced is a son's journey to reconstruct the life of his mother, Cordelia Ndáwí Ihebuzor, and the history surrounding her death in 1990. Raised inside a polygamous Igbo household shaped by hierarchy and unresolved resentment, Cordelia...

Dr. Rick Bein’s Eat or Be Eaten follows a continuing argument about the future of human life on a damaged planet. Drawing from decades spent beside farming communities, he examines the belief that nature survives best when people are connected to the land that feeds...

Art Phinney’s Live & Learn: Learn & Live follows his movement from a fatherless childhood in Oakland toward a renewed Christian faith shaped by the people who entered his life at pivotal moments. As a boy living with his single mother, Art receives a horrible...