In the musing novel "Shadows on the Moon", a veteran searches for his place in the world after surviving the personal and collective trauma of war. Peter Freeman Vantu’s spiritual novel "Shadows on the Moon" seeks to understand the... Read More

Karen Vermeulen’s graphic memoir "Good Luck to Us All" is a funny, honest account of an “imperfect” life marked by foibles and follies. An unwanted pregnancy, a bad relationship, an unruly cat, and aging are among the problems... Read More

In You Don’t Need to Forgive, trauma psychotherapist Amanda Ann Gregory challenges the assumption that forgiveness is a requirement for recovery. Drawing on Gregory’s dual experiences as a clinician and a survivor of childhood abuse... Read More

The lyrical, hard-hitting essays in Catherine Coleman Flowers’s collection "Holy Ground" synthesize history, science, and faith. The recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant” for her environmental activism, Flowers spent decades... Read More

In Sergei Lebedev’s harrowing novel "The Lady of the Mine", murdered souls buried in an abandoned Ukrainian coal mine haunt the country’s emerging conflict with Russia. In 2014, Zhanna leaves college to care for her ailing mother,... Read More

"Never Home" is a sensitive photographic homage to those who died in World Wars I and II. Photographer and navy veteran Richard Sherman’s moving photography collection "Never Home" is about the sacrifices of US citizens and allies who... Read More

Elegiac in tone, Jessica Kirkness’s "The House with All the Lights On" is a touching family memoir in which language and technology enable connections with deaf grandparents. Kirkness grew up next door to her grandparents, immigrants... Read More

In "Healing Psychedelics", therapist Micah Stover presents a self-help guide to the benefits and encouraging results of psychedelic-assisted therapy, even with treatment-resistant anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Covering the history of... Read More