Steve Kanji Ruhl’s "Appalachian Zen" is a memoir about a Buddhist awakening. Ruhl grew up in a trailer park in Appalachia with a deep yearning to be somewhere else. He began to practice Zen Buddhism, viewing it as a welcome contrast to... Read More

A Kiowa woman returns to her Oklahoma reservation in D. M. Rowell’s ominous novel "Never Name the Dead". Summoned home by an unusual phone call, Mud takes leave from her Silicon Valley job to meet her grandfather, James. James is a... Read More

Sophie Strand’s insightful spirituality book "The Flowering Wand" gives men an alternative to toxic masculinity by mining the myths and legends of the past. Strand notes that the treatment of masculinity in contemporary society is... Read More

In Dennis Must’s intriguing novel "MacLeish Sq.", illusion challenges reality and invades the unsettled past. John just bought an old farmhouse in his New England hometown. He left this “mostly desolate” place at eighteen, yet as... Read More

In Zein El-Amine’s short story collection "Is This How You Eat a Watermelon?", the Lebanese civil war leads to disrupted lives and ghost sightings. Herein, war is more complicated than mere acts of violence. Enemy drones hover above... Read More

Enter the heart of the home to find solace and self-love through Jules Blaine Davis’s New Age book "The Kitchen Healer". Though it contains some recipes, this is not a cookbook, but rather a cooking book. It is a guide to feeling at... Read More

Dee M. Robinson’s authoritative book "Courage by Design" provides a framework for shaping a person’s working life. The book outlines eleven “commandments” for choosing courage over fear in both professional and personal settings.... Read More

Steven Washington’s tender text "Recovering You" merges traditional and modern practices into a holistic approach to recovering from addiction. Trained in traditional Chinese medicine, Washington used qigong, a system of movements and... Read More