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

The secrets of communication and cooperation among trees and their fungal and faunal allies are revealed in the graphic adaptation of Peter Wohlleben’s memoir "The Hidden Life of Trees". Wohlleben, who worked as a forester, narrates,... Read More

Alexandra Furnea links the nightmarish suffering of burn victims to the pervasive impacts of statewide corruption in "Diary of 66", her memoir about surviving the 2015 Colectiv Club fire. Widespread bribery throughout Romania meant that... Read More