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  • Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women

    Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women

    Film critic and food writer Alissa Wilkinson sits down with a hypothetical table of smart, engaging, revolutionary women of the twentieth century to explore the ways food centered each woman's creative work. As we meet these multifaceted women, we learn how to live with courage, smarts, saltiness, and sometimes feasting--even in uncertain times.

    9781506473550

    $25.99

  • You Mean It or You Don't: James Baldwin's Radical Challenge

    You Mean It or You Don't: James Baldwin's Radical Challenge

    It is not enough to hold progressive views on racial justice, LGBTQ+ identity, and economic inequality. Through a rich examination of James Baldwin's writing and interviews, You Mean It or You Don't spurs today's progressives from conviction to action, from dreaming of justice to living it out in our communities, churches, and neighborhoods.

    9781506478944

    $24.99

  • All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak: A Funeral Director on Life, Death, and the Hereafter

    All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak: A Funeral Director on Life, Death, and the Hereafter

    What if our dead remain with us? What if the hereafter intersects with the here and now? In All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak, sixth-generation funeral director Caleb Wilde takes readers on a lyrical, tender quest to encounter the hereafter. Through stories of grieving family members who remain, we witness the thin places between life and death.

    9781506471617

    $26.99

  • More of You: The Fat Girl's Field Guide to the Modern World

    More of You: The Fat Girl's Field Guide to the Modern World

    In More of You Amanda Martinez Beck gives fellow fat women who have been pushed to the margins of acceptance hard-won wisdom on how to thrive. This book will challenge the status quo, teaching readers to resist shame and guilt and instead to embrace their bodies, take up space, and learn to navigate the world in ways that allow them to flourish.

    9781506474243

    $24.99

  • It's Not You, It's Everything: What Our Pain Reveals about the Anxious Pursuit of the Good Life

    It's Not You, It's Everything: What Our Pain Reveals about the Anxious Pursuit of the Good Life

    What if trying to conform to a sick culture is making us sick? It's Not You, It's Everything is an incisive, impertinent, and witty inquiry into the anxious pursuit of happiness. Psychotherapist Eric Minton helps readers rethink everything we thought we knew about God, depression, and culture to find a radical "okayness" that will set us free.

    9781506471914

    $24.99

  • Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible

    Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible

    In 1940, just before the Nazis banned him from publishing, Dietrich Bonhoeffer published this book of reflections on the Psalms. Now with an introduction by Walter Brueggemann and excerpts from the Psalms, this classic reveals the Psalms as essential to the life of the believer and offers wisdom for living today.

    9781506480190

    $15.99

  • Gutsy: Mindfulness Practices for Everyday Bravery

    Gutsy: Mindfulness Practices for Everyday Bravery

    Women are too often trained out of feeling confident in the wisdom we hold inside. Drawing on her clinical experience and her personal story of leaving her ultra-Orthodox Jewish faith and culture, Dr. Leah Katz shows us how to set aside unrealistic expectations and trust our inner wisdom, making brave leaps in the search for fulfillment.

    9781506481647

    $26.99

  • The Mindful Grandparent: The Art of Loving Our Children's Children

    The Mindful Grandparent: The Art of Loving Our Children's Children

    Grandparenting is a sacred, challenging, and sometimes bewildering calling. As educators, writers, and grandmothers with twelve grandchildren between them, Marilyn McEntyre and Shirley Showalter team up to share practices, tips, and ideas for grandparenting with intention and grace.

    9781506468068

    $26.99

  • Saints of Feather and Fang: How the Animals We Love and Fear Connect Us to God

    Saints of Feather and Fang: How the Animals We Love and Fear Connect Us to God

    In Saints of Feather and Fang, writer and lifelong animal lover Caryn Rivadeneira explores the ways that animals--from the pets in our homes to the mysterious creatures of the deep--serve as spiritual guides for our hearts, minds, and souls. Rivadeneira offers whimsical and theological reflections on delight, instinct, adaptation, fear, and awe.

    9781506472089

    $22.99

  • Stepmother: Redeeming a Disdained Vocation

    Stepmother: Redeeming a Disdained Vocation

    Every year more American women become stepmothers, just as Dorothy Bass did. In Stepmother, Bass explores the complicated, and oft-maligned, role. Brimming with practical insights from sociology, history, and clinical studies, Stepmother points readers to the central necessary work--the work done in our own heart--so we can find grace and peace.

    9781506478678

    $26.99

  • Blessings for the Long Night: Poems and Meditations to Help You through Depression

    Blessings for the Long Night: Poems and Meditations to Help You through Depression

    A beautiful collection of poems and meditations for those experiencing the long night of depression, when the days and weeks can feel like an eternity. Jessica Kantrowitz's moving poetry acknowledges the pain and relentlessness of depression and offers gentle presence and hope. You are not alone, you are loved, and this will not last forever.

    9781506480398

    $18.99

  • After Trauma: Lessons on Overcoming from a First Responder Turned Crisis Counselor

    After Trauma: Lessons on Overcoming from a First Responder Turned Crisis Counselor

    We all have the ability to redefine ourselves, to feel hope about what lies ahead, and to choose our own way forward. After Trauma is a story of adversity, grit, defiance, choice, and hope. Each chapter offers a lesson to help readers overcome their own trauma, including concrete and actionable advice on how to re-story a life after adversity.

    9781506480633

    $24.99

  • This Book Won't Make You Happy: Eight Keys to Finding True Contentment

    This Book Won't Make You Happy: Eight Keys to Finding True Contentment

    Happiness is fleeting. And what if you don't even need it to live a life of peace and purpose? Therapist Niro Feliciano says contentment is a deeper, more satisfying state of living, and something we can all achieve through eight research-based postures for cultivating balance and calm.

    9781506480411

    $27.99

  • Body Becoming: A Path to Our Liberation

    Body Becoming: A Path to Our Liberation

    Activist and public theologian Robyn Henderson-Espinoza inhabits a trans, nonbinary, multiracial body--a body continually in discovery. Drawing from their own body story with the theory and practice of bodywork, they lead us to discover embodiment as the primary place of deep wisdom and a powerful tool to create lasting social change.

    9781506473574

    $27.99

  • Take What You Need: Life Lessons after Losing Everything

    Take What You Need: Life Lessons after Losing Everything

    As Jen Crow and her family sifted through the rubble of a house fire, the mantra "Take what you need and leave the rest behind" took on a new meaning. By turns a survival guide and a spiritual companion, this book offers hope, humor, and real-life spiritual tools to help us meet the hardest moments of our lives and take only what we truly need.

    9781506468617

    $24.99

  • Unbossed: How Black Girls Are Leading the Way

    Unbossed: How Black Girls Are Leading the Way

    Black girls are leading the way. They are starting nonprofits. Promoting diverse literature. Fighting cancer. Improving water quality. Working to prevent gun violence. From Khristi Lauren Adams, author of the celebrated Parable of the Brown Girl, comes Unbossed, a hopeful and riveting introduction to eight young Black leaders.

    9781506474267

    $18.99

  • It Starts with You: How Imperfect Parents Can Find Calm and Connection with Their Kids

    It Starts with You: How Imperfect Parents Can Find Calm and Connection with Their Kids

    In It Starts with You, marriage and family therapist and parent coach Nicole Schwarz introduces parents to the importance of having a calm brain, connected relationships, respectful conversations, and a coaching mindset. Our kids do not need perfect parents, but parents who are willing to learn and grow with them.

    9781506472478

    $17.99

  • A Complicated Choice: Making Space for Grief and Healing in the Pro-Choice Movement

    A Complicated Choice: Making Space for Grief and Healing in the Pro-Choice Movement

    Abortion stigma is ubiquitous, even among those who identify as pro-choice. A Complicated Choice offers a call to progressive people of faith to center the lived experiences of people who have abortions. In so doing, Rev. Katey Zeh opens us to the complexities of our reproductive lives and invites us to a spiritual response rooted in compassion.

    9781506473499

    $26.99

  • Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman's Journey with Depression and Faith

    Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman's Journey with Depression and Faith

    Both a spiritual autobiography and a memoir of mental illness, Biploar Faith examines how the legacies of slavery, war, sharecropping, poverty, and alcoholism mask a family history of mental illness. In gripping fashion Monica A. Coleman tells the story of learning to live faithfully with bipolar disorder and discovering a liberating vision of God.

    9781506480756

    $19.99

  • Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11

    Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11

    In this powerful book, Dr. Maha Hilal tells the story of two decades of the War on Terror, through both an overview of the policies created under its umbrella and the lived realities of Muslim Americans who have experienced hate and discrimination as a result.

    9781506470467

    $29.99

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