Helen Hamilton Gardener may be the most famous suffrage activist you’ve never heard of, and Free Thinker is the compelling narrative of her life.
The uniquely structured debut book from CBS news correspondent Conor Knighton is part travel monologue, part heartfelt, healing memoir.
The Future We Choose is indeed a climate change manifesto, but a hopeful one that acknowledges difficult realities while refusing to sink beneath them.
In How to Be a Conscious Eater, Sophie Egan takes a deeper look at the personal and global effects of ethical eating.
The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness is a stirring, inspiring rallying cry and an engaging, harrowing and often hilarious personal story.
The essays in Constellations will make you feel grateful to artists and writers who have transfigured their bodily suffering into a sacred creative release.
Samantha Irby writes stunningly astute, hilarious essays about topics both serious (becoming a stepmother) and less so (her slightly lazy beauty rituals).
Bart D. Ehrman details the development of our ideas of heaven and hell and tells how they evolved in response to different cultural and historical crises.
At the center of Hidden Valley Road are 12 children, six schizophrenia diagnoses and two parents navigating a meager mental health care system in America.
In an elegant blend of literary criticism and personal memoir, Mark Doty chronicles his deeply personal relationship to the work of Walt Whitman.
Across Israel and Palestine, Northern Ireland and South Africa, McRay regales us with spellbinding narratives that illustrate the power of stories to reconcile.
Kreis Beall, who helped create Blackberry Farm, one of the South’s most heavenly resorts, explores in lyrical prose what happens when her life falls apart.
Kisner’s essays reflect on Kierkegaard, her early Christian conversion and waiting for the subway to guide us through our own emptiness in search of fullness.
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