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The saying goes that "God only gives you what you can handle." Well God didn't grow up in my atheist, Wiccan, fame-laden, oversexed, teetotalling, drug-free, cloistered, chaotic, non-communicative, workaholic, feral-feeling house.' For Moon Unit, daughter of musician Frank Zappa and his...

This haunting memoir tells the brutal story of the Vietnam War from the perspective of an innocent victim whose childhood was dominated by violence, devastation, and conflicts between the teachings of her culture and the realities of war. Le Ly Hayslip—the youngest in a close-knit Buddhist family—was 12 years old when U.S. helicopters landed in her village. She was raped and "ruined" for marriage by Viet Cong soldiers, imprisoned and tortured by the South Vietnamese, and sentenced to death by the Viet Cong.

The astonishing first-person account of Mississippi pioneer woman struggling to survive, protect her family, and make a home in the early American South. Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 - c.1936) began recording her experiences in the backwoods of the Mississippi Delta. The...

Read by the author, A Year on Earth With Mr. Hell is the critically acclaimed début memoir by Young Kim. The book explores a liberated woman’s erotic experience in a clandestine affair without the clichéd political and cultural stereotypes of modern gender roles. It has garnered accolades from none other than The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Times London, Bret Easton Ellis, Nick Hornby, Edmund White, Greil Marcus, Rachel Seville Tashjian, Matthew D’Ancona, Liya Kebede, and Michael Bracewell.

Susan Huckle is your typical homeschooled '90s kid in an End Times-obsessed Pentecostal Christian church on California's central coast. She's ready for the Rapture (any day now!) but wonders why God hasn't healed her dad yet from a paralyzing stroke.

We come from a Source that is rooted in the stars - but we’re planted on the Earth, with all of its loneliness and grief. So, how can we find our way back to that original wellspring? With her teachings that weave together the psychological and spiritual dimensions of life, Annette Hulefeld is a spiritual mentor for the modern age.

L. Annette Binder’s Child of Earth and Starry Heaven is a memoir of motherhood, memory and memory loss. It looks to mythology, science, poetry, history, and fiction to find beauty and meaning even as Annette’s mother succumbs to Alzheimer’s disease. Sad and joyous, the book is a meditation on what makes us human.

In When Heaven Touches Earth, Alisha Landes invites you on a deeply personal and spiritual journey that explores the mysterious intersection between the heavenly and the earthly. Drawing from her own life experiences — including sacred moments at her mother’s deathbed and encounters during worship that felt like glimpses of glory — Alisha weaves together scripture, testimony, and reflection to reveal how heaven often breaks through the veil of this world.

In The Seventh Generation Blessing, Chaplain Dr. Shirley Mower Canniff uncovers a divine inheritance hidden across centuries — a legacy that began with her ancestor, Rev. Freeborn Garrettson, the 18th-century Methodist reformer and abolitionist whose faith ignited revival and whose prophecy declared that a female descendant would one day continue his mission.

In Brenda Peterson's unusual memoir, fundementalism meets deep ecology. The author's childhood in the high Sierra with her forest ranger father led her to embrace the entire natural world, while her Southern Baptist relatives prepared eagerly and busily to leave this world.

A dramatic search of self-reconnection and renewal in life’s many transitions and the transformative power of pilgrimage. For Maryanna Gabriel, the unexpected death of her artistic mother would change everything. She needed answers, not from others, but from herself. Leaving her forest home on Salt Spring Island, in Western Canada, she travels to Europe on a life-altering solo trek of 800 kilometers from France to Santiago, in Spain.