The subtitle is A Guide to What Matters which captures why this is an important book. It's based on the course at Yale University that's received a lot of media attention, and I think it's worthwhile to check in on the decisions we make about how we want to live our lives.
What kind of life would be truly worth wanting? What kind of world would be truly worth seeking? How should we live?
We are facing a crisis of meaning. Swept up in the obstacles of the day-to-day, the deeper questions of our fundamental purpose linger just beneath the surface of our personal lives and our collective culture. What we need is to seek the truth.
In Life Worth Living, leading Yale theologians Volf, Croasmun and McAnnally-Linz offer a deep dive beneath the levels of habit, strategy and introspection to the bedrock question of what kind of life is truly worth…
The loss of a child is a difficult topic to read about but the author's writing style invites you in. This book has deservedly won awards because the author's writing is crisp, unique, and clever. It's a book of essays and the voice of each one changes, often imbuing humor into this sad topic which elevates it. Anyone grieving a child or who has experienced the loss of a loved one should read this book.
Winner of a 2022 Gold Royal Palm Award- Florida Writers Association Winner of the 2023 Sarton Women's Book Award for Memoir Winner of 2024 Pencraft Award - Literary Excellence Finalist 2023 Foreword Indies -Grief/Grieving
When her fifteen-year-old daughter Lydia ends her life, Eileen finds support in a community of bereaved parents who understand her pain on a level others cannot. No one in the group places a time limit on this grief. As the years pass, Eileen finds ways to honor the memories. She even learns to laugh again.
In Love in the Archives, a collection of linked narrative essays…
I love reading memoir to gain insight into other people's experiences. This one is about shattered expectations of motherhood which is a universal topic. The author is vulnerable about her role in the delayed diagnosis of her son's brain tumor which she attributes to people pleasing - a behavior which many people can relate to. It will make people think about how they advocate for their children and navigate our complicated medical system.
WINNER Book Excellence Award WINNER Outstanding Creators Awards WINNER Royal Dragonfly Book Award FINALIST The Independent Author Network Book of the Year Awards SEMI-FINALIST Chanticleer Int'l Book Awards FIVE STARS Readers Favorite
Can a woman who never learned to stand up for herself find the courage to speak up for her son?
Medical gaslighting and a mother's people-pleasing collide, shattering her expectations of motherhood and threatening the survival of her young son.
Karen is a happily married, slightly frazzled mother of two when her eight-year-old son, Matthew, develops a strange eye-rolling tic. Matthew's tics quickly multiply. He becomes clumsy and…
Tap Dancing on Everest, part coming-of-age memoir, part adventure story, is about a young medical student, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor raised in N.Y.C., who battles self-doubt to serve as the doctor—and only woman—on a remote Everest climb in Tibet.
Sparkling with suspense and vulnerability, this narrative of self-discovery captures the curiosity and awe of a young woman as she faces down messages to stay small and safe and ventures into the unknown.
