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Melissa Walker Author Of The Battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens: The American Revolution in the Southern Backcountry

From Melissa's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Melissa's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Melissa Walker Why Melissa loves this book

After a triggering incident at work reactivates paralyzing memories of her childhood sexual abuse, neuroscience professor Stacey Hettes reenters therapy. Her courageous account of therapy from the client's perspective is all the more powerful because of her clear explanations about the ways that trauma rewires the brain.

This is an exquisitely written, sometimes gut-wrenching, and ultimately hopeful story about a woman's strength, a family's complicated love, and a therapist's intelligence and persistence.

By Stacey Hettes ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Dispatches from the Couch as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Stacey is living exactly the right life before she hits the psychological equivalent of a patch of black ice.

As Professor Hettes, her classes focus as much on neuroscience's beauty and wonder as its facts and theories. Fellow faculty members see her as a fair but outspoken leader on a campus steeped in the blended patriarchies of academia and southern gentility.

At an emotionally charged forum on sexual violence, she takes a stand against a colleague's reckless verbal assault, outing herself as a sexual abuse survivor in the process. Professor Hettes must continue her work even as Stacey finds herself…


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The Rosewood Penny by J.S. Fields,

2023 Queer Indie Award Nominee!

The dragons of Yuro have been hunted to extinction.

On a small, isolated island, in a reclusive forest, lives bandit leader Marani and her brother Jacks. With their outlaw band they rob from the rich to feed themselves, raiding carriages and dodging the occasional vindictive…

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Frances M. Wood Author Of The Fractal Melody

From my list on the importance of kindness in a harsh world.

Why am I passionate about this?

I love books about good people who go through hard times and come out okay. Different, but okay. The books can be contemporary, historical, magical—I don’t care. I just want goodness to triumph—not falsely, but with truth. Nobody has a %100 easy life. I believe it’s how we make our way through our difficulties that ultimately determines who we are. When asked to give four words that describe The Fractal Melody, I say: "Families, friendship, challenges, hope." Those are the kinds of things that matter. The Rolling Stones sang, "You can’t always get what you want." I believe that you always get what you need to develop into a full-fledged human being.

Frances' book list on the importance of kindness in a harsh world

Frances M. Wood Why Frances loves this book

Some people may think that the story of Theo of Golden is too gentle to be realistic.

I don’t agree because I think that gentleness is a different kind of strength. Theo has been hurt. Toward the end of his life, Theo wishes to find the goodness in people. And even though he encounters tragedy, it is the goodness that prevails.

By Allen Levi ,

Why should I read it?

4 authors picked Theo of Golden as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING PHENOMENON

'A word-of-mouth smash hit' New York Times

'For anything to be truly good, there must be love in it. Nothing is what it's supposed to be if love is not at the core.'

One morning, a stranger arrives in the town of Golden. No one knows who he is or where he came from...

His name is Theo and he's arrived there by chance - or has he? He visits the local coffeehouse, where ninety-two pencil portraits hang on the walls, portraits by a local artist of the people of Golden. He begins purchasing them, one…


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