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Book cover of Dispatches from the Couch: A Neuroscientist and Her Therapist Conspire to Reboot Her Brain

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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Author Life coach Historian Reader Traveler Cat mom

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 High House by James Stoddard,

The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.

The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.

Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…

Book cover of Theo of Golden

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.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author Life coach Historian Reader Traveler Cat mom

Melissa's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Melissa Walker Why Melissa loves this book

It's rare that a novel wraps itself around my heart like this one. In it, a mysterious older man moves into a small Georgia town, and something magical unfolds. That's really all I can say without spoilers.

This is a book about kindness, about all the sadness that each and every one of us accumulates in this life, and about the beauty and joy of life in spite of the sorrows. It's richly imagined, beautifully crafted, and packed with love and hope.

This one will haunt me for a long while.

By Allen Levi ,

Why should I read it?

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


Book cover of Dispatches from the Couch: A Neuroscientist and Her Therapist Conspire to Reboot Her Brain
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