5 Books Like Love in the Archives

The plan was outrageous: A small team of four climbers would attempt a new route on the East Face of Mt. Everest, considered the most remote and dangerous side of the mountain, which had only been successfully climbed once before. Unlike the first large team, Mimi Zieman and her team would climb without using supplemental oxygen or porter support. While the unpredictable weather and high altitude of 29,035 feet make climbing Everest perilous in any condition, attempting a new route, with no idea of what obstacles lay ahead, was especially audacious. Team members were expected to push themselves to their… show more.

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… show more.

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… show more.

Storytrade Nonfiction Book of the Year
Pencraft Best Book Award in Nonfiction - Memoir
Readers Choice Gold Award for Best Adult Book
Independent Author Award in New NonFiction
Independent Author Award in True Crime
An Independent Book Review Must-Read

In 1982, twenty-five-year-old Angie Boggs, pregnant with her second child, was brutally murdered, along with her husband and infant son. Ill equipped for the horror of that violence and the enormity of her loss, Angie's sister Ona, a college sophomore, felt numb. She also felt deeply ashamed of her inability to grieve.

But shame, like her sister's absence, was something Ona… show more.

Casey needs a family of her own: the joys and the sorrows, people who love her, and a place she belongs-what Zorba the Greek called "the full catastrophe"-and she's determined to make it happen. Adrift in the world after losing her father to a heart attack when she was eleven and her mother to cancer soon after, the death of her only sibling eight years later strengthens her resolve.Casey marries, has three children, and though she struggles with grief and a shaky sense of her place in the world, she thinks she's found the life she's longed for. But soon… show more.