Cheryl Strayed At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years...

What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry John Markoff “This makes entertaining reading. Many accounts of the birth of personal computing have been written,...

The Soul of Education: Helping Students Find Connection, Compassion, and Character at School Rachael Kessler Based on the deeply moving stories and profound questions of students themselves, each chapter responds...

Lian Dolan, Liz Dolan, Julie Dolan, Monica Dolan, Sheila Dolan The Satellite Sisters are the fastest rising stars on public radio - five real sisters who grew up in a...

Melinda Marchetta For as long as Josephine Alibrandi can remember, it’s just been her, her mom, and her grandmother. Now it’s her final year at a wealthy Catholic high school....

Julie Otsuka Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young...

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Jan Phillips Honor Your Body as the Instrument of Your Soul This book is an attempt to undo the damage we've sustained living in a culture that thrives on our...

David Hartman In these energetic, pointed essays, Orthodox rabbi Hartman plants seeds for a Jewish spiritual renewal embracing the alienated and the faithful. A voice of tolerance, he urges Israelis...

Roger Schwarz When it was published in 1994, Roger Schwarz's The SkilledFacilitator earned widespread critical acclaim and became alandmark in the field. The book is a classic work for consultants,facilitators,...

VS Alexander Drawing on the true story of the White Rose—the resistance movement of young Germans against the Nazi regime—The Traitor tells of one woman who offers her life in...

Lee Smith On a beautiful June day in 1965, a dozen girls-classmates at a picturesque Blue Ridge women's college-launched their homemade raft (inspired by Huck Finn's) on a trip down...