Out of Focus: My Story of Sexuality, Shame, and Toxic Evangelicalism
By: Amber Cantorna-Wylde
4.41
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
When a mass shooter killed five people in an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, grieving people g…
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1. The Clue of the Broken Locket (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #11)
By: Carolyn Keene
3.00
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
Another vacation turns into a riddle for Nancy to solve while she visits a lakeside holiday area. C… read more
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2. The Cross and the Lynching Tree
By: James H. Cone
4.51
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the … read more
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"For [Martin Luther] King nonviolence was more than a strategy; it was the way of life defined by love for others—the only way to heal broken humanity."-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
"The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God’s presence in Jesus’ solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. …"-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
"The cross and the lynching tree interpret each other. Both were public spectacles, shameful events, instruments of punishment reserved for the most despised people in society. Any genuine theology an…"-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
3. Black Girl, Call Home
By: Jasmine Mans
4.44
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
From spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, a… read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
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"I know grace and mercy was raised by the same single mother."-Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home
"Are women labeled crazy when you feel like their rage outweighs the evidence of their pain?"-Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home
4. Wholehearted Faith
By: Rachel Held Evans
4.42
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A new collection of original writings by Rachel Held Evans, whose reflections on faith and life con… read more
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"Many of us have found a renewed sense of possibility when we've realized how much of God's beauty remains to be explored — and that the life of faith is also a life of holy curiosity."-Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith
"It is nearly impossible to believe: God shrinking down to the size of a zygote, implanted in the soft lining of a woman’s womb. God growing fingers and toes. God kicking and hiccupping in utero. God …"-Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith
5. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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- religion
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6. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
7. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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8. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
By: Lawrence Ingrassia
4.41
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia … read more
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9. The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
By: Shannon Harris
3.77
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
"No one is coming to rescue me. I am going to have to rescue me." As a twenty-three-year-old sin… read more
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"But the truth was that church was making me ill. Even the loveliest church in the world couldn't make up for the fact that I had had too much church. My body was rejecting Bible verses with the stren…"-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
"...the hypocrisy of it all was too much to take. To have heard the words 'forgiveness' and 'grace' in hundreds of sermons, thousands of prayers, in every quote, every song, at every meeting and then …"-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
"Religion carries with it great potential for good and for harm. It's humans that make it more complicated (and more certain) and heavier than it needs to be. Religion shouldn't be something heavy we …"-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
10. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
By: Sarah McCammon
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more
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11. When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
By: Laura E. Anderson
4.38
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Anderson strikes a smart, balanced tone. . . . An exemplary guide to an understudied issue."--Publ… read more
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"Rebuilding a worldview and identity likely needs to include space for uncertainty."-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"I have lived far too much of my life with the end goal of eternal life in heaven, and so I missed a lot of life on earth."-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"A marker of healing from religious trauma is not simply the process of deconstructing one’s worldview and identity and rebuilding a new one; it is also the willingness to remain open to shifting and …"-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"Religious trauma resides in our bodies and nervous systems in the same way that trauma from war, developmental trauma, or sexualized trauma live inside us. Though the triggers and environment of the …"-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
12. Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
By: Cassie Chambers
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the… read more
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"This holler feels like home, and this house feels like family. There are women’s stories here, stories of resilience, love, and strength. This community knows them well, but their echo hasn’t reached…"-Cassie Chambers, Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
13. Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith
By: Sarah Bessey
4.49
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconn… read more
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- audiobook
"And yet religion in our modern era seems mostly concerned with systematizing theology, charting time lines, answering questions, and making God small and knowable. We have created a God we can regula…"-Sarah Bessey, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith
14. The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities
By: Kate Bowler
4.03
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've … read more
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15. The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
By: Katherine Stewart
4.28
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Democracy in Chains and Dark Money, a revelatory investigation of the Religious Righ… read more
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"Christian nationalism exploits and intensifies inequality, and dominionism is its logical endpoint and the actual engine of the so-called culture wars."-Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
"Are we a nation in which one brand of religion enjoys a place of privilege? Are we a nation of laws—except in cases where the law offends the feelings of those who subscribe to our preferred religion…"-Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
"This is not a book I could have imagined writing a dozen years ago. When an older couple from another town attempted to set up and lead a Bible club at my daughter's public elementary school in South…"-Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
16. Ghosted: An American Story
By: Nancy French
4.45
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--fr… read more
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17. Granite Harbor
By: Peter Nichols
3.58
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A small town in coastal Maine is shaken to its core by a serial killer in this crime novel from Pet… read more
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18. My Name Is Iris
By: Brando Skyhorse
3.37
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
Brando Skyhorse, the PEN/Hemingway Award—winning author of The Madonnas of Echo Park, returns with … read more
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19. God Themselves
By: Jae Nichelle
4.09
Format: None pages, None
Let this book be a celebration of queerness, Blackness, and love. Let these words be a modern churc… read more
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20. Undivided: Coming Out, Becoming Whole, and Living Free from Shame
By: Vicky Beeching
4.49
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Vicky Beeching, called “arguably the most influential Christian of her generation” in The Guardian,… read more
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21. Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America
By: Shefali Luthra
4.40
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An urgent, intimate investigation into the experience of seeking an abortion after the fall of Roe … read more
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22. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
By: Tia Levings
4.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more
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23. Out of Focus: My Story of Sexuality, Shame, and Toxic Evangelicalism
By: Amber Cantorna-Wylde
4.41
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
When a mass shooter killed five people in an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, grieving people g… read more
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- lgbt
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- queer
24. It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping: Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without Repeating Their Stories
By: Lisa-Jo Baker
4.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An honest and lyrical coming-of-age memoir of growing up in South Africa at the height of apartheid… read more
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25. Beyond Shame: Creating a Healthy Sex Life on Your Own Terms
By: Matthias Roberts
4.11
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
We all carry sexual shame. Whether we grew up in the repressive purity culture of American Evangeli… read more
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- lgbt
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26. Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy
By: Cait West
4.14
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece … read more
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27. Words of a Goat Princess
By: Jessie Reyez
4.25
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A moving poetic debut from a talented artist, Words of a Goat Princess is everything you love about… read more
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28. To Be Loved: A Story of Truth, Trauma, and Transformation
By: Frank G. Anderson
4.45
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
Trauma blocks love. Love heals trauma. Frank was just six years old when he learned there was so… read more
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29. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
By: Jesselyn Cook
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more
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30. jaded: a poetic reckoning with white evangelical christian indoctrination
By: Marla Taviano
4.76
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
"An unrelenting love letter to the deconstructing exvangelical in all of us, jaded kicks your ass i… read more
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31. Deconstructing Your Faith without Losing Yourself
By: Angela J. Herrington
4.62
Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition
How to heal religious trauma by releasing harmful beliefs Have you experienced #ChurchHurt? Are… read more
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