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…
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1. The Distance Between Us
By: Reyna Grande
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning novelist and sought-after public speaker, an eye-opening memoir about life be… read more
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2. How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
By: Harrison Scott Key
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, How to Stay Married tells … read more
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"He was "as deep as bro country and possessed all the charm of an unsalted potato."-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
"I play the drums, an instrument that has caused more divorces than any other musical instrument in history, after the banjo."-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
"The memories do not dissolve. They cohere into captivating art films that play endlessly in the International Infidelity Film Festival of my mind."-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
"Coco will be gone in less than two years and Pippi and Ginsburg not long after, and then it'll just be the two of us again and this weird-ass marriage."-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
3. Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did
By: John Mark Comer
4.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The author of the international bestseller The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry calls us to rediscover… read more
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4. How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away
By: Emily P. Freeman
4.01
Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition
New York Times Bestseller If life were a house, then every room holds a story. What do we do when … read more
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5. Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It
By: Jennie Allen
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Get Out of Your Head provides a revolutionary path to embr… read more
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"Feelings aren’t meant to be fixed. Feelings are meant to be felt."-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It
"Let me be clear, you will never be emotionally healthy outside the will of God."-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It
"Our willingness to feel what we feel connects us to ourselves, to others, to God."-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It
"After all, where did those of us who know Jesus get the idea that we were going to have a straight and easy path all the way to heaven? It’s a wild ride all the way home."-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It
6. How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts—Not Just Arguments
By: Preston Perry
4.70
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of Preston Perry’s path toward God. A hope-filled apologetics and evangelism book written… read more
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"Don't let your pride murder your message."-Preston Perry, How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts—Not Just Arguments
"When we're more invested in politics than we are in people--when someone shares their story--we won't hear a testimony, but a position. We won't hear a cry, but a stance."-Preston Perry, How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts—Not Just Arguments
"Let us ask God to kill our pride and all the other sin inside us that might be in the way of the gospel. We don't ever want our personal conduct or behavior to be the reason someone rejects the gospe…"-Preston Perry, How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts—Not Just Arguments
"The way we do apologetics looks different when we are motivated not by our desire to conquer the other person, but by our genuine love and compassion, and by our desire to see people discover God's l…"-Preston Perry, How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts—Not Just Arguments
7. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
8. Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere
By: Savannah Guthrie
4.36
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
Mostly what God does is love you. If we could believe this, really believe this, how different w… read more
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"He doesn't even need words from us. Just a sigh, a tear, or a whimper. What an amazing resource we have in a God who already understands our whole history, our intricate emotional fabric, our every i…"-Savannah Guthrie, Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere
9. Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
By: Nijay K. Gupta
4.35
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Women were there. For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in … read more
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10. Being Elisabeth Elliot: The Authorized Biography: Elisabeth’s Later Years
By: Ellen Vaughn
4.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Elisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a remote Amazonian indigenous pe… read more
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11. 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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"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
12. Pilgrim: 25 Ways God’s Character Leads Us Onward
By: Ruth Chou Simons
4.71
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A Publishers Weekly Bestseller Guideposts of Grace for Your Faith Journey As a follower of Chris… read more
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13. Tired of Being Tired: Receive God's Realistic Rest for Your Soul-Deep Exhaustion
By: Jess Connolly
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
If you're a woman, chances are you know the You start the day already exhausted and end it defeate… read more
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14. 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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15. The Understory: An Invitation to Rootedness and Resilience from the Forest Floor
By: Lore Ferguson Wilbert
4.38
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Walk in the woods with me." That's the invitation award-winning author Lore Ferguson Wilbert ex… read more
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16. Even If He Doesn't: What We Believe about God When Life Doesn’t Make Sense
By: Kristen LaValley
4.57
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
How can I approach God if I’m struggling to believe in His goodness?So much of our belief can be fo… read more
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17. As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve
By: J.S. Park
4.63
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Veteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers you both the permissio… read more
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"It wasn't until I sat with patient after patient, from emergency room to deathbed, that I saw what they saw: In their illness or injury, I saw a memory loss of the future. This is called intrapsychic…"-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve
"She asks me, "How do you grieve someone you never met?" With each patient, I hear similar questions. It keeps emerging, this pulse. It presses in every room, leans on every shoulder, demands an answe…"-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve
"Speeding through grief always has a cost. To bury somebody's supposed-to-be is also to bury a story that's untold. When you bury someone's story like that, it gets lodged in the ribcage, it gets radi…"-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve
18. Now and Not Yet: Pressing in When You’re Waiting, Wanting, and Restless for More
By: Ruth Chou Simons
4.50
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Ruth Chou Simons guides readers who are restless in their current circumstances … read more
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19. House Rules: How to Decorate for Every Home, Style, and Budget (Cozy Minimalist Guide to Decorating, Beautiful Wedding Gift and House Warming Gift)
By: Myquillyn Smith
4.37
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Finally, a decorating book that transcends trends and applies to every style! You want to create a … read more
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20. Tell Me the Dream Again: Reflections on Family, Ethnicity, and the Sacred Work of Belonging
By: Tasha Jun
4.43
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“This mesmerizes.” ― Publishers Weekly starred review “I’ve always felt unfit as a Korean but some… read more
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"Being biracial is being tied to places, people, and a history that wouldn't have welcomed me."-Tasha Jun, Tell Me the Dream Again: Reflections on Family, Ethnicity, and the Sacred Work of Belonging
"When we begin to see the interconnectedness of our search for identity and our search for Jesus, we will begin to head toward home and hep others head toward home—and toward being truly known."-Tasha Jun, Tell Me the Dream Again: Reflections on Family, Ethnicity, and the Sacred Work of Belonging
21. Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life
By: Nicholas D. Kristof
4.55
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner, and best-selling author Nicholas D. Kristof, … 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. 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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24. Blessed Are the Rest of Us: How Limits and Longing Make Us Whole
By: Micha Boyett
4.35
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
When Micha Boyett's son was born with Down's Syndrome and later diagnosed with autism, she was draw… read more
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25. 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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26. Treasures in the Dark: 90 Reflections on Finding Bright Hope Hidden in the Hurting
By: Katherine Wolf
4.73
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes the most valuable treasures are found in the darkest of times. In fact, it's often in the… read more
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27. If I Don't Laugh, I'll Cry: How Death, Debt, and Comedy Led to a Life of Faith, Farming, and Forgetting What I Came into This Room For
By: Molly Stillman
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In this laugh-out-loud and heartfelt memoir, writer, speaker, and podcaster Molly Stillman shares h… read more
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28. I Shouldn't Feel This Way: Name What’s Hard, Tame Your Guilt, and Transform Self-Sabotage into Brave Action
By: Alison Cook
4.47
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
When you're tangled up inside, it's hard to find clarity. Yet so many of us guilt-trip or gaslight … read more
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29. A Bit Much
By: Lyndsay Rush
4.42
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The debut poetry collection from Lyndsay Rush (aka @maryoliversdrunkcousin) is a humorous and joyfu… read more
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30. Reconnected: How 7 Screen-Free Weeks with Monks and Amish Farmers Helped Me Recover the Lost Art of Being Human
By: Carlos Whittaker
4.55
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the summer of 2022, podcaster and author Carlos Whittaker spent seven weeks entirely screen free… read more
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31. Courageously Soft: Daring to Keep a Tender Heart in a Tough World
By: Charaia Rush
4.51
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Living in a broken world gives us plenty of reasons to armor up, shut down, and numb out. But God w… read more
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