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The Progressive Parent: Harnessing the Power of Science and Social Justice to Raise Awesome Kids. By Kavin Senapathy. Aug. 2024. 320p. Hanover Square, $28.99 (9781335455062); e-book (9780369736239). 649. Journalist, analyst, [...]

Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota Garden. By Teresa Peterson. June 2024. 224p. Univ. of Minnesota, $25.95 (9781517917029). 810. With generosity and warmth, Peterson, a citizen of the [...]

Loving Your Black Neighbor as Yourself: A Guide to Closing the Space between Us. By Chante Griffin. June 2024. 256p. WaterBrook, paper, $17 (9780593445594). 261. Author, artist, and advocate Griffin [...]

Everything Good about God Is True: Choosing Faith. By Bruce Reyes-Chow. Mar. 2024. 198p. Broadleaf, paper, $19.99 (9781506495699). 231. Denominational leader Reyes-Chow [In Defense of Kindness, 2021) writes to reclaim [...]

Cloistered: My Years as a Nun. By Catherine Coldstream. Mar. 2024. 352p. St. Martin's, $30 (9781250323514); e-book (9781250323521). 255.9. As a young adult in the 1990s, Coldstream was completely unmoored [...]

Dixon, Descending. By Karen Outen. Feb. 2024. 336p. Dutton, $28 (9780593473450); e-book (9780593473467). Outen's debut is a story of two brothers and Mt. Everest. School counselor Dixon is the conscientious [...]

Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York. By Ross Perlin. Feb. 2024.432p. Atlantic Monthly, $28 (9780802162465); e-book (9780802162472). 409.7. Perlin (Intern Nation, 2012) is a [...]

The Science of the Good Samaritan: Thinking Bigger about Loving Our Neighbors. By Emily Smith. Oct. 2023. 288p. Zondervan, paper, $19.99 (9780310366690). 222.16. Smith's debut is an anecdotal, friendly, yet [...]

1001 Dreams: The Complete Book of Dream Interpretations. By Cassandra Eason. Jan. 2024. 544p. Sterling/Ethos, $24.99 (9781454948469). 135-3 Eason (1001 Crystals, 2023) is a prolific author on all things magic. [...]

Today Tonight Forever. By Madeline Kay Sneed. Nov. 2023. 320p. Graydon, $30 (9781525819599). Sneed's (The Golden Season, 2022) winning second novel plays out in Watercolor, Florida, during a weekend of [...]

Last House before the Mountain. By Monika Heifer. Tr. by Gillian Davidson. Apr. 2023. i92p. Bloomsbury, $26 (9781635579871). Josef and Maria's family lives in poverty outside an Austrian village. They [...]

* Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways. By Dorcas Cheng-Tozun. June 2023.227p. Broadleaf, $26.99 (9781506483436). 364.97. Award-winning writer .and editor Dorcas Cheng-Tozun [...]

America the Beautiful? One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled. By Blythe Roberson. Apr. 2023. 304P. HarperPerennial, paper, $18.99 (9780063115514). 910.2. Comedy writer and author Roberson [...]

To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa. By Jim Towey. Sept. 2022.288p. Simon & Schuster, $27 (9781982195625). 271.97. Towey's life was transformed by Mother Teresa. He [...]

Thorn Tree. By Max Ludington. Apr. 2024. 400p. St. Martin's, $29 (9781250288714); e-book (9781250288721). Ludington's (Tiger in a Trance, 2004) second novel unfurls the secrets of two men bound by [...]

Love and Justice: A Story of Triumph on Two Different Courts. By Maya Moore Irons and Jonathan Irons. Jan. 2023.352P. Disney/Andscape, $27.99 (9781368081177); e-book (9781368093828). 345. This double-stranded memoir and [...]

Angels of the Pacific: A Novel of World War II. By Elise Hooper. Mar. 2022. 384p. Morrow, paper, $16.99 (9780063068902). Esther Abbott belongs to a sisterhood of Army nurses headed [...]

Tomb of Sand. By Geetanjali Shree. Tr. by Daisy Rockwell. Jan. 2023.624p. HarperVia, $29.99 (9780063299405). Opening with the phrase, 'A tale tells itself,' Shree channels a story that indeed has [...]

The School for Good Mothers. By Jessamine Chan. Jan. 2022. 336p. Simon & Schuster, $27 (9781982156121). This debut is the contemporary tale of Frida Liu, educated mother and daughter of [...]

The Last Speaker of Bear: My Encounters in the North. By Lawrence Millman. Oct. 2022. 228p. Trinity, paper, $18.95 (9781595349859); e-book (9781595349866). 915. Millman (At the End of the World, [...]

The Prophet of the Andes: An Unlikely Journey to the Promised Land. By Graciela Mochkofsky. Tr. by Lisa Dillman. Aug. 2022.288p. Knopf, $30 (9781101875186). 296.7. Segundo Villanueva's religious quest began [...]

Sis, Take a Breath: Encouragement for the Woman Who's Trying to Live and Love Well (but Secretly Just Wants to Take a Nap). By Kirsten Watson and Ami McConnell. May [...]

Mom Milestones: The TRUE Story of the First Seven Years. By Grace Farris. Apr. 2022.224p. illus. Workman, paper, $17.95 (9781523511471). 306.874. With humor and been-there understanding, author and illustrator Farris [...]

Woman Running in the Mountains. By Yuko Tsushima. Tr. by Geraldine Harcourt. Mar. 2022. 288p. NYRB, paper, $17.95 (9781681375977). Readers await this novel by lauded Japanese author Tsushima in poetic, [...]

A Sister's Story. By Donatella Di Pietrantonio and Ann Goldstein. Apr. 2022. 176p. Europa, paper, $17 (9781609457471). This aptly named story tells of two very different sisters whose relationship pivots [...]

Search. By Michelle Huneven. Apr. 2022. 400p. Penguin, $26 (9780593300053). The progressive Arroyo Unitarian Univer salist Church (AUUC, 'pronounced awk') sits among enchanting gardens and is home to an 'overprivileged, [...]

Dead Collections. By Isaac Fellman. Feb. 2022. 256p. Penguin, paper, $17 (9780143136910). Deep inside a San Francisco basement archive dwells Sol Katz, trans man, sanguivorous archivist. He secretly lives within [...]

Let's Eat Italy! Everything You Want to Know about Your Favorite Cuisine. By Francois-Regis Gaudry. Nov. 2021.400p. illus. Artisan, $60 (9781648290596). 641.5945. A book celebrating and curating the cuisine of [...]

Burntcoat. By Sarah Hall. Nov. 2021. 224p. Custom, $27.99 (9780062657107). In this latest contemporary novel from acclaimed author Hall, there is art--'It's all art, even thought, everything is.' Burntcoat itself [...]

Workhorse: My Sublime and Absurd Years in New York City's Restaurant Scene. By Kim Reed. Nov. 2021.288p. Hachette, $28 (9780306875106). 647.9573. There is glamour and power in living someone else's [...]

High Five Discipline: Positive Parenting for Happy, Healthy, Well-Behaved Kids. By Candice W. Jones. Oct. 2021. 225p. American Academy of Pediatrics, paper, $16.95 (9781610025171). 649. Parents and caregivers desperately need [...]