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Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System

Cyntoia Brown-Long - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

In her own words, Cyntoia Brown shares the riveting and redemptive story of how she changed her life for the better while in prison, finding hope through faith after a traumatic adolescence of drug addiction, rape, and sex trafficking led to a murder conviction. At the age of sixteen, Cyntoia...
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Knights in Training: Ten Principles for Raising Honorable, Courageous, and Compassionate Boys

Heather Haupt - Tarcherperigree
Format: Print book

Bringing chivalry back into our modern-day world, this book shows us how to inspire today's generation of young boys to pursue honor, courage, and compassion.In an age when respect and honor seem like distant and antiquated relics, how can we equip boys to pursue valor and courageously...
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Fierce Love: A Memoir of Family, Faith, and Purpose

Sonya Curry - ?HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

In this riveting, wise, and inspiring memoir, NBA royalty Sonya Curry tells the story of her life, including raising her famous children and her lifelong devotion to education, family, and faith.Long before she was the mother of five successful children, including two NBA stars - Steph...
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

AUSTIN CHANNING BROWN - Convergent Books
Format: Hardcover

From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle-class white America. Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialized America came at age 7, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future...
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When Loving Him Is Hurting You: Hope and Help for Women Dealing With Narcissism and Emotional Abuse

DAVID HAWKINS - Harvest House Publishers
Format: Paperback

It's Okay to Have Needs of Your Own You fell in love with him. But over time you've come to realize he's in love with himself - and you feel trapped. His needs, his problems, and his plans always seem to take precedence over yours. Dr. David Hawkins, director of the Marriage...
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The Artist and the Eternal City: Bernini, Pope Alexander VII, and The Making of Rome

Loyd Grossman - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

By 1650, the spiritual and political power of the Catholic Church was shattered. Thanks to the twin blows of the Protestant Reformation and the Thirty Years War, Rome - celebrated both as the Eternal City and Caput Mundi (the head of the world) - had lost its preeminent place in Europe....
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Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything

Anne Bogel - Baker Books
Format: Paperback

If the viral Buzzfeed-style personality quizzes are any indication, we are collectively obsessed with the idea of defining and knowing ourselves and our unique place in the world. But what we're finding is this: knowing which Harry Potter character you are is easy, but actually knowing...
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Protestants: The Faith That Made the Modern World

ALEC RYRIE - VIKING
Format: Print book

Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk in 1517. Now it covers the globe and includes almost a billion people. On the 500th anniversary of Luther's theses, a global history of the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern world Five hundred years ago an obscure monk challenged...
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Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul

Brandy Schillace - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In the early days of the Cold War, a spirit of desperate scientific rivalry birthed a different kind of space race: not the race to outer space that we all know, but a race to master the inner space of the human body. While surgeons on either side of the Iron Curtain competed to become...
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Confessions of a Secular Jesus Follower: Finding Answers in Jesus for Those Who Don't Believe

Tom Krattenmaker - Convergent
Format: Print book

An award-winning USA Today columnist makes the case for how a Jesus freed from religion and politics meets the need for meaning and purpose in secular America. Tom Krattenmaker is part of a growing conversation centered at Yale University that acknowledges - and seeks to address...
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