Zaina Arafat

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

A Novel

A “provocative and seductive debut” of desire and doubleness that follows the life of a young Palestinian American woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual identities as she endeavors to lead an authentic life (O, The Oprah Magazine). On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12–year–old Palestinian–American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her mother’s response only intensifies a sense of shame: “You exist too much,” she tells her daughter. Told in vignettes that flash between the U.S. and the Middle East—from New York to Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine—Zaina Arafat’s debut novel traces her protagonist’s progress from blushing teen to sought–after DJ and aspiring writer. In Brooklyn, she moves into an apartment with her first serious girlfriend and tries to content herself with their comfortable relationship. But soon her longings, so closely hidden during her teenage years, explode out into reckless romantic encounters and obsessions with other people. Her desire to thwart her own destructive impulses will eventually lead her to The Ledge, an unconventional treatment center that identifies her affliction as “love addiction.” In this strange, enclosed society she will start to consider the unnerving similarities between her own internal traumas and divisions and those of the places that have formed her. Opening up the fantasies and desires of one young woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual identities, You Exist Too Much is a captivating story charting two of our most intense longings—for love, and a place to call home.

You Exist Too Much

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Rhonda V. Magee

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness

“Illuminates the very heart of social justice and how it might be approached and nurtured through mindfulness practices in community and through the discernment and new degrees of freedom these practices entrain.” --from the foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn In a society where unconscious bias, microaggressions, institutionalized racism, and systemic injustices are so deeply ingrained, healing is an ongoing process. When conflict and division are everyday realities, our instincts tell us to close ranks, to find the safety of those like us, and to blame others. This book profoundly shows that in order to have the difficult conversations required for working toward racial justice, inner work is essential. Through the practice of embodied mindfulness--paying attention to our thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations in an open, nonjudgmental way--we increase our emotional resilience, recognize our own biases, and become less reactive when triggered. As Sharon Salzberg, New York Times-bestselling author of Real Happiness writes, “Rhonda Magee is a significant new voice I've wanted to hear for a long time—a voice both unabashedly powerful and deeply loving in looking at race and racism.” Magee shows that embodied mindfulness calms our fears and helps us to exercise self-compassion. These practices help us to slow down and reflect on microaggressions--to hold them with some objectivity and distance--rather than bury unpleasant experiences so they have a cumulative effect over time. Magee helps us develop the capacity to address the fears and anxieties that would otherwise lead us to re-create patterns of separation and division. It is only by healing from injustices and dissolving our personal barriers to connection that we develop the ability to view others with compassion and to live in community with people of vastly different backgrounds and viewpoints. Incorporating mindfulness exercises, research, and Magee's hard-won insights, The Inner Work of Racial Justice offers a road map to a more peaceful world.

The Inner Work of Racial Justice

The Surprising Power of Lament To Save Your Faith

You Can Talk To God Like That

Nadia Bolz-Weber

A Case for Not Feeling Bad about Feeling Good (about Sex)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Raw, intimate, and timely--a no-holds-barred celebration of our bodies that flies in the face of antiquated ideas about sex and gender.
 
"A triumph."--Glennon Doyle * "One of the most important, life-changing books I've ever read."--Rachel Held Evans, author of Searching for Sunday and Inspired
 
Negative messages about sex come from all corners of society: from the church, from the media, from our own families. As a result, countless people have suffered pain, guilt, and judgment. In this instant bestseller, Nadia Bolz-Weber unleashes her critical eye and her vulnerable yet hopeful soul on the harmful conversations about sex that have fed our shame.
 
Bolz-Weber offers no simple amendments or polite compromises. Instead, this modern-day reverend calls for an inclusivity that empowers us to be loyal to people and, perhaps most important, ourselves. "Christianity is not a program for avoiding mistakes," she writes. "It is a faith of the guilty." With an alternative understanding of Scripture passages that have been weaponized against Christians for decades, Bolz-Weber reminds us that sexual flourishing can and should be for all genders, all bodies, and all humans. She shares stories, poetry, and Scripture that wage war on perpetual anxiety around sex by celebrating sexuality in all its forms and recognizing it for the gift that it is.
 
If you've been mistreated, confused, angered, and/or wounded by shaming sexual messages, this one is for you.

Shameless

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Anjali Sachdeva

Stories

"One of the best collections I've ever read. Every single story is a standout."--Roxane Gay "Fuses science, myth, and imagination into a dark and gorgeous series of questions about our current predicaments."--Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See "Truly original . . . delightfully unexpected."-The New York Times Book Review

"One of the best collections I've ever read. Every single story is a standout."-Roxane Gay

WINNER OF THE CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE . LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE . NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR . Refinery29 . BookRiot

"Fuses science, myth, and imagination into a dark and gorgeous series of questions about our current predicaments."--Anthony Doerr, author ofAll the Light We Cannot See

A dystopian tale about genetically modified septuplets who are struck by a mysterious illness; a love story about a man bewitched by a mermaid; a stirring imagining of the lives of Nigerian schoolgirls in the aftermath of a Boko Haram kidnapping. The stories inAll the Names They Used for Godbreak down genre barriers-from science fiction to American Gothic to magical realism to horror-and are united by each character's brutal struggle with fate. Like many of us, the characters in this collection are in pursuit of the sublime. Along the way, they must navigate the borderland between salvation and destruction.

NAMED A MUST-READ BOOK BYHarper's Bazaar.Entertainment Weekly.AM New York . Reading WomenAND A TOP READ BYElle.Fast Company.The Christian Science Monitor . Bustle .Shondaland . Popsugar .Refinery29 .Bookish.Newsday.The Millions.Asian American Writers' Workshop.HelloGiggles

"Strange and wonderful . . . delightfully unexpected."-The New York Times Book Review

"Completing one story is like having lived an entire life, and then being born, breathless, into another."-Carmen Maria Machado

"Captivating."-NPR

"Gripping."-Los Angeles Review of Books

" A remarkable debut . . . Sachdeva is seemingly fearless and her talent limitless."-AM New York

"This phenomenal debut short-story collection is filled with stories that bring the otherworldly to life and examine the strangeness of humanity."-Bustle

"So rich they read like dreams . . . They are enormous stories, not in length but in ambition, each an entirely new, unsparing world. Beautiful, draining-and entirely unforgettable."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

All the Names They Used for God

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Frank MacEowen

Tom Cowan

A little underlining and highlighting but only on a few of the pages.

Celtic Wisdom for Exiles, Wanderers, and Seekers

Exploring the mystical traditions of Scotland and Ireland, this exciting project reads like a memoir but with insight and a call to action on every page. THE MIST-FILLED PATH is about embracing indigenous wisdom and using that wisdom in daily practice. More than simply retelling Celtic stories, the book encourages seekers to act to transform their world as they heal themselves.

The Mist-Filled Path

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