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Aug 5, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Bruce Gordon |Eliza Griswold |Anne Lamott |J S. Park

Rod Dreher. Zondervan, $29.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-310-36912-7Dreher (The Benedict Option), an editor at the American Conservative, offers an eclectic invitation for Christians to find the sacred in the everyday.

Aug 1, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Bruce Gordon |Eliza Griswold |Anne Lamott |J S. Park

Richard Brady. Parallax, $17.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-952692-80-2Buddhist retreat leader Brady (Walking the Teacher’s Path with Mindfulness) competently traces how his winding spiritual path has been guided by the lessons of Vietnamese Buddhist teacher Thích Nhất Hạnh. Born into a reform Jewish family, the author flirted with Quakerism as an adult before finding in Buddhism the “missing piece” of his spiritual life.

Jun 12, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Eliza Griswold |Anne Lamott |J S. Park |Cait West

Rickey Smiley. Thomas Nelson, $29.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4003-4299-0Comedian and radio host Smiley (Stand by Your Truth) paints a wrenching portrait of grief and faith in the wake of his 32-year-old son’s death in 2023. After receiving the call that his son had overdosed, Smiley sleepwalked through the following days as he cared for his other kids, arranged the burial, and dealt with eerie echoes of his own father’s death from drugs when the author was six.

Jun 3, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Mustafa Akyol |Eliza Griswold |Anne Lamott |J S. Park

The Islamic Moses: How the Prophet Inspired Jews and Muslims to Flourish Together and Change the WorldJournalist Akyol (The Islamic Jesus) draws theological, philosophical, and cultural links between Islam and Judaism in this innovative study inspired by the prophet central to both faiths.

Nov 27, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Savannah Guthrie |Allison Oppenheim |Anne Lamott |J S. Park

Savannah Guthrie, Allison OppenheimThe answer is, of course, yes: that girls can wear pants as much as they like isn’t news. Nonetheless, debut authors Guthrie, a Today Show host, and Oppenheim, a parent educator, introduce Continue reading »