A riveting memoir of one woman's immersion into Fundamentalist faith and her decision, twenty years later, to leave it all behind.Carolyn Briggs grew up with modest means in the Iowa heartland. Pregnant at seventeen, married a few months later, by the age
In her wildly inventive debut novel, Naomi J. Williams reimagines the historical Lapérouse expedition, a voyage of exploration that left Brest in 1785 with two frigates, more than two hundred men, and overblown Enlightenment ideals and expectations, in a
Writers' League of Texas Discover AwardFinalist: Pirate's Alley/PEN Faulkner, May Sarton Award, Chautauqua Prizea Redbook Magazine and Good Housekeeping Best Book of 20152016 Wordwrite Award for memoirUncovered is the first memoir to tell of a gay woman l
Shame is a powerful thing. It can weigh on your heart and mind, diminish your sense of self-worth, and impact the way you live in the world. But what happens when you share that secret burden?Amy Ferris, Hollye Dexter, and the writers they brought togethe
A rural expatriate’s struggle to reconcile family, home, love, and faith with the silence of the prairie land and its people Melanie Hoffert longs for her North Dakota childhood home, with its grain trucks and empty main streets. A land where she imagi
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS“A candid, generous, and profound spiritual memoir that deserves a great deal of thoughtful discussion.”—Anne Rice At seventeen, Mary Johnson experienced her calling when she saw a photo of
In this anthology of recent criticisms aimed at the reasonableness of Christian belief, a former evangelical minister and apologist, author of the critically acclaimed Why I Became an Atheist, has assembled fifteen outstanding articles by leading skeptics
