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44 books. Many ways into a reading life. Explore the authors and ideas in our opening collection.
44 books on the shelf
Reading & Writing
Scott P. Scheper makes the case for an analog knowledge practice built around handwritten notes, connections, and sustained attention. Antinet Zettelkasten places reading and research in service of something larger: developing ideas of your own.
Life & Perspective
Dike Drummond addresses the transition out of medical practice as a question of identity, purpose, and daily life. The book looks beyond the financial milestone to the person who remains when the professional role changes.
Reading & Writing
Victoria Crowder brings the note-card tradition to fiction, connecting reading, research, and the work of making a story. Her approach treats physical tools and playful exploration as part of a writer’s practice.
Life & Perspective
Kevin W. Raney uses personal stories to explore presence, self-worth, and the fatigue of constant striving. The book’s invitation is to pay attention to the life already unfolding.
Faith & Ideas
Richard Cunningham introduces approaches used in biblical scholarship, with particular attention to the New Testament and its historical setting. The emphasis is on asking more careful questions of familiar passages.
Faith & Ideas
Bill Fedorich considers spiritual attention amid mass media, artificial intelligence, and technological distraction. His Christian perspective centers gratitude, service, and care in the use of language.
Mind & Wellbeing
Raymond J. Ahles presents his personal perspective on movement and discomfort in the lower back, hips, and legs. The book’s public description combines his own experience with movement-oriented instruction.
Mind & Wellbeing
Alice Gendron uses illustration and short passages to explore the emotional experience of ADHD. The book is presented as a companion rooted in lived experience.
Work & Leadership
Dave Saunders turns from startup spectacle to the practical work of completing projects and building a functioning business. The book’s stated concerns include revenue, systems, and the cost of remaining the bottleneck.
Life & Perspective
Shel Kim Rollison writes about the disorientation that can follow an ending or a change in identity. The book explores uncertainty, self-knowledge, and choosing a next step.
Life & Perspective
Lorene Peace explores self-talk and self-regard through stories of grief, faith, and personal change. The mirror becomes a starting point for considering how we speak to ourselves.
Reading & Writing
Sheryl Twitty introduces structured visual thinking as a way to examine choices, assumptions, and values. Her Just Write Way asks readers to make their thinking visible.
Work & Leadership
Meghna Majmudar addresses leadership from the perspective of people who do not fit conventional executive expectations. Her focus is organizational power, personal values, and finding a way to lead with both in view.
Life & Perspective
Gary D. Harris introduces RV travel with an emphasis on off-grid stays and practical preparation. The book connects the logistics of the road with questions about freedom and everyday living.
Family & Learning
Fern Weis connects stories about dogs with the challenges of parenting and relationships. The book’s themes include patience, responsibility, boundaries, and connection.
Family & Learning
Keith A. Terpsma presents shared reading as a practice of family connection. The book introduces a structured approach to turning stories into conversation and discovery.
Family & Learning
John Lindholm argues for a middle-school classroom shaped by creativity and connection. The book questions an approach to teaching centered primarily on compliance.
Life & Perspective
Danny B Ziemer connects memoir with his experience of mental health challenges and sobriety. His book also introduces a personal framework called STEMM.
Faith & Ideas
Leslie Baylis Davis addresses leadership through a Christian lens, focusing on identity, belief, and periods of uncertainty. The book considers how a leader can remain grounded while familiar reference points shift.
Life & Perspective
Claire C. Hall explores the connections that emerge from remembered moments, objects, and stories. The book invites attention to personal history as something that can be shared.
Faith & Ideas
Alan B. Rose writes for Christians who feel displaced from the structures that once organized their faith. The book explores exile as a possible season of attention and formation.
Reading & Writing
Kathleen Spracklen examines how emotional movement can shape a reader’s experience. The book addresses attention, character, and the relationship between feeling and a memorable message.
Work & Leadership
John S Alexander draws on shepherding as a model for contemporary leadership. The book emphasizes encouragement, listening, and the conditions that allow people to contribute.
Life & Perspective
Finn O’Gorman uses the horror-film figure of the Final Girl to explore agency and resilience. The book connects film language with the stories people use to understand their own lives.
Work & Leadership
Anthony Jackson considers team leadership as a problem of organizational design. The book’s current presentation focuses on decision boundaries, responsibility, and reducing dependence on a single leader.
Faith & Ideas
Bob Ogilvy presents a forceful critique of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. The book mixes the author’s account of workplace conflict with political argument and satire.
Life & Perspective
Dan McCormick and Ken Shelton explore affirmations and the language of identity. The book centers the repeated statements people make about who they are and who they hope to become.
Arts & Craft
Kimberly Patterson explores sublimation and engraving as creative techniques for candle vessels. The book brings together making, visual design, and the presentation of a handmade product.
Arts & Craft
Margaret Wacyk connects classical music with Christian devotion. Love Notes brings musical attention into a discussion of faith and interior life.
Life & Perspective
Ken J. Caputo and Stephanie Anne Roy’s catalog title concerns the design of a life with continuing momentum. It sits within their broader work on values, purpose, and entrepreneurship.
Arts & Craft
Linda Balliro approaches singing through practice, perception, emotion, and the body. The book connects the experience of using a voice with an explanation of how vocal learning works.
Reading & Writing
Hailey René applies the Zettelkasten tradition to personal reflection and self-knowledge. Soul Cards connects journaling with the practice of returning to and examining one’s own thoughts.
Faith & Ideas
Tim R. Bartel explores dream interpretation within Catholic scripture and spiritual tradition. The book is presented as an introduction to an area the author believes has become difficult to access.
Mind & Wellbeing
Eric J Henley explores how habitual interpretations shape reactions and relationships. The book’s public description emphasizes curiosity, emotional awareness, and examining inherited stories.
Mind & Wellbeing
Katie Coates writes about her experience of brain fog and the daily routines she developed in response. The book’s public description emphasizes organization, purpose, and manageable practices.
Life & Perspective
Christopher B. Jeffers writes about agency, aspirations, and personal growth. The book addresses the relationship between the life a person imagines and the choices they make.
Life & Perspective
Kathy M. Rule introduces solo travel through her own experience and practical planning. The book considers the preparation and confidence involved in setting out independently.
Family & Learning
Derek Shemlon Nyuydzewira considers education, parenting, and the development of independent thought. The book questions how familiar systems shape a child’s understanding of the world.
Reading & Writing
Mel Jeffcoat considers how reading older works can challenge habitual assumptions. Turn the Page connects a reading practice with the development of independent ideas.
Mind & Wellbeing
Mike Guarneri brings the symbolism of alchemy into a personal exploration of anxiety. The book combines lived experience with an interest in historical traditions of transformation.
Arts & Craft
Christen Schweizer explores mentorship, horsemanship, and the pursuit of mastery. The book considers learning as a relationship involving attention, practice, and connection.
Faith & Ideas
Kim West addresses women’s identity and vocation from a Christian perspective. The book invites readers to consider gifts and ambitions that have been constrained by outside expectations.
Faith & Ideas
Tim Bartel’s catalog title concerns interpretations of Saint John Bosco’s dream of the two columns. The book sits within the author’s wider work on Catholic dream interpretation.
Work & Leadership
Joseph Riggio addresses coaches and advisers with an account of change centered on identity and perception. UNMASKED asks what happens when attention moves beyond behavior alone.
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