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  How to Begin When Your World Is...

  Molly Phinney Baskette

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  As a progressive parish minister, Molly Baskette has been a companion during the most vulnerable and unsettled periods of many people's lives. She has also had a front row seat to remarkable human transformation, as many of the ruptures her people lived through turned out to be the way that God got in. But when she was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer at age thirty-nine, with two small children, her theology of and relationship to God was tested more profoundly than ever. 
   
     
   
  Instead of becoming despondent, though, she engaged with her faith more deeply—seizing the opportunity to test the seaworthiness of the faith she had been practicing and preaching. In How to Begin When Your World Is Ending, Baskette shares the questions that confronted her along the way like: Is it true that prayer changes things? Does God care whether we live or die—and is there a damn thing God can do about it anyway? How can vulnerability, counterintuitively, be a strength? And the million-dollar question: is there life after death, and just what might it be like? 
   
    
   
  Weaving together her own story and the stories of those she encountered in her life of faith, Baskette mines joy from all the hardest parts of being human. In doing so she reminds us that whatever you are going through, someone has been there before you, and found meaning in the madness.

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  Windswept: Life Nature and Deep...

  Annie Worsley

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  ‘Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas’ ROBERT MACFARLANE 
  ‘An instant classic of British nature-writing’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 
  A few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a small-holding or croft on the west coast of Scotland. It is a land ruled by great elemental forces – light, wind and water – that hold sway over how land forms, where the sea sits and what grows. Windswept explores what it means to live in this rugged, awe-inspiring place of unquenchable spirit and wild weather. 
  Walk with Annie as she lays quartz stones in the river to reflect the moonlight and attract salmon, as she watches otters play tag across the beach, as she is awoken by the feral bellowing of stags. Travel back in time to the epic story of how Scotland’s valleys were carved by glaciers, rivers scythed paths through mountains, how the earliest people found a way of life in the Highlands – and how she then found a home there millennia later. 
  With stunning imagery and lyrical prose, Windswept evokes a place where nature reigns supreme and humans must learn to adapt. It is her paean to a beloved place, one richer with colour, sound and life than perhaps anywhere else in the UK. 
  Annie Worsley's Windswept is a top-tier memoir that intertwines personal narratives with the history of Britain's ecosystems. Her commitment to environmental conservation and habitat protection is evident throughout, making this autobiography a must-read for those interested in European non-fiction. 
  For fans of Robert Macfarlane (Is a River Alive?), Raynor Winn (Landlines), Robin Wall Kimmerer (The Democracy of Species), Sharon Blackie (The Enchanted Life), and Chloe Dalton (Raising Hare). 
  HarperCollins 2023

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  3 Sisters 3 Weeks 3 Countries...

  Elizabeth Moore Kraus

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  Blithely venturing off on their first-ever trip together, the Moore sisters travel to Ireland, England, and Scotland. In their mid-60s, they embark with visions of fun on their horizon when all too quickly reality sets in. One sister learns she must accept her internal GPS in untrustworthy. Another reveals a major mistake in time management. The third volunteers as 'Fixer of All Things' -- a position open as the others lack interest. What can not be fixed is the chronic lack of elevators and a discouraging abundance of stairs, bringing about ups and downs of all sorts. Yet the Moore sisters laugh when they are down. Usually. Well, most of the time..

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  Entwined: Essays on Polyamory...

  Alex Alberto

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  In a series of genre-blending essays read by the author, Entwined tells the story of Alex Alberto’s decade-long polyamorous journey toward a new kind of family. 
  In these essays, Alex attempts to build two committed relationships at once when no one involved has done this before; develops a powerful bond with the woman their partner loves; sits through a tense Thanksgiving Dinner with religious in-laws; questions the need for rules and hierarchy in their relationships; experiences the intensity of a triad; wrestles with the fragility baked into the nuclear family after their father’s stroke; and explores their queerness and gender identity in English, in New York, and struggles to reconcile their newfound self in their native French-Canadian language and culture. 
  Entwined explores the fuzzy lines between friendship, romance, and family with various essay forms, including a play, an advice column, and a love letter. Yes, there are challenges, but rather than wallowing in the throes of jealousy, this memoir celebrates the hard work of creating a love life that resists conventional narratives. 
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  WHAT EARLY READERS SAY ABOUT ENTWINED: 
  "Entwined is a goddamn bible for poly-curious people." 
  —Chloe Caldwell (she/her), 37, questioning 
  "Entwined is about the desire to create a life outside of capitalism, heteronormativity, and the patriarchy." 
  —Samantha Paige Rosen (she/her), 33, queer and monogamous 
  "Entwined had me captivated from start to finish. It will no doubt influence my approach to romance and family." 
  —Rio C. (she/her), 21, queer, trans, and curious about polyamory 
  "I laughed, cried, and felt my heart fill the fuck up." 
  — Dan D. (they), 36, queer and newly navigating non-monogamy within a lifelong partnership.

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  The Road to Ruins

  Robert Grant

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  'Young man required to drive overland to Australia.'
  
  In October 1963, the 22-year-old Robert Grant, recently invalided out of the army and demoralised by the stifling conformity of postwar Britain, responded to this advertisement in The Times. It had been placed by another young Englishman, Gordon Lindsay, who needed a second driver for an ambitious land journey as far as South Asia, before a planned final leg to Australia by sea. The following year, after meticulous preparation, the two of them would embark on an extraordinary expedition in their customised Land Rover, taking them across Western Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent – a world of ancient wonders and modern challenges.
  
  The Road to Ruins chronicles their odyssey through some of history's most significant cultural sites, from Chartres and Granada to the Taj Mahal and the Ganges. They navigated through sandstorms, passed through perilous border crossings, and encountered both danger and extraordinary kindness. Their story encompasses the great archaeological treasures of Giza, Timgad, Leptis Magna, Palmyra, Babylon and Persepolis, many of which have since been damaged or destroyed by conflict 
  
  Illustrated with some two hundred colour photographs taken during this journey, The Road to Ruins captures a moment in time when these ancient sites still stood in splendid isolation, waiting to be discovered by two young adventurers armed with curiosity and courage.

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  Manifesto - The Battle For Green...

  Dale Vince

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  Manifesto is the first book from green industrialist Dale Vince OBE – the founder of Ecotricity, chairman of Forest Green Rovers and United Nations Climate Champion.  This is the story of a man whose unwavering journey to save the environment has driven him all the way to the top, and a powerful manifesto for anyone who wants to change the world. Dale Vince has led a remarkable life. From ‘enemy of the state’ to ‘green energy tycoon’, he has dedicated his life to challenging conventional wisdom in pursuit of a better way to live. Dale kickstarted the now global green energy movement, helping to bring environmentalism into the mainstream. He pioneered the electric car, built the first Electric Highway to power them and runs Forest Green Rovers, the world’s first vegan football club. With a questioning mind that does not take ‘no’ for an answer, Dale has spent his whole life striving for change.  In his first book, Dale explores what must be done to win the battle for Green Britain. It’s a manifesto of hope, backed up by solutions, from someone with real life experience of disrupting the energy industry and paving the way for a greener planet. This is a manifesto that is changing the world. The revised and updated version has a new chapter from Dale why he decided to shift support from Just Stop Oil to Just Stopping The Tories, why politics is the final frontier for a greener Britain and the truth behind the green economy.“Mad Max meets Laurie Lee” Andrew Merrell, Raikes Journal“A must read” Chris Packham

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