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When Life Knocks You Down, Read These 6 Powerful Books for Healing, Hope & Renewal

Life doesn’t hand out roadmaps for the hard stuff — illness, grief, loss or the quiet, sometimes overwhelming uncertainty that comes after survival. There’s no checklist, no perfect sequence of steps, no easy answers. But books? Books can meet us exactly where we are. They can hold us, challenge us…

Monique SnymanOctober 29, 2025

Recommended

Everyday Miracles Abound in Victorya Wright’s God Storys

Victorya Wright’s God Storys shares 30 true stories where faith and everyday life intersect in miraculous ways. This heartfelt collection of personal “God-instances” encourages readers to reflect on the extraordinary moments in their own lives.

BookTribOctober 16, 2025

Better Self

Unlock Your Career Potential with “The Business of You”

I am thrilled to have read this valuable book and hope you will pick up a copy, too! In The Business of You, authors Marnie Stockman and Nick Coniglio introduce us to a refreshing perspective when it comes to career opportunities through the eyes of Sydney, a young woman looking for…

Jennifer BlankfeinOctober 10, 2025

Better Self Recommended

A Raw and Inspiring Memoir of Addiction, Transformation and Redemption

Jason Ferguson’s electrifying memoir Nobody’s Legend chronicles a journey from rock bottom to redemption. This raw, motivational story of identity, addiction, and perseverance doubles as a roadmap for anyone ready to rewrite their own life story and take back their future.

BookTribOctober 7, 2025

Author Spotlight

“Doing Small Things with Great Love”: You Are the Most Powerful Where You Live

Doing Small Things with Great Love: How Everyday Humanitarians are Changing the World invites us to look closer to home for solutions rooted in shared humanity. In this Q&A, author Sharon Eubank explores what it really means to work for the common good and why the most meaningful change often…

BookTribSeptember 19, 2025

Author Spotlight

Where Pain Becomes Purpose: A Story for the Dreamers and Fighters

Every scar tells a story—but for this author, the scars became the spark for a message of resilience. Raised in hardship, nearly lost to addiction, and tested by fear on and off the football field, he has built a life rooted in grit, clarity, and transformation. In this Q&A, author…

BookTribSeptember 18, 2025

Nonfiction

Bestselling Author Judith Viorst Shares Witty and Poignant Memoir About Life’s Twilight Years

The complete title of prolific author Judith Viorst’s latest captivating book is Making the Best of What’s Left: When You’re Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered. It’s a frank, humorous blend of memoir and astute advice for aging gracefully that is touching and inspiring. The book provides personal observations…

Linda HitchcockMay 23, 2025

Nonfiction Recommended

One-of-a-Kind Guide Offers Relationship Lessons from Corporate Finance

What do risk-adjusted returns, beta coefficients and strategic exits have in common with romance? According to Desi Duncker, quite a bit. In his book Asset Management: Relationship Lessons from Corporate Finance (and Other Fields), Duncker draws an unlikely — but utterly compelling — line between boardrooms and bedrooms, offering readers a…

BookTribMay 23, 2025

Nonfiction Recommended

Guidebook Offers Personalized, Holistic Approach to Health and Wellness

If you’ve ever felt discouraged or defeated by diet and fitness fads or overwhelmed by the ever-growing sea of contradictory advice about weight loss, Do It Yourself Weight Management by Kouros F. might be the guide you didn’t know you needed. This isn’t a book about quick fixes and overhyped…

BookTribMay 22, 2025

Nonfiction Recommended

Transformative Memoir of Loss and Psychedelic Healing

In Pain Is a Portal to Beauty, Alexis Leigh embarks on a deeply personal and transformational journey, weaving together grief, self-discovery and spiritual awakening. Through raw and poetic storytelling, Leigh shares how immense loss, psychedelic experiences and the process of feeling everything led her to profound realizations about life, love…

BookTribMay 20, 2025

Nonfiction Recommended

An Essential, Compassionate Guide to Navigating Life’s Deepest Losses

Grief and Managing This Inevitable Part of Life by Michael Dow, beautifully presented through the voice of Nurse Dorothea, is a sensitive, heartfelt and empowering book that offers readers both understanding and tools for coping with one of life's most difficult challenges — grief. As the second installment in the Nurse…

Kelsey HallApril 29, 2025

Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast: Life’s Final Horizon

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a literary podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he…

BookTribApril 23, 2025

Author Spotlight

Mapping the Soul and the Enneagram’s Journey to Self-Discovery

Joseph Howell’s Know Your Soul is an engaging and reassuring tool that makes the Enneagram accessible for anyone seeking its help in healing or searching for spiritual transformation. In this Q&A, we talk with author Joseph Howell and his openness about how he was able to turn his seismic losses…

BookTribApril 21, 2025

Book Club Network Nonfiction Recommended

Transformative Power of the Enneagram, the Spiritual Map to the Soul

When psychologist and spiritual teacher Joseph Benton Howell lost his son in 2008, the bottom fell out of his world. Years later, his daughter died in her sleep following a relapse after a hard-won period of sobriety. These seismic losses shattered the coping mechanisms that had previously held Howell together.…

BookTribApril 2, 2025

Better Self Nonfiction Recommended

Free Yourself From Suffering With “Soul Setting,” A Must-Read Guide to Healing

There are a plethora of self-help books about changing your mindset, but what would happen if the paradigm shift occurred on a deeper level? What if instead of setting your mind on something, you set your soul? This is the premise of Soul Setting: Listen to Your Soul Instead of…

BookTribJanuary 31, 2025

Nonfiction Recommended

Helpful, Hands-On Writer’s Guide to Crafting a Novel

If you’ve read enough books, at some point you’ve probably wondered: How do they do it? How do they write books? Is there a magic formula? Some of you no doubt even pondered the question: Can I do it? “Method, momentum and motivation are what I believe you need whether you’re…

Jim AlkonOctober 31, 2024

When Life Knocks You Down, Read These 6 Powerful Books for Healing, Hope & Renewal

Everyday Miracles Abound in Victorya Wright’s God Storys

A Raw and Inspiring Memoir of Addiction, Transformation and Redemption

Where Pain Becomes Purpose: A Story for the Dreamers and Fighters

One-of-a-Kind Guide Offers Relationship Lessons from Corporate Finance

Guidebook Offers Personalized, Holistic Approach to Health and Wellness

Transformative Memoir of Loss and Psychedelic Healing

An Essential, Compassionate Guide to Navigating Life’s Deepest Losses

Books & Looks Podcast: Life’s Final Horizon

Mapping the Soul and the Enneagram’s Journey to Self-Discovery

Transformative Power of the Enneagram, the Spiritual Map to the Soul

Free Yourself From Suffering With “Soul Setting,” A Must-Read Guide to Healing

Helpful, Hands-On Writer’s Guide to Crafting a Novel

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