Blog / Staff Picks

Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir

Book Review by Emily Porter

Seeing Ghosts unravels her family’s generational grief and reveals how it followed her mother’s life as well as her own.

Blog / Staff Picks

Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change

Book Review by Dylan Schleicher

We live in a world in flux, but the word “flux” is also a verb, and an ability we can all develop to help us navigate the profound changes we’re living through.

Blog / News & Opinion

Jack Covert | 1944-2021

By Porchlight

The man who founded and led our company for more than three decades has died. He was loved, and will be missed, but he will not be forgotten, as his example and legacy live on in everything we do.

Blog / New Releases

Books to Watch | August 17, 2021

By Dylan Schleicher, Gabbi Cisneros, Emily Porter

Blog / Book Giveaways

The Power of Nothing to Lose: The Hail Mary Effect in Politics, War, and Business

By Porchlight

For fans of Malcolm Gladwell and Dan Ariely, noted economics professor William L. Silber explores the Hail Mary effect, from its origins in sports to its applications to history, nature, politics, and business.

Blog / Staff Picks

Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination

Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros

Second-wave feminism may have been guided by the women's liberation movement of the seventies, but its continuation is sustained and shaped by each of us.

Blog / Staff Picks

The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life

Book Review by Emily Porter

In her new book, The Awakened Brain, Miller shares the results of the scientific research she has conducted finding that individuals with a spiritual or religious belief or practice have happier and healthier lives, as well as healthier brains.

Blog / Staff Picks

I Left My Homework in the Hamptons: What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent

Book Review by Dylan Schleicher

The pressures associated with poverty and discrimination are more widespread, and more urgent, but that doesn’t mean that the pressures placed on more privileged children aren’t a problem or that they don’t have societal consequences—or that they shouldn't be talked about.

Blog / ChangeThis

Debunking and Dismantling Disempowering Beliefs

By Shirley Davis

Overcoming our disempowering beliefs isn’t easy. It takes a significant amount of work, introspection, and time. Moreover, it isn’t a “one and done.” You don’t just go through this process once and be finished with it. Rather, it’s an ongoing process of steps that we must revisit over and over. We must, therefore, commit ourselves to long-term change.

Blog / Staff Picks

Paradise : One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire

Book Review by Emily Porter

When the fires cease and the ash settles, the towns and those who have survived pick up the pieces and look to a future after surviving an American wildfire. Johnson shows the destruction, trauma, and the stress these fires put on the land, and on the families who live in areas that come within the fire’s path.