The monthly online event hosted by Side With Love is designed to help UUs meet the moment.

Beloved teacher Jack Kornfield shares stories on navigating our human experience with wisdom and care—for ourselves and our world.At a time of collective anxiety, injustice, and suffering, this book helps us listen with compassion to the pulse of the world and to one another. Beloved meditation...

Longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize Longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize A NPR “Book We Love” A BookRiot “Best Book of the Year” An Indie Next Selection, selected by booksellersAn astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors...

A beautifully rendered debut memoir of family, legacy, conservation, the natural world—and those who inhabit it.As a civil engineer, Sangamithra Iyer knows about resilience from studying soils and water. As an animal rights activist, she advocates for a revolution in how we value and relate to

Listening to each other's stories helps us bridge the gaps between us.

New online program offers pastoral care and connection for trans, intersex, and non-binary UUs, and their loved ones.

Available for pre-orderA deluxe edition of Henry David Thoreau’s groundbreaking environmentalist masterpiece, including an introduction and annotations by renowned social and environmental critic Bill McKibbenA Beacon Classics edition, featuring spot gloss cover and retro, classic paletteFirst

Available for pre-orderFrom the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings: an intimate work on the mysteries, frustrations, and triumphs of being a writer, and an instructive guide to awakening the soul.When Sue Monk Kidd was in high school, a home economics teacher

Available for pre-orderAn essential balm for these tumultuous times, this thoughtful and inspiring guide features newly gathered teachings to abandon the idea there is an “other,” bridging differences and cherishing our lives in the world, from beloved spiritual leader Ram Dass.With the world...

Nikki Giovanni’s extraordinary final collection—a landmark of American literature which speaks to the fury and upheaval of our time, as well as the triumphs and delights of her remarkable creative life.For decades, Nikki Giovanni’s poetry has been at the forefront of American culture. The New...

How neurotypical hegemony reproduces a culture of exclusion—and how to overcome this with love, hope, and solidarityAbleism is embedded in our daily lives. Social life, education, work, and, especially, mental health have been organized around rigid ideas of the “ideal” and the “normal”...

Against our terribly ambivalent present—in which Black, trans, and other minoritized forms of life seem at once more possible than ever and, also, relentlessly under attack—An Optimism gives us poems in search of ways to survive—and even thrive.Anchored by an epistolary sequence directed to...

An accessible exploration into how we can use trauma psychology to unravel and transform our harmful beliefsIn Radical Unlearning, journalist and transgender antiracist activist Lewis Raven Wallace argues that breaking out of the frameworks of thought and behavior we’ve been taught in our

We are resistance. / Somos la resistencia.

On orderA luminous guide to navigating transition and impermanence rooted in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of bardo. In a world where nothing lasts forever, how do we live? Life is perpetually, endlessly filled with change: new jobs and new loves, unfamiliar places and faces.

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction An NPR.org, Publishers Weekly, and Electric Literature Best Book of 2024Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in We’re Alone include

Your word is waiting, hovering just beneath the surface.

This landmark Latinx poetry collection offers “a wondrous journey through the passions, the ideas, and the diversity of a people redefining what it means to be American” (Héctor Tobar, Pulitzer Prize winner)Includes more than 180 poets, spanning from the 17th century to today, and presents

Available for pre-orderBrené Brown returns with an urgent call to reimagine the essentials of courageous leadership. In a time when uncertainty runs deep and bluster, hubris, and even cruelty are increasingly framed as acceptable leadership, Brown delivers practical, actionable insights that

UUs are blessed to undertake the lifelong process together, says UUA President Rev. Dr. Sofía Betancourt.