SILLY, DELIGHTFUL LITTLE fable about workaholic angels at Heaven, Inc. trying to engineer love between nerds.

CANDID MEMOIR OF a researcher’s surprising (to her) enchantment with her subject, Mormon founder Joseph Smith.

MEDITATIVE, ELOQUENT ESSAYS from novelist Marilynne Robinson touch on faith, aging, and the joy of reading.

THOUGHTFUL COLLECTION OF people’s true stories about reconciling their sexuality with their Christian beliefs.

THOUGHTFUL AND EYE-OPENING memoir tells the story of a man’s difficult decision to leave his Amish community.

CANDID AND ENGROSSING memoir of a young woman’s decision to leave New York’s Satmar Hasidic Jewish community.

A WOMAN’S PAINFUL tale of clashes with her folks’ anti-medicine Christian Science beliefs, and her mom’s cancer.

A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY of the medieval and Renaissance Inquisitions sheds light on modern ideas of punishment.

FASCINATING TRUE TALES of the scholars, zealots, and eccentrics who have searched for an actual Garden of Eden.

APOSTATE FROM THE US’s Christian Right Frank Schaeffer looks at his childhood’s mixed messages on sex, love.