Books like Broken by Dar Tomlinson

A groundbreaking work that explains how trauma rewires the brain and body, and presents evidence‑based therapies—from neurofeedback to yoga—that unlock the mind’s natural capacity for healing.

A groundbreaking guide to embracing vulnerability and courage.

A gripping tale of a Mexican American teenage girl facing the challenges of adulthood and grief, set against the backdrop of her Mexican American family in New York.

Brené Brown explains how embracing vulnerability and the lessons of failure can help us find courage, transform shame into strength, and craft a resilient, wholehearted life.

A loving family faces the discovery that their youngest son, Claude, identifies as a girl, testing their bonds and challenging the assumptions that shape their lives.

John Nichols’s fiction novel explores the lives of Mexican Americans and the challenges of water rights in contemporary America.

A darkly comic novel exploring the corrupting influence of politics and media in modern Britain.

The Bright Hour is a moving memoir in which poet Nina Riggs chronicles her life with terminal breast cancer, exploring how to live fully amid death, illness, and the emotional landscape of being a mother and patient.

A contemporary African‑American story that dives into the lives of women linked to football—wives, coaches, and lovers—illustrating romance, infidelity, and urban challenges in the world of the National Football League.

Zac Abriendo had it all: A wife, a son, and a job he loved. His world was grounded in a deeply rooted commitment to work and family that spanned generations. His days were spent on the Gulf shrimping with his father. His nights were divided between computer classes at the local community college and his duties as a father and husband. all that changed the day Carron Fitzpatrick walked into his life. Carron was everything that Zac wasn't. She was rich. She was Anglo. She was cold and calculating. And she would stop at nothing to get what she wanted. And she wanted Zac. From their first meeting on the docks when Carron stops by to purchase shrimp for one of her famous cocktail parties, Zac's every waking moment is consumed with thoughts of this flame-haired beauty, a local television reporter and daughter of one of the richest men in town. While Zac knows he can't have her, the mere possibility of feeling Carron's fair skin against his is enough to put thoughts into action. And when it becomes obvious that Carron has set her sights on seducing him, Zac falls, and falls hard. Thus begins an affair destined to consume and destroy, as fidelity and commitment give way to lust and passion in a struggle that leaves Zac's marriage decimated, his shrimping business in ruins, and his soul on the auction block.