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Religion & Culture
SPRING 2023
broadleafbooks.com | 877.373.0706 | Social Justice 1
Contents
Social Justice 3 Our books inspire transformation in
readers and their communities to foster a
Religion & Culture 8 more open, just, and compassionate world.
Rooted in the progressive Christian
Cultural Critique 11 tradition and reflecting the diversity of
human creativity, we publish books that
engage readers in fresh, substantive, timely,
Personal Growth 15
and inspiring reflection on what it is to live
with meaning and connection.
Spirituality 20
We are committed to publishing authors
who bring thoughtful perspective to
Christian Living 25 explorations in religion, spirituality, social
justice, culture, and personal growth with
Backlist 31 credibility and authenticity.
Broadleaf Books is the new adult nonfiction imprint of 1517 Media.
Beaming Books 45 The other imprints of 1517 Media include Beaming Books, Augsburg
Books, Fortress Press, Augsburg Fortress, and Sparkhouse.
For more information, visit 1517.media.
Fortress Press 46
World licensing rights are available unless otherwise noted.
Before the Streetlights
Religion
Come On
Social
& Culture
Black America’s Urgent Call for Climate
Justice
Solutions
HEATHER MCTEER TONEY
Climate activist Heather McTeer
Toney illuminates the central role of
Black communities in the movement
for climate justice and the impact
on other, intertwining forms of
systemic injustice.
MARKETING In Before the Streetlights Come On, climate activist Heather
▸ National print and online publicity to McTeer Toney insists that those most affected by climate
trade media, Black media, and social and change are best suited to lead the movement for climate
environmental justice media
justice. McTeer Toney brings her background in politics,
▸ Trade advertising community advocacy, and leadership in environmental
▸ Targeted digital and social-media justice to this revolutionary exploration of why and how
campaign to Black readers and
environmental and social justice readers Black Americans are uniquely qualified to lead national and
▸ Outreach to HBCU networks and
global conversations around systems of racial disparity and
audiences solutions to the climate crisis. As our country delves deeper
▸ Targeted outreach to Black-owned into solutions for systemic racism and past injustices, the
independent bookstores, including environmental movement must shift direction and leadership
author events
toward Black communities.
▸ Concerted Earth Day push, including
paid promotions and national media
HEATHER MCTEER TONEY is an attorney,
pitching
environmentalist, speaker, and writer. Formerly
mayor of Greenville, Mississippi, regional
Publication: April 18, 2023 administrator for the Environmental Protection
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Agency’s Southeast Region, and senior director for
208 pages Moms Clean Air Force, Toney is now vice president
$24.99 of community engagement for the Environmental Defense Fund. She
SOC072000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism is a frequent guest on numerous shows and networks including CNN,
& Social Justice Apple’s The Problem with Jon Stewart, MSNBC, Democracy Now!,
SOC001000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic and Fox News. Heather lives with her husband and three children in
Studies / American / African American & Oxford, Mississippi.
Black Studies
SCI092000 SCIENCE / Global Warming & heathermcteertoney @heathermcteer
Climate Change
@heathermcteertoney /HeatherMcTeerToney
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The Defiant Optimist
Daring to Fight Global Inequality,
& Culture
Justice
Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women
Social
DURREEN SHAHNA Z
Religion
Impact investor Durreen Shahnaz
reveals how she transformed
systems designed to enrich the
few to instead benefit the many,
and how we also can become
defiant optimists.
MARKETING When she launched the world’s first stock exchange for
▸ Author speaking tour social enterprises, Durreen Shahnaz sparked a movement.
▸ National print and online publicity Defiant optimism—the stubborn belief that systems that
campaign targeting business and news enrich the few can be transformed for the good of the
media many—requires an indomitable spirit. From growing
▸ Digital and social-media campaign up with constrained life chances, to working as the
targeting people interested in stories
of women innovators and those first Bangladeshi woman on Wall Street, to becoming a
interested in impact investing and global leader in impact investing, Shahnaz takes us on a
socially responsible investing
mesmerizing trek of innovation, compassion, and enterprise
▸ Advertising in traditional trade media from Bangladesh to India and eventually to Wall Street.
▸ Launch team tapping author’s Changing how systems work—and who they work for—
significant contacts in business, finance,
and impact investing networks isn’t for the faint of heart. But The Defiant Optimist offers
strategies for placing women, the underserved, and the
Publication: June 27, 2023 planet at the heart of systems of power.
978-1-5064-8076-3
Hardcover 5.5 x 8.5 DURREEN SHAHNA Z is founder of IIX, a
276 pages pioneering impact investment firm that brings
$27.99 together investors, development agencies, and
BUS071000 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS entrepreneurs to advance sustainable development
/ Leadership and empower millions of women. Shahnaz is on the
BUS109000 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Forbes “50 over 50” list and received the 2017 Oslo
Women in Business
SEL031000 SELF-HELP / Personal
Business for Peace Award. Shahnaz holds degrees from Smith College,
Growth / General the University of Pennsylvania, and Johns Hopkins University. She
and her husband have two daughters and live in Singapore.
iixglobal.com @durreen /durreen.shahnaz
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Social Justice for the
Religion
Sensitive Soul
Social
& Culture
How to Change the World in Quiet Ways
Justice
DORCAS CHENG-TOZUN
Activist and highly sensitive
person Dorcas Cheng-Tozun
empowers introverts, other HSPs,
and empaths to find their roles
within social justice work in
the ways that best support their
talents and avoid burnout.
MARKETING Introverts—including those who are sensitive, empathic,
▸ National publicity campaign to trade or quiet—have much to contribute to bringing about a
media, national and major market more just and equitable world. Such individuals are wise,
newspapers, and social justice–related
media
thoughtful, and conscientious; they feel more deeply and
▸ Niche outreach to Highly Sensitive
see things that others don’t. Yet, sustaining justice work can
People affinity groups, including blog be particularly challenging for the sensitive, and it requires
tour a deep level of self-awareness, intentionality, and care.
▸ Additional outreach to Christian Dorcas Cheng-Tozun expands the possibilities of how to
media involved in social justice work
have a positive social impact, affirming the particular gifts
▸ Digital and social-media campaign and talents that sensitive souls can offer. Alongside real-life
targeting personality test–takers and
activist networks examples of highly sensitive world-changers, Cheng-Tozun
▸ LinkedIn outreach to nonprofit explores pathways where our quieter, but equally passionate,
leaders and volunteers collaborators for social good can serve and thrive.
▸ Trade advertising
DORCAS CHENG -TOZUN is a nonprofit/
▸ Author launch team
social enterprise professional and multiple-
burnout survivor who expands the possibilities of
Publication: June 20, 2023 positive social impact. Cheng-Tozun’s work with
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various nonprofits, social enterprises, and faith-
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224 pages based organizations has given her opportunity
$26.99 to engage with a broad range of social issues toward solutions in
SEL031000 SELF-HELP / Personal
the areas of homelessness, affordable housing, energy access, youth
Growth / General leadership, HIV/AIDS, and international development. She lives in
SOC072000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / San Jose, California.
Activism & Social Justice
PSY023000 PSYCHOLOGY / Personality chengtozun.com @chengtozun @chengtozun /chengtozun
broadleafbooks.com | 877.373.0706 | Social Justice 5
Love Your Mother
50 States, 50 Stories, and 50 Women United
& Culture
Justice
for Climate Justice
Social
MALLORY MCDUFF
Religion
With stunning illustrations,
environmental educator Mallory
McDuff highlights the diverse stories
of fifty women and girls leading the
way to address climate change and
sustainability for the next generation.
MARKETING As a mother and a professor of environmental education,
▸ National publicity campaign targeting Mallory McDuff wanted to give her two daughters and
women’s media and environmental her students a roadmap to engage in climate justice in
media
their communities, rather than be left feeling paralyzed
▸ Targeted digital and social-media
campaign to those interested in
by the problem. She set out to find women of diverse ages,
climate activism and stories of backgrounds, and vocations—one from each of the fifty
courageous female activists US states—as inspiration for a new kind of leadership. Love
▸ Outreach to environmental, Your Mother lifts up the stories of these women working
conservation, and climate justice
podcasts and blogs
toward a viable future. From Alabama to Alaska, from
Wisconsin to Wyoming, these women are poets, physicians,
▸ Launch team tapping author’s
connections in environmentalism and climate scientists, students, farmers, writers, filmmakers,
readers of her previous books and more. Their work lights the way for conversation and
collective action. It’s time we follow their lead.
Publication: April 11, 2023
978-1-5064-6444-2 MALLORY MCDUFF teaches environmental
Hardcover 5 x 8 education at Warren Wilson College outside
200 pages
Asheville, North Carolina. With her two daughters,
$24.99
she lives on campus in a 900-square-foot house with
NAT011000 NATURE / Environmental an expansive view of the Appalachian Mountains.
Conservation & Protection
BIO022000 BIOGRAPHY &
She is the author of five books, including Our Last
AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women Best Act: Planning for the End of Our Lives to Protect the People and
SCI092000 SCIENCE / Global Warming Places We Love. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The
& Climate Change Washington Post, Wired, and more.
mallorymcduff.com @malmcduff
@mallorymcduff1 /mallory.mcduff
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What Makes You
Religion
Come Alive
Social
& Culture
A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman
Justice
LERITA COLEMAN BROWN
Retreat leader and speaker Dr.
Lerita Coleman Brown brings
Howard Thurman and his wisdom
to the modern era, exploring what
his guidance can offer everyday
seekers today.
MARKETING Howard Thurman served as the spiritual godfather of
▸ Publicity outreach to Christian and the civil rights movement. What wisdom might he offer
contemplative spirituality media us today? Lerita Coleman Brown beckons everyday
▸ Targeted outreach to spiritual seekers into mentorship with Thurman and his liberating
directors and clergy and HBCU
spiritual programs spirituality. Brown walks us through Thurman’s inimitable
▸ Advertising in Christian media
life and commitments as he summons us into centering
▸ Social-media campaign and digital
down, encountering the natural world, paying attention to
targeting to HBCUs, activists, and sacred synchronicity and more. We learn from Thurman’s
those interested in contemplative resilience in the Jim Crow South, his encounters with
spirituality and social action
Quakers and with Mahatma Gandhi, and his sense of being
▸ Key promotion through Black
History Month
guided by the Spirit. Thurman’s work enlivened an entire
movement, and it will inspire us to authentic action today.
▸ Online or Zoom retreats
DR . LERITA COLEMAN BROWN is a retreat
Publication: February 7, 2023 leader, speaker, spiritual companion, and professor
978-1-5064-7465-6 emerita of psychology at Agnes Scott College. She
Hardcover 5.25 x 8
213 pages
holds a BA from the University of California–
$26.99 Santa Cruz, a PhD from Harvard University, and
a certificate from Shalem Institute for Spiritual
REL062000 RELIGION / Spirituality
BIO002010 BIOGRAPHY & Formation. Brown is the author of numerous articles, essays, an edited
AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & volume, and When the Heart Speaks, Listen: Discovering Inner Wisdom.
Regional / African American & Black She has been featured in PBS documentaries about Howard Thurman
BIO018000 BIOGRAPHY & and the Black church. She lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious
peaceforhearts.com @peace4hearts
@peaceforhearts /peaceforhearts
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Preparing for War
& Culture
The Extremist History of White Christian
& Culture
Nationalism—and What Comes Next
BRADLEY ONISHI
Religion
Religion
Former insider and religion scholar
Bradley Onishi crafts an engrossing
historical account of White
Christian nationalism and the
emergence of what he calls the New
Religious Right.
MARKETING Combining his experiences in the youth groups and
▸ National and online publicity prayer meetings of the 1990s with an immersive look
campaign to national newspapers and at the steady blending of White grievance politics with
magazines on evangelicalism, Christian
nationalism, and religious extremism evangelicalism, Bradley Onishi traces the years-long
▸ Niche publicity outreach on two-year
campaign of White Christian nationalism that led to
anniversary of Capitol insurrection January 6. How did the rise of the New Religious Right
▸ West Coast book tour give birth to violent White Christian nationalism during
▸ Trade and Christian advertising the Trump presidency and beyond? What propelled some
▸ Preorder campaign of the most conservative religious communities in the
▸ Podcast tour based on author’s
country to ignite a cold civil war? From White supremacy
extensive media contacts and segregationist theologies to the Christian-school
▸ Author launch team movement and the right-wing media ecosystem, Onishi
pulls back the curtain on a dangerous subculture.
Publication: January 3, 2023
978-1-5064-8216-3 DR . BR ADLEY ONISHI is a scholar of religion and
Hardcover 6 x 9 cohost of the Straight White American Jesus podcast.
237 pages His writing has been published in The New York
$28.99 Times, LA Review of Books, and Religion & Politics,
POL072000 POLITICAL SCIENCE / among other outlets. He holds degrees from Azusa
Religion, Politics & State Pacific University, Oxford University, and L’institut
REL084000 RELIGION / Religion, Politics catholique de Paris, and he received his PhD from the University of
& State
HIS036070 HISTORY / United States / California at Santa Barbara. A TEDx speaker and the author, editor,
21st Century or translator of four previous books, Onishi teaches at the University of
San Francisco and lives in the Bay Area with his wife and daughter.
bradonishi.com @BradleyOnishi @ bbonishi /straightwhitejc
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Dear Revolutionaries
Religion
Religion
A Field Guide for a World beyond
the Church
& Culture
& Culture
LENNY DUNCAN
Lenny Duncan, author of Dear
Church, returns with a bold new
vision for a spiritual future led
by the people in community in
a world beyond the church.
MARKETING In Dear Church, Lenny Duncan had a vision for a church
▸ Author speaking tour that could reform itself into something new. Four years,
▸ National print and online publicity an uprising, and a pandemic later, Lenny contends that
targeting Christian and spirituality we don’t need a reformation—we need a revolution. Dear
media
Revolutionaries gives readers the tools for spiritual community
▸ Digital and social-media campaign
targeting progressive Christians
led by the people in a world beyond the church.
concerned with issues of social justice
LENNY DUNCAN (they/them) is a writer, speaker,
▸ Outreach to social justice, religion, and scholar, and media producer working at the forefront
spirituality podcasts and blogs
of racial justice in America. Lenny is the author
▸ Advertising with Christian media of Dear Church and United States of Grace and co-
▸ Congregational promotion and creator of the podcast BlackBerryJams with PRX.
inclusion in newsletter to large A PhD student in historical and cultural studies of
congregations religion, Lenny is currently investigating the theft of African spiritual
▸ Author launch team and social-media thought by white American Esotericism. Lenny is originally from West
preorder campaign Philadelphia, and now makes their home in Oakland, California.
Publication: February 21, 2023 lennyduncan.com @lennyaduncan @lennyaduncan /lennyaduncan
978-1-5064-7906-4
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REL012110 RELIGION / Christian Living
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SOC072000 SOCIAL SCIENCE /
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REL012120 RELIGION / Christian Living
/ Spiritual Growth
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What Would Jesus See
& Culture
Ways of Looking at a Disorienting World
& Culture
A ARON ROSEN
Religion
Religion
Jewish scholar of art and religion
Aaron Rosen offers a radical new
reading of the life of Jesus through
an exploration of how he saw
the world, providing a fresh lens
through which we might see the
world today.
MARKETING Aaron Rosen, one of the world’s leading experts on art
▸ National publicity campaign focused and religion, brings a fresh lens to the Gospels, informed
on spirituality, art, literary, and culture by his experience as an art curator and critic as well as a
media
scholar. He examines how Jesus kept his focus, his keen
▸ Digital and social-media campaign
targeting those interested in the visual eye for spectacle, and his tools for discerning truth amid
arts, culture, religion, and social justice a flurry of false appearances. As he applies Jesus’s view to
▸ Targeted outreach to arts and culture, key challenges facing society today, Rosen taps a surprising
interfaith, and social justice podcasts trove of examples drawn from art, current events, and
and blogs
popular culture. At the core of Jesus’s ministry, Rosen
▸ Direct outreach to author’s
organizational ties through Wesley finds, is a call to look at our world with radical empathy.
Theological Seminary and Henry Luce
III Center for the Arts & Religion A ARON ROSEN is an art curator and critic, a
writer, and a scholar who has taught at Columbia,
Publication: June 6, 2023 Yale, and Oxford Universities. He is director of the
978-1-5064-7865-4 Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion
Hardcover 5.5 x 8.5 at Wesley Theological Seminary and visiting
208 pages professor at King’s College London. Rosen is the
$26.99 visual arts editor at Image Journal and author and editor of ten books,
REL062000 RELIGION / Spirituality including Art & Religion in the 21st Century. He has published widely
REL006710 RELIGION / Biblical Studies for various media, including The Guardian, The Los Angeles Times,
/ New Testament / Jesus, the Gospels &
CNN.com, and Art in America. He lives with his wife, Rev. Carolyn
Acts
ART035000 ART / Subjects & Themes / Rosen, and their son on the coast of Maine.
Religious
luceartsandreligion.org
10 broadleafbooks.com | 877.373.0706 | Religion & CulturePregnant While Black
Religion
Cultural
Reshaping the Story of an American
Tragedy
& Culture
Critique
MONIQUE RAINFORD
Drawing on over twenty years
of experience in obstetrics and
gynecology, Dr. Monique Rainford
offers this comprehensive primer
on adverse maternal-health
outcomes for Black pregnancies and
what can be done to improve them.
MARKETING Despite medical advances over the last twenty years, for Black
▸ National publicity campaign to women the overwhelming dangers of carrying and delivering
major news organizations, national children remain, and it only seems to be getting worse.
newspapers, BIPOC and women’s
health media Passionately identifying why Black women are three times more
▸ Digital and social-media campaign to
likely to die from pregnancy than their white counterparts, this
Black women and BIPOC media book carries the hopes and dreams of a generation looking
▸ Trade advertising and library co-op to effect change. Dr. Monique Rainford examines infertility,
promotion institutional racism, pregnancy and delivery complications, and
▸ Awards submissions postpartum care for Black women, offering tangible solutions
▸ LinkedIn outreach to healthcare to address these issues, including improving treatment
professionals standards and highlighting critical legislation.
Publication: May 9, 2023 MONIQUE R AINFORD, MD, is a board-certified
978-1-5064-8761-8 obstetrician and gynecologist with over twenty
Hardcover 6 x 9 years’ experience. An award-winning graduate of
240 pages
$26.99 the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Medical
School, she is currently an assistant professor at Yale
SOC001000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic
Medicine. Her writing about maternal and other
Studies / American / African American &
Black Studies health disparities experienced by Black women has been featured in
HEA041000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Afro, Elephant Journal, and the Hartford Courant, and her broader work
Pregnancy & Childbirth related to women’s health and wellness has been featured in the South
MED033000 MEDICAL / Gynecology & Florida Times, the Baltimore Sun, Thought Catalog, and the Journal of
Obstetrics
Reproductive Medicine. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and
two children.
moniquerainford.com @MoniqueRainford /MoniqueRainfordMD
broadleafbooks.com | 877.373.0706 | Cultural Critique 11Missed Conceptions
Critique
How We Make Sense of Infertility
& Culture
K AREN STOLLZNOW
Cultural
Religion
A cultural and personal exploration
of infertility, mixing science,
history, and personal reflection to
offer hope and companionship to
those struggling to conceive.
MARKETING Infertility is one of the most painful and painfully common
▸ National print and online publicity of human experiences. One in six couples will experience
campaign focused on women’s, fertility challenges. After her own struggle to conceive,
parenting, and health and wellness
media linguist and historian Karen Stollznow journeyed through
▸ Advertising in traditional book trade
history—from ancient civilizations and religions, to early-
media modern folklore, to current-day popular culture and modern
▸ Digital and social-media campaign medical practice—to make sense of what we mean by
targeting those struggling with infertility and what infertility means for us. Stollznow shines
infertility
a light on beliefs about infertility, tests urban legends and old
▸ Niche publicity outreach to fertility
and grief communities and therapists
wives’ tales, explores folk medicine and alternative therapies,
and counselors and delves into modern science, separating fact from fiction.
▸ Author launch team
DR . K AREN STOLL ZNOW is the author of On
the Offensive: Prejudice in Language Past and Present;
Publication: April 25, 2023 God Bless America; and Language Myths, Mysteries,
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and Magic. She has written for Psychology Today,
Hardcover 5.5 x 8.5
240 pages Scientific American Mind, and The Conversation and
$26.99 has appeared on A Current Affair, The Anderson
HEA045000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Cooper Show, and the History Channel’s Miracles Decoded. She
Fertility & Infertility is currently a researcher with the Griffith Center for Social and
SOC057000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural Research and a host of Monster Talk, an award-winning
Disease & Health Issues science-based podcast. She lives in Denver, Colorado, with her
HIS058000 HISTORY / Women husband and their son.
karenstollznow.com @karenstollznow
@karenstollznow /karenstollznow
12 broadleafbooks.com | 877.373.0706 | Cultural CritiqueCry, Baby
Religion
Cultural
Why Our Tears Matter
& Culture
BENJAMIN PERRY
Critique
Queer writer and activist Benjamin
Perry explores our rich legacy of
crying, why we stopped, and how
learning to cry openly can change
us and the world we inhabit.
MARKETING Cry, Baby explores humans’ rich legacy of weeping—and
▸ Publicity outreach to trade book why some of us stopped. With the keen gaze of a journalist
media, national and major market and the vulnerability of a good friend, writer Benjamin Perry
newspapers, and psychology media
explores the great paradoxes of our tears. Why do we cry?
▸ Niche outreach to progressive
Christian and spirituality media and In societies marked by racism, sexism, and homophobia,
LGBTQIA media who is allowed to cry—and who isn’t? Exploring the vast
▸ Trade advertising history, literature, physiology, psychology, and spirituality
▸ Digital and social-media campaign of crying, we can recognize our deepest hopes and longings,
targeting readers interested in how we connect to others, and the social forces bent on
vulnerability and shame
keeping us from mourning. As we reclaim our crying as a
▸ Independent bookstore mailing
central part of being human, we not only care for ourselves
▸ Author launch team and relearn how to express our vulnerable emotions; we also
prophetically reimagine the future.
Publication: May 16, 2023
978-1-5064-8511-9 BENJAMIN PERRY is a minister at Middle Church
Hardcover 5.5 x 8.5
250 pages
and an award-winning writer whose work has
$26.99 appeared in The Washington Post, Slate, Sojourners,
and Bustle. With a degree in psychology from SUNY
PSY013000 PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions
REL062000 RELIGION / Spirituality Geneseo and an MDiv from Union Theological
SOC072000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Seminary, Perry has worked as an organizer with
Activism & Social Justice the New York chapter of the Poor People’s Campaign and as an editor
at Time, Inc. Perry has appeared on MSNBC, Al Jazeera, and NY1,
and is the editor of the Queer Faith photojournalism series. He and his
spouse, Erin Mayer, live with his best friend and brother in Maine.
@FaithfullyBP @FaithfullyBP
broadleafbooks.com | 877.373.0706 | Cultural Critique 13Purposeful Empathy
Critique
Tapping Our Hidden Superpower for
& Culture
Personal, Organizational, and Social Change
Cultural
ANITA NOWAK
Religion
FOREWORD BY MUHAMMAD YUNUS
Empathy expert and educator
Anita Nowak crafts a vision for
purposeful empathy, utilizing new
brain science, interviews with
experts, and practical exercises to
help leaders utilize this underused
human superpower in their
organizations.
MARKETING We are living in an era of a massive empathy deficit, yet
▸ Publicity outreach to leadership and our capacity to imagine what someone else is feeling is a
business media and self-help media unique human superpower. Through inspiring stories,
▸ Trade advertising interviews with experts, and self-development exercises,
▸ Social-media and digital campaign Purposeful Empathy offers wisdom and practical advice to
targeting self-help readers and those
involved in social activism
foster personal, organizational, and social transformation.
▸ Niche outreach to leadership
Empathy increases dopamine, reduces stress, boosts self-
podcasts, organizations, and blogs esteem, strengthens the immune system, and enriches
▸ Influencer mailing to those working our relationships. Empathy also improves business key
within leadership and entrepreneurial performance indicators. This means that leveraging
spaces
empathy on purpose can lead to better health, happier and
▸ Speaking engagements at business more productive workplaces, and a more meaningful life.
leadership workshops and retreats
▸ Author launch team ANITA NOWAK , PHD, is an empathy expert,
speaker, podcaster, award-winning educator,
Publication: April 11, 2023 certified coach, and founder of Purposeful
978-1-5064-8505-8 Empathy by Design, a boutique global advisory
Hardcover 6 x 9 firm that helps purpose-driven organizations create
280 pages
cultures of empathy and social impact. Passionate
$28.99
about mentoring the next generation of changemakers, she teaches
BUS071000 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS leadership, ethics in management, and social entrepreneurship and
/ Leadership
BUS041000 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
innovation at McGill University. Anita lives in Montreal with her
/ Management husband and daughter.
SEL042000 SELF-HELP / Emotions
anitanowak.com @anitanowak21
@anitanowak21 /PurposefulEmpathy
14 broadleafbooks.com | 877.373.0706 | Cultural CritiqueYour Body Is a
Religion
Revolution
Personal
& Culture
Healing Our Relationships with Our
Bodies, Each Other, and the Earth
Growth
TARA TENG
An invitation to explore the
wisdom that our bodies long
to teach.
MARKETING Too many of us are living disconnected from our bodies,
▸ National print and online publicity chasing a constantly moving target of “ideal,” and accepting
campaign targeting trade media,
women’s media, health and wellness
the societal narrative about which bodies are deserving
media, and progressive Christian media of safety and protection. Your Body Is a Revolution is an
▸ Digital and social-media campaign invitation to reclaim what has been stolen from us, to
targeting progressive women interested embrace the wisdom our bodies long to share, and to fully
in embodiment and somatic practice
inhabit our lives. Embodiment coach Tara Teng helps us
▸ Targeted publicity push to health and
wellness, spirituality, and progressive
untangle ourselves from centuries of body-based oppression
Christian podcasts and blogs built into our societal systems or masquerading as religion
▸ Outreach to influencers in ex-vangelical, and teaches us to slow down and listen to the wisdom that
desconstructiing faith, and embodiment comes through somatic practices.
spaces
▸ Launch team and social-media preorder TAR A TENG is an embodiment coach and somatic
campaign practitioner who works at the intersections of
embodiment, justice, and sexuality, helping people
Publication: May 16, 2023 overcome shame, and heal trauma. A former Miss
978-1-5064-8378-8 Canada, she was named Canada’s “Woman of the
Hardcover 5.5 x 8.5 Year” in 2011, received an International Heroes
224 pages award from the Joy Smith Foundation, and was presented with the
$26.99
Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal in recognition of her human rights
SEL023000 SELF-HELP / Personal work to combat human trafficking. She lives with her three young
Growth / Self-Esteem children on the unceded traditional territories of the Kwantlen and
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broadleafbooks.com | 877.373.0706 | Personal Growth 15My Body and Other
Crumbling Empires
Growth
& Culture
Lessons for Healing in a World That Is Sick
Personal
LYNDSEY MEDFORD
Religion
A hopeful exploration of how the
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16 broadleafbooks.com | 877.373.0706 | Personal GrowthDeath Is a Day Worth
Religion
Living
Personal
& Culture
DR . ANA CLAUDIA QUINTANA
Growth
ARANTES
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broadleafbooks.com | 877.373.0706 | Personal Growth 17Collisions of Earth
and Sky
Growth
& Culture
Connecting with Nature for Nourishment,
Personal
Reflection, and Transformation
Religion
HEIDI BARR
Beautifully lyrical reflections
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world, guiding us to achieve
better physical and mental
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18 broadleafbooks.com | 877.373.0706 | Personal GrowthChicken Scratch
Religion
Personal
Lessons on Living Creatively from
a Flock of Hens
& Culture
Growth
ANN BYLE
Lessons on creativity inspired
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ANN BYLE is a journalist and nonfiction writer
Publication: May 23, 2023
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208 pages various nonprofit organizations’ publications.
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in journalism. Ann lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with her
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broadleafbooks.com | 877.373.0706 | Personal Growth 19Sit in the Sun
And Other Lessons in the Spiritual
& Culture
Spirituality
Wisdom of Cats
JON M. SWEENEY
Religion
Award-winning spiritual writer
Jon M. Sweeney offers a playful,
gentle, and profound meditation
on the many spiritual truths and
practices of our favorite feline
companions.
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being independent spirits. Jon Sweeney, beloved scholar and
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blogs Francis, offers a beautifully illustrated, playful meditation
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JON M . SWEENEY is an award-winning spiritual
Publication: April 11, 2023
writer and author of over thirty books. He has been
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20 broadleafbooks.com | 877.373.0706 | SpiritualityWalking the Way of
Religion
Harriet Tubman
Spirituality
& Culture
Public Mystic and Freedom Fighter
THERESE TAYLOR-STINSON
FOREWORD BY BARBARA A . HOLMES
An intimate look at the deeply
spiritual life of Harriet Tubman,
the iconic activist whose faith
led to her internal liberation, the
ultimate freedom that fueled her
fight against enslavement.
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progressive Christian, social justice,
and Black media
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own spiritual truth, advocacy, and racial justice as we follow
in her footsteps—for Black lives and all people of color.
Publication: February 14, 2023 THERESE TAYLOR-STINSON is a writer, spiritual
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director, ordained deacon, and ruling elder in the
172 pages Presbyterian Church (USA). A graduate of the
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Therese and her husband live in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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broadleafbooks.com | 877.373.0706 | Spirituality 21The Book of Nature
The Astonishing Beauty of God’s First
& Culture
Spirituality
Sacred Text
BARBARA MAHANY
Religion
Barbara Mahany introduces
us to The Book of Nature,
an ancient theology that
understands God’s presence
as first revealed to us in the
natural world.
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to Christian, spirituality, mind-body- who have come before us; and her own spiritual practice and
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gentle observation, Barbara Mahany reintroduces us to The
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to spiritual readers, interfaith
organizations, and literary/poetry again to examine how generously it awaits our attention and
readers devotion, standing ready to be read by all.
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BARBAR A MAHANY is an author and freelance
journalist beloved for her features and writing that
Publication: March 21, 2023
978-1-5064-7351-2 appeared in the Chicago Tribune for almost thirty
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22 broadleafbooks.com | 877.373.0706 | SpiritualityThe Spirituality
Religion
of Grief
Spirituality
& Culture
Ten Practices for Those Who Remain
FRAN TILTON SHELTON
A gentle guide through ten
central questions of grief, offering
strength and companionship to
those who have experienced the
death of a loved one.
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experienced the death of a loved one we are not alone, and there is no one right way to grieve.
and those who engage the author’s Author Fran Tilton Shelton walks us through the questions
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networks, palliative care and
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therapists
▸ Outreach to grief and spirituality FR AN TILTON SHELTON is a founder and
podcasts and blogs president of the nonprofit Faith & Grief. She is a
spiritual director and earned her doctor of ministry
Publication: April 18, 2023 degree from Austin Presbyterian Theological
978-1-5064-8310-8 Seminary. She has served in the Presbyterian
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broadleafbooks.com | 877.373.0706 | Spirituality 23The Sacred Life
of Bread
& Culture
Spirituality
Uncovering the Mystery of an
Ordinary Loaf
Religion
MEGHAN MURPHY-GILL
An engaging and literary
exploration of the spirituality
of bread—from the planting of
seeds to the harvesting of wheat,
to baking and breaking bread
together—offering meditations
on the spiritually sustaining and
physically nourishing loaf of bread.
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writing, bread-making, food justice, and Meghan Murphy-Gill explores the life cycle of bread, from
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mysteries of each stage of bread’s life.
Publication: June 13, 2023 MEGHAN MURPHY- GILL is an author, former
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She lives in Chicago with her family.
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24 broadleafbooks.com | 877.373.0706 | SpiritualitySearching for Agabus
Religion
Christian
Embracing Authenticity and Finding
Your Way to You
& Culture
MICHAEL WALROND
Living
Popular pastor and keynote speaker
Michael Walrond uses the little-
known New Testament prophet
Agabus as a vehicle for how we can
journey toward authenticity and
self-acceptance.
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Agabus to convey the countercultural message that an
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the Bible, as well as FCBC’s large than approval of others or even fame, Michael Walrond
congregational following
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MICHAEL WALROND is a popular keynote speaker
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and the pastor of First Corinthian Baptist Church of
New York City. He has lectured widely, including at
Publication: June 6, 2023
Yale Divinity School and Morehouse College. He is
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broadleafbooks.com | 877.373.0706 | Christian Living 25The Language of the
Soul
Living
& Culture
Meeting God in the Longings of Our Hearts
Christian
JEFF CROSBY
Religion
FOREWORD BY SUZ ANNE STABILE
AFTERWORD BY JAMES BRYAN SMITH
A beautiful literary exploration
of the spiritual longings of our
hearts that guides us to discover
our true yearnings and listen to
our deepest longings.
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deep within himself. Now, Crosby gifts us with those so-
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congregations longings for home, for friendship, for forgiveness, and for
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these longings.
Publication: May 23, 2023
978-1-5064-8054-1 JEFF CROSBY is an organizational leader in
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26 broadleafbooks.com | 877.373.0706 | Christian LivingIn Trembling
Religion
Boldness
Christian
& Culture
Wisdom for Today from Ancient
Jesus People
Living
NATALIE R . PERKINS
AND HAL TAUSSIG
A first-of-its-kind book of
meditations on the words and
wisdom of recently discovered
writings by ancient followers
of Jesus, and how they can
offer us deeper spiritual
connection today.
MARKETING Using examples from modern life to introduce excerpts from
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media
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spiritual seekers violence, illness, social justice work, and civil disobedience.
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podcasts and blogs NATALIE RENEE PERKINS serves as director of
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inclusion in newsletter to large a chaplain for New York University. She received her
congregations master of divinity degree from Union Theological
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Feminist Preaching Prize. Perkins works with the
Westar Institute to bridge the gap between religious scholarship and
Publication: June 13, 2023
978-1-5064-8574-4 the general public. She lives in New York City.
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Knowledge Inquirer, the History Channel, and The Washington Post. He lives near
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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