Justice For The Forgotten Families Of 9/11 by Tom McMillan

About the book: Twenty-five years after 9/11, the families of the victims are still waiting for justice.

The president of the United States said in a dramatic speech at the White House that the families of those killed on September 11, 2001, "should have to wait no longer" and that "we have a duty to bring those responsible for these crimes to justice." But that was not Joe Biden in 2022, or Donald Trump in 2017, or even Barack Obama in 2012 - it was George W Bush in 2006.

While most of America has moved on through four presidential administrations while images of those devastating attacks fade from memory, the families of 9/11 are still waiting for some kind of accountability.

Since that devastating day, there has not been one conviction of anyone involved in planning or facilitating the attacks. Five “high value detainees” with direct connections to the plot have been at Guantanamo for years, but all they’ve had are preliminary hearings and delays. Part of the challenge is that many of their confessions were obtained under torture at CIA “black sites” overseas between 2002–2006.

Moreover, there has been no true assessment of Saudi complicity, even though 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis, and it is clear that several Saudi operatives in the US assisted some of the hijackers when they got here. Did they do so officially? Under orders? That is still undetermined, but there is a mountain of circumstantial evidence. The families are so exasperated that they have filed a lawsuit against the kingdom.

Justice for the Forgotten Families of 9/11 (2026) is about the quest for justice by the families of the victims a quarter-century after the worst terrorist attack in US history.

About the author: Tom McMillan, a retired sports PR executive and lifelong student of history, has served on the board of trustees of Pittsburgh’s Heinz History Center, the board of directors of Friends of Flight 93 National Memorial, the board of directors of the Antietam Institute, and the marketing committee of the Gettysburg Foundation. McMillan has written four books on U.S. history—ranging from the Battle of Gettysburg to September 11th to the Star-Spangled Banner - and regularly gives book talks throughout the Northeast and Midwest.

After graduating with a journalism degree from Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA, McMillan worked for forty-three years in media and communications, including ten years as a sportswriter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and twenty-five years as VP/Communications for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (his name is on the 2009 Stanley Cup, and he has three championship rings). Tom and his wife, Colleen, reside in Pittsburgh and Gettysburg, PA. They also volunteer as ambassadors at Antietam National Battlefield.

I Will Follow You Anywhere by John Feal

About the book: Twenty-five years after the attacks that shook the nation, discover the untold story of an American hero who proved that one person can turn trauma into heroic action - from the wounded construction worker who became a relentless champion of the 9/11 responders.

On 11 September 2001, John Feal rushed to Ground Zero to assist with the recovery and cleanup in the aftermath of the terrorist attack. 96 hours later, his destiny was forged by steel when an 8,000-pound beam crushed his left foot. As he adjusted to a partial amputation and went broke paying medical bills, he watched his fellow responders suffer and die from cancer and other ailments caused by the dust in the air they were told was safe to breathe.

Forgotten by a broken healthcare system and lawmakers who had promised to #NeverForget, Feal knew it was time to fight.

Now, in I Will Follow You Anywhere: The True Story of the 9/11 Responders Who Took On Congress (2026), he shares his “recipe” for getting things done. Accompanied by stories from his fellow responders in their own words, Feal lays out his rogue approach to the ground game of representative government, empowering readers in all walks of life to take on the system and win.

While working to get the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund and healthcare bill passed, Feal caught the attention of comedian Jon Stewart, who joined the cause and became a valuable ally and dear friend. In 2019, Stewart’s testimony before Congress went viral, placing a much-needed spotlight on the frustration and grief of those long abandoned by their government - and the bill was finally signed into law. In the years since, Feal, Stewart, and his team have championed the PACT Act for veterans exposed to burn pits and lent their expertise to other worthy causes.

John is now a “hired gun” for activists fighting to get legislation passed. With I Will Follow You Anywhere: The True Story of the 9/11 Responders Who Took On Congress, he shares his hard-won wisdom and expert strategies that will enable underdogs everywhere to stand up against a mighty system.

About the author: John Feal is a native New Yorker and Army veteran who worked as a demolition supervisor at Ground Zero until a disabling injury five days into the cleanup. He lobbied Congress to pass the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, which he fought to defend and expand in 2015 and 2019 with the help of dozens of his fellow 9/11 responders, post-9/11 illness survivors, and comedian Jon Stewart. He has since gone on to pass 19 pieces of legislation and is working on number 20.

Through the FealGood Foundation, he continues to advocate for the health needs of first responders nationwide. His appearance on Fox News with Jon Stewart has gone viral. John has spoken at the 9/11 Memorial Museum, Princeton University, and Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. His story has been covered by Vanity Fair, NPR, The Daily Beast, The Wall Street Journal, and all major news networks, and in two documentaries.

John is a Pat Tilman Foundation honoree, a recipient of the New York State Liberty Award and the New York State Medal of Honor for Civilians, the founder and chairman of the 9/11 Responders Remembered Park, and a kidney donor.

About the contributor: Charles Daly is the coauthor of Make Peace or Die: A Life of Service, Leadership, and Nightmares, which has been featured on Jocko Podcast. He has worked as a developmental editor on bestselling military memoirs, including From Lawyer to Warrior and Civil: Life After the Foreign Legion. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, We Are the Mighty, Kokatat, and Thought Catalog. Charlie lives in a cottage on the west coast of Ireland with his wife, a Swiss crime novelist; their baby boy; and a black cat. He serves as a maritime first responder on his local lifeboat.

Saint Elizabeth of The Trinity: The Complete Works, Volume 3

About the book: Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880–1906) became a Discalced Carmelite nun in Dijon, France, at the age of twenty-one and died five years later. Her spirituality is marked by attentiveness to the indwelling Trinity and her call to become a “praise of glory” for God. The writings gathered in this final volume reflect the mature Carmelite spirit found in the first two volumes while introducing us to the young Elizabeth as that maturity takes shape.

This third and final volume of Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity: The Complete Works brings together, for the first time in English, four collections of the saint’s writings:

The Diary, written when Elizabeth was eighteen and nineteen, records her prayer, sacrifices, vocational struggles, apostolic desires, and reflections on sermons and spiritual counsel with candour and immediacy;

The Intimate Notes, dating from before and after her entrance to Carmel, open into the inmost depths of her prayer and include such treasured writings as “To be a bride” and “O my God, Trinity whom I adore,” the latter included in the Catechism of the Catholic Church;

The Letters of Her Youth offer vivid snapshots of daily life, revealing Elizabeth’s warmth, humour, gift for friendship, delight in music, travel, and nature, and unwavering response to God’s call;

The Poems, composed from 1894 to 1906, serve as Elizabeth’s spiritual diary in verse: expressions of longing, suffering, joy, gratitude, and an ever-deepening desire for union with the Trinity.

Taken together, these texts form a portrait of an exuberant young woman as her loves are gradually gathered into a wholehearted love of Christ. Each collection is introduced and critically annotated by Elizabeth’s biographer and editor, Father Conrad De Meester, OCD. Based on the expanded and revised 2023 French critical edition, this volume includes three texts discovered after the earlier French editions, as well as five indexes covering all three volumes of the Complete Works. Read alongside the first two volumes - or encountered on its own - this concluding volume allows readers to follow the formation of a saint from within, as the spirited “Sabeth” Catez becomes Elizabeth of the Trinity.

Saint Elizabeth of The Trinity: The Complete Works, Volume 3: Diary – Intimate Notes – Letters of Her Youth – Poems is translated from the French by Gillian Leslie, OCD.

Saint Elizabeth of The Trinity: The Complete Works, Volume 3: Diary – Intimate Notes – Letters of Her Youth – Poems is now available for preorder only. Preorders are expected to ship by 12 October 2026.

Early Mornings At The Laksa Cafe by Janet Tay

About the book: Early Mornings at the Laksa Cafe is a mouthwatering and uplifting story about honouring tradition and finding your own way in life, set in family-run restaurants between Malaysia and Hong Kong.

Every morning before sunrise, Lim Ah Hock opens the shutters of his small kitchen on Carpenter Street, lights an incense stick and prepares the best laksa soup in all of Kuching. 

According to Lim family legend, the laksa’s secret ingredient – their ancestral broth – was gifted to them by a deity, who promised the family prosperity as long as the broth is passed down through the generations.

But Ah Hock is aging, and the broth’s quality is fading. His only son, Wei Ming, has no interest in the family business, having spent eight years in Hong Kong trying to prove himself as a chef. 

Now, he is struggling with gambling debts, embroiled in a love triangle, and the restaurant he has been left to run has lost its Global Restaurants Guild star.

Invited home to Malaysia for his father's 60th birthday, Wei Ming sees a chance to escape his troubles. But when old conflicts resurface and a local businessman threatens to destroy the family legacy, father and son are forced to ask themselves what truly matters.

Early Mornings at the Laksa Cafe (2026) is a Straits Times bestseller.

About the author: Janet Tay is a Tin House Winter Workshop alum whose short stories have appeared in various journals and collections including New Writing Dundee 4, Short Story America Anthology, Vol 1 and Black and Whites and Other New Stories from Malaysia. She has also written journalistic pieces on literature, food and parenting for various magazines and websites. The first act of her full-length play, Reunion, was longlisted for The Windsor Fringe Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing. She lives in Kuala Lumpur with her husband and son.

Rating: 4/5

Café. Waiting. Love. by Giddens Ko

About the book: Bestselling translator Shanna Tan teams up with renowned Taiwanese author and filmmaker Giddens Ko to bring readers a nostalgic 2000s classic about coming of age and finding love, for the first time in the English language.

'Dreams that are laughable when said aloud are often the ones most worth pursuing. Even if you fall . . .'

In a small café in Hsinchu, Taiwan, everyone is waiting for something. Whether it is love, a second chance or a sign of something greater. More than just an ordinary coffee shop; this is a place for serendipitous encounters.

Si-ying, a young woman working at the café, harbours a secret crush on the handsome Tse-yu, who regularly visits with a new girlfriend in tow. However, her life takes a turn when she befriends the quirky and earnest Ah Tuo. He takes her on adventures and introduces her to an eclectic mix of people who are not what they seem to be - a triad boss who is a cinephile and a laundrette owner who whips up exquisite dishes worthy of Michelin stars (but only on a Sunday!).

Feelings are complicated, Si-ying learns.

Within the café's walls, moments of reflection reveal profound truths. Amidst the wait for someone else, Si-ying makes her most significant journey: the one to discovering herself.

Cafe. Waiting. Love. is translated from the Mandarin Chinese by Shanna Tan. 

The book will be released on 20 May 2027.

About the author: Giddens Ko is an award-winning and highly popular Taiwanese writer and filmmaker. He writes under the pseudonym JIUBADAO 'Nine Knives' and has authored more than sixty books, primarily novels spanning a diverse range of blended genres including thriller, speculative fiction, horror, fantasy, romance and more. At his peak, he published one book per month for more than a year. Since 2009, he has also become a well-known figure in the film industry, having directed, produced and wrote several blockbuster Taiwanese films, including adaptations of his novels. You Are the Apple of My Eye, a 2011 Taiwanese coming-of-age romance film based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Ko, was a box office hit, winning several awards, and inspiring several film and drama remakes in Thailand and South Korea.

About the translator: Shanna Tan is a Singaporean literary translator working from Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Thai into English. Among her translations are a number of heartwarming cosy novels, which include the bestselling Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum and Soyangri Book Kitchen by Kim Jee Hye.

The Prince And The Nanny by Odell M Bjerkness

About the book: The Prince and the Nanny (2009) chronicles the life of Prince Harald, now the late King Harald V (1937-2026), as told in historical context and through the journal of his Nurse, Inga Berg. 

The Norwegian Royal Family has remained very close to the hearts of Norwegians for over a century. Inga Berg's well-written journal chronicles in great detail the early life of Prince Harald. The author has translated the document into English with commentary and built a case for the monarchy's close relationship to the people. 

While Nurse Inga Berg was living in the royal household, she was in a unique position to observe and take part in the life of the Royal Family. She recorded in her diary the young Prince's development. She also described her everyday experiences with the royal family, providing a rare glimpse into the private lives of Crown Prince Olav, Crown Princess Martha, King Haakon, Queen Maud, Princesses Astrid and Ragnhild, and young Prince Harald. 

It also gives a portrait of Inga herself, an extraordinary woman who was raised in humble surroundings, overcame adversity, studied to become a nurse, and eventually came to serve in the most prestigious house in Norway to help raise the first prince to be born on Norwegian soil in almost 600 years. 

The Prince and the Nanny (2009) is a fascinating story illustrated with hundreds of photographs throughout.

Cash Cow by Alev Scott

About the book: Cash Cow: How the maternal body became a global commodity – and the hidden costs for women (2026) is a thought-provoking deep dive into the global fertility industry and the commodification of the maternal body.

Should surrogacy be a paid service, an altruistic act – or even legal at all?

Is it right that you can pay more for ‘VIP’ egg donors – and to view their photos?

How much, if anything, should breastmilk cost – and who should be allowed to buy it?

The global fertility industry is rapidly growing, hugely profitable and morally complex. This an industry where one person’s biological bad luck can be another person’s financial gain. From egg freezing to black-market breastmilk, the maternal body has never been more commodified, yet the ethical, emotional and economic implications are rarely considered.

Through a combination of undercover reporting and detailed first-hand accounts – including a surrogate of 12 children, an international embryo courier and a man who buys breastmilk for his IBS – Alev Scott exposes how the IVF, surrogacy and milk industries operate around the world and who is profiting. 

In doing so, she considers the blurred line between exploitation and empowerment. Who should make money from the maternal body: only the women themselves, anyone or no one?

Timely, thought-provoking and compelling, Cash Cow: How the maternal body became a global commodity – and the hidden costs for women is an unmissable investigation into how desire, desperation and commerce intersect, and the impact the fertility industry has on individuals.

About the author: Alev Scott was born in London in 1987 to a Turkish mother and a British father. She studied Classics at Oxford before working in London as an assistant director in theatre and opera. In 2011, she moved to Istanbul, where she taught Latin at the Bosphorus University. Her first book, Turkish Awakening, was shortlisted for the Paddy Power Political Book Awards, Debut Political Book of the Year in 2015. Her second book, Ottoman Odyssey, was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award in 2019. Her third book was Power & the People, written with Andronike Makres.

Alev writes for numerous publications, including the Financial Times, Guardian, Newsweek, Harper’s Magazine, Politico Europe, New Statesman, Prospect, the BBC, Huffington Post, The Times, Sunday Times, New Humanist, the Los Angeles Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement. 

Profession Of Catholic Faith of The Society of Saint Pius X

About the booklet: The Society of Saint Pius X published the following “Profession of Catholic Faith: To Enlighten Souls in the Face of Modern Errors” on 24 June 2026, the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist. 

Addressed amid renewed tensions between the SSPX and the Holy See, the statement sets out the Society’s doctrinal position on divine revelation, the Church, the papacy, the liturgy, the sacraments, ecumenism, religious liberty and what it describes as modern errors affecting Catholic life. 

The original statement can be read on the SSPX website (Source: The Catholic Herald, 25 June 2026).

About the author: The Society of Saint Pius X is an international priestly society of common life without vows, whose purpose is the priesthood and all that pertains to it. Since its foundation by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1970, the Society has formed priests according to the immemorial teachings of the Catholic Church.

By teaching the traditional doctrine of the Church, by organising apostolates throughout the world, and by sanctifying souls with the traditional Latin rite of mass and the traditional Sacraments, the Society's priests continue the apostolic work of two millennia for the glory of God and for the salvation of souls. Deo gratias.

Portraits In White by Kaori Lai

About the book: After the Chinese Civil War, the Kuomintang imposed authoritarian rule on Taiwan in the name of anticommunism. 

The White Terror, as martial law and state repression were known, would last for decades, casting a pall of uncertainty and fear over Taiwanese society - and its legacies still haunt Taiwan today. 

The book is composed of three novellas, each telling the story of an ordinary person. Mr Ch’ing-chih, a schoolteacher, keeps his head down and avoids harming others despite pressure to do intelligence work. Ms Wen-hui, an old woman who had served as a housekeeper for elites of different backgrounds since the Japanese occupation, faces death alone in the digital age. Ms Casey, discriminated against for not being of mainlander descent, moves to Europe and must navigate the politics of diaspora. 

Even if only alluded to obliquely, the White Terror always hovers in the background, shaping the characters’ experiences and inner worlds. 

Elegantly written and keenly observed, Kaori Lai's Portraits in White provides a panoramic view of the ways authoritarianism seeps into daily life and explores everyday life under the White Terror, illuminating how the violence of martial law pervades even the most mundane moments.

Portraits in White is translated from the Mandarin by Sylvia Li-chun Lin and Howard Goldblatt.

About the author: Kaori Lai is an acclaimed Taiwanese writer, now based in Berlin, who has received numerous honours including the Taiwan Literature Award and the Taipei International Book Exhibition Prize. Her previous works include the novel Afterwards, the short story collection Island, and essays on Taiwanese history and culture.

About the translators: Sylvia Li-chun Lin is a former professor at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Representing Atrocity in Taiwan: The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film (Columbia, 2007).

Howard Goldblatt is the translator of more than sixty works in Chinese, including the novels of Nobel laureate Mo Yan, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Lin and Goldblatt have collaboratively translated nearly two dozen books by writers from China and Taiwan, including Notes of a Desolate Man by Chu T’ien-wen (Columbia, 1999).

Rating: 5/5

Homeseeking by Karissa Chen

About the book: Homeseeking is an epic and intimate tale of one couple across sixty years (from WWII to 2008) as world events pull them together and apart, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and exploring what it means to find home far from your homeland.

A single choice can define an entire life.

Haiwen is buying bananas at a 99 Ranch Market in Los Angeles when he looks up and sees Suchi, his Suchi, for the first time in sixty years. To recently widowed Haiwen, it feels like a second chance, but Suchi has only survived by refusing to look back.

Suchi was seven when she first met Haiwen in their Shanghai neighbourhood, drawn by the sound of his violin. Their childhood friendship blossomed into soul-deep love, but when Haiwen secretly enlisted in the Nationalist army in 1947 to save his brother from the draft, she was left with just his violin and a note: Forgive me.

Homeseeking (2025) follows the separated lovers through six decades of tumultuous Chinese history as war, famine, and opportunity take them separately to the song halls of Hong Kong, the military encampments of Taiwan, the bustling streets of New York, and sunny California, telling Haiwen’s story from the present to the past while tracing Suchi’s from her childhood to the present, meeting in the crucible of their lives. Throughout, Haiwen holds his memories close while Suchi forces herself to look only forward, neither losing sight of the home they hold in their hearts.

At once epic and intimate, Homeseeking is a story of family, sacrifice, and loyalty, and of the power of love to endure beyond distance, beyond time.

Homecoming is a Good Morning America Book Club Pick, a Book of the Month December Pick, a Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick, a Roxane Gay Book Club Pick, an Amazon Editor's Pick and an Apple Books Best of the Month. It is recommended by New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Pittsburg Post-Gazette, People, Vogue, Oprah Daily, Harper's Bazaar, Today.com, LA Times, Book Riot, LitHub, Bookbub, Debutiful, Kirkus Reviews, Readers Digest, Goodreads, Bookshop, Electric Lit, theSkimm, Chicago Review of Books and more.

About the author: Karissa Chen is a Fulbright fellow, Kundiman Fiction fellow, and a VONA/Voices fellow whose fiction and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Eater, The Cut, NBC News THINK!, Longreads, PEN America, Catapult, Gulf Coast, and Guernica, among others. She was awarded an artist fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts as well as multiple writing residencies including at Millay Arts, where she was a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellow and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, among others. She was formerly a senior fiction editor at The Rumpus and currently serves as the editor-in-chief at Hyphen magazine. She received an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College and splits her time between New Jersey and Taipei, Taiwan.

Rating: 5/5

How Can My Manager Be So Stupid by Kazumasa Hayami

About the book: Kyoko Tanihara still loves books. Just about.

But life at the Musashino Bookstore is starting to get her down. Instead of promoting her favourite stories, she finds herself distracted, tearing her hair out at the mere sight of her infuriating manager, who cannot seem to do anything but get in her way of success.

From his obsession with self-help books to his "inspirational" speeches at staff meetings, everything about Takeru Yamamoto seems designed to set her teeth on edge. As the store lurches from crisis to crisis, facing criticism from customers and authors alike, only the prospect of changing a life by handing over the perfect book keeps her going.

Until one day she is handed a book that speaks to all her frustrations, and opens her eyes to an alarming possibility. What if there's actually more to Yamamoto's obnoxious antics than meets the eye? What if, just maybe, her manager is not so stupid after all?

How Can My Manager Be So Stupid (2026) is the perfect read for anyone who has felt that they cannot even . . . with the idiots that walk among us.

How Can My Manager Be So Stupid is translated from the Japanese by Haydn Trowell.

About the author: Kazumasa Hayami is a writer and screenwriter, born in 1977 in Kanagawa Prefecture. His debut novel, 108, was a bestseller and later made into a manga and a film. He won the Japan Mystery Writers Association Award for his novel Innocent Days, and the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize for The Royal Family. His novels are almost all adapted for screen.

About the translator: Haydn Trowell is an Australian translator of Japanese literature whose work has appeared in Granta, Electric Literature, and Words Without Borders. He has translated fiction by major prize-winning authors such as Yasunari Kawabata, Maki Kashimada, and Rie Qudan, and he has worked extensively with publishers in Australia, Japan, the UK, and the US. Haydn holds a PhD in translation studies from Monash University and has a background in both translation and creative writing.

Rating: 5/5

St Elizabeth of the Trinity: The Unfolding of the Message (Volume 2) by Joanne Mosley

About the book: Among the Church's many saints and blesseds, Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880-1906) is one of the most attractive and encouraging for our times. 

Author of the classic prayer, "O my God, Trinity whom I adore', she was a shining example of these words which she wrote at the age of twenty: 'even in the midst of the world one can listen to Him in the silence of a heart that wants to belong only to Him!"

Elizabeth was known for her sparkling vitality, her vibrant social life, her skill at the piano, and especially her love of prayer. She had many close friends, but the passion of her life was Jesus and it was this love that led her to the Carmel of Dijon where, after many trials but also profound joys, she died at the age of only twenty-six: a witness to the Trinity dwelling within each of us, and to God's call for us to be with him at every moment - both now and in eternity.

Here, in the first volume of this informative, engaging and inspiring book, we are introduced to the very human face of Elizabeth in the world and in the cloister as she listened to God's word in silence and in Scripture, and penetrated ever more deeply into the mystery of God.

Joanne Mosley's extensive biography, Elizabeth of the Trinity: The Unfolding of Her Message, offers a detailed examination of the life and spiritual teachings of Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity, a Carmelite nun whose insights into the divine presence within each individual are presented as a significant development in Christian spirituality. Through two volumes rich in historical context and personal anecdotes, Mosley not only narrates Elizabeth's life experiences, including her early struggles and eventual sanctification, but also highlights the efforts to promote her posthumous legacy. 

St Elizabeth of the Trinity: The Unfolding of the Message (Volume 2 - In the Infirmary & After her Death) was published in 2012. 

About the author: Dr Joanne Mosley is an editor, writer, retreat leader, and speaker who specializes in Carmelite spirituality. She is assistant editor of Mount Carmel, the spiritual review published by the Teresian Carmelites and frequently lectures and leads sessions on Carmelite mystics and saints for organizations like the Carmelite Friars in Britain. She is also the author of Edith Stein: Woman of Prayer (2004). 

St Elizabeth of the Trinity: The Unfolding of the Message (Volume 1) by Joanne Mosley

About the book: Among the Church's many saints and blesseds, Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880-1906) is one of the most attractive and encouraging for our times. 

Author of the classic prayer, "O my God, Trinity whom I adore', she was a shining example of these words which she wrote at the age of twenty: 'even in the midst of the world one can listen to Him in the silence of a heart that wants to belong only to Him!"

Elizabeth was known for her sparkling vitality, her vibrant social life, her skill at the piano, and especially her love of prayer. She had many close friends, but the passion of her life was Jesus and it was this love that led her to the Carmel of Dijon where, after many trials but also profound joys, she died at the age of only twenty-six: a witness to the Trinity dwelling within each of us, and to God's call for us to be with him at every moment - both now and in eternity.

Here, in the first volume of this informative, engaging and inspiring book, we are introduced to the very human face of Elizabeth in the world and in the cloister as she listened to God's word in silence and in Scripture, and penetrated ever more deeply into the mystery of God.

Joanne Mosley's extensive biography, Elizabeth of the Trinity: The Unfolding of Her Message, offers a detailed examination of the life and spiritual teachings of Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity, a Carmelite nun whose insights into the divine presence within each individual are presented as a significant development in Christian spirituality. Through two volumes rich in historical context and personal anecdotes, Mosley not only narrates Elizabeth's life experiences, including her early struggles and eventual sanctification, but also highlights the efforts to promote her posthumous legacy. 

St Elizabeth of the Trinity: The Unfolding of the Message (Volume 1 - In the World & In Community) was first published in 2012 and reprinted in 2016. 

About the author: Dr Joanne Mosley is an editor, writer, retreat leader, and speaker who specializes in Carmelite spirituality. She is assistant editor of Mount Carmel, the spiritual review published by the Teresian Carmelites and frequently lectures and leads sessions on Carmelite mystics and saints for organizations like the Carmelite Friars in Britain. She is also the author of Edith Stein: Woman of Prayer (2004). 

The Seven Mansions Of The Soul by Saint Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582)