Jeff Gundy

A Beanie and a Cup of Tea

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Does any human pain match the grief of losing one’s child? Larry Dunn’s poems about the death of his beloved son Seth echo and warp with deep feeling and understated intelligence. His determination to avoid both sentimentality and a predictable ‘healing’ narrative enriches a book that shows as well as tells—in Dunn’s words—that ‘poetry doesn’t only comfort the tortured soul; it gives voice to it.’”

Heart and Soul

Arts & Literature

“Gascho’s terse, understated, yet compelling poems often resist easy resolution—revealing that for all his hard-won knowledge, experience, and compassion, his work as a cardiologist often requires uncertain choices that may mean life or death for his patients. With candor, humor, modesty, and just enough medical terminology, Gascho offers moving glimpses of the heartaches and rewards of such vast responsibility. This book may well change the way you view doctors—for the better.”

Passages

Fiction

“This powerful last volume of Evie Yoder Miller’s epic trilogy draws us deeply into the heartbreaks, losses, struggles, and persistence of its characters—Anabaptists caught up in the last bitter year of the Civil War. With evocative prose and skillful use of multiple narrators, Miller creates a vivid, poignant portrait of women, children, and others often left out of conventional war stories. Whether trapped in the path of predatory armies or in the relative safety of the North, the plain people in this taut, compelling novel find their values challenged and their lives disrupted by a war where, as one puts it, ‘Maybe no one counts as civilians anymore.’”

The Mindful Grandparent

Marriage, Family & Relationships

“The Mindful Grandparent offers a wealth of stories, suggestions, and ideas for grandparents, blending Marilyn McEntyre and Shirley Showalter's personal experiences and thoughtful reflections with solid but unobtrusive research. With these two canny, good-humored, knowledgeable guides, among a host of fellow travelers like and Maria Montessori, Walt Whitman, and Mary Oliver, both new and experienced grandparents--and anyone seeking fresh ways of relating to children--will find much here to treasure and to practice.”

Unpardonable Sins

Fiction

“A rousing murder mystery that’s also an absorbing inquiry into sin, guilt, sexuality, violence, and responsibility, Unpardonable Sins features a host of memorable characters, most notably John Reimer, the earnestly, vulnerably inquisitive Mennonite preacher-turned-sleuth. This entertaining, provocative novel immerses us in the streets and politics of Chicago, and the mysteries of family, faith, and action in this lovely, brutal world.”