A well meaning but socially awkward grocery clerk struggles with his troubled family and huge waistline as he seeks dignity, a higher purpose in life, and, at long last, a driver's license.

Recovering a theology of creaturehood, Humble Roots studies the missing virtue in our pursuit of life: humility. Exploring the character of Jesus and His invitation to come unto Him, Hannah Anderson uncovers the myriad benefits of humility, exposes the bankruptcy of our souls, and urges us to seek true abundance.

"Having sanctified himself in The Year of Living Biblically and sharpened his mind in The Know-It-All, A.J. Jacobs had one feat left in the self-improvement trinity: to become the healthiest man in the world. He didn't want just to lose weight, or finish a triathlon, or lower his cholesterol. His ambitions were far, far greater: Maximal health from head to toe. The task was massive. He had to tackle a complicated web of diet and exercise advice, much...

In the early days of the Cold War, a spirit of desperate scientific rivalry birthed a race to master the inner space of the human body. Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher follows Dr. Robert Whit's decades-long quest into tangled matters of science, global politics, and faith, revealing the complex (and often murky) ethics of experimentation and remarkable innovations that today save patients from certain death.

When Clara and her friend Bradley find a family of kittens while treasure-hunting, they do everything they can to protect the kittens, including an internet video, while trying to convince their parents to take them in.

Raised in a secular family but interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to attempt to obey the Bible as literally as possible for one full year. He vows to follow the Ten Commandments. To be fruitful and multiply. To love his neighbor. But also to obey the hundreds of less publicized rules: to avoid wearing clothes made of mixed fibers; to stone adulterers. The resulting spiritual journey is at once funny and profound,...

"Whether you call it a tirade, an outburst, an eruption, venting, or simply a cathartic process by which humans relieve themselves of anger and frustration, no one does it better than those outrageous--and frequently outraged--brothers, the Car Talk guys"--Jacket.

As a college freshman business major suffering from a variety of anxiety-related maladies, Leaf stumbled into an elective: yoga. It was 1989. All his classmates were female. But yoga soothed and calmed Leaf as nothing else had. As his tale shows, Leaf embarked on a quest for health and happiness, visiting yoga studios around the country and consulting Ayurvedic physicians, swamis, and even (accidentally) a prostitute.