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inSpirit Book Shop
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We offer a wide range of books and fair trade gifts that reflect our UU values, including titles from Skinner House Books and Beacon Press.
Make the holiday season easier this year with our holiday guide! We hope these small joys bring some comfort and delight in these hard times. Free standard shipping on orders of $50 or more within the United States is available through December 7th. shopinspirit.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
New on our shelves: This Wild and Precious Life—A stunning journal featuring inspiring quotes from beloved poet Mary Oliver and delightful illustrations that illuminate her themes of wonder and nature. shopinspirit.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Send messages of love and peace this holiday season with these beautiful and ethically made cards. Cards and envelopes are 100% recycled paper and the packaging is biodegradable. The cards are also printed by union workers in the United States! You can browse our entire selection at shopinspirit.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Make the holiday season easier this year with our holiday guide! We hope these small joys bring some comfort and delight in these hard times. Free standard shipping on orders of $50 or more within the United States is available through December 7th. shopinspirit.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
New on our shelves: Mad Wife—In this electrifying literary memoir, Kate Hamilton traces her journey from loving wife to gaslit victim to furious feminist with an urgent goal: to expose how women are pressured to uphold the institutions of marriage and family, no matter the cost. shopinspirit.org
October 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
New on our shelves: Our customized dream boxes are turned from select New England maple, hand-finished, inlaid with a Swarovski crystal, and laser-carved with a double-circled chalice. Perfect for home altars or a bit of beauty anywhere! shopinspirit.org
October 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
New on our shelves: Bad Indians Book Club—in this powerful reframing, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec leads us into the borderlands of history, science, memoir, and fiction to ask: What worlds do books written by marginalized people describe and invite us to inhabit? shopinspirit.org
October 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
New on our shelves: The Idea of an Entire Life—from award-winning Driftpile Cree poet Billy-Ray Belcourt comes a dazzling exploration of love, anguish, queerness, and Indigenous resistance in the 21st century. shopinspirit.org
September 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
New on our shelves: In the Absence of the Ordinary: Soul Work for Times of Uncertainty—In his singular and inimitable voice, psychotherapist Francis Weller offers essays to help us move together through the anxieties, difficulties, and sacred transitions of 21st-century life. shopinspirit.org
September 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
New on our shelves: Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by Susana M. Morris—A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work. shopinspirit.org
August 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
New on our shelves: A Rebellion of Care: Poems and Essays by David Gate—A moving manifesto in poems and essays, inviting readers to embrace their humanity and live fully alive in our age of social change, hyper-capitalism, and pervasive loneliness. shopinspirit.org
August 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
New on our shelves: Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson—Black transgender luminary Tourmaline brings to life the first definitive biography of the revolutionary activist Marsha P. Johnson, one of the most important and remarkable figures in LGBTQIA+ history. shopinspirit.org
August 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Summer can often be a time of reflection and restoration—a time to slow down and reinvest in goals and dreams for ourselves and the wider world. We recommend the following books in our summer reads collection and hope they provide rest and joy in the weeks ahead. uuabookstore.org/collections/...
August 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
New on our shelves: Viktor E. Frankl and the Search for Meaning: 21 Reflections on Living Life with Purpose by Pam Roy and Moira Hummel—Inspired by the wisdom of psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl, a journaling companion on finding meaning in an unpredictable world. shopinspirit.org
July 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
New on our shelves: Misbehaving at the Crossroads by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers—the National Book Award-nominated author makes her nonfiction debut with this personal work that explores the journeys and possibilities of Black women throughout American history and in contemporary times. shopinspirit.org
July 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
New on our shelves: Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry, edited by George Abraham and Noor Hindi—A love letter to Palestinian ancestors, their descendants, and their land, and to a history that will never be forgotten, and to a future in which there thrives a free Palestine. shopinspirit.org
July 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
New on our shelves: Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet by Kate Marvel—A captivating exploration of climate change that uses nine different emotions to better understand the science, history, and future of our evolving planet. Available at shopinspirit.org.
July 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
New on our shelves: The Secret Despair of the Secular Left by Ana Levy-Lyons—A compelling and timely exploration of the spiritual void in modernity, and an invitation to reclaim a more connected and spiritually fulfilling way of life. Available at shopinspirit.org.
July 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Last chance! Free standard shipping for online orders of $25 or more shipped within the United States ends today, June 22nd. Thank you for your continued support! Browse great books and more at shopinspirit.org #UUAGA
June 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Today! Stop by the inSpirit booth at #UUAGA between 2:30-3:15 to meet editors Manish Mishra-Marzetti and Nancy McDonald Ladd and get a signed copy of Seeds of a New Way. As congregations strive to live into the potential of Beloved Community, these essays will inspire them to nourish a new way.
June 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Today! Stop by the inSpirit booth at #UUAGA between 10:00-10:45 to meet editor Sofía Betancourt and get a signed copy of Love at the Center: Unitarian Universalist Theologies. May it serve as an invitation to deepen your own understanding and practices of love.
June 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Today! Stop by the inSpirit booth at #UUAGA between 1:00-1:45 to meet author J.L. Shattuck and get a signed copy of The Tending Years. In this short, accessible, and comforting book, expert J.L. Shattuck provides insight into your child’s earliest rituals.
June 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Today! Stop by the inSpirit booth at #UUAGA between 12:00-12:45 to meet co-author Duncan E. Teague and get a signed copy of Imani Rituals. A powerful and necessary collection of rituals centering the African American experience and the African Diaspora.
June 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Today! Stop by the inSpirit booth at #UUAGA between 11:00–11:45 to meet author Lucas Hergert and get a signed copy of Impassioned. An engaging and timely guide to preaching with passion from minister and professor Lucas Hergert.
June 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
We are offering free standard shipping for online orders of $25 or more shipped within the United States during this year's General Assembly, from June 16th to June 22nd. Browse great books and more at shopinspirit.org #UUAGA
June 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM