Christian psychologist and certified addictions counselor Rhona Epstein teaches readers to work with their body chemistries to break free from addictive eating in Food Triggers: End Your Cravings, Eat Well, and Live Better. Epstein shares insights learned through her own battle with compulsive eating as a teen and offers a broad mind/body/spirit approach for recognizing triggers that keep people caught in a cycle of food abuse. Worthy Publishing releases Epstein’s book this month in softcover for $14.99.

Table in the Darkness: A Healing Journey Through an Eating Disorder is the first-person account of Lee Wolfe Blum’s anorexia and exercise addiction. Eighteen years into her own recovery, Blum is an educator in eating disorders and addictions at the Melrose Institute for Eating Disorders in St. Louis Park, Minn. Her book explains the self-critical thoughts that drove her to an eating disorder, her hospitalization for depression and the help that brought her hope and healing. IVP Crescendo releases Blum’s book in softcover for $15 this month.

Award-winning journalist Edward Gilbreath, an editor-at-large for Christianity Today, examines “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in IVP Books’ Birmingham Revolution: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Epic Challenge to the Church (softcover, $16). Written 50 years ago, the letter speaks to today’s church as well, Gilbreath asserts, as race continues to play a part in shaping society and the church must consider what part it will play in the ongoing challenges. The book releases this month.

In Praying for Your Husband From Head to Toe: A Daily Guide to Scripture-Based Prayer, Sharon Jaynes offers women practical help for praying effectively for their husbands. Part 1 lays the foundation of the power and purpose of prayer, Part 2 is a 30-day prayer guide, and the appendix includes an invitation to a 30-Day Prayer Dare. Jaynes is author of 17 books and co-founder of Girlfriends in God, a ministry focused on bringing Christian women together. This $14.99 Multnomah Books title releases in softcover this month.

B&H Books releases Jordan Easley’s Life Change: Finding a New Way to Hope, Think and Live in softcover this month for $14.99. Easley is teaching pastor and campus director at Long Hollow Baptist in Hendersonville, Tenn. He has also served in the ministries of Ed Young Sr. and Charles Stanley. In his book, Easley examines stories of life change from the Gospel of Mark, showing how true change comes from a healthy relationship with God, who enables His people to do what they are not capable of themselves.

Andy’s Stanley’s subtitle for his new book, How to Be Rich, is “It’s Not What You Have. It’s What You Do With What You Have.” The acclaimed pastor shows in the book that cultivating a life of generosity is the secret to true happiness and wealth.  Based on a series of sermons he preached that saw his church members give more than $5 million to Atlanta charities and provide another 34,000 volunteer hours, How to Be Rich challenges today’s American consumerist lifestyle. On sale in stores Dec. 31, the Zondervan release retails for $14.99.

The sequel to Jordan Rubin’s New York Times’ best-seller The Maker’s Diet releases this month in hardcover from Destiny Image. In The Maker’s Diet Revolution: The 10-Day Diet to Lose Weight and Detoxify Your Body, Mind and Spirit ($21.99), Rubin discusses new diet and health tips he has learned, the compromise of America’s food supply, the importance of organic foods and quality water, healing chronic illnesses and more. Rubin is the founder of Garden of Life, a health and wellness company. 

Wm. B. Eerdmans releases a biography for classical music fans this month. Joseph Haydn is the subject of Playing Before the Lord: The Life and Work of Joseph Haydn (softcover, $24) by Calvin R. Stapert, professor emeritus of music at Calvin College. Recounting Haydn’s life from humble beginnings to musical greatness, the book shows how Haydn’s devout Catholic faith influenced his music. It also includes listening guides to several of Haydn’s well-known works.

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