Books & Publications

A body of work, still growing.

Plays, sacred ritual texts, monologue collections, prayerbooks, memoir, and social thought — in print on Amazon and through the author site, with more arriving in 2026–27.

Ritual Theater & Sacred Texts

Texts for reading aloud in community.

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A Reader’s Theater Ritual · Yom Kippur

Kol Isha

A sacred ritual text of Jewish women’s voices — read aloud in community for Yom Kippur.

Paperback · Hardcover

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In Sarah’s TentCover art forthcoming
The Hineni Circle Project

In Sarah’s Tent

A complete ritual gathering thirty-six women across time into one conversation of monologue and song. The featured 2027 production.

Paperback · Hardcover

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VoicesCover art forthcoming
Monologues of Presence

Voices

More than seventy Jewish women across time — each speaking in her own register, without apology or reduction.

Hardcover · Paperback

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The Hineni Circle Project

Ritual: How to Rite

A disciplined framework for sustaining rites — for facilitators, clergy, and educators who hold space.

Hardcover

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Prayerbooks

For a spiritual life.

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A Feminist Shabbat Prayerbook

Return to Presence

Feminist prayers for Friday night, Shabbat morning, and Havdalah — to be used beside any siddur.

Paperback · Hardcover

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A Companion Prayerbook

She Who Dwells in Spirit

A companion prayerbook for everyday life — blessings for courage, healing, and renewal.

Paperback

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A Ritual Play in Five Movements

KNOT.

A braided work of voice, memory, and meaning — part ritual text, part dramatic meditation, part feminist midrash. Written to be performed, read aloud, or entered in solitude. Available in three editions.

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Play Edition

KNOT.

The ritual play text — for performance, reading aloud, and staging.

Paperback

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Learning Edition

KNOT.

For study groups, ritual leaders, and classrooms.

Paperback

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Reader’s Edition

KNOT.

For readers who linger — solitary reading and reflection.

Paperback

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Non-Fiction & Social Thought

Works of moral and social inquiry.

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Non-Fiction · Essay

Scapegoat

A Jewish work of moral inquiry — how fear becomes projection, and how communities survive by expelling what they cannot hold.

Paperback

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Amazon Bestseller
The Miriam SyndromeCover art forthcoming
Non-Fiction · Social Science

The Miriam Syndrome

How organizations expel the women who save them — the effective woman brought in to transform, then erased.

Hardcover · Paperback

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Forthcoming

More arriving from the desk, 2026–27.

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A Novel · Coming Soon

Talus

A novel of sixteen-year-old Claire Montgomery in a remote psychiatric hospital, 1977.

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Poetry · Coming Soon

Desert Water

Forty-two sonnets of the Sonoran Desert.

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Poetry · Coming Soon

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Poems of the desert in bloom.

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Poetry · Coming Soon

Between

Poetry from the space between.

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A Play · Coming Soon

Hold.

A play for six women — intergenerational conscience, pressure, and moral transmission.

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Monologues · Coming Soon

Unfiltered

Monologues for people who have something to say.

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Monologues · Coming Soon

Unfiltered for Young Adults

Monologues for young adults who have something to say.

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Short Plays · Coming Soon

It’s Not Personal

Five short plays — five rooms in today’s America.

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Short Plays · Coming Soon

What We Learned to Survive

Three unsentimental short plays about what people learn to endure — and what those lessons begin to cost.

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A Passover Rite · Coming Soon

From Narrowness

A Passover rite — the Return to Presence Prayerbook Series.

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Monologues · Coming Soon

She Who Smiles Last

Thirty villainous monologues for older women. Power does not retire; it learns patience.

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Non-Fiction · Coming Soon

The Practice of Change

On the practice of change.

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Ritual Theatre · Coming Soon

Roots and Buds

Two ritual theatre experiences — In Sarah’s Tent, Friday night and Saturday morning. Welcome, memory, and becoming.

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A Play · Coming Soon

Ten Feet

An intergenerational play about distance, welcome, and what we owe each other.

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Essential NarrativeCover art forthcoming
A Play · Coming Soon

Essential Narrative

An intergenerational play about memory, inheritance, and the stories we cannot afford to lose.

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The Last Five MinutesCover art forthcoming
One-Act Plays · Coming Soon

The Last Five Minutes

One-act plays that end in the last five minutes — when the unsaid must be said.

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We Refuse!Cover art forthcoming
A Ritual · Coming Soon

We Refuse!

A ritual of women’s voices across time — women who said no when the world demanded yes.

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The ArchivistCover art forthcoming
A Play · Coming Soon

The Archivist

A play about memory, preservation, and being the last one who remembers.

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A Lyricist After DachauCover art forthcoming
Memoir · Lyric Essay · Coming Soon

A Lyricist After Dachau

A daughter’s portrait of her father, Robert B. Sherman — Academy Award–winning lyricist of Mary Poppins and ‘It’s a Small World.’

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Complete Bibliography →

For the full and continuously updated list of books, covers, and forthcoming titles, visit the author website at lauriessherman.com.