A memoir that examines rural poverty and the lingering strains of racism in the South by the author of Salvage the bones.

At every stage of her life, journalist and author Kati Marton found beauty and excitement in Paris, and now, after the sudden death of husband Richard Holbrooke, the city offers a chance for a new beginning. With intimate and nuanced portraits of Peter Jennings, with whom she had two children in their fifteen-year marriage, and Holbrooke, with whom she found enduring love, Marton offers a vivid account of an adventuresome life in the stream of history....

Kinsey and Me has two parts: The nine Kinsey stories (1986-93), each a gem of detection; and the And Me stories, written in the decade after Grafton's mother died. Together, they show just how much of Kinsey is a distillation of her creator's past even as they reveal a child who, free of parental interventions, read everything and roamed everywhere. But the dark side of such freedom was that very parental distance.

Although there are many famed poets in Colombia, there is little published fiction by young women authors. It is rare to find any stories written by women less than 40 years old. Now, in this collection, 14 young Colombian women break that silence. It contains stories by MarIa Acosta, Olga MartInez, Juliana Borrero, Beatriz Mendoza, MarIa Castilla, Ximena MexIa, Andrea Cheer, Liliana Rico, Melissa DIaz, Ruth Rivas, Mercedes Guhl, Carolina SanIn, Pilar...

Olivia Donatelli's dream of a "normal" life shattered when her son, Anthony, was diagnosed with autism at age three. Understanding the world from his perspective felt bewildering. And just as Olivia began to realize that happiness and autism could coexist, Anthony died. Now Olivia is alone in a cottage on Nantucket, separated from her husband, desperate to understand the meaning of her son's short life, when a chance encounter with another woman facing...