The actor who played “Superman” adjusts to paralysis after an accident.

A fugitive slave outfoxes the authorities for decades.

The author re-locates to an 18th century house in Nelson, NH, and infuses it with her sensibilities, styles, and gifted...

A 109-year-old black woman talks about her life, which sweeps from the Civil War to Civil Rights.

In the midst of the Civil War, a private runs from the battle field.

A highly regarded film maker—secretly medicated for anxiety attacks– loses control of her life.

A boy and a girl meet, fall in love, move away, and make a happy life despite difficult circumstances.

Newark, New Jersey tries to beat back the polio epidemic during the summer of 1944.

The daughter of Jackie Robinson recalls “living” through the tenuous times of the Civil Rights movement.

Micah Mortimer’s particularly planned life is disrupted when his girlfriend drops him; then, an adolescent appears, and claims to be...

Growing up privileged in a fractured family; the author’s final book.

A former American wife and mother turned Buddhist, explains how to turn established patterns of suffering into second nature ease.