The actor’s serious 2003 stroke unexpectedly improves his life.

A young man with a criminal past tries to make amends.

A sixty-year-old bookshop owner is threatened for being a lesbian.

A tranquil 10-day spa visit turns into terror.

A poet's sobering look at mortality.

How the actress got to a comfortable self-image.

The elusive first lady, and how she might have lived.

From adolescent diver to SEAL sniper.

A re-interpretation of Hamlet that incorporates the power of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Oregon.

The actress's daughter triumphs over drug addiction, emerges into a reputable performer/playwright, and–then–dies of lung cancer at 38.

In 1906, a Southern widower of three weeks elopes with a woman half his age, and rattles the town.

Wit and wisdom from America’s Leonardo; first published in 1732.