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When Laura Carney's dad was killed in a car crash at just 54 years old, he left behind a bucket list of items mostly unfulfilled. So, Carney set out to live her father's unfinished life – and began a healing process.
When she tried to sell her first book, it was rejected 98 times. But Bonnie Garmus' dogged determination paid off; her next attempt, born out of anger over a male colleague stealing her idea, has spent more than a year on The New York Times bestseller list.
When author David Von Drehle moved into a new home, he found his neighbor, Charlie White, was not your typical 102-year-old. The colorful White, who'd already lived a couple of lifetimes, had a lot to teach others about making the most of our time alive.
Recommendations from our book reviewer of new fiction and non-fiction titles, including the latest by New York Times bestselling novelist Emma Cline, "The Guest."
The author of "The Girls," the New York Times bestseller about the Manson Family murders, returns with a smoldering thriller about a young escort's search for a new sugar daddy.
This latest biography, drawing upon more than 200 interviews and previously-unseen FBI documents, creates a deeper study of the civil rights leader's upbringing and mission.
This wickedly comic debut novel presents a day in the lives of a husband and wife, and the wife's best friend, whose respective narrations offer very different takes on the sturdiness of the marriage.
The Newbury Medal-winning author of books for young readers has written an unusual memoir for adults, about his parents, and his own struggles to be a good husband and father.
The 80-year-old Chilean-born writer, whose latest novel is "The Wind Knows My Name," talks about her tumultuous family history, and the passion and courage of her stories' female characters.
The New York Times bestselling author of such works as "The House of the Spirits" and "A Long Petal of the Sea" returns with a story that draws parallels between the Holocaust and the plight of children separated from their parents at the U.S. border.
What's a mom to do? In her new book, the Minnesota Democrat writes about one of her accomplishments as part of the Senate Rules Committee: getting new parents permission to bring their babies onto the Senate floor.
In their joint memoir the mother and daughter, both acclaimed actresses, talk about the gift of working together.
The Oscar-winning actor's experiences in Hollywood are the inspiration for his new novel, about the adventures that go into the creation of a film: "The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece."
The media mogul behind "Watch What Happens Live" and a plethora of "Real Housewives" is now shining a spotlight on his own life-changing role as the father of two young children, as detailed in his new book, "The Daddy Diaries: The Year I Grew Up."
The designer, fashion entrepreneur and activist writes about how she found inspiration for her Brother Vellies shoes in a medina in Marrakesh, Morocco.
In the late 1970s, a group of university students in West Texas, wanting a place to study with a view, hauled a desk to the top of Hancock Hill in the town of Alpine. Today, the desk is a pilgrimage for hikers seeking a meditative place.
The former "Parks and Recreation" star heads the surreal, critically-acclaimed series about workers at a mysterious corporation whose brains are altered to create distinctly separate personalities in and out of the office.
Whimsical and romantic, the music of Icelandic singer and cellist Laufey Lín Bing Jónsdóttir blends pop, jazz, classical and bossa nova – a "mishmash," she calls it. Her latest album is "A Matter of Time."
For more than 40 years, glaciologist Mauri Pelto has been measuring shrinking glaciers in Washington State. He's been joined by his daughter, artist-scientist Jill Pelto, whose watercolors provide another view of the drastically-changing landscape.
A look at the features for this week's broadcast of the Emmy-winning program, hosted by Jane Pauley.
The humorist has some thoughts about gratuities, especially when they're pre-programmed onto a screen.
More than six decades after the Kennedy assassination, the existence of unreleased documents from the investigation has continued to fuel questions - and conspiracy theories - in search for a "smoking gun." What did the recent release of thousands of documents reveal?
Billy Wilder's caustic tale of Hollywood, obsession and murder, in which a fading star of silent pictures tries to recreate her fame, is back in its full dark glory.
The computer inventor and co-founder of Apple is sounding the alarm about one of the great threats of this new Information Age: internet fraud. He talks about how he is fighting for the victims of online scams involving AI, cryptocurrency and faked messages.
While many Americans are still baffled by cryptocurrency, enthusiasm for these digital assets is growing - despite the potential risks of integrating digital currencies with the mainstream economy - in part due to support coming from the White House.