"In this remarkable memoir of loss, Lyssa Black Fassett learns that the only way through is to surrender to this strange new world. After the sudden death of her 22-year-old son from a heroin overdose, grief grabs the author by the hand and tosses her into the waves. But, as if by miracle, grief then welcomes her back to dry land . . . over and over again. In the midst of such chaos, this motion feels like an ember kindling in the darkness of a distant...

Examines the heartbreaking story of Princess Diana, taken from her sons William and Harry at a painfully young age, and how they carried on her name and spirit into adulthood.

"Winner of the Center for Fiction's Doheny Prize Mike Scalise hits his stride in this page-turner of a memoir featuring a sudden and strange sequence of medical disasters. From its gripping ruptured-brain-tumor emergency room opening, through a series of medical procedures and oddball doctors, Scalise creates a sharply observed, uproariously funny, and deeply moving account of acromegaly, the hormone disorder best known for causing gigantism. Scalise...

As the fatherless biracial child of a Mexican immigrant, Danny Donnelly was never expected to amount to much. Through it all, Danny transformed himself into Zoro, one of the world's greatest drummers.

The internationally best-selling author discusses his mother's liberation from history, heartbreak, politics and power after she leaves his father.

A San Francisco socialite founds the charity organization "Children as the Peacemakers Foundation" after her divorce.

The intimate true story of a boy on the run with his mother, as she abducts him to South America in search of the revolution.