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This uniquely personal, moving, and inspiring journey delves into the rapidly emerging world of psychiatric service dogs, as Susannah Charleson works as an evaluator in shelters, plucking unwanted

Scientists have a reputation for being focused on their work and maybe even dull. But take another look.

When he was three, Brando Kelly Ulloa was abandoned by his Mexican father. His mother saw no reason for her son to live his life as a Mexican just because he started out as one.

Amid an inferno of explosives on a minefield in Korea, a four-legged marine proved to be a heroic force of nature.

You might know the basics about such historical figures as Columbus, Lewis and Clark, and Sally Ride. But what do you really know about these bold explorers?

The "first" Afghan War was directed by Robert Grenier, the CIA station chief in Islamabad.

From the acclaimed author of the international bestseller Einstein's Dreams comes a lyrical memoir of Memphis from the 1930s through the 1960s: the music and the racism, the early days of the movie

Young Georg Rauch helped his mother hide dozens of Jews from the Nazis, but then came the day he was shipped out to fight on the Eastern front as part of the German infantry--in spite of his own Je

After her friend fatally stabbed his ex-girlfriend due to what psychiatrists later dubbed an acute psychotic break, Amy Butcher became obsessed with finding an explanation for the crime.

In Walking with Abel, Anna Badkhen embeds herself with a family of Fulani cowboys--nomadic herders--as they embark on their annual migration across the Sahel grasslands, accompanied by the tal

After meeting on OKCupid, Clara Bensen and Jeff Wilson met in person, and after just a few days of knowing each other, embarked on a three-week travel adventure from Istanbul to London--with zero l

In 2003, Special Forces soldiers deployed in Afghanistan used the Afghan proverb: "I destroy my enemy by making him my friend," to become welcome guests rather than invaders.

Relying on firsthand accounts, historian Jane Hampton Cook weaves together several different narratives to create a vivid, multidimensional account of the 1814 burning of Washington, including the

Darcleight brings us inside a maximum-security prison, introducing a colorful cast of rogues while revealing the day-to-day struggles experienced by millions of Americans now living inside the worl

A classic memoir recounting Baldwin's early life in Harlem, the civil rights struggle, the murders of Malcolm X and MLK, and his eventual confrontation with the violent American South.