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From that July day in 1968 on, the Morris family became the Morris orphans: ten children who attracted nationwide attention, and a trust fund that didn't bring out the best in those who fostered them. Kathi, the oldest, was only seventeen when her parents were killed by a drunk driver. This is her story--behind the headlines--of when the Morris orphans only had their mutual loss and each other.

For the first time, Josh Peck reflects on his late teens and early twenties. Raised under a spotlight was both invigorating and cruel, leading him to first food and TV, and later, drugs and alcohol.

When the Germans invade Ukraine, Zhanna, a young Jewish girl, must leave behind her friends, her freedom, and her promising musical future at the world's top conservatory. With no time to say goodbye, Zhanna, her sister Frina, and their entire family are removed from their home by the Nazis and forced on a long, cold, death march. When a guard turns a blind eye, Zhanna flees with nothing more than her musical talent, her beloved sheet music, and her father's final plea: "I don't care what you do. Just live."

Casting off another winter, Rachel Cusk and her family set out to Italy for three months in search of meaning, beauty, a cure for everything. With her husband and two children, Cusk uncovers the mystery of a foreign language, the perils and pleasures of unbelonging, and the startling thrill of discovery.

The former attorney general provides a candid account of his historic tenures serving two vastly different presidents, George H. W. Bush and Donald Trump.

Sabine Zuur, a young Dutch resistance fighter, spent over two years in three concentration camps during WWII. This true story is told by her daughter who used an archive of letters.

A Jewish girl grows up during a difficult time of racial discrimination and war, and discovers light in unexpected places.

Brianna Madia chronicles her travels across the deserts of the American West in an orange van named Bertha. This is the true story of a woman going from lost to found to lost again--this time, on purpose.

After Delia Ephron channeled her frustration with Verizon into a New York Times op ed, she got an email from a man she dated briefly in college. He soon flew to see her. They were crazily in love. What could go wrong? Acute myeloid leukemia, which also took her beloved older sister, struck her three months into this new blissful life.

Anais Granofsky is known worldwide as Lucy Hernandez on the hit show Degrassi, but her childhood story of splitting weeks between the extreme wealth and extreme poverty is told here for the first time.