Caldwell reflects on her own coming-of-age in midlife, as she learns to open herself to the power and healing of sharing her life with a best friend.

An Emmy Award-winning writer and activist describes the harrowing years she spent in early adulthood fighting leukemia and how she learned to live again while forging connections with other survivors of profound illness and suffering. A few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, Jaouad received a diagnosis of leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed, fighting for her life and chronicling...

A coming-of-age memoir of an African-American woman's quest for home and identity in a series of communities describes how she struggled with the promises and realities of white suburbs and college life.

"The inspirational story of one woman learning to surf and creating a new life in gritty, eccentric Rockaway Beach"--

In a dramatic, moving work of historical reporting and personal discovery, an award-winning journalist sets out to trace the story of what happened to his parents, a fascinating but star-crossed interracial couple, and arrives at a new understanding of the family dramas that shaped their lives--and his own.

" ... María Elvira Salazar vivió una de las peores crisis que uno pueda imaginar en medio de un historia de intriga, dinero, poder y envidia que involucró a la tristemente célebre conductora Laura Bozzo, que se presentaba en televisión internacional como una defensora de los pobres y los desvalidos, mientras que en la vida real era una mujer prepotente ... Fue así como la periodista María Elvira Salazar vio de pronto su carrera irse a pique....