In EXPLAINING TRADITIONS, Simon J. Bronner discusses the underlying reasons for the continuing significance of traditions, delving into their social and psychological roles in everyday life.

In 1957, a photograph was taken of a black high school girl walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, being screamed at by a white girl. In this gripping book, David Margolick recounts how the photograph has unexpectedly followed both women throughout their lives.

A THOUSAND LIVES follows the experiences of five Peoples Temple members who went to Jonestown. Julia Scheeres drew from thousands of recently declassified FBI documents and audiotapes, as well as rare videos and interviews, to piece together a compelling history of the doomed camp.

Confronted with the disappointments and knockdowns that can come in middle age, Lou Ureneck decided he needed to build a simple post-and-beam cabin in the woods. Helping him was his younger brother, Paul, which Lou saw as a way to reconnect with their shared history and to rediscover his truest self.

In this frank and upfront memoir, Mary Johnson details her two decades of life in Mother Theresa's Missionaries of Charity and why she ultimately had to leave.

Karl Marlantes takes a deeply personal and candid look at what it is like to experience the ordeal of combat, critically examining how we might better prepare our soldiers for war.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. But often the most overlooked stories are that of the 9/11 first responders, their families, and the victims' families over the past decade.

Georgette Jones --- the only child of country music’s “First Couple,” George Jones and Tammy Wynette --- pens a memoir about life with her troubled parents and the journey back to a relationship with her estranged father.

No one knew Stieg Larsson like his lifelong companion, Eva Gabrielsson. Here she tells the story of their 30-year romance, Stieg's lifelong struggle to expose Sweden’s Neo-Nazis, his difficult relationships with his immediate family, and the joy and relief he discovered writing the Millennium Trilogy.