Jack Teich's kidnapping at gunpoint, huge payoff, and trial made national headlines, but even his family didn't know the gruesome details... until, aged 80, he wrote his memoir

After leaving Mashhad for a safe harbor in NY, Esther Amini's parents still lived in fear of a pogrom -- and expected their daughter to marry as a teen

Bombshell 'tell all' memoir by psychologist Mary Trump describes how economic decline and deepening social divides have brought out 'worst effects' of president's pathologies

In 'House of Glass,' The Guardian's Hadley Freeman writes a family memoir about her search to explain why her paternal grandmother survived, but didn't thrive after the Holocaust

In her new book about weirdness, the writer for The Atlantic interviews 30 successful misfits, and lays bare her offbeat, awkward, and often hilarious story along with theirs

In his new book, Adam Frankel examines genetically inherited pain, and discovers life-altering details in the process

In 'Hitler, My Neighbor,' Edgar Feuchtwanger, now 95, recalled the day he went strolling as a boy with his nanny in Munich, and they passed the Nazi dictator... who tipped his hat

In memoir 'When Time Stopped,' Ariana Neumann describes how investigating her father's double life as a chemist for the Nazis helped her discover his identity -- and her heritage

Abby Stein was mischievous yeshiva boy who had an arranged marriage -- and son -- in her enclave in Brooklyn. Her newly published book, 'Becoming Eve,' details her unusual journey

Author Boris Fishman shares real and metaphoric recipes for healing multi-generational trauma and strained relationships as he recalls his family's journey from Belarus to the US