A not uncommon fear among pregnant women is that the blessed event will unexpectedly happen in some public place and humiliating headlines will read: “Woman Gives Birth in Library, Bewildered...

“They have to go someplace,” writes Kathy Harrison in her compelling portrait of life as a foster mother, “the children you read about in the paper, the injured ones with burns and broken arms, the...

If you had no arms or legs, a 19-step staircase would look like a mountain, but Karen DeBolt, born without arms or legs, made it up that staircase. So did Sunee, paralyzed by polio, Twe, a blind...

It was the eve of execution for three condemned killers - Willie Baxter, a naïve heroin addict, Bob Anderson, a nightclub owner, and Tom Penney a hardcore convict. The three had been sentenced to...

On a dark April night in 1921, Georgian plantation owner John Williams and his black overseer Clyde Manning drove to a bridge over the Yellow River and stopped.  In the backseat were three of...