An eye-opening, heart-rending tale of love, honor and betrayal from veteran foreignnews correspodent Atia Abawi
Fatima is a Hazara girl, raised to be obedient and dutiful. Samiullah is a Pashtun boy raised to defend the traditions of his tribe. They were not meant to fall in love. But they do. A[...]

Did an enormous collision in the Asteroid Belt, orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter, bombard Earth with meteorites 470 million years ago? Astonishing new research suggests it did, and a revolutionary theory is emerging that this bombardment resulted in the single greatest increase in biologica[...]

In a true-life story of adventure and survival, the author describes how a sailing trip with her fianc turned to tragedy after they inadvertently sailed into a hurricane that left her injured and her fianc swept overboard, and her forty-one-day ordeal traveling to safety, without a motor or masts. R[...]

In 1958, notified that her young husband, a doctor in the Chinese army has been killed in action in Tibet, Shu Wen joins the army, determined to go to Tibet to uncover the truth, only to find herself alone in Tibet, embarking on a thirty-year nomadic odyssey that brings her back to a new China, tran[...]

The author recounts her life against a backdrop of China's political upheavals during the second half of the twentieth century, during which she lost her Communist army worker parents at a young age, was victimized by Maoist policies, and was imprisoned after a cruel family betrayal. 20,000 first pr[...]