""There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies--I mean books--that were written for one person only...A book is both medic and medicine at once. It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. Putting the right novels to the appropriate ailments: that's how I sell books." Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes...

Treha Langsam possesses a gift for bringing those who have slipped into dementia back to a vibrant life, and when a documentary crew comes to her job where she works with the elderly, the truth about her past slowly begins to unravel.

"A memoir of family, the Holocaust, trauma, and identity, in which Adam Frankel, a former Obama speechwriter, must come to terms with the legacy of his family's painful past and discover who he is in the wake of a life-changing revelation about his own origins. Adam Frankel's maternal grandparents survived the Holocaust and built new lives, with new names, in Connecticut. Though they tried to leave the horrors of their past behind, the pain they suffered...

Recounts the story of the author's marriage to her reporter husband, who was nearly killed by sniper fire while on assignment in Romania, describing how his recovery was impeded by a deep depression that challenged the author's perceptions about loving support.