Research for Bayard's "Triumph to Tragedy" five-book saga traces back to a Haitian ancestor from 1689 and explores Haiti from 1771 to 1845. Before gaining its independence, Haiti was known as ...

One sunny Sunday morning in 1986, Rabbi Gershon Schusterman was driving to his home in Long Beach, California when he received an alarming phone call from his wife, Rochel Leah. She told him she ...

On Oct. 28, 2015, an overloaded boat filled with refugees broke up and capsized off the coast of Lesvos, a Greek island. Hundreds were thrown into the water, and dozens were killed. Journalist Jeanne ...

A Cincinnati man is trying to help others cope with tragic losses in their life.Albert Stanley Jackson is doing it with a book to help others like him as they fight grief and depression. On Thursday, ...

Imagine being three years old and your father accidentally backs over your 4-year-old brother. Two weeks later, your mother is rushed into emergency surgery. Factor in many more deaths, including an ...

Brian VanDeMark begins his book “Kent State: An American Tragedy” by sitting down with Matt McManus, who was a platoon sergeant in the Ohio Army National Guard on May 4, 1970. It’s an interesting ...

Sometimes bad things happen to good people. Jim Good of Centerville knows well. Orphaned at the age of 14, Good lost his father, Jim Good, a former Dayton Daily News business editor and columnist, to ...

HOME FROM THE HILL (312 pp.)—William Humphrey—Knopf ($3.95). Sooner or later the genuine novelist discovers that his bread and butter depends on the quiet desperations that lie imbedded in the lives ...

FALL RIVER — By the time Edwin H. Porter was 30 years old, he'd traveled the country, had multiple careers, been a journalist for several newspapers, and written a stunning book about the crime of the ...

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED—Evelyn Waugh—Little, Brown ($2.50). Early one morning in 1944, a flight of German dive bombers swooshed down on the headquarters of the British Military Mission to Yugoslavia.

Nicholas Sparks has a talent for making you weepy. His 24th novel, "Counting Miracles," which leapt to the top of the New York Times bestseller list in its first week and is already slated for a film ...

Why is it that some of humanity’s darkest moments give rise to acts of extraordinary courage and compassion? On July 4, 2025, flash floods swept through Camp Mystic, a girls’ summer camp in Hunt, ...