In their new book, ‘Tightrope: Americans Reaching For Hope,’ journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn write about the systemic causes of poverty and inequality plaguing working-class Americans.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists called for more empathy towards the nation’s poorest.

John Fremont rose to prominence in the 1840s with his many mapping expeditions to the West, which his wife, Jessie, helped him heavily publicize.

"The books on this list have transcended generations and, much like the Library itself, are as relevant today as they were when they first arrived," said the library's president.

A group of women gathered at a coffee shop outside Seattle to discuss a book about Christian living, but soon discovered that they shared something else: addiction in their families.

The 1994 memoir opened a national dialogue about clinical depression and introduced readers to Wurtzel's brash, unapologetic voice. Wurtzel died of breast cancer at a Manhattan hospital Tuesday.

Librarians say new publisher policies are not just unfair and unethical, but they might be illegal.

Author Nina McLaughlin, who has written for the Boston Globe and the Boston Phoenix, recently published her new book, Wake Siren: Ovid Resung.

Few thought it would ever happen but in 1969 the prestigious all male Yale University went coed. Author Anne Gardiner Perkins' new book, "Yale Needs Women, tells the stories of the first women on the Yale campus who faced extraordinary pressure to succeed.

Sarah Hurtiz worked in the White House for all eight years of the Obama administration.