Michelle Smith held a book signing in west Louisville for her book “Twisted Napkin” which chronicles her experience with domestic violence.

The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives” recall her troubled father and the fate of a high school classmate.

Prix Goncourt-winning novel “Live Fast,” Brigitte Giraud pieces together the motorcycle crash that killed the narrator’s husband, while tearing her apart.

Leibowitz describes herself as “a reformed winter-hater,” someone who despised the season until a stint working in the Arctic ...