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Margaux Fragoso was 7 years old when 51-year-old Peter Curran began abusing her — it was a relationship that would continue for the next 15 years. Dan Kois tackles the controversial book that, while well-written, has many readers questioning its ethics and authenticity.

Not too long ago, African-Americans played a much bigger role in baseball. In the mid-1970s, a quarter of all players were black Americans. Today, it's one in 10. Baseball historian Rob Ruck writes about how that happened in his new book, Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game.

In this collection of eight short stories set in the bleak fictional farming town of Krafton, characters deal with senseless loss, pain and tragedy. Even when they don't die, they lose their lives in a sense, but an understanding of mourning — however strange or mysterious — offers compassion.

Today France celebrates Bastille Day, commemorating one of the best-known events of the 1789 Revolution. Author Penelope Rowlands gives those unfamiliar with the French Revolution a reality check with these three accounts that give new meaning to the term c'est la vie.

The Republican media strategist has helped craft many sound bites and political phrases during his career — from "death tax" to "the Contract with America." In his book, Win, Luntz argues that careful communication is as essential to business as it is to politics.

Kornel Esti, by the late Hungarian author Dezso Kosztolanyi, tells the story of a man's epic life in the words of his doppelganger — from night train rides through Bulgaria to Central Europe ravaged by World War II.

To enter the world of Vikram Chandra's new novel is to be immersed in the crime and corruption of Mumbai. The city formerly known as Bombay isn't just a backdrop; it's also a character.

Kelly Braffet's Last Seen Leaving follows a mother's search for her daughter, a twentysomething drifter who doesn't really want to be found. But that's just one of the stories being told in this novel.

'Perfume' is a dark and dramatic tale of obsession, murder and the quest for a truly transcendent fragrance. And the main character is a dirty perfumer with a nose of gold and a heart of stone.

For more than 25 years, Frank Pease was the primary portrait photographer in LaPorte, Ind., — a town of about 20,000. Now his photos of everyday Midwesterners have been compiled into a book called LaPorte, Indiana.