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In 2003, she saw her marriage to Tour de France cycling champ Lance Armstrong end in divorce. Kristin Armstrong's devotional walks others through her path to healing. She talks about her journey and her faith in this week's Faith Matters.

Gary Shteyngart came to the United States in 1979 as a 7 year old Soviet-Jewish kid. He left behind a life of childhood bliss to become a self-described depressive nerd. He's all grown up now, and his new novel, Absurdistan, imagines an oil-rich country run by kleptocrats and oil giants.

While working on public relations issues in the Reagan White House, Eric Dezenhall learned how to make bad news go away. Now he's the author of Damage Control: Why Everything You Know about Crisis Management is Wrong.

Dr. T. Berry Brazelton's career as a pediatrician spans six decades. His basic advice hasn't changed: Trust your baby to tell you when you're on the right track — and when you're not.

After a failed 1848 escape of slaves in Washington, D.C., divisions deepened between influential slave-owners and abolitionists. The nation's capital was swept up in controversy that would soon change the course of history.

One of India's most squalid slums sits on extremely valuable property. The government has a plan to let private developers build projects for the rich in exchange for free housing, schools and health clinics for the poor. But many long-time residents oppose the plan.

Plenty of books find a few devoted readers but leave the rest of us unaware that they were even there. Librarian Nancy Pearl reviews some of these "under the radar" books, including fiction, short stories and poetry.

You know him for his rhinestones and hot pants, but Liberace was also an avid chef. A new cookbook collects Mr. Showmanship's favorite recipes, including Salamiami Bouquet, Flamboyant Flambe and Angel Bling Cake Pie.

In her new book The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, author Natalie Angier says science doesn't have to be impossible, impenetrable or uncool.

Seventy years ago this Sunday, people in New York City looked up in amazement to see the ill-fated zeppelin Hindenburg make its way to an airfield in New Jersey. A poem offers a boy's-eye view of that sight.