When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from...

American classics professor Alan Woodhull, numb since his beloved daughter was killed in a terrorist bombing seven years earlier, begins the process of reawakening to life and love when he decides to travel to Italy to attend the trial of the people responsible for Cookie's death.

"Better and more comprehensive than any prior account. . . . Those of us who lived through those days will find the book cathartic; those rising generations who were too young to remember 9/11, or who weren't yet born, will find it revelatory." —John Farmer, senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission and author of The Ground Truth

"With his rigorous research and moral clarity, Mitchell Zuckoff has provided us with

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