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In 1965, 16-year-old Meredith Hall became pregnant. Her community shunned her, and after giving up her child for adoption, she wandered the world. Hall's new memoir, Without a Map, recounts her turbulent journey and the unexpected reunion she had with her lost son.

In her new novel, Gourmet magazine writer Nicole Mones uses Chinese culinary history, recipes and tantalizing descriptions of fine cuisine to describe how food can nourish the body and a broken heart.

The children's classic, The Bridge to Terabithia, is now a Disney film. Author Katherine Paterson and her son, screenwriter David Paterson, discuss the real-life events that the popular book is based on.

From Henry James to Jack Kerouac, the familiar clickity clack of the typewriter was like a love song that accompanied many writers' works. In his book, The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting, Darren Wershler-Henry captures this love affair with a writing machine that's largely confined to history.

If you've got a stack of books that you know you should read, but you never do, maybe you have something in common Queen Elizabeth II. Or at least with the queen as imagined by writer Alan Bennett in The Uncommon Reader.

In his book The Driver, Alexander Roy lays out how he drove from New York to Los Angeles in 31 hours and 4 minutes, stopping only six times. He explains how he prepared for what he says is a record-breaking road trip.

It's all most of us can do to shower and get out of the door in the morning, never mind starting the day with a healthy breakfast. But celebrity chef Nigella Lawson has ideas for a quick and tasty morning meal.

Investigative reporter Mark Schapiro explains in a new book that toxic chemicals exist in many of the products we handle every day — agents that can cause cancer, genetic damage and birth defects lacing everything from our gadgets to our toys to our beauty products.

A six-part series on the source of India's great river begins in the Himalayan village of Bhaironghati, where villagers prepare to take a statue of the goddess Ganga to her summer temple.

Martin Luther King Jr. was in Memphis in 1968 rallying for fair treatment and pay of African-American sanitation workers when he was assassinated. American history professor Michael Honey joins Fresh Air to discuss his book on the labor campaign King was leading at the time of his death.