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Croatian author Dasa Drndic's new novel Trieste is an experimental mix of historical record and personal quest. It's the story of an Italian woman trying to find the lost child she bore to a Nazi officer. Reviewer Alan Cheuse says it's an intensely moving book, but one that must be put down occasionally in order to recover.

San Diego County prosecutors filed nine sex-trafficking cases in 2009. Last year, that number rose to 43.

The California Legislature is back in session and Democrats are again in control of both houses. Party leaders say they're focused on financial recovery and addressing key issues.

Antarctica is one of the best places on Earth to spot these fallen stars.

The headline was enough to infuriate any privacy-loving North American.

And the study by Human Rights Watch finds that defendants who take their fate to a judge or jury face prison sentences on average 11 years longer than those who plead guilty.

A new report says the Justice Department regularly coerces defendants in federal drug cases to plead guilty by threatening them with steep prison sentences or stacking charges to increase their time behind bars.

In softcover fiction, Ellen Meister resurrects a literary icon, Ryan McIlvain sends elders door to door, and William H. Gass strikes the key to an identity crisis. In nonfiction, Monte Reel tells of the Victorian who chased after gorillas, and Bill Streever explores the thermometer's upper frontiers.

Airs Friday, January 3, 2014 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Parents who have a child struggling with serious mental illness live in fear that the worst will happen.