Life, death, faith, and philosophy prompt some of the most gnawing questions for all of us. For Christian singer Julianna Glasse, it was books themselves that carried her through the dark night of the soul she describes in her thoughtful memoir, This Is What Happens When Women Read. For the late Dutch poet Lieke Marsman, a terminal diagnosis spurred her to investigate the unknown and the unknowable, ruminations she documented in On Another Planet They Can Save Me. And for journalist Kristen Millares Young, familial abuse sent her searching for deeper answers than the ones she'd been handed, charting a new path in the memoir Desire Lines. As comforting as answers can be, what a determined mind can do with the questions is often far more compelling.