Millions of readers have been hooked on fictional forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta since her introduction in Patricia Cornwell's first Scarpetta novel, Post Mortem, in 1990. It's a fascination that has only deepened with each of Cornwell's ten subsequent Scarpetta novels, all of which appeared ... more »

Cosmopolitan: A Bartender's Life is a memoir of the bartending life structured as a day in the life at Passerby, the bar owned and run by Toby Cecchini. It is, as well, a rich study of human nature--of the sometimes annoying, sometimes outlandish behavior of the human animal under the influence of alcohol ... more »

E-book exclusive: Interview with Dennis Adamo, former executive producer of the former Pseudo. The commercial and cultural explosion of the digital age may have been born in California's Silicon Valley, but it reached its high point of riotous, chaotic exuberance in New York City from 1995 to March 2000 ... more »

With the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs, Julie Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and saved her soul. Julie Powell is 30-years-old, living in a rundown apartment in Queens and working at a soul-sucking secretarial ... more »

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From the streets of the ghetto to the razor edge of corporate high technology -- prodigy, super-hacker, top security consultant, and champion kickboxer Ejovi Nuwere tells of his intriguing journey on both sides of the law.... One of the most gripping yet improbable stories spawned by the computer revolution ... more »

Hours after two airplanes hit the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, Charlie Vitchers, a construction superintendent, and Bobby Gray, a crane operator, headed downtown. They knew their skills would be crucial amid the chaos and destruction after the towers fell. What they could ... more »

The first complete, unvarnished history of Southern rock's legendary and most popular band, from its members' hardscrabble boyhoods in Jacksonville, Florida and their rise to worldwide fame to the tragic plane crash that killed the founder and the band's rise again from the ashes. In the summer of 1964 ... more »

"We're born in blood. Our family histories are contained in it, our bodies nourished by it daily. Five quarts run through each of us, along some sixty thousand miles of arteries, veins, and capillaries." -from Five Quarts In the national bestseller Sleep Demons, Bill Hayes took us on a trailblazing ... more »

After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, First Sergeant Daniel Hendrex was dispatched along with his unit, Dragon Company, to Husaybah, a small town bordering Syria in the Sunni-dominated Al Anbar Province in Iraq. Their mission was to plug the bottleneck at the border checkpoint, where foreign fighters ... more »

In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence. Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and supporters, to an exhibition game in Chile had crashed somewhere ... more »

Ronald Reagan's first great victory, in the 1966 California governor's race, confounded his critics. Two years earlier, the conservative movement had been pronounced dead. Now political neophyte Reagan trounced incumbent Edmund G. Pat Brown. The lasting legacy of that discordant time in America remains ... more »