When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerising voice, and supernatural gifts,...

The last woman executed in this country went to the gallows despite severe doubts about what part she played in the murder of 73-year-old SP bookmaker Pop Kent at Carlton in 1949. The meticulous detail of this book shatters assumptions...

Based on unprecedented access to the genre’s major players, "New York Times" film critic Zinoman delivers the first definitive account of horror’s golden age--the 1970s, when such directors as Wes Craven...

Through interviews with surviving Hitler Youth members as well as those who resisted the movement, explores how Hitler gained the loyalty, trust, and passion of so many of Germany's young people that by the time he became Chancellor of...

Floor Burns, by Jerod Haase and Mark Horvath, takes us inside the 1996-97 Kansas University Jayhawks basketball season. What makes this book such a unique and fascinating read is that it doesn’t follow the trend of many...

Part love story, part wine-splattered cookbook, a delicious fish-out-of-water story for any woman who has ever suspected that lunch in Paris could change her life.

Acrimony and hyperpartisanship have seeped into every part of the political process. Congress is deadlocked and its approval ratings are at record lows. America’s two main political parties have given up their traditions of...

After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and...

A frank and fascinating exploration of race and racial identity In a book that begins with a series of lynchings and ends with a series of apologies, Eula Biss explores race in America. Her response to the topic is informed by the...