Candida Pugh’s debut novel is about a young woman who joins the Freedom Riders in 1961, gets arrested and jailed in Mississippi, and learns that not everyone appreciates a hero in Bridge of the Single Hair.

What does the brain have to say about the way we carry our hearts? Kayt Sukel made herself a guinea pig in the labs of some unusual love experts to find out in Dirty Minds. Then, co-author Dr. Amir Levine reveals in Attached how an understanding of the attachment theory can help us find and sustain love.

Ed Sanders’ Fug You traces the flowering years of New York’s downtown bohemia in the sixties.

2012 delinquency forecasts with Steve Chaouki, Financial Services TransUnion. Then, Spencer Wells takes us on a powerful tour of when we  became farmers rather than hunter-gatherers, setting in motion a momentous chain of events that could not have been foreseen at the time in Pandora’s Seed.

Beginning in the mid nineteenth century in America, childhood became synonymous with innocence. As the idea took hold, it became racialized: popular culture constructed white children as innocent and vulnerable while excluding black youth from these qualities. Robin Bernstein takes up this issue in Racial Innocence.

A Thousand Lives is the story of Jonestown as it has never been told before. Julia Scheeres drew from thousands of recently declassified FBI documents and audiotapes, as well as rare videos and interviews, to piece together a compelling history of the doomed camp, focusing on the people who lived there.

Bestselling author Steven Pinker offers a controversial history of violence in Better Angels of Our Nature.

Jeanne Guillemin is a leading expert on bioterrorism and in American Anthrax she gives the definitive account of the seven year investigation of the virulent spores that were sent through the mail killing several. Then Mary Ellen O’Toole, a former FBI profiler tells you how to handle yourself when in a fearful situation in Dangerous Instincts.

Ernest Drucker is sure to provoke a debate and shift the paradigm of how we think about punishment and A Plague of Prisons offers a totally novel perspective on criminal justice in twenty-first-century America.

John Wayne Gacy is the story of a young lawyer fresh from the Public Defender’s Office whose first client in private practice turns out to be the worst serial killer in our nation’s history.For the first time, Judge Sam Amirante, Gacy’s lawyer and confidant with writer Danny Broderick, tell this chilling tale of how he defended an American serial killer.