Collection: Adult

"Not only is this an exhilarating, illuminating read, it is vital social history."--Megan Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of The Turnout

A superb collection of true crime stories--written by Texas Monthly's legendary feature writer, Skip Hollandsworth--that reminds us why America is perennially obsessed with the genre.

Skip Hollandsworth has been covering true crime since long before the podcasts, networks, and television shows discovered it. Raised in Texas, the revered journalist joined Texas Monthly in 1989, and the stories he has written over three-plus decades have helped define a locale and a culture.

Reported, written and curated by Hollandsworth, She Kills brings together beloved stories that focus in particular on female offenders--from the high schooler who was so desperate to move back in with Mom that she had no choice but to poison her father's refried beans to the wallflower nurse in small-town Texas who one day started killing off her patients to the lovelorn dental hygienist who ordered a hit on her rival.

These are expertly crafted tales that will stop readers in their tracks and leave them gasping with shock and pleasure. Each piece is updated with background of about the original storytelling and new information on the perpetrators and victims where available.

She Kills is a jaw-dropping, addictively readable compendium of women whose sensational crimes and circumstances put them on the wrong side of the law.

Kenneth McKellar may have been born in Reconstruction-era Alabama, but for most of his life, he was a Tennessean through and through. After graduating from the University of Alabama with bachelor's, master's, and law degrees, McKellar traveled to Memphis for what he expected to be a brief visit with his brothers. That visit was the genesis of a lifelong career and permanent home in West Tennessee. After successfully practicing law in Memphis, Kenneth McKellar kicked off his political career in the US House of Representatives in 1911, where he served until 1917 before becoming a US senator.

In his new biography of McKellar, Ray Hill traces the political career of Tennessee's longest-serving senator and paints a colorful, nuanced portrait of the senator's character and convictions. He chronicles McKellar's decades-long political contributions to Tennessee and the United States as a whole, from the beginnings of the Boss Crump political machine to McKellar's historic victory as the first popularly elected US senator from Tennessee in 1916. Hill offers a balanced account of McKellar's forty-two years in office, exploring his early Democratic successes under Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, his steadfast support for the Tennessee Valley Authority, and his fierce, unwavering commitment to Tennessee and its people.

As the only full-length biography of McKellar to date, Hill's meticulously researched volume fills a significant gap in scholarship, shedding new light on the life and career of one of Tennessee's most prominent political figures. Drawing on articles from more than one hundred US newspapers on McKellar's life and politics, this biography will not only appeal to both scholars and students of US political science, but also offer a captivating story to all who love Tennessee and the state's rich history.

"Utterly absorbing. Nearly every paragraph brings a revelation."--Bill Bryson - "Wise, and beautifully written. . . . It will change the way you think about your body and live your life."--Chris van Tulleken - "This great book from a world expert offers practical tips and dispels many myths."--Tim Spector

A world-renowned scientist offers a much-needed analysis of what it takes to have good immune health--helping readers navigate what can really help, what is a complete myth, and why.

Does orange juice help ward off colds? And how does our age affect our ability to recover from one? When it comes to immunity, are we really what we eat? Or how much we eat? We are surrounded by big questions and big claims about enhancing our immune systems, so how do we tell the fiction from the facts? And, ultimately, what can we do to reduce our chances of getting sick?

World-leading immunologist Daniel M. Davis offers answers in this authoritative, highly accessible, myth-busting guide to the effects of stress, age, exercise, weight, nutrition, sleep, vaccines, and mental health on our immune health. Taking us to the cutting edge of immunology research and explaining both what we know and how we know it, Self-Defense helps readers spot phony claims and make informed choices. Davis shows us that everyone's immune system is entirely unique, and that's why we should be wary of one-size-fits-all "cures." We learn how exercise, for example, has all sorts of different, even opposing, short- and long-term effects on our immune health. And while our gut microbes are vitally important, it's unlikely that yogurt drinks can really boost your immune system to stop you getting ill.

An eye-opening window into some of the astonishing possibilities for the future, when it comes to distinguishing bogus and beneficial health claims about everything from vitamin D to inflammation and cancer therapies, Davis's book may be your best self-defense.

As the head baker and owner of a beloved Los Angeles bakery, Roxana Jullapat knows the difference local, sustainable flour can make: brown rice flour lightens up a cake, rustic rye adds unexpected chewiness to a bagel, and ground toasted oats enrich doughnuts. Her bakery, Friends & Family, works with dedicated farmers and millers around the country to source and incorporate the eight mother grains in every sweet, bread, or salad on the menu. In her debut cookbook, Roxana shares her greatest hits, over 90 recipes for reinventing your favorite cakes, cookies, pies, breads, and more.

Her chocolate chip cookie recipe can be made with any of the eight mother grains, each flour yielding a distinct snap, crunch, or chew. Her mouthwatering buckwheat pancake can reinvent itself with grainier cornmeal. One-bowl recipes such as Barley Pumpkin Bread and Spelt Blueberry Muffins will yield fast rewards, while her Cardamom Buns and Halvah Croissants are expertly laid out to grow a home baker's skills. Recipes are organized by grain to ensure you get the most out of every purchase.

Roxana even includes savory recipes for whole grain salads made with sorghum, Kamut or freekeh, or easy warm dishes such as Farro alla Pilota, Toasted Barley Soup, or Gallo Pinto which pays homage to her Costa Rican upbringing. Sunny step-by-step photos, a sourcing guide, storage tips, and notes on each grain's history round out this comprehensive cookbook.

Perfect for beginner bakers and pastry pros alike, Mother Grains proves that whole grains are the secret to making any recipe so much more than the sum of its parts.

What we eat is a leading factor in our health and quality of life. Research has proven that a plant-based diet can prevent and sometimes reverse chronic diseases like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer.

Yet this message has been ignored, distorted, or suppressed by people and organizations with a vested interest in the status quo.

In a compelling new analysis, Dr. T. Colin Campbell, coauthor of The China Study and author of the New York Times bestselling follow-up, Whole, brings to light a series of first-hand experiences that starkly demonstrate how corporate influence in academia, government and the media determines--and sometimes actively suppresses--public access to nutrition research.

Providing an eye-opening look behind the scenes of nutrition policy, Dr. Campbell recounts the story of his life and research, and then tells eight riveting stories in The Whole Truth about instances in which vital information was misrepresented or concealed, including:

• A national nutrition "supreme court" quietly organized by industry-affiliated scientists to control public messaging--and the attempt to expel Dr. Campbell from his own professional society when he challenged it.
• Manipulation of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines to permit consumption of animal protein at levels posing a higher risk of deadly chronic diseases.
• A research paper on the impact of nutrition on immunity--vital information for the COVID-19 pandemic--that was rejected from academic journals without professional review.
• An infant-feeding scandal in which a heavily marketed commercial product displaced breastfeeding--leading to widespread infant malnutrition and deaths around the world.

Coauthor Nelson Campbell, a filmmaker, health advocate, and Dr. Campbell's son, broadens the lens in the book's third part, examining why the plant-based movement has stalled and how it can be renewed through more effective messaging and a grassroots strategy to empower people everywhere to participate in building a healthier world. His suggested approach is provocative, inspiring and hopeful. Together, he and his father have authored a book that will infuse new energy into the plant-based movement.

65 recipes that put handmade pickles center-stage from classic deli-style dill-pickled cukes and Italian giardiniera to Korean kimchi and South American curtido.

Traditional accompaniments for meat, cheese, and fish, pickles are enjoying something of a return to glory as a new generation of eager foodies discover their crunchy, tangy charms.

The recipes and methods showcase everything that modern picklers and fermenters Shedletsky's have learned since launching their award-winning brand. Even after thousands of hours of chopping, salting, and brining vegetables, they find the process magical as it connects them with the past in a visceral, hands-on way, while still producing something incredible to eat.

Here you will find all the tools you need to get started with making your own extraoridinary pickles and ferments at home, as well as recipes and brilliant ideas for what you can do to put your "pickles into practice" once made. From bar snacks, sandwiches, and salads to substantial hot dishes and other ideas for the pickle-devotee such as drinks, including an ingenious take on the trending Pickleback shot.

There is a cure for medicine's ills, but it's going to hurt. Effective treatment, as every doctor knows, begins with accurate diagnosis. Making the Cut is about what's going on in the house of medicine.

Medicine got sick. One in three people now distrust the healthcare system. Following the pandemic, two-thirds of Americans doubt medical scientists will act in the best interest of the public. We are grappling with an epidemic of chronic illness--heart disease, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, stroke, and chronic lung and kidney disease--affecting six in ten Americans, which medicine seems powerless to fix. The overall life expectancy of Americans has declined for the first time since the Great Depression.

Not only are trust levels tanking, the number of doctors is dropping dramatically. Physicians are quitting in droves. One in five doctors will leave medicine in the next two years. One in three will reduce their hours. A doctor, we assume, wounds in order to heal. "You're going to feel a sharp pain!" she says, before making the cut. Today, though, all too often the doctor wounds without healing. Why?

In Making the Cut, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, one of the country's leading public intellectuals and preeminent bioethicists, reveals what medicine gave him--and what it sometimes took from him. This book is about how he grew from an overconfident pre-med to an ambivalent medical student to a capable physician who had fallen in love with medicine--even if his lover has turned into a prostitute of late. While presenting a damning diagnosis of contemporary medicine, Making the Cut also applies the wounding scalpel in order to heal it.

The stranger-than-fiction story of the terrifying "Zombie Hunter" whose brutal crimes nearly went unsolved until an unconventional detective and his team solved the mystery of a real-life monster hiding in plain sight.

Bryan Miller aka The Zombie Hunter, was a cavalier character juxtaposed as a single parent of a teenage daughter. He sported Steampunk attire, wielded a gatling gun at Comic Con conventions, and rode around in a custom fitted police looking car with green lights on the top and the "The Zombie Hunter '' detailed on the side. While his outward appearance and interests were a bit eccentric, little did people know, he was a real-life killer and predator that had been terrorizing the Phoenix area since 1992.

Chasing Down the Zombie Hunter is the extraordinary, detailed inside story of how a small-town ex-CPA, Detective Troy Hillman, and an elite team of detectives--hounded by the press, a frustrated and frightened public, and their own doubts and exhaustion--solved a double murder that had haunted the Valley of the Sun for more than twenty years. The initial details were already chilling--the brutal murder of two women, found headless, who were assaulted while riding their bikes along a well-known canal bike path--but with his inside-perspective, Hillman reveals how the initial headlines only scratch the surface.

Besides giving the families of Angela Brosso and Melanie Bernas closure and justice, Detective Hillman's groundbreaking methods and his familial DNA case set the precedent for cold cases like The Golden State Killer. Chasing Down the Zombie Hunter reveals how evidence that was already in possession of the police turned out to be the key to catching the killer--once they new how to look at it.

From frustrations and heartbreak to bizarre twists and incredible breakthroughs, Detective Hillman takes true crime devotees through every facet of how, against all odds, the suspect was found and arrested. Chasing Down the Zombie Hunter is a testament to the fact that no matter how old the case, there is always hope for justice...if you know where to look.

As an American singer, conductor, composer, and actor, Frank Sinatra, Jr. (1944-2016), had a long and successful music career and was recognized for his many contributions to American popular song. Yet, his own star has often been overshadowed by his world-famous father. The first book ever published about Frank Sinatra, Jr., Let Me Be Frank: The Extraordinary Life and Music of Frank Sinatra, Jr., details how this complex and often misunderstood artist dealt with professional struggles, personal demons, and endless comparisons with his father to emerge as a thriving performer who finally made peace with the name "Sinatra."

Let Me Be Frank chronicles Frank Sinatra, Jr.'s life and music career, including the lifetime loyalty of his friends and bandsmen, and his notorious womanizing. It also, of course, details the challenging relationship with his father, including an incident with his father that may have changed Frank Jr. forever. He ran from comparisons to his father and lost work due to his refusal to sing his father's songs. The book also details Frank Jr.'s kidnapping in 1963 when he was nineteen.

Included are over forty interviews with Frank Jr.'s friends, family, and colleagues. It also features a compelling narrative from Andrea Kauffman, Frank Jr.'s personal manager and close friend of thirty-one years, and an in-depth musical analysis of four decades of Frank Jr.'s recordings and stage shows. Let Me Be Frank finally sets the record straight about a brilliant man and a brilliant performer who never truly got the credit he deserved.

An LA Review of Books Best Book of 2025
A New Yorker Recommended Book of 2025

"Chris Kraus reinvents the true-crime novel." --The New Yorker

"[Kraus's] version of a classic American tragedy...a dazzling, refined work, formally and otherwise--at once tracking the far-reaching tentacles of addiction, and the trajectory of an almost unrecognizable America." --Bookforum

A critically acclaimed novel from Chris Kraus--author of the classic I Love Dick, a cult literary figure, and one of autofiction's truest innovators--about addiction, violence, and the American underclass.

On the Iron Range of northern Minnesota, at the end of the last decade, three teenagers shot and killed an older acquaintance after spending the day with him. In a cold, depressed town, on the fringes of the so-called "meth community," the three young people were quickly arrested and imprisoned.

At the time of the murder, Catt Greene and her husband, Paul Garcia, are living nearby in a house they'd bought years earlier as a summer escape from Los Angeles. Locked into a period of personal turmoil, moving between LA and Minnesota--between the art world and the urban poverty of Paul's addiction therapist jobs, the rural poverty of the icy, depressed Iron Range--Catt turns away from her own life and towards the murder case, which soon becomes an obsession. In her attempt to pierce through the brutality and despair surrounding the murder and to understand the teenagers' lives, Catt is led back to the idiosyncratic, aspirational lives of her parents in the working-class Bronx and small-town, blue-collar Milford, Connecticut.

Written in three linked parts, The Four Spent the Day Together explores the tensions of unclaimed futures and unchosen circumstances in the age of social media, paralyzing interconnectedness, and the ever-widening gulf between the rich and poor.

The early works of esteemed American poet Robert Frost are collected here in one volume.

The poetry of Robert Frost is praised for its realistic depiction of rural life in New England during the early twentieth century, as well as for its examination of social and philosophical issues. Through the use of American idiom and free verse, Frost produced many enduring poems that remain popular with modern readers. A Collection of Poems by Robert Frost contains all the poems from his first four published collections: A Boy's Will (1913), North of Boston (1914), Mountain Interval (1916), and New Hampshire (1923), including classics such as "The Road Not Taken," "Fire and Ice," and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." This handsome leather-bound volume is an elegant addition to every poetry lover's shelf.

In Hybrid: Curiosity in All Things, multidisciplinary design studio, Hybrid Design, explores the discipline of putting curiosity into practice. As a studio, they are driven by the conviction that seemingly disparate and disconnected interests are not only an asset to the design process, but essential to the creation of fulfilling work. Through real project examples over the last 20+ years in business, and insightful essays, they chart how a broad and eclectic collection of interests, hobbies, and experiences--curiosities--translates into powerful design work across any subject or discipline. Hybrid will showcase work from clients such as Nike, Pinterest, The North Face, Sonos, Hypebeast, Levi's, YouTube and many more. The book comes in two color ways--randomly assigned when ordered--in the spirit of curiosity and serendipity.

A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia--and why killing the dead is better than killing the living

Killing the Dead provides the first in-depth, global account of one of the world's most widespread yet misunderstood forms of mass hysteria--the vampire epidemic. In a spellbinding narrative, John Blair takes readers from ancient Mesopotamia to present-day Haiti to explore a macabre frontier of life and death where corpses are believed to wander or do harm from the grave, and where the vampire is a physical expression of society's inexplicable terrors and anxieties.

In 1732, the British public opened their morning papers to read of lurid happenings in eastern Europe. Serbian villagers had dug up several corpses and had found them to be undecayed and bloated with blood. Recognizing the marks of vampirism, they mutilated and burned them. Centuries earlier, the English themselves engaged in the same behavior. In fact, vampire epidemics have flared up throughout history--in ancient Assyria, China, and Rome, medieval and early modern Europe, and the Americas. Blair blends the latest findings in archaeology, anthropology, and psychology with vampire lore from literature and popular culture to show how these episodes occur at traumatic moments in societies that upend all sense of security, and how the European vampire is just one species in a larger family of predatory supernatural entities that includes the female flying demons of Southeast Asia and the lustful yoginīs of India.

Richly illustrated, Killing the Dead provocatively argues that corpse-killing, far from being pathological or unhealthy, served as a therapeutic and largely harmless outlet for fear, hatred, and paranoia that would otherwise result in violence against marginalized groups and individuals.

Inject style, personality and comfort into your rented home, whatever your taste or budget, with this handbook from blogger Medina Grillo (@grillodesigns, 867k Instagram followers).

"So many useful tips in here - this is so different to most other books out there!" - Alex Stedman, The Frugality

"There seems to be no end of resourceful, affordable and creative ideas." - Sophie Robinson

You've got the keys from your landlord, moved into your new home, and the boxes are unpacked. Now you want to put your stamp on the place, but how do you do this when you can't paint the walls, refurbish the kitchen or replace the old, tired flooring?

And can you really live with magnolia walls? What about those outdated kitchen cupboards? Not to mention the tattered lampshades, old sofa and sparse furniture...

In this invaluable book, award-winning interiors blogger Medina Grillo shares her favorite tips, tricks and DIY projects for transforming a rented space. Discover ways to add a splash of color with removable wallpaper, learn how to hang artworks without damaging the walls, and turn your hand to upcycling those furniture bargains you picked up at the flea market.

With chapters covering all aspects of the home, from walls, flooring and lighting to storage and accessories, Home Sweet Home will enable every reader to make their house feel like home, whether they are a DIY expert or have never before lifted a paintbrush.

Filled with photography and illustrations, and featuring a brand new introduction in this new edition, it is the perfect read for any renter looking to live in a beautiful and stylish home.