Patty and Allen are in love. Patty and Allen have four beautiful children. But their relationship is illegal. So Patty and Allen are in prison. A true story.The Stacks Reader Series highlights classic...

They were two sailors on an uneasy ship. One became a killer, the other his victim. What drew them together on an autumn night was rooted long ago in a fear and revulsion that still haunt the American...

Walt Harrington has been one of the most impactful journalists in the modern wave of long-form creative nonfiction. The Detective: And Other True Stories features some of the highlights of Harrington's...

The Army of God is a radical anti-abortion group that believes stalking and killing abortion providers is justifiable homicide and that violence is the best and only means to end legal abortions, a stance...

T. Rodgers created the infamous L.A. street gang the Bloods and helped introduce crack to America. Later, chastened, Rodgers set out to end the madness.Including an interview with the author by imprint...

In the summer of 1990, the heavy metal band Judas Priest stood trial in Nevada for hiding subliminal messages in its music that allegedly led to the deaths of two teenagers.Including an interview with...

The tiny town of Dryden, New York, endures a strange, five-year string of murders, car accidents, and suicides—all of it tied to two popular high school cheerleaders.The Stacks Reader Series highlights...

"You want to see me driving up and down the Sunset Strip in my car picking up girls, right? Well, you don't think I'd be stupid enough to let you see that side of me, do you?"—actor Warren Beatty, Esquire...

In Not Guilty by Reason of Afghanistan: And Other True Stories, John H. Richardson displays the detached, nonjudgmental, observational eye of the perpetual outsider. He's curious and smart, a realist...

Little is concealed in Vermont. Lies are of the little white variety; few and far between and usually reserved for nosey strangers who are probably up to no good anyway, especially if it has something...

Somewhere in the north of England, a man who has murdered thirteen women is hiding. Police have been searching for him for five years. Even the villains have a price on his head. But he's too smart—or...

NFL Wide Receiver Rae Carruth, the women who loved him, and the one he wanted dead. Love, sports, murder-for-hire, and a courageous victim who, thanks to a haunting, 12-minute emergency call made to 911,...

Dorothy Stratten, a naive and beautiful young woman with an overbearing husband, becomes a superstar Playboy centerfold and part of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's inner circle. When she dumps the boyfriend...

As a young lifeguard, Ronald Reagan saved 77 people from drowning in the Rock River in Dixon, Illinois, according to his biographers. And, during the late 1980's, an FBI agent did visit a neighbor of...

Was rock legend Jerry Lee Lewis' fourth wife murdered, and did her husband, a man nicknamed "the Killer" do it? A literary whodunnit by one of the greats of artful and hard-hitting narrative journalism....

When one Milpitas teenager bragged about killing another, his friends didn't believe him. When he showed them the corpse, they didn't tell. Stoners don't narc on their friends.With an interview with the...

John Delia wore evening gowns. John Delia had an operation. John Delia became Diane Delia. Diane Delia was murdered. Delia's boyfriend was accused of the crime. Delia's girlfriend was accused, too. One...