Adult

After a devastating experience in Darfur strips Alex Baines, former rising star of the State Department, of his security clearances, he receives a call from his old mentor with an incredible opportunity to start over. The job isn’t quite what Alex imagined it to be when he finds a shady U.S.-based mining company everywhere he turns. As violence in the political climate escalates, Alex struggles to balance the best interests of the United States with the fate of the Congo and its people.

Taz, a British student who has just arrived for her year abroad, thinks that she will spend her time in Italy sipping wine and taking in the rolling Umbrian hills. But she soon falls in with a cabal of posh, reckless girls --- the B4 --- who turn her quaint fantasies into an erotic and dangerous rush through the darkest realms of friendship and love.

Charles R. Cross vividly recounts the life of Hendrix, from his difficult childhood and adolescence in Seattle through his incredible rise to celebrity in London's swinging sixties. It is the story of an outrageous life --- with legendary tales of sex, drugs, and excess --- while it also reveals a man who struggled to accept his role as idol and who privately craved the kind of normal family life he never had.

In JUST KIDS, Patti Smith’s first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late '60s and '70s.

With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant and honest autobiography. More than a rock star, he is an icon, a living embodiment of the history of rock music. Well known for his reserve in a profession marked by self-promotion, flamboyance, and spin, he now chronicles, for the first time, his remarkable personal and professional journeys.

As lead singer and songwriter for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis has lived life on the razor's edge. So much has been written about him, but until now, we've only had Kiedis's songs as clues to his experience from the inside. In SCAR TISSUE, Kiedis proves himself to be as compelling a memoirist as he is a lyricist, giving us a searingly honest account of the life from which his music has evolved.

From 1969 to 1981, Ben Fong-Torres was one of the first "star" writers on staff at Rolling Stone --- the "scruffy rock journal" that metamorphosed into one of the most powerful voices of a generation. Now in this fascinating book, Fong-Torres revisits his most intriguing celebrity interviews and profiles.

She has been called rock and roll's original female outlaw, as famous for her bad behaviour as for her haunting singing voice. From "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love," the songs she performed became the anthems of a generation. In this narrative, readers will discover the many sides of Grace Slick: as artistic pioneer; as practitioner of freedom and rebellion; and as a loving mother to actress China Kantner.

From Steven Adler, the original drummer for Guns N’ Roses, comes MY APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION, the inside story of Guns N' Roses. Offering a different perspective from the bestselling SLASH, Adler chronicles his life with the band, and own intense struggle with addiction, as seen on Dr. Drew’s Celebrity Rehab and Sober House.

Being a teen or tween isn't easy for anyone  ---  but it's especially tough for Asperkids. Asperkdis deserve their very own guide to all of the hidden social rules that are awfully confusing, even if they seem obvious to everyone else.