HARDCOVER BEST-SELLERS Fiction 1. "U is for Undertow," by Sue Grafton (Putnam, $27.95). Kinsey Millhone investigates the case of a 4-year-old girl who disappeared 21 years earlier. ...more

December 20, 2009

HARDCOVER BEST-SELLERS Fiction 1. "I, Alex Cross," by James Patterson (Little, Brown, $27.99). Tracking the murderer of a relative, Alex Cross discovers a wild Washington scene with explosive secrets. ...more

December 13, 2009

When the curtain closes tonight on County General Hospital, it will be another hectic day in the emergency room where so much drama has taken place. ...more

March 29, 2009

Last month, scientists publishing in the journal Nature declared that they had all but unraveled the biological mystery of what made a woolly mammoth woolly and, well, mammoth, laying the foundation for a tale worthy of the late Michael Crichton. ...more

December 7, 2008

Teenagers hanging out one night in a Utah desert witness the fiery crash of a satellite. ...more

May 21, 2008