Illegal immigration continues to be one of the most widely and hotly debated topics, particularly after Arizona’s passage of the nation’s toughest immigration law in April, yet undocumented immigrants rarely have an opportunity to tell their stories. Until now. For “Illegal: Life and Death in Arizona’s Immigration War Zone,” investigative journalist Terry Greene Sterling spent more than a year among the undocumented to uncover the secret lives at the heart of the immigration controversy.

In the video trailer for her book, which is in stores now, Terry Greene Sterling introduces several of the people in “Illegal,” from Viri, an undocumented student studying at Arizona State University, and Rodrigo, a cross-dressing sex worker, to Jaoquin, a father of two with renal disease who had to decide whether to “die slowly in Phoenix or take his chances in Mexico.”

Go to The Daily Beast for an excerpt of book and to read the author’s op-ed on the drive to recall Prescott, Arizona’s most controversial pol.

“The Blueprint,” Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski’s searing expose of Obama’s secret plan to subvert the Constitution and centralize power in the White House, came out the door with a bang after its April 28 pub date. With Ken Blackwell appearing on "The Hugh Hewitt Show," "Fox News' "Hannity" and "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," the book jumped in its Amazon ranking from 967 to 23 within 24 hours. Over the next few weeks, other media hits followed, including Don Imus, Wolf Blitzer, Michael Medved, and Dennis Miller. This past weekend, "The Blueprint” hit the number 5 spot on the Washington Post Book World's nonfiction bestseller list.

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Fans of “Little House on the Prairie” got a treat on May 3 when Melissa Anderson, who played young Mary Ingalls on the hit NBC series, appeared on the “Today Show” to discuss growing up on and off the set of “Little House.” Anderson dished about Melissa Gilbert and Michael Landon, whom she said could be tough but was a “big kid at heart” with a “weird zany sense of humor.”

Anderson has been on an 18-city tour to promote her book, “The Way I See It: A Look Back on My Life on Little House,” making appearances on local morning shows (see her on Fox 5 in Atlanta) and filling bookstores at signings wherever she goes.

On Tuesday, May 4, federal agents and police detectives arrested Faisal Shahzad at Kennedy airport for the failed attempt to blow up a Nissan Pathfinder loaded with fireworks and fertilizer in the heart of Times Square. With his Shahzad’s arrest, a shocked nation breathed a collective sigh of relief.

But what if Shahzad’s botched effort wasn’t the one-off work of an amateur lone wolf, but was part of a terrorist group’s larger plan simply to see how officials would react? So asks Charles Faddis, author of “Willful Neglect: The Dangerous Illusion of Homeland Security,” in a recent Washington Post article. “Terrorist groups all around the world have run probing ops in the past,” he said. “Leave a package outside an embassy and then watch how security deals with it.”

“Let's hope it is not the latter, because that would imply some very smart boys have something much bigger in mind,” he said.

In “Willful Neglect,” released by Lyons Press in March, Faddis, the former head of the C.I.A.’s the Counterterrorism Center’s weapons of mass destruction unit, takes a hard look at America’s Homeland Security system and shows that we’re really no safer today than we were on 9/11.

Read U.S. News & World Reports’ March 30 interview with Faddis.