Everyone seems to love to hate lawyers, and it's easy to shake your head at the profession given its dark side: painstakingly detailed and convoluted documents, the notorious practice of twisting the truth in an effort to win, and exorbitant fees. DRACULA WAS A LAWYER is a copious collection of approximately 500 fascinating trivia facts about lawyers.

It's no joke that we are all fascinated by the medical profession and the people in it. With "Doctors Killed George Washington," trivia mavens Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo explore accidental medical discoveries, medical follies, bizarre cures, and more. This titillating tome puts doctors and medical history under the microscope and exposes more than 500 little-known facts and outrageous oddities from the wild world of medicine. Did you know? Before the advent of surgery, ancient Egyptian doctors put their patients under by hitting them on the head with a mallet.

You're about to be an eyewitness to the top ten days in Thomas Edison's life, including:

• An instinctive moment of bravery that launched a career
• A lucky break that freed him for a life of invention
• An incredible boast that he quickly proved true
• A flash of insight that lit the world
• And the creation of our favorite pastime, the movies.

These days and five others shook Edison's world - and yours.