David speaks with Andrew Skerrit about his latest work Ashamed to Die: Silence, Denial, and the AIDS Epidemic in the South. The book examines the AIDS epidemic in the rural Southern areas of the United States. Although AIDS cases in general are on the decline, AIDS cases in the rural and often poverty-stricken areas of the South are on a sharp incline.

David speaks to Cynthia Good, Founder and CEO of Little Pink Book. Before her role at Pink, Good was a well-known anchor on Fox 5 news in Atlanta. Little Pink Book is a daily e-newsletter that serves to help women and their role in the business world. The goal of Little Pink Book is to give women the tools they need whether it be in the role of mentor, career coach, financial advisor, entrepreneurship expert and even office style.

David speaks with author Ben Mezrich about his new book Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History. This book is based on the unbelievable true story of Thad Roberts, a former NASA employee who organized a heist to steal the world’s largest cache of moon rocks. After successfully stealing a multi-million dollar supply of moon rocks to impress his girlfriend of three weeks, Roberts was arrested in an FBI sting while trying to sell the rocks to Belgium collector.

David speaks with CJ Chivers about his latest book, The Gun, which traces the history of the Russian born Kalashnikov rifle. CJ Chivers is an American journalist and author who reports for The New York Times. In the summer of 2007, he was named the newspaper’s Moscow bureau chief, replacing Steven Lee Myers. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 as part of a team of New York Times reporters and photographers awarded for their dispatches from Pakistan and Afghanistan.

David speaks with Geraldine Brooks about her work, The People of the Book. In this work Brooks, a former New York Times columnist, creates a fictional narrative around the true life drama of a mysterious missing Hebrew Haggadah pilfered from Sarajevo. The Haggadah is the prayer book used by Jews on Passover to tell the story of the Israelites exodus from Egypt.

David speaks with Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, the Senior Associate Dean for Executive Programs at Yale University about the tragic life and career of Patricia Dunn. After rising from the ranks of Secretary at Wells Fargo to Chairwoman at Hewlett-Packard, Dunn was ousted in 2006 amid charges of illegal spying in order to catch board members who were leaking corporate secrets. Although she eventually found the responsible party, her tactics and methods were questioned by the guilty party until she was terminated from HP in 2006. Patricia Dunn died Sunday, December 4 2011 after a long battle with ovarian cancer.