The Early Show has featured brief articles on two books this week:

Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly has recently published a collection of his columns that appeared on the back page of the magazine for many, many years. The book is called Hate Mail from Cheerleaders and Other Adventures in the Life of Reilly.

You may finally sleep through the night again knowing why bananas and apples go brown, or why your cereal gravitates to one side of the bowl, or why onions, like so many other things, make you cry. The answers are all here: Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze? And 114 Other Questions, a collection of questions sent in from New Science Magazine, and of course, their corresponding answers. Do they have the answer you’re looking for?

Excerpts from both of these books may be found here.