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Roz Chast "The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z!"
What happens when you pair one of America's most-beloved comedians with one of the nation's premier cartoonists? Well, I suppose lots of things could happen -- one thing that did happen, when Steve Martin got together with The New Yorker's Roz Chast, is a new book for young readers called "The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z!"
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Geraldine Brooks "People of the Book"A centuries-old Jewish religious book manages to survive into modern times, in the new novel by Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist and novelist Geraldine Brooks. Clues to its provenance come from the wing of an insect, crystals of salt, a single white hair, and what appears to be a wine stain -- each carefully explored in vignettes that Brooks brings to life. Her book is called "People of the Book." [Interview taped at Politics and Prose, Washington, DC]
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Felicia Pearson "Grace After Midnight"Felicia Pearson didn't get off to a very good start in life -- born to a crack-addicted mother in East Baltimore, her childhood was spent in the company of some of Baltimore's toughest characters. Snoop, as she was eventually dubbed, became a "baby gangsta," killed a woman in self-defense at age 15, and wound up in prison. On being paroled, she nearly fell right back into the old, dangerous life, before a chance encounter in a nightclub with a cast member from HBO's gritty series "The Wire ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Terri Irwin "Steve and Me"Steve Irwin changed his world. Through a unique ability to connect with all creatures - human and animal - Irwin entertained, inspired, and taught us. His untimely death in 2006, in a fateful encounter with a stingray, stunned us all. His wife Terri is committed to carrying on Steve's legacy. In her book "Steve and Me," she tells their story.
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Jarrett Krosoczka "Punk Farm On Tour"While Farmer Joe is en route to a Tractor Society Conference a couple of thousand miles away, back at the farm the members of a most unusual underground rock band are preparing to go on tour. Jarrett Krosoczka's book for children, "Punk Farm on Tour," tells the story of the talented Cow, Sheep, Pig, Goat and Chicken.
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Judith Jones "The Tenth Muse"Over five decades, book editor Judith Jones has successfully combined her love of literature with a lifelong passion for fine food. Jones became muse to such towering figures as Julia Child and Claudia Roden, among many others, while shepherding her authors' books to the bestseller lists. Now Jones tells her own story, in a memoir called "The Tenth Muse."
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Thomas DeFrank "Write It When I'm Gone"The late Gerald Ford was often much more opinionated than he appeared to be. And funnier, and more gossipy. But he had a public face he kept on, out of respect for others -- even those he disdained -- and respect for the office he held for two and a half years. For sixteen years, however, Ford revealed his private thoughts to a reporter. Veteran journalist Thomas DeFrank had long conversations with Gerald Ford, with the only condition being that they not be published until after his death. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Sally Bedell Smith "For Love of Politics"Many have opined that Bill and Hillary Clinton's is a marriage of convenience or expediency. But no, argues a respected biographer, it is a marriage of love - a mutual love of politics. Washington-based Sally Bedell Smith has spoken with dozens of people who know the Clintons well, to untangle the personal, professional, and political aspects of their relationship. Smith's book is called "For Love of Politics."
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Vince Flynn "Protect and Defend"A nuclear Iran is something the U.S. and Israel would never tolerate, and in Vince Flynn's new thriller "Protect and Defend," Israel carries out an audacious operation deep inside Iran that leaves a gaping hole in the ground and an Iranian government bent on revenge. That's where Flynn's series hero Mitch Rapp comes in, persuading the president to push Iran over the edge once and for all.
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Sir David Frost "Frost/Nixon: Behind the Scenes of the Nixon Interviews"History has paired television interviewer Sir David Frost and former President Richard Nixon in a way neither may have ever anticipated. A series of landmark interviews in 1977 afforded the disgraced Nixon a means to begin his rehabilitation with the American public. But Frost recalls that the interviews might just as easily have never happened. There were obstacles aplenty, as he tells in his book "Frost/Nixon: Behind the Scenes of the Nixon Interviews."
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A.J. Jacobs "The Year of Living Biblically"Many people follow Biblical rules, starting with the basics, the Ten Commandments. But let's face it, even the most pious among us is unlikely to be able to live by ALL the rules in the Bible. But A.J. Jacobs -- whom last we met after he had read the entire encyclopedia, from A to Z -- decided to give the Bible laws a try. For one full year, he would do exactly what the Bible said to do. His chronicle of that effort is called "The Year of Living Biblically." [Interview taped at Borders, B ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
David Michaelis "Schulz and Peanuts"Charlie Brown had to pay Lucy a nickel every time he sought psychological advice. It seems his creator, Charles Schulz, sought some measure of therapy in the beloved comic strip he drew for decades. Now, in the book "Schulz and Peanuts," biographer David Michaelis draws a picture of the artist whose deeply troubled life can be seen in the panels of his cartoons.
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Dinesh D'Souza "What's So Great About Christianity"For years, it has been fashionable in some circles to dismiss Christianity and its beliefs as obsolete, discredited, disproven by science, even harmful. So what's so great about Christianity? Scholar and former White House domestic policy analyst Dinesh D'Souza takes on the challenge of defending the faith, in his book called "What's So Great About Christianity."
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Joseph Grenny "Influencer"How much influence do you have, and would you like to have more? And we're not talking just about influence as a business or political leader. Parents have influence, and just ordinary folks have and use influence. So how DO you get more? Joseph Grenny is one of the influencers at VitalSmarts, which is in the business of training Fortune 500 companies. He's also one of the authors of the new book "Influencer."
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Laurence Bergreen "Marco Polo"The adventures of Marco Polo are world renowned. His 13th-century trade-diplomatic-possibly-espionage travels to Mongolia and China have become the stuff of legend - in fact, many people think it is just a legend. There's always been doubt that Polo even went to China. Did he go, or did he just pick up other people's stories and sell them as his own? That's just one of the things biographer Laurence Bergreen wanted to know. His book is called "Marco Polo."
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Rachel Louise Snyder "Fugitive Denim"Ever wonder where your clothes come from? Before you say The Gap or Sears or Abercrombie and Fitch, think .. before that. The wholesaler? No, before that. The manufacturer? Yes, but before that, too. Journalist Rachel Louise Snyder takes us to places as diverse as Azerbaijan, Cambodia, New York, and Italy as she traces the progress of a pair of jeans, from cotton farm to retail store. Her book is called "Fugitive Denim."
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Walter Mosley "Blonde Faith"Since his debut in 1990, Easy Rawlins has taken his place as one of America's favorite literary characters, in a series of mystery-thrillers by Walter Mosley. The series has followed Easy from the years right after World War Two up through the year in which his latest book takes place, 1967. And now, in "Blonde Faith," Easy is trying to make sense of what his life has become. But the bigger story about "Blonde Faith" is that it may mean the end of the line for Easy.
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Thomas Laird "The Story of Tibet"If you had exclusive access, for hours at a time over the course of three years, to the Dalai Lama, what would you ask? Journalist Thomas Laird knew exactly what he wanted to do with his unique access to Tibet's exiled leader. With His Holiness as his guide, Laird explores Tibet's history, in the process gaining great insight into science, reincarnation, and the nature of Buddhism. And, of course, a rare glimpse into the life of the Dalai Lama himself. [Interview taped at Borders, Washing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Bert Rockman "The George Bush Legacy"How has George W. Bush done as President? What will his legacy be? A new book published by the nonpartisan CQ Press, an arm of Congressional Quarterly, aims to put "Bush 43's" two terms in perspective. One of the three editors of the book is Purdue University political scientist Bert Rockman. The book's called "The George Bush Legacy."
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Emily Benedek "Red Sea"When journalist Emily Benedek was working on an article for Newsweek on counterterrorism, once of the sources she turned to was a senior Israeli counterterrorism expert. So much of what she learned from him could not be told in the Newsweek article, only in fiction. The result is her first novel, a troublingly-realistic thriller that begins with a series of plane crashes and races toward an ending that could be catastrophic. It's called "Red Sea."
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Andrea Barrett "The Air We Breathe"As the U.S. teeters on the brink of entry into the first World War, a motley group of tuberculosis patients in upstate New York is about to experience world politics on its own little scale, in Andrea Barrett's novel "The Air We Breathe." Poor immigrants are thrown into the same closed community as wealthy businessmen. One of them tries an ambitious social experiment. But soon the fevers of xenophobia and prejudice turn the community into its own brand of battlefield. [Interview taped at O ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Danica McKellar "Math Doesn't Suck"Only boys can be good at math. At least that's what millions of girls have been led to believe. But girls need to hear Danica McKellar's message. McKellar may be best known for her television role as Winnie Cooper on "The Wonder Years," but she also graduated summa cum laude in math from UCLA, and co-wrote a published math theorem. She calls her book "Math Doesn't Suck." [Interview taped at Borders, Rockville, MD]
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Amy Bloom "Away"Russian Jewish immigrant Lillian Leyb has "endured the murder of her family, the loss of her daughter, an ocean crossing like a death march, intimate life with strangers in her cousin's two rooms, smelling of men and urine and fried food and uncertainty and need." And all of this by the age of 22. But in Amy Bloom's second novel "Away," Lillian faces her most difficult test yet: a journey across 1920s America, for the reunion with her daughter she longs for above everything else.
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John Basedow "Fitness Made Simple"You're out of shape. You know it. You see the looks people give you. And you've seen that guy on the TV commercials, the young buff guy who says fitness can be simple. Now, John Basedow has put his formula for fitness in a book for the first time. He says it's a total fitness program that goes way beyond just losing weight. His book is called "Fitness Made Simple."
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Deborah Norville "Thank You Power"Thank you. Amazing, isn't it, the power commanded by two little words? And the life-changing strength of another word, gratitude. Television personality Deborah Norville has long studied the positive effects of gratitude, and why true thankfulness is a blessing for the person who is thankful. Norville's book is called "Thank You Power."
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Frank Warren "A Lifetime of Secrets"Hey - you want to know a secret? Who can resist an invitation like that? Apparently there is also a pretty fair number of people who can't resist the opportunity to tell a secret, sometimes a secret they have never told anyone. Maybe a secret they never even openly admitted to themselves. And Frank Warren has solicited, and collected, and lovingly maintains a library of thousands of them. He has shared them since 2005 on his wildly popular blog "PostSecret," and in bestselling books, the l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Garry Wills "Head and Heart"There is a common assumption that underlies almost any discussion of faith in America, and that is the notion that the founding fathers sought to establish a Christian nation, and that we have strayed steadily further from their vision. The new book by historian Garry Wills reveals, however, that the founding fathers were, for the most part, not practicing Christians as we might think of that term today. But that, he writes, turned out to be the greatest blessing religion in America could e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Vicente Fox/Robert A. Schuller/Tom BrokawVicente Fox was president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. Fox has remained active and high-profile in his country. His memoir is called "Revolution of Hope."
As the son of one of the nation's best-known evangelists, the Reverend Robert H. Schuller, founding pastor of the Crystal Cathedral, Robert A. Schuller could very easily have found himself overwhelmed by the pressure to live up to someone else's notion of what he was supposed to be. But his new book is about finding the unique path God h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus "Break Through"In the 1960s and '70s, we made impressive progress in restoring the environment, through new laws and initiatives designed to conserve resources and protect earth's ecology. But as they used to say, this is not your father's Buick. The old ways won't get the job done anymore, say two young environmentalists, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus. They say it's time to set "environmentalism" aside and try something entirely new. Their book is called "Break Through."
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Donald McCaig "Rhett Butler's People"Seven decades on, Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" continues to fascinate and captivate readers. Of course, having her book made into one of the greatest movies of all time didn't hurt. But Mitchell never wrote a sequel - indeed, never wrote another book. In 1991 Alexandra Ripley, with the blessing of the Mitchell estate, wrote "Scarlett." But until now, the backstory of Rhett Butler had gone untold. Novelist Donald McCaig gives the Charleston gentleman his due in an authorized sequ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cathy Wilkerson "Flying Close to the Sun"It was the spring of 1970. A young woman named Cathy Wilkerson survived a bomb blast at a townhouse in Manhattan. Three other people were killed. It was, in fact, a bomb being built in the basement of that house by her colleagues with the Weather Underground, the radical leftist student group. For the next ten years Wilkerson was a fugitive, before turning herself in. She pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of dynamite, and served a brief prison sentence. Now she tells her story, and the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Brock Clarke "An Arsonist's Guide To Writers' Homes in New England"When the homes of famous authors begin burning down, suspicion immediately falls on one Sam Pulsifer, who just did ten years in prison for torching the Emily Dickinson homestead. As the narrator of Brock Clarke's new novel, Sam sees the new life he's trying to maintain crumble around him as more houses burn. Clarke's novel is called "An Arsonist's Guide To Writers' Homes in New England."
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Mark Z. Danielewski "Only Revolutions"There are two sides to every story. Especially in Mark Z. Danielewski's unique story of the journey taken by teen lovers Hailey and Sam, called "Only Revolutions." But is it a road trip, or an extended metaphor? One story, or two? We get Hailey's version .. then Sam's. Or is it vice versa? Danielewski carefully -- and literally -- dispenses the narrative measure by measure, in a design that Publishers Weekly says "is a marvel" and "a feat of Pynchonesque puzzlebookdom."
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John Elder Robison "Look Me In the Eye"As early as nursery school, it was apparent that John Elder Robison was not like the other kids. But it wasn't until he was 40 that a therapist finally diagnosed what it was about him that was different: he has a high-functioning form of autism called Asperger Syndrome. Now, in a new memoir, Robison describes his painful childhood -- and life with his brother. You may have heard of him, too -- he changed his name to Augusten Burroughs, and wrote "Running With Scissors." John Elder Robison' ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ann Packer "Songs Without Words"Two women, friends since childhood, have their friendship severely tested when one faces a family crisis, in Ann Packer's novel "Songs Without Words." The challenge to Liz and Sarabeth's relationship comes when Liz's teenage daughter nearly loses her life. This is the second novel for the acclaimed author of "The Dive From Clausen's Pier."
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Chris Matthews "Life's a Campaign"He's a former newspaperman, Peace Corps volunteer, U.S. Capitol policeman, and top aide to House Speaker Tip O'Neill. Today, Chris Matthews is best known for his cable TV news and interview show "Hardball." And in his new book "Life's a Campaign" Matthews tells the lessons he's learned over the last 40 years, and how they apply to life-in-general
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Glenn Kessler "The Confidante"From an academic post at Stanford University to Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice has become the most powerful woman in America. Washington Post diplomatic correspondent Glenn Kessler dissects Rice's close relationship with George W. Bush, and how it has shaped U.S. foreign policy, in a new book called "The Confidante."
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Robert Draper "Dead Certain"It's rare and extraordinary for a journalist to have one-on-one access to the President of the United States - and his closest advisers - while that President is still in office. Robert Draper had just such access to George W. Bush, as well as the First Lady, the Vice President, and scores of other key figures in the administration. Draper is now, his publisher tells us, "the first author to tell a personality-driven history of the Bush years." His book is called "Dead Certain."
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Tess Gerritsen "The Bone Garden"Forget skeletons in the closet -- Julia Hamill finds one in her garden, at the beginning of Tess Gerritsen's standalone mystery-thriller "The Bone Garden." Julia is soon on a mission to discover whose bones they are, and how they got in her garden. That becomes the story-within-this story, an 1830s-era murder mystery featuring a character from real life.
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Naomi Wolf "The End of America"If it's axiomatic that those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it, Americans may be in deep peril, indeed. In a stark and startling new book, writer and political consultant Naomi Wolf illuminates the history we had better start familiarizing ourselves with, before it's too late. Her call to action is called "The End of America."
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Dave Barry "Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)"Here we are, well into the new millennium -- seven years into it! -- and doggone it, it's high time someone wrote a history of it. Luckily for all of us, esteemed historian and retired humor columnist Dave Barry gamely volunteered for the task, taking valuable time away from his golf game to do so. His new book is called "Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)."
[Interview taped at Politics and Prose, Washington, DC]
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Wesley Clark "A Time to Lead"From segregated Little Rock in the '50s, to West Point and Vietnam in the '60s, and ultimately to the 2004 presidential race, retired General Wesley Clark has learned a lifetime of lessons. Lessons of loyalty, of leadership, and of principle. Now Clark shares what he's learned, in an autobiography called "A Time to Lead."
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Carl Bernstein "A Woman in Charge"She stands a good chance of becoming our 44th president, and the first woman to hold that office. So how much do we know about who Hillary Rodham Clinton really is? Liberal? Feminist? Dutiful wife who insists she doesn't bake cookies? Now famed investigative journalist Carl Bernstein goes in search of what motivates the Senator from New York. His book is called "A Woman in Charge."
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Alek Wek "Alek"Alek Wek was born in the southern Sudan town of Wau in 1977. Six years later her country was plunged into a long and brutal civil war, and in 1991 her family fled to Britain. It was in London, in 1995, that Alek's life was dramatically changed. A scout for a modeling agency spotted Alek, and has since become one of the world's top supermodels. She has also created her own line of handbags, Wek 1933. Her new memoir is called "Alek."
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Randall Robinson "An Unbroken Agony"Just before he was overthrown in a coup in February 2004, former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was in contact with his old friend Randall Robinson, the activist founder of TransAfrica. When Aristide and his wife were whisked away to exile in the Central African Republic, it was a U.S. delegation led by Robinson and California Congresswoman Maxine Waters that carried out what amounted to a rescue mission. They brought the Aristides back to Jamaica.
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Col. Randall Larsen "Our Own Worst Enemy"What will you do, when the next terrorist strike happens in your city? Retired Air Force Colonel Randall Larsen, the founding director of the Institute for Homeland Security, says we better not count on the government for all of our needs. In fact, he says, as a nation we're asking the wrong questions about our security. He tells us what the right questions are - and the answers - in his book "Our Own Worst Enemy."
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Michael Korda "Ike: An American Hero"They once dubbed him "The People's General," so popular was Dwight David Eisenhower. In these difficult times, with America mired in an unpopular war, recalling a singular figure like Ike is somehow reassuring, and his latest biographer, Michael Korda, doesn't disappoint. His book "Ike: An American Hero" centers on Eisenhower's World War II tenure as commander of Allied armies in Europe.
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James Gaines "For Liberty and Glory"George Washington is revered as the father of his country. He never had a son, but that hasn't stopped many an historian from speculating that that's why General Washington became so attached to France's Marquis de Lafayette, a fellow patriot-citizen who played a key role in both the American and French revolutions. Now historian James Gaines shows, in his book "For Liberty and Glory" why the notion of a father-son relationship is so off-the-mark.
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Report from the 2007 National Book FestivalJust months after coming to Washington, D.C. as the nation's new First Lady, former librarian Laura Bush launched the National Book Festival. In the years since the first Festival in 2001, it has grown to become one of the nation's foremost venues for authors and readers. Last weekend, more than 100,000 people from all over the country came to Washington for the seventh National Book Festival. Today we take you there!
(The website mentioned in today's program is: www.marcberniershow.com)
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