Bookselling This Week: On the Tube

(All listings are tentative and subject to change.)

The Colbert Report * Comedy Central

May 5: Carl Hiaasen, THE DOWNHILL LIE: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport, Knopf/RH Audio
May 7: George Johnson, THE TEN MOST BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS, Knopf
May 8: Arianna Huffington, RIGHT IS WRONG: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe, Knopf/RH Audio

Oprah's Book Club®:
http://www.oprah.com/obc_classic/obc_main.jhtml
January 30 (selection #61): A NEW EARTH: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle (Penguin).
beginning March 3: The book will be the subject of her "first worldwide interactive class," a ten-week course she will co-teach with Tolle on Oprah.com live Mondays.

Previous Book Club selections:
Oprah's Book Club archive: http://www.oprah.com/obc/obc_landing.jhtml
http://www2.oprah.com/obc/pastbooks/obc_pastdate.jhtml
November: Ken Follett, THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH (Deluxe Edition) (Oprah's Book Club), Berkley/NAL
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA, Vintage paperback (English and Spanish-language editions)
Jeffrey Eugenides MIDDLESEX, Picador
Cormac McCarthy, THE ROAD, Vintage
Sidney Poitier, THE MEASURE OF A MAN: A Spiritual Autobiography, HarperCollins
Elie Wiesel, NIGHT, FSG/Hill & Wang/Recorded Books
James Frey, A MILLION LITTLE PIECES, Vintage/Anchor
(Summer Selections): Three books by William Faulkner: AS I LAY DYING, THE SOUND AND THE FURY, and LIGHT IN AUGUST (Vintage Books). Also THE WILLIAM FAULKNER AUDIO COLLECTION, HarperAudio
Pearl S. Buck, THE GOOD EARTH, S&S
Leo Tolstoy (translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) ANNA KARENINA, Penguin Classics
Carson McCullers, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Houghton Mifflin/Mariner Books paperback
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE, Harper Perennial
Alan Paton, CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY, Scribner
John Steinbeck, EAST OF EDEN, Penguin

Upcoming Feature Titles:
May 14: Elissa Wall and Lisa Pulitzer, STOLEN INNOCENCE, Morrow

Titles featured on recent shows:
Barbara Walters, AUDITION: A Memoir, Knopf/RH Audio
Mehmet Oz, YOU: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty, Free Press
The Roloff Family, LITTLE FAMILY, BIG VALUES: Lessons in Love, Respect, and Understanding for Families of Any Size, Fireside (recently out in paperback)
John Amaechi MAN IN THE MIDDLE, ESPN
Padma Lakshmi, TANGY TART HOT & SWEET: A World of Recipes for Every Day, Weinstein Books
Craig Kielburger, ME TO WE: Finding Meaning in a Material World, Fireside/S&S Audio
Marcus Buckingham, GO PUT YOUR STRENGTHS TO WORK: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance, Free Press
Sophie Uliano, GORGEOUSLY GREEN: 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life, Collins
David Sheff, BEAUTIFUL BOY: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction, Houghton Mifflin
Nic Sheff (David Sheff's son), TWEAK: Growing Up on Methamphetamines, Ginee Seo Books
Maria Shriver, JUST WHO WILL YOU BE? Big Question. Little Book. Answer Within., Hyperion/Hyperion Audio
Elizabeth Lesser, THE SEEKER'S GUIDE, Villard
C. Vivian Stringer, STANDING TALL: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph, Crown
Don and Susie Van Ryn; Newell, Coleen, and Whitney Cerak (with Mark Tabb), MISTAKEN IDENTITY: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope, Howard Books/S&S Audio
Carlos H. Schenck, SLEEP: The Mysteries, the Problems, and the Solutions, Avery
Sarah J. Symonds, HAVING AN AFFAIR? A Handbook for the 'Other Woman', Hatherleigh Press
Carolyn Jessop and Laura Palmer, ESCAPE, Broadway
Katie Lee Joel (wife of Billy Joel), THE COMFORT TABLE, Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Bill Cosby, COME ON PEOPLE: On the Path from Victims to Victors, Thomas Nelson
Jamie Oliver, COOK WITH JAMIE: My Guide to Making You a Better Cook, Hyperion (appearing on Oprah's Big Give special)
The first of 10 weekly interactive webinars with Eckhart Tolle, A NEW EARTH: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, Penguin (Oprah's current book pick)

May 5: Mary Tillman, BOOTS ON THE GROUND BY DUSK: My Tribute to Pat Tillman, Modern Times/Rodale/Tantor Media
Rosie O'Donnell, ROSIE O'DONNELL'S CRAFTY U: 100 Easy Projects the Whole Family Can Enjoy All Year Long, S&S
Yehuda Berg, THE SPIRITUAL RULES OF ENGAGEMENT: How Kabbalah Can Help Your Soul Mate Find You, Kabbalah Publishing
Ariane De Bonvoisin, THE FIRST 30 DAYS: Your Guide to Any Change (and Loving Your Life More), HarperOne
May 6: Oz Garcia, REDESIGNING 50: The No-Plastic-Surgery Guide to 21st-Century Age Defiance, Collins
Ariane De Bonvoisin, THE FIRST 30 DAYS: Your Guide to Any Change (and Loving Your Life More), HarperOne
May 7: Michael A. Sheehan, CRUSH THE CELL: How to Defeat Terrorism Without Terrorizing Ourselves, Crown
May 8: Gene Robinson, IN THE EYE OF THE STORM: Swept to the Center by God, Seabury Books
May 13: James Frey, BRIGHT SHINY MORNING, Harper

"Al's Book Club for Kids" launched in April 2007 and is designed to keep kids engaged in reading all summer long. Each month, over the summer, Al Roker and a group of book club members, ages 9 -11, meet for their monthly book club meeting.

March: CHASING VERMEER by Blue Balliett, Illustrated by Brett Helquist, Scholastic
February: MOLLY MOON'S INCREDIBLE BOOK OF HYPNOTISM by Georgia Byng, HarperCollins
January: THE SISTERS GRIMM (series) by Michael Buckley, illustrated by Peter Ferguson, Amulet
December: GEORGE'S SECRET KEY TO THE UNIVERSE, by Professor Stephen Hawking and his daughter Lucy (S&S)

May 9: Andy Hilford, THE GRANDMOTHER BOOK: A Book About You for Your Grandchild, Andrews McMeel

May 7: Jimmy Carter, A REMARKABLE MOTHER, S&S/S&S Audio
Lillian Carter, AWAY FROM HOME: Letters to My Family, S&S (1978 book by the late "Miz Lillian" reissued)
May 8: Robert Schimmel, CANCER ON $5 A DAY: How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life, Da Capo Lifelong Books

May 5: Dr. Mehmet Oz, YOU: The Owner's Manual, Updated and Expanded Edition: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger, Harper Collins/HarperAudio
May 6: BEING CARIBOU: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd by Karsten Heuer (Milkweed Editions) and the documentary Being Caribou by Leanne Allison
Barbara Walters, AUDITION: A Memoir, Knopf/RH Audio
Tom Farley and Tanner Colby, THE CHRIS FARLEY SHOW: A Biography in Three Acts, Viking
May 7 -9: Barbara Walters, AUDITION: A Memoir, Knopf/RH Audio
May 8 - 9: Jill Price, THE WOMAN WHO CAN'T FORGET: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science -- A Memoir, Free Press/S&S/Recorded Books
May 13: Supernanny Jo Frost, CONFIDENT BABY CARE: What You Need to Know for the First Year From America's Most Trusted Nanny, Hyperion
May 15: James Van Praagh, GHOSTS AMONG US, HarperOne
May 16: Elissa Wall and Lisa Pulitzer, STOLEN INNOCENCE, Morrow

April 29: Former House speaker Newt Gingrich and co-author William R. Forstchen, DAYS OF INFAMY, Thomas Dunne Books (a follow-up to PEARL HARBOR: A Novel of December 8th, 1941, St. Martin's Griffin)
Anne Rice, CHRIST THE LORD: The Road to Cana, Knopf
Bob Berkowitz, Ph.D., and Susan Yaeger-Berkowitz, HE'S JUST NOT UP FOR IT ANYMORE: Why Men Stop Having Sex, and What You Can Do About It, Morrow
Jeanne Fleming and Leonard Schwarz, ISN'T IT THEIR TURN TO PICK UP THE CHECK? Dealing with All of the Trickiest Money Problems Between Family and Friends -- from Serial Borrowers to Serious Cheapskates, Free Press
Sonja Lyubomirsky, THE HOW OF HAPPINESS: A Scientific Approach to Getting What You Want in Life, Penguin Press
Lou Dobbs, INDEPENDENTS DAY: Awakening the American Spirit, Viking/Penguin Group
Anna Quindlen, GOOD DOG. STAY, Random House

May 7: Barbara Walters, AUDITION: A Memoir, Knopf/RH Audio
May 9: Jill Price, THE WOMAN WHO CAN'T FORGET: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science -- A Memoir, Free Press/S&S/Recorded Books
May 16: Elissa Wall and Lisa Pulitzer, STOLEN INNOCENCE, Morrow

May 4: Mary Tillman, BOOTS ON THE GROUND BY DUSK: My Tribute to Pat Tillman, Modern Times/Rodale/Tantor Media

May 7: Katie Lee Joel, THE COMFORT TABLE, Simon Spotlight Entertainment
May 8: Patricia Wells with Walter Wells, WE'VE ALWAYS HAD PARIS . . . AND PROVENCE: A Scrapbook of Our Life in France, Harper (from the author of THE FOOD LOVER'S GUIDE TO PARIS)

May 7:Mary Tillman, BOOTS ON THE GROUND BY DUSK: My Tribute to Pat Tillman, Modern Times/Rodale/Tantor Media

May 8:Mary Tillman, BOOTS ON THE GROUND BY DUSK: My Tribute to Pat Tillman, Modern Times/Rodale/Tantor Media

May 8: Bill Moyers, MOYERS ON DEMOCRACY, Doubleday
May 9 (re-broadcast May 10): Authors Bernard-Henri Levy, and Umberto Eco

May 13: Kevin Nealon, YES, YOU'RE PREGNANT, BUT WHAT ABOUT ME?, HarperEntertainment

May 11: John Harwood, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE: Profiles in Backroom Power, Random House

May 15: Michael Tonello, BRINGING HOME THE BIRKIN: My Life in Hot Pursuit of the World's Most Coveted Handbag, Morrow

April 28: Sarah Burningham, HOW TO RAISE YOUR PARENTS: A Teen Girl's Survival Guide, Chronicle
May 2: Kenneth C. Davis, AMERICA'S HIDDEN HISTORY, Collins

May 7: Virginia Willis, BON APPETIT, Y'ALL: Recipes and Stories from Three Generations of Southern Cooking, Ten Speed Press

May 6: John Medina, BRAIN RULES: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School, Pear Press/Perseus, (includes DVD)

May 14: Supernanny Jo Frost, CONFIDENT BABY CARE: What You Need to Know for the First Year From America's Most Trusted Nanny, Hyperion

May 5: John W. Dean and Barry M. Goldwater Jr., PURE GOLDWATER, Palgrave
May 7: Jimmy Carter, A REMARKABLE MOTHER, S&S/S&S Audio

May 7: (Special: "Audition: Barbara Walters' Journey") Barbara Walters, AUDITION: A Memoir, Knopf/RH Audio

Early 2009 (tentative launch date): Series of THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY (Anchor) based on Alexander McCall Smith's book series.

Focusing primarily on serious nonfiction and the publishing industry, Book TV on C-SPAN2 airs Saturdays from 8:00 a.m. ET through Mondays at 8:00 a.m. ET. Book TV features nonfiction authors at bookstores and book fairs around the country, tours of libraries and special collections, and book industry panels. For more information, visit the BOOK TV Web site at http://www.booktv.org.

After Words
After Words is now available as a podcast. Visit www.c-span.org/podcast.
Winslow Wheeler interviews Gen. Rupert Smith, THE UTILITY OF FORCE: The Art of War in the Modern World, Vintage

Encore Book Notes
Larry Tye, THE FATHER OF SPIN: Edward L. Bernays and The Birth of Public Relations, Henry Holt

Featured Programs
An event held at Columbia University bookstore, Steven Johnson, THE GHOST MAP: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic -- and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World, Riverhead

A tribute to Philip Roth at Columbia University's Miller Theater includes panel discussions on the influence of Roth's writing as well as a profile of his career. Following the panels, Roth addresses the audience.

Feature
In Depth (Guests are subject to change)
Upcoming: Alice Walker (author of more than 25 books) live interview from her home in Berkeley, CA.

Each month, In Depth features a three-hour conversation and viewer call-in with one notable nonfiction author focusing on the author's complete body of work, their influences, life, and writing. In advance of the program, featured writers and their books are profiled on BOOKTV.org, where viewers can also submit questions for the authors by e-mail.
Since its premiere, the program has hosted authors John Lukacs, Richard Rhodes, William F. Buckley Jr., Gore Vidal, Joan Didion, Stephen Ambrose, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Toni Morrison, Studs Terkel, James McPherson, Jacques Barzun, Norman Podhoretz, Shelby Foote, Richard Brookhiser, David Halberstam, David McCullough, Cornel West, Milton Friedman, Tom Clancy, Peggy Noonan, Robert Caro, bell hooks, David Herbert Donald, Edmund Morris, George Will, Bob Woodward, Phyllis Schlafly, Martin Gilbert, Susan Sontag, Bernard Lewis, Harold Bloom, Carlo D'Este, Camille Paglia, Jeff Shaara, Stanley Crouch, John Keegan, Douglas Brinkley, Thomas Fleming, Ken Auletta, Margaret MacMillan, Niall Ferguson, Harold Holzer, Forrest McDonald, Simon Winchester, Angela Davis, David Hackett Fischer, Tom Wolfe, Gary Willis, Charles Murray, Dr. Helen Caldicott, Robert Kaplan, Thomas Friedman, Richard John Neuhaus, H.W. Brands, William Least Heat-Moon, Harvey Mansfield, Dr. Sherwin Nuland, Doris Kearns Goodwin, John Updike, Ron Powers, Taylor Branch, Francis Fukuyama, Shelby Steele, Robert Remini, Mark Bowden, Joyce Appleby, Gary Gallagher, Tammy Bruce, John Hope Franklin, Ray Kurzweil, Jimmy Carter, P.J. O'Rourke, Dinesh D'Souza, Barbara Ehrenreich, Alexander Cockburn, Marvin Olasky, Lewis Lapham, Michael Barone, Edward O. Wilson, Christopher Hitchens, Vincent Bugliosi, David Horowitz, Newt Gingrich, Nell Irvin Painter, David Levering Lewis, Francis Fukuyama, John McWhorter, and Michael Eric Dyson.

May Releases:
Then She Found Me, starring Helen Hunt, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, and Colin Firth, based on Elinor Lipman's novel, THEN SHE FOUND ME (Washington Square Press, movie tie-in)
May 16: release of the second film in the series based on C.S. Lewis's books, THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: Prince Caspian (HarperCollins)
HarperCollins has launched a "Read It Before You See It" campaign for the Chronicles of Narnia.

In Development/Upcoming:
J.K. Rowling's HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS (seventh and final book) will be split into two films, one to be released in November 2010 and the second in May 2011.
Filmmaker Joel Gardner, is working on a documentary about his father, whose novel (John Gardner, NICKEL MOUNTAIN, New Directions) was reissued last month.
Film adaptation of Beth Raymer, LAY THE FAVORITE, TAKE THE DOG, Spiegel & Grau (spring 2009 pub)/Random House Films production
Frank Turner Hollon, LIFE IS A STRANGE PLACE, MacAdam/Cage in production for a film entitled Barry Munday starring Luke Wilson
Angelina Jolie will star in the movie adaptation of ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand (Random House). Also by Rand: ANTHEM (Signet) and THE FOUNTAINHEAD (Bobbs-Merrill)
William Steig, SYLVESTER AND THE MAGIC PEBBLE, Aladdin
Doreen Cronin/Betsy Lewin, DUCK FOR PRESIDENT, S&S Children's
Film for 20th Century Fox based on Doris Burn's children's book, first published in 1965, ANDREW HENRY'S MEADOW (San Juan Publishing)
Michael Chabon, THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH, Morrow
Random House Films co-production in partnership with Focus Features RESERVATION ROAD, based on the novel by John Burnham Schwartz (Knopf/Vintage)
Audrey Niffenegger, THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, Harvest Books
Relentless Aaron, PUSH, Relentless Content
Paramount Vantage has acquired A.N. Wilson's novel A JEALOUS GHOST for Kirsten Dunst to star in and produce.