Bookselling This Week: On the Tube

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart * Comedy Central
Monday - Thursday 11:00 p.m./10:00 p.m. Central
http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/thedailyshowwithjonstewart/

September 3: Newt Gingrich (co-author), DAYS OF INFAMY, Thomas Dunne Books

The Colbert Report * Comedy Central

September 4: Ron Paul, THE REVOLUTION: A Manifesto, Grand Central Publishing

Oprah's Book Club®:
Great Books for Kids

http://www.oprah.com/entity/oprahsbookclub
September 19: Oprah's New Fall Book (selection #62): Find out which book caught Oprah's attention this summer
January 30 (selection #61): A NEW EARTH: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle (Penguin).
The book was the subject of her "first worldwide interactive class," a ten-week course she co-taught with Tolle on Oprah.com.

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:
September 4: Jill Bolte Taylor, MY STROKE OF INSIGHT: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, Viking
September 8: New season begins

Titles featured on recent shows:
Elizabeth Gilbert, EAT, PRAY, LOVE, Penguin
Ask Dr. Oz segment: Mehmet Oz, YOU: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty, Free Press (and other YOU series titles)
Bill Cosby, COME ON, PEOPLE, Thomas Nelson
John Wood, LEAVING MICROSOFT TO CHANGE THE WORLD: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children, Collins
Maria Shriver, JUST WHO WILL YOU BE? Big Question. Little Book. Answer Within, Hyperion/Hyperion Audio
Suze Orman, WOMEN & MONEY: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny, Spiegel & Grau
Tommy Hilfiger with George Lois, ICONIC AMERICA: A Roller-Coaster Ride through the Eye-Popping Panorama of American Pop Culture, Universe
(repeat) Jessica Seinfeld, DECEPTIVELY DELICIOUS: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food, Collins
M. Gary Neuman, HELPING YOUR KIDS COPE WITH DIVORCE THE SANDCASTLES WAY, Random House
Carolyn Jessop and Laura Palmer, ESCAPE, Broadway
Brian L. Weiss, MIRRORS OF TIME: Using Regression for Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Healing, Hay House
Louise Hay, YOU CAN HEAL YOUR LIFE, Hay House
Rhonda Byrne, THE SECRET, Atria/Beyond Words
Cheryl Richardson, THE UNMISTAKABLE TOUCH OF GRACE: How to Recognize and Respond to the Spiritual Signposts in Your Life, Free Press
Martha Beck, STEERING BY STARLIGHT: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What!, Rodale
Jamie Durie, INSPIRED: The Ideas That Shape & Create My Design, Collins Design
Kris Carr, CRAZY SEXY CANCER TIPS, skirt!
Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. and Michael F. Roizen M.D., YOU: ON A DIET: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management, Free Press
Jenny McCarthy, LOUDER THAN WORDS: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism, Dutton Adult
Guinness World Records, Craig Glenday (editor), GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS 2008
Sam Carchidi, STANDING TALL: The Kevin Everett Story, Triumph Books
Bob Greene, THE BEST LIFE DIET and THE BEST LIFE DIET DAILY JOURNAL (both published by S&S)
Jonathan Grayson, Ph.D., FREEDOM FROM OBSESSIVE - COMPULSIVE DISORDER: A Personalized Recovery Program for Living with Uncertainty, Berkley Trade

September 1: Robin Bowman, IT'S COMPLICATED: The American Teenager, Umbrage Editions
Connor Gifford and Victoria Harris, AMERICA ACCORDING TO CONNOR GIFFORD, Hargrave Press
September 2: Robert Jones, LOOKING YOUNGER: Makeovers That Make You Look as Young as You Feel, Fair Winds Press
September 3: Jennet Conant, THE IRREGULARS: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington, S&S/HighBridge
Dr. Phil McGraw, REAL LIFE: Preparing for the 7 Most Challenging Days of Your Life, Free Press/S&S Audio
September 4: Tracey Seaman, REAL FOOD FOR HEALTHY KIDS: 200+ Easy, Wholesome Recipes, Morrow Cookbooks
Maggie Scarf, SEPTEMBER SONGS: The Good News About Marriage In The Later Years, Riverhead
September 8: Carol Alt, THIS YEAR'S MODEL, Avon

"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.

August: Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Nathan Hale (Illus.), RAPUNZEL'S REVENGE, Bloomsbury
July: Eoin Colfer, ARTEMIS FOWL: The Time Paradox, Hyperion Books for Children.
June: Sundee Frazier, BRENDAN BUCKLEY'S UNIVERSE: And Everything in it, Delacorte Books for Young Readers/Random House
May: SEEKERS: The Quest Begins (SEEKERS, Book 1) by Erin Hunter, HarperCollins
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

September 2: Bill Tancer, CLICK: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why It Matters, Hyperion
September 3: Marisa C. Weiss, M.D., and Isabel Friedman (her daughter), TAKING CARE OF YOUR "GIRLS": A Breast Health Guide for Girls, Teens, and In-Betweens, Three Rivers Press
September 4: Emma Gilbey Keller, THE COMEBACK: Seven Stories of Women Who Went from Career to Family and Back Again, Bloomsbury USA.

August: Judy Estrin, CLOSING THE INNOVATION GAP
July: JOEY GREEN'S FIX-IT MAGIC: More than 1,971 Quick-and-Easy Household Solutions Using Brand-Name Products
Christopher Ciccone, LIFE WITH MY SISTER MADONNA, Simon Spotlight/ S&S Audio
June 17: Sophie Uliano, GORGEOUSLY GREEN: 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life, Collins
June 3: Kathy Freston, QUANTUM WELLNESS: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Health and Happiness, Weinstein Books
May 29: Jules Asner, WHACKED, Weinstein Books

September 4: Dr. Phil McGraw, REAL LIFE: Preparing for the 7 Most Challenging Days of Your Life, Free Press/S&S Audio

September 5: Eric Heiden and Massimo Testa, FASTER, BETTER, STRONGER: 10 Proven Secrets to a Healthier Body in 12 Weeks, Collins Living

September 3: Curtis Sittenfeld, AMERICAN WIFE, Random House/RH Audio
September 4: Stephen Viscusi, BULLETPROOF YOUR JOB, Collins

September 3: Dr. Phil McGraw, REAL LIFE: Preparing for the 7 Most Challenging Days of Your Life, Free Press/S&S Audio

September 4: Dr. Phil McGraw, REAL LIFE: Preparing for the 7 Most Challenging Days of Your Life, Free Press/S&S Audio

September 5: Scott McClellan, WHAT HAPPENED: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception, PublicAffairs

September 5: Thomas Frank, THE WRECKING CREW: How Conservatives Rule, Metropolitan Books

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.
An event hosted by Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., Jane Mayer, THE DARK SIDE: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals (Doubleday) interviewed by Dana Priest.

History on Book TV
Anna Rubino, QUEEN OF THE OIL CLUB: The Intrepid Wanda Jablonski and the Power of Information

Michael Rose, WASHINGTON'S WAR: The American War of Independence to the Iraqi Insurgency

Public Lives
Stella Rimington, ILLEGAL ACTION (also the author of OPEN SECRET, her memoir, and the novels AT RISK and SECRET ASSET)

Patricia Gates Lynch, THANKS FOR LISTENING: High Adventures in Journalism and Diplomacy

Feature
In Depth (Guests are subject to change)
Guests: Jonathan Karp (who edited all of John McCain's books) and John K. Wilson, author of BARACK OBAMA: This Improbable Quest (Paradigm Publishers) in a live interview to discuss books written by the presidential candidates.

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.

Recently the program has hosted authors 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, Michael Eric Dyson, Alice Walker, George Weigel, and Ralph Peters.

August releases:
film Babylon AD, based on French sci-fi novel Maurice G. Dantec, BABYLON BABIES (Del Rey/Blackstone Audiobooks)
THE ROAD, adapted from Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer prize-winning novel (Movie Tie-In Edition, Vintage International, paperback)
LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE, a new musical based on three of the nine books in Laura Ingalls Wilder's children's series, is currently in previews at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, MN.
August 6: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 based on the fourth novel in the series by Ann Brashares, FOREVER IN BLUE: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood, Delacorte Books for Young Readers/Listening Library (tie-in edition is retitled THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS 2.
August 1: THE MUMMY: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, the newest installment in the Universal series. Two tie-in books: Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook (introduction by director Rob Cohen; paperback, hardcover) and mass market novelization of the film by Max Allan Collins (Berkley)

In Development/Upcoming:
(Aunt/Niece Writing Duo) Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, THE GUERNSEY
LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL SOCIETY (Bantam Dell Publishing Group)
The film rights have been optioned by bookseller Mitchell Kaplan, owner of Books & Books in Coral Gables, Florida (onetime president of the American Booksellers Association), and award-winning film writer-producer Paula Mazur.
Adaption of J.R.R. Tolkien's THE HOBBIT (Houghton Mifflin). New Line and MGM tentative release of The Hobbit in 2011 and its sequel the following year.
July 17, 2009: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (rather than November 21)
A film adaptation of ELOISE IN PARIS by Kay Thompson and illustrator Hilary Knight (S&S Children's Publishing)
Robert Downey, Jr. to star in Sherlock Holmes, based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's mysteries and the comic book Sherlock Holmes.
Farlanders, a road movie set for 2009 release co-written by Dave Eggers and his wife
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.