Al Roker with Laura Morton. New American Library, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-451-41493-9
The popular television meteorologist/author (Don’t Make Me Stop This Car: Adventures in Fatherhood) shares his personal yet public weight-loss journey in this intimate memoir. Born in Queens in the 1950s, Roker was a preemie, weighing in at less...
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Al Roker and Deborah Roberts, with Laura Morton. NAL, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-451-46636-5
In this joint memoir and parenting guide, weatherman Roker and journalist Roberts, who have been married for 20 years, share their experiences balancing a harmonious family life with highly demanding careers. Roberts recalls growing up in the...
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Al Roker. Morrow, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-236465-4
In this chronological account, TV meteorologist Roker revisits the “worst natural disaster of any kind, ever to hit the United States”: the category-four hurricane that pounded Galveston, Tex., on Sept. 8, 1900. The storm killed more than 10,000...
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Al Roker, Author, Mark Thomas, Photographer , photos by Mark Thomas. Scribner $27.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2864-0
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the smoke blows, but nonetheless, here is Roker (Don't Make Me Stop This Car) in an attempt to amuse, instruct and otherwise cash in on the craze that is backyard barbecue. Despite its...
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Al Roker, Author, Amy Rennert, Author, And Friends, Author , edited by Amy Rennert. Hyperion $26.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4013-0171-2
This collection of honest, straightforward examinations of fathers is sweet and well-meaning, though sometimes overwhelming in its sentiment. It shares father-child remembrances—of seeing movies together, eating sandwiches together, singing...
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Al Roker, Author, Dick Lochte, Author . Delacorte $26 (312p) ISBN 978-0-385-34368-8
Roker (Al Roker's Big Bad Book of Barbecue
) teams with Lochte (Sleeping Dog
) on a solid, exciting crime novel that revolves around a fictional TV program much like NBC's The Today Show
. Billy Blessing, a New York City celebrity chef who
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Al Roker and Dick Lochte. Delacorte, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-34370-1
Roker and Lochte delve into the hitherto unknown dark side of their engaging lead, chef and TV personality Billy Blessing, in their third whodunit (after 2010’s The Midnight Show Murders). While Blessing’s Today-like morning show, Wake Up, America!,
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Al Roker, Author, Al Roker, Read by Simon & Schuster Audio $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-0028-9
TV weatherman Roker comes across as affable, humorously self-deprecating and immensely likable in this memoir of parenthood. His voice is warm and affectionate as he describes his two daughters, Courtney and Leila, and his years of talking into the...
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Al Roker. Morrow, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-244551-3
TV meteorologist Roker (The Storm of the Century) revisits the Johnstown Flood, the 19th-century disaster that destroyed a Pennsylvania town, killed thousands, and raised questions of privilege and liability that still resonate. In the Allegheny...
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Al Roker. Hachette, $28 (256p) ISBN 978-0-316-42679-4
Today cohost Roker (Ruthless Tide) recalls his 40-year broadcasting career in a sweet memoir sprinkled with homespun advice. A Queens, N.Y., native, Roker talks excitedly about working as a weekend weatherperson in Syracuse in the 1970s while still...
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