Today, the movie The Twilight Saga: Eclipse opens, directed by David Slade, starring Xavier Samuel, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, and Justin Chon, and based on Stephenie Meyer’s Eclipse (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers mti, 978-0316087360, $12.99; Listening Library unabridged CD, $57). Another tie-in, by Mark Cotta Vaz, is The Twilight Saga Eclipse: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 978-0316087377, $18.99), which pubbed yesterday.

This evening, The Daily Show hosts Sean Payton, head coach of The New Orleans Saints and author of Home Team: Coaching the Saints and New Orleans Back to Life (NAL, 978-0451232618, $24.95), which pubbed yesterday.

On Good Morning America, Peter Gleick discussed Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water (Island Press, 978-1597265287, $26.95). PW wrote “With the gusto of a born raconteur and the passion of a believer, Gleick makes a sound case for improving the developing world's access to and the developed world's attitude toward safe, piped drinking water purified by the natural hydrologic cycle.”

Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:

Scholar Oren Harman tallied up The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness (W. W. Norton, 978-0393067781, $27.95).

Civil rights expert Charles Ogletree, author of The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America (Palgrave Macmillan, 978-0230103269, $25).

On The Diane Rehm Show, Garret Keizer discussed The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise (PublicAffairs, 978-1586485528, $27.95).

On The Colbert Report, bestseller Nicholas Carr examined The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (W. W. Norton, 978-0393072228, $26.95; Blackstone Audio unabridged CD, $29.95).

Tonight on Tavis Smiley: Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh with Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose (Business Plus, 978-0446563048, $23.99; Hachette Audio unabridged CD, $29.98), which PW deemed “An uplifting tale of entrepreneurial success, personal growth, and redemption.”

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