This evening, TNT premieres the seriesRizzoli & Isles,
based on Tess Gerritsen’s popular mystery series, the latest of which isIce Cold: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
(Ballantine Books, 978-0345515483, $26; Brilliance Audio abridged CD, $24.99), which pubbed last month.
This morning, Today talked with bestseller Karen Kingsbury, whose Take Four (Zondervan, 978-0310266273, $14.99; Zondervan unabridged CD, $24.99) is the final book in the Above the Line series.
Oprah chats with Geneen Roth about her bestseller Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything (Scribner, 978-1416543077, $24; S&S Audio unabridged CD, $29.99).
Authors on this morning’s Early Show:
Ninetysomething Maggie Griffin (mother of Kathy), whose memoir is Tip It! The World According to Maggie (Hyperion, 978-1401324049, $23.99).
Tennis champ Venus Williams, co-author of Come to Win: Business Leaders, Artists, Doctors, and Other Visionaries on How Sports Can Help You Top Your Profession (Amistad, 978-0061718250, $25.99).
Authors on today’s Bob Edwards Show:
Ayelet Waldman, whose Red Hook Road (Doubleday, 978-0385517867, $25.95; RH Audio unabridged CD, $40) pubs tomorrow. PW thought “Though Waldman is often guilty of overwriting here, the narrative is well crafted, and each of the characters comes fully to life.” Tomorrow, she visits The Diane Rehm Show.
Novella Carpenter, whose Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer (Penguin, 978-0143117285, $16; Tantor unabridged CD, $34.99) is recently out in paperback. PW’s starred review had this to say: “This upbeat account of raising poultry, rabbits, pigs and bees in the middle of a rundown neighborhood in Oakland, Calif., will make listeners either run out to reclaim some vacant lots or cringe at the thought that they might one day live next door to and downwind from such a menagerie.”
NPR’s Talk of the Nation hosts Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Thomas French, whose Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives (Hyperion, 978-1401323462, $24.99; Tantor unabridged CD, $34.99) pubbed last week. PW considered it “A thoughtful and moving but unsentimental portrait of life in captivity and a broad introduction to some of its most salient—and intractable—dilemmas.”
On The Leonard Lopate Show, award-winning translator Edith Grossman explained Why Translation Matters (Yale Univ. Press, 978-0300126563, $24). From PW’s review: “Based on lectures Grossman gave at Yale, this book provides a succinct argument for the importance of those who 'bring a text over' from another language and make it accessible to a wider audience.”
This evening, Hannity meets former Playmate of The Year and Celebrity Apprentice season 2 star Brande Roderick, whose Bounce, Don’t Break: Brande’s Guide to Life, Love, and Success (Running Press, 978-0762439027, $14.95) pubs tomorrow.
Authors on Sirius XM Book Radio's Pia Lindström Presents:
Former prosecutor and bestselling crime novelist Linda Fairstein discusses Hell Gate (Dutton, 978-0525951612, $26.95; Penguin Audio unabridged CD, $39.95), which PW called a “winning 12th legal thriller featuring New York County ADA Alex Cooper. While the main criminal's identity will surprise few, readers seeking a realistic depiction of law-enforcement work will be more than satisfied.”
First time author Maria Murnane, with Perfect on Paper: The (Mis)Adventures of Waverly Bryson (AmazonEncore, 978-0982555040, $14.95).
The Moody Network’s Chris Fabry Live! hosts sociologist Bradley Wright, author of Christians Are Hate-Filled Hypocrites...and Other Lies You've Been Told: A Sociologist Shatters Myths From the Secular and Christian Media (Bethany House, 978-0764207464, $14.99; Oasis Audio unabridged CD, $22.99). PW wrote “Wright’s colloquial writing style gives this volume the feel of a folksy college lecture series.”
Tonight, Tavis Smiley talks with counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen, whose latest is Counterinsurgency (Oxford Univ. Press, 978-0199737499, $15.95).
Over the weekend, Saturday’s Early Show featured Ann Brashares, whose latest novel is My Name Is Memory (Riverhead, 978-1594487583, $25.95; Penguin Audio unabridged CD, $39.95). PW thought “The story moves slowly and predictably, though when a plot finally materializes, Brashares manages some satisfying momentum, even if the story begins to feel like it's borrowed from a James Patterson novel.”
On Sunday, both CBS Sunday Morning and the CBS Evening News interviewed Emmy-winning writer, director, and producer Mary McDonagh Murphy, author of Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper, 978-0061924071, $24.99). PW thought “Readers should turn (or return) to To Kill a Mockingbird before bothering to dip into this disappointing collection.”
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