Raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, and Oprah are a few of our favorite things, and they converge today when The Sound of Music cast reunites on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Books on those crazy singing Von Trapps abound, including The Sound of Music Companion by Laurence Maslon (Fireside, ISBN 978-1416549543); The Story of Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta Trapp (Harper Paperbacks, ISBN 9780060005771); and Memories Before and After Sound of Music by Agathe von Trapp (Harper Paperbacks, ISBN 9780061998812).
Michael Caine is on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. His book is The Elephant to Hollywood (Holt, ISBN 978-0805093902).
Into the Storm: Violent Tornadoes, Killer Hurricanes, and Death-defying Adventures in Extreme Weather author Reed Timmer is on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (Dutton, ISBN 978-0525951933).
Maira Kalman, author of And the Pursuit of Happiness (The Penguin Press, ISBN 978-1594202674), is on The Colbert Report.
The Leonard Lopate Show interviews Raghav Bahl, whose book Superpower?: The Amazing Race Between China's Hare and India's Tortoise is just out from Portfolio (ISBN 978-1591843962).
Due to the nature of live programming, scheduling is subject to change.
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