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• Category: Audio Books
  • Jennifer Weiner and Judith Light discuss their audio book "Fly Away Home"
• Category: Biography
  • Melvin Urofsky on his new biography: "Louis D. Brandeis: A Life"
  • Michael Scammell on his book "Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic"
  • Robert Merry talks about his biography of President James Polk
  • Woody Holton tells about our most famous first lady "Abigail Adams"
• Category: Books for Teens
  • Ally Condie about her young teen book "Matched"
  • Authors talk about the Nancy Drew mystery series
• Category: Business
  • Interview with Scott Anthony - How to Innovate during hard times
  • Mireille Guiliano discusses her book "Women, Work and the Art of Savoir Faire"
• Category: Cartoons
  • Garry Trudeau on his creations in "40: Doonesbury Retrospective"
• Category: Children's
  • Author and illustrator David Wiesner on his children's book "Art and Max"
  • Barbara Reid discusses her Children's book "A Perfect Snow"
  • Gary Paulsen on writing and his young people's book "Masters of Disaster"
  • Helen Perelman on her children's book series "Candy Fairies"
  • Ian James Corlett talks about his children's book "E IS FOR ETHICS"
  • Interview with children's book author "Louis Sachar"
  • Interview with children's book author: Jeanne Birdsall
  • Jonah Winter on how he created the illustrations for "Here Comes the Gargage Barge"
  • Learn about Bob Dylan's book "Forever Young"
  • M.T. Anderson talks about his children's books
  • Michael Ian Black on his new children's book "The Purple Kangaroo"
  • Short interview with Andrew Clements, author of "We the Children"
  • Suse MacDonald on illustrating children's books
  • Video preview of Andrew Clements' new children's book series "Benjamin Pratt & the Keepers of the School"
  • Video preview of the children's book "The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau"
• Category: Cookbooks
  • Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough on their cookbook "Real Food Has Curves"
  • Daisy Martinez on her cook book - "Daisy: Morning, Noon and Night"
  • Sara Moulton on her cookbook "Everyday Family Dinners"
  • Shirley Corriher on her baking cook book "Bakewise"
  • Short interview with Anthony Bourdain on his book "Medium Raw"
• Category: Current Events
  • Bob Woodward of Watergate fame talks about journalism
  • Interview with Doug Stanton, author of "Horse Soldiers"
  • Robert Reich gives opinion on Obama's stimulus package
• Category: eBooks
  • Amazon introduces larger Kindle DX targeting the textbook market and newspaper readers
  • Barnes and Noble announces eBook reader. Due Spring 2010.
  • Barnes and Noble formally introduces "Nook", their eBook reader
  • Kindle eReader software introduced for the iPhone
  • Nice video review of the Kindle 2 with some good close-ups
  • Overview of the eBook portion of the Apple iPad
  • Overview of the new eBook Readers
  • Review and demo of the Barnes & Noble nook eReader