A. J. Jacobs, the bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically and The Know-It-All, discusses his new book Drop Dead Healthy: One Man’s Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection, a true and truly hilarious story of one person’s quest to become the healthiest man in the world.

“I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this book, and once again, the brilliant A.J. Jacobs had me laughing out loud – and also deciding to change the way I live. Drop Dead Healthy is a rare mixture of the hilarious, the absurd, and the scientifically sound. Who knew it could be so entertaining to read about broccoli puree and shoeless jogging?” – Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project

($26.00) Simon & Schuster ISBN #9781416599074. You can visit A. J. Jacobs’s official web site as well.

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Cheryl Strayed, the author of the critically acclaimed novel Torch, reads from and discusses her memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. At twenty-two, Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State-and to do it alone. Told with great suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild vividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.

($26.95) Knopf ISBN #9780307592736. You can visit Cheryl Strayed’s official web site as well.

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Jonah Lehrer, the New York Times best-selling author of How We Decide, discusses his new book Imagine: How Creativity Works. This sparkling and revelatory look at the new science of creativity shatters the myth of muses, higher powers, even creative “types.” In his book, Lehrer demonstrates that creativity is not a single gift possessed by the lucky few, instead it is a variety of distinct thought processes that we can all learn to use more effectively.

($26.00) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN #9780547386072. You can visit Jonah Lehrer’s official web site as well.

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Christopher Moore, the phenomenally popular, New York Times bestselling satirist whom the Atlanta Journal-Constitution calls, “Stephen King with a whoopee cushion and a double-espresso imagination,” reads from and discusses his new book Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d’Art. This magnificent new novel, from the author of Lamb, A Dirty Job, and Bite Me, is part mystery, part history, part love story, and wholly hilarious as it follows a young baker-painter as he joins the dapper Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec on a quest to unravel the mystery behind the supposed “suicide” of Vincent van Gogh.

($26.99) HarperCollins ISBN #9780061779749. You can visit Christopher Moore’s official web site as well.

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Anne Lamott, a past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Grace (Eventually), Plan B, Traveling Mercies and Operating Instructions, as well as seven novels, including Rosie and Crooked Little Heart. Lamott reads from and discusses her new book Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son, the story of a new and unexpected chapter of her life: grandmotherhood.

($26.95) Riverhead ISBN #9781594488412.

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Denver writer Nick Arvin is the award-winning author of the novel Articles of War, named one of the Best Books of the Year by Esquire, and the story collection In the Electric Eden. Arvin reads from and discusses his new novel The Reconstructionist, which is both a page-turning thriller and a powerful novel of character. In this gripping novel of secrets and survival, the collision between a budding forensic investigator, his tormented mentor, and the haunted woman who emerges from the wreckage of his past will have fateful results for all.

($14.99) HarperPerennial ISBN #9780061995163. You can visit Nick Arvin’s official web site as well.

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Denver author and former Tattered Cover staff member Sally Netzel is a published and produced playwright, whose works include Mr. Clemens and Mr. Brown and the musical Westward Holmes! She is the co-author of a novel, Midsummer, and author of a book of short stories titled Rosinante’s Sallies: Animal Fables for Adults. Netzel reads from and discusses her new novel Bohunk Humoresque.

($17.95) Outskirts Press ISBN #9781432778699.

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Patricia Briggs, the New York Times bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson and Alpha and Omega urban fantasy series, as well as several high fantasy series and many other books, discusses her new Alpha and Omega book Fair Game. This series – set in a world of shifting shapes, loyalty, and passion – brings werewolves out of the darkness and into a society where fear and prejudice could make the hunters prey.

($26.95) Penguin ISBN #9780441020034. You can visit Patricia Briggs’s official web site as well.

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New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison reads from and discusses A Perfect Blood, her new novel featuring former witch turned day-walking demon Rachel Morgan. Ritually murdered corpses are appearing across Cincinnati, terrifying amalgams of human and other. Pulled in to help investigate by the FIB, Morgan soon realizes a horrifying truth–a would-be creator is determined to make his (or her) own demons. But it can’t be done without Rachel’s blood!

($26.99) HarperCollins ISBN #9780061957895. You can visit Kim Harrison’s official web site as well.

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Peggy Orenstein is the author of the New York Times bestseller Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night, and One Woman’s Quest to Become a Mother and Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap. Orenstein reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of her bestselling book Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture, a radical, timely wake-up call for parents, revealing the dark side of a pretty and pink culture confronting girls at every turn as they grow into adults.

($14.99) HarperCollins ISBN #9780061711534. You can visit Peggy Orenstein’s official web site as well.

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New York Times bestselling author Tim Dorsey reads from and discusses Pineapple Grenade, another outrageous crime comedy starring the gloriously unrepentant Florida serial killer Serge Storms. This time around Serge takes up spying for the president of a banana republic, and now Homeland Security wants to bring him down. It’s always a wild ride when Dorsey’s at the wheel, and with Pineapple Grenade he delivers his most explosively hilarious road trip to date.

($25.99) HarperCollins ISBN #9780061876905. You can visit Tim Dorsey’s official web site as well.

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Pam Houston, author of the best-selling Cowboys Are My Weakness, divides her time between her ranch in Colorado and the University of California at Davis, where she is director of the Creative Writing Program. Houston reads from and discusses her new novel Contents May Have Shifted. “Unapologetic and empowering, Houston’s book hammers home the idea that if you don’t have problems, you probably aren’t living. Or, to use her metaphor, we all have baggage, so we might as well get used to traveling with it.” — Katharine Fronk, Booklist, starred review

($25.95) W.W. Norton ISBN #9780393082654. You can visit Pam Houston’s official web site as well.

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Critically acclaimed author Andre Dubus III, whose books include The Garden of Last Days and House of Sand and Fog (an Oprah Book Club pick and a finalist for the National Book Award), reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of his memoir Townie. After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his siblings grew up with their overworked mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and everyday violence. Nearby, his father, an eminent author, taught on a college campus and took the kids out on Sundays. In this unforgettable memoir, Dubus shows us how he escaped the cycle of violence and found empathy in channeling the stories of others — bridging, in the process, the rift between his father and himself.

($15.95) W.W. Norton ISBN #9780393340679. You can visit Andre Dubus III’s official web site as well.

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Bestselling, award-winning thriller writer Robert Crais reads from and discusses his new book Taken. When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike to find her son, and the truth. When Cole goes undercover to try to buy the two hostages back, he himself is taken and disappears. Now it is up to Pike to retrace Cole’s steps, burning through the hard and murderous world of human traffickers before it is too late.

($26.95) Putnam ISBN #9780399158278. You can visit Robert Crais’s official web site as well.

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Dave Isay is the founder of StoryCorps and the recipient of numerous broadcasting honors, including five Peabody Awards and a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. He is the author/editor of numerous books that grew out of his public radio documentary work, including two StoryCorps books: Listening Is an Act of Love and Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps – both New York Times bestsellers. Isay reads from and discusses his new collection, published just in time for Valentine’s Day, All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps.

($24.95) Penguin ISBN #9781594203213. You can visit David Isay’s official web site as well.

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Ben Marcus is the author of Notable American Women and The Age of Wire and String. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. The recipient of three Pushcart Prizes, a Whiting Writers Award, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he is a Professor of Creative Writing at Columbia University. Marcus reads from and discusses The Flame Alphabet, a work of heartbreak and horror about how far we will go, and the sorrows we will endure, in order to protect our families.

($25.95) Knopf ISBN #9780307379375. You can visit Ben Marcus’s official web site as well.

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Bestselling mystery writer Nevada Barr reads from and discusses The Rope, the latest in her series featuring Anna Pigeon. In The Rope, Barr gathers together the many strings of Anna’s past and finally reveals the story that her many fans have been long asking for, Anna Pigeon’s first case. For those legions of readers who have been entranced over the years by Park Ranger Anna Pigeon’s strength and determination and those who are new to Nevada Barr’s captivating, compelling novels, this is where it all starts.

($25.99) Minotaur ISBN #9780312614577. You can visit Nevada Barr’s official web site as well.

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Anne Holt, Norway’s bestselling female crime writer, discusses her new Hanne Wilhelmsen novel 1222. This suspenseful locked-room mystery, set in an isolated hotel in Norway, has guests stranded during a monumental snowstorm start turning up dead!

($25.00) Simon & Schuster ISBN #9781451634716. You can visit Anne Holt’s official web site as well.

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Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the author of seven books, including Saturday Night and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award-winning film Adaptation. Orlean discusses her new book Rin Tin Tin: The Life and Legend, a sweeping, powerfully moving account of Rin Tin Tin’s journey from orphaned puppy to movie star and international icon.

($26.99) Simon & Schuster ISBN #9781439190135. You can visit Susan Orlean’s official web site as well.

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A celebration of the nuttiness and obsessives in all of us, RecordSetter.com is the new world record-setting phenomenon, a website that believes everyone can be the world’s best at something – and where 80,000 people a month come to prove it, or just enjoy watching. Corey Henderson and Dan Rollman, the creators of RecordSetter, discuss their new book The RecordSetter Book of World Records: More Than 300 Extraordinary Feats by Ordinary People. At the event, the authors and attendees set the world record for Most People To Dance The Macarena In A Bookstore.

($12.95) Workman ISBN #9780761165774. You can visit Corey Henderson and Dan Rollman’s official web site as well.

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Gregory Maguire is the bestselling author of Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister; Lost; Mirror, Mirror; and the Wicked Years series, including Wicked (the basis for the blockbuster Tony Award-winning Broadway musical of the same name), Son of a Witch, and A Lion Among Men. Maguire reads from and discusses the stirring, long-awaited conclusion to the series, Out of Oz, which is a magical journey rife with revelations and reversals, reprisals and surprises.

($26.99) HarperCollins ISBN #9780060548940. You can visit Gregory Maguire’s official web site as well.

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Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith are graduates of Harvard Law School. Together they have written many books on art and other subjects, including four New York Times bestsellers. Naifeh and Smith discuss their new book Van Gogh: The Life, the “definitive biography for decades to come.” — Leo Jansen, curator, the Van Gogh Museum, and co-editor of Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Letters

($40.00) Random House ISBN #9780375507489.

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Le Cordon Bleu trained writer and journalist Kathleen Flinn, author of the award-nominated book The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry, reads from and discusses her new book The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks. This inspiring book includes practical, healthy tips that boost readers’ culinary self-confidence, and strategies to get the most from their grocery dollar, and simple recipes that get readers cooking.

($26.95) Viking ISBN #9780670023004. You can visit Kathleen Flinn’s official web site as well.

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Russell Banks, the acclaimed author of The Sweet Hereafter, Rule of the Bone, Cloudsplitter, Continental Drift, and Affliction, reads from and discusses his new novel Lost Memory of Skin. Uncompromising and complex, Lost Memory of Skin is the story of The Kid, a young sex offender recently released from prison and forced to live beneath a South Florida causeway. When The Professor, a man of enormous intellect and appetite, takes The Kid under his wing, his own startling past will cause upheavals in both of their worlds. At once lyrical, witty, and disturbing, Banks’s extraordinary novel showcases his abilities as a world-class storyteller as well as his incisive understanding of the dangerous contradictions and hypocrisies of modern American society.

($25.99) Ecco ISBN #9780061857638. You can visit Russell Banks’s official web site as well.

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Dava Sobel, the acclaimed author of the internationally bestselling titles Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter, and The Planets, discusses her new book A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos. In her elegant, compelling style, Sobel chronicles, as nobody has, the conflicting personalities and extraordinary discoveries that shaped the Copernican Revolution. At the heart of the book is her play And the Sun Stood Still, imagining young German mathematician Georg Joachim Rheticus’s struggle to convince Copernicus to publish his theories. As she achieved with her previous bestsellers, Sobel expands the boundaries of narration, giving us an unforgettable portrait of scientific achievement, and of the ever-present tensions between science and faith.

($24.00) Walker & Company ISBN #9780802717931. You can visit Dava Sobel’s official web site as well.

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Food Network star Alton Brown, host of the wildly popular show Good Eats, and commentator on Iron Chef America, discusses his new book Good Eats 3: The Later Years. Like his previous books, Good Eats 3 packs a bounty of information and entertainment between its covers. More than 200 recipes are accompanied by hundreds of photographs, drawings, and stills from the show, as well as lots of science-of-food facts, cooking tips, food trivia, behind-the-scenes glimpses-and bonus sock puppet instructions!

($37.50) Abrams ISBN #9781584799030. You can visit Alton Brown’s official web site as well.

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Mike Dooley, the bestselling author of Infinite Possibilities and Manifesting Change, discusses his new book Leveraging the Universe: 7 Steps to Engaging Life’s Magic. Building on the principles from his earlier books, Dooley now offers a step-by-step strategy for leveraging the universe in the course of self-fulfillment and success. In just seven steps, Dooley teaches readers how to channel the Universe’s incredible energy to achieve your greatest dreams.

($21.99) Beyond Words ISBN #9781582703145. You can visit Mike Dooley’s official web site as well.

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Neal Stephenson, the New York Times bestselling author whose books include Anathem, Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, and Cryptonomicon, discusses and reads from his new novel Reamde, a high-intensity, high-stakes, action-packed adventure in which a tech entrepreneur gets caught in the very real crossfire of his own online war game. Racing around the globe from the Pacific Northwest to China to the wilds of northern Idaho and points in between, Reamde is a swift-paced thriller that traverses worlds virtual and real. Filled with unexpected twists and turns in which unforgettable villains and unlikely heroes face off in a battle for survival, it is a brilliant refraction of the twenty-first century, from the global war on terror to social media, computer hackers to mobsters, entrepreneurs to religious fundamentalists.

($35.00) HarperCollins ISBN #9780061977961. You can visit Neal Stephenson’s official web site as well.

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Laurie R. King, the New York Times bestselling author of ten Mary Russell mysteries, joined us to celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day and discuss her new book Pirate King. In this latest adventure featuring the intrepid Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, King takes readers into the frenetic world of silent films-where the pirates are real and the shooting isn’t all done with cameras. Aye maties, Pirate King is a treasure chest of a novel-thrilling, intelligent, and romantic-a swiftly unreeling masterpiece of suspense! Guests are invited to wear their best pirate gear, practice their pirate vocabulary, and enjoy a sing-a-long, and pirate stories!

($25.00) Random House ISBN #9780553807981. You can visit Laurie R. King’s official web site as well.

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Alexandra Fuller, the author of the bestselling memoir Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, a New York Times Notable Book of 2002, and a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award, reads from and discusses her new book Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness. A story of survival and madness, love and war, loyalty and forgiveness, Fuller’s new book is an intimate exploration of her family. In the end we find her parents, Nicola and Tim at a coffee table under their Tree of Forgetfulness on the banana and fish farm where they plan to spend their final days. In local custom, the Tree of Forgetfulness is where villagers meet to resolve disputes and it is here that the Fullers at last find an African kind of peace.

($25.95) Penguin ISBN #9781594202995. You can visit Alexandra Fuller’s official web site as well.

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