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Here's a selection of forthcoming Kindle books by authors scheduled for interviews on TV and radio programs. Books are arranged in chronological order by the date of the scheduled interview.

ON NPR'S DIANE REHM SHOW (16 SEP 09):


The Future of Faith, by Harvey Cox. HarperCollins. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"...legendary Harvard religion scholar Harvey Cox offers up a new interpretation of the history and future of religion. The author of When Jesus Came to Harvard and The Secular City, Cox explains why Christian beliefs and dogma are giving way to new grassroots movements rooted in social justice and spiritual experience." - Amazon.

ON COMEDY CENTRAL'S DAILY SHOW (21 SEP 09):

The Test of Our Times, by Tom Ridge. Thomas Dunne Books. Kindle edition $13.72. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Ridge, the first secretary of homeland security, recalls the agency's creation and early history in a memoir of his time performing the most thankless yet rewarding job in America. The author was governor of Pennsylvania when President Bush tapped him to coordinate the federal domestic counterterrorism effort after September 11. In a massive reorganization, Congress consolidated 22 agencies - from the Coast Guard to the INS - under the Department of Homeland Security. Ridge acknowledges his missteps, laments the baleful effects of politics and turf on his department and decries unfavorable media coverage. He also endeavors, unconvincingly, to defend the work of the Transportation Security Administration and the color-coded terror alert system...Ridge concludes with a series of recommendations for his successors, including a national identification system, immigration reform, energy independence and a reorganization of DHS along regional lines. DHS remains a work in progress, and Ridge's singular perspective recommends his memoir to policy makers, students and concerned citizens." - Publishers Weekly.

ON OPRAH (23 SEP 09):

High on Arrival, by Mackenzie Phillips. Simon & Schuster. Kindle edition $14.29. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Not long before her fiftieth birthday, Mackenzie Phillips walked into Los Angeles International Airport. She was on her way to a reunion of One Day at a Time, the hugely popular 70s sitcom on which she once starred as the loveable rebel Julie Cooper. Within minutes, Mackenzie was in handcuffs, arrested for possession of cocaine and heroin. Born into rock and roll royalty, Mackenzie grew up in an all-access kingdom of hippy freedom and heroin cool. It was a kingdom over which her father, the legendary John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas, presided, often in absentia, a spellbinding, visionary phantom. When Mackenzie was a teenager, Hollywood and the world took notice of the charming, talented, precocious child actor after her star-making turn in American Graffiti. As a young woman she joined the nonstop party in the hedonistic pleasure dome her father created for himself and his fellow revelers, and a rapt TV audience watched as Julie Cooper wasted away before their eyes. By the time Mackenzie discovered how deep and dark her father's trip was going, it was too late. And as an adult, she has paid dearly for a lifetime of excess, working tirelessly to reconcile a wonderful, terrible past in which she succumbed to the power of addiction and the pull of her magnetic father. As her astounding, outrageous, and often tender life story unfolds, Phillips overcomes seemingly impossible obstacles again and again and journeys toward redemption and peace. By exposing the shadows and secrets of the past to the light of day, the star who turned up High on Arrival has finally come back down to earth - to stay." - books.simonandschuster.com.

ON ABC'S GOOD MORNING AMERICA (28 SEP 09):

Don't Say I Didn't Warn You: Kids, Carbs, and the Coming Hormonal Apocalypse, by Anita Renfroe. Hyperion. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"When I first learned that I was pregnant, I thought this was going to be the most blessed, beautiful, rose-petals-at-my-feet-and-bluebirds-lighting-upon-my-forearm time of my life. Then I went for my first prenatal visit. Which starts with a weigh-in. From comedian Anita Renfroe, already beloved by women's groups and YouTube viewers across America, comes this hilarious and brazenly honest look at motherhood and middle age ... Using wit and honesty as her weapons of choice, Renfroe shares her deeply funny and relatable takes on everything from weddings to mammograms to every woman's never-ending quest for just one good photo of herself..." - Amazon.

ON ABC'S GOOD MORNING AMERICA (29 SEP 09):

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer. HarperCollins. Kindle edition $14.29. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Discarded motor parts, PVC pipe, and an old bicycle wheel may be junk to most people, but in the inspired hands of William Kamkwamba, they are instruments of opportunity. Growing up amid famine and poverty in rural Malawi, wind was one of the few abundant resources available, and the inventive fourteen-year-old saw its energy as a way to power his dreams. 'With a windmill, we'd finally release ourselves from the troubles of darkness and hunger,' he realized. 'A windmill meant more than just power, it was freedom.' Despite the biting jeers of village skeptics, young William devoted himself to borrowed textbooks and salvage yards in pursuit of a device that could produce an 'electric wind.' The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is an inspiring story of an indomitable will that refused to bend to doubt or circumstance. When the world seemed to be against him, William Kamkwamba set out to change it." - Dave Callanan.

ON COMEDY CENTRAL'S COLBERT REPORT (30 SEP 09):

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, by Richard Dawkins. Free Press. Kindle edition $16.50. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"In 1859 Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shook society to its core. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke. But he surely would have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later ... The Greatest Show on Earth is a stunning counterattack on advocates of 'Intelligent Design,' explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist argument. Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence: from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record; from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos; from plate tectonics to molecular genetics. Combining these elements and many more, he makes the airtight case that 'we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life and it is no accident, but the direct consequence of evolution by non-random selection.' - books.simonandschuster.com.