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Media interviews are a popular way for writers to introduce new books they hope will catch the viewer's eye and generate interest in their work. 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 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED (31 AUG 2010):
Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language, by Deborah Fallows. Bloomsbury. Print Length: 208 p. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
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"Deborah Fallows has spent much of her life learning languages and traveling around the world. But nothing prepared her for the surprises of learning Mandarin, China's most common language, or the intensity of living in Shanghai and Beijing. Over time, she realized that her struggles and triumphs in studying the language of her adopted home provided small clues to deciphering the behavior and habits of its people,and its culture's conundrums. As her skill with Mandarin increased, bits of the language - a word, a phrase, an oddity of grammar - became windows into understanding romance, humor, protocol, relationships, and the overflowing humanity of modern China. Fallows learned, for example, that the abrupt, blunt way of speaking that Chinese people sometimes use isn't rudeness, but is, in fact, a way to acknowledge and honor the closeness between two friends.
In sharing what she discovered about Mandarin, and how those discoveries helped her understand a culture that had at first seemed impenetrable, Deborah Fallows's Dreaming in Chinese opens up China to Westerners more completely, perhaps, than it has ever been before." - Amazon.

ON CSPAN'S BOOK TV (05 SEP 2010):
Not Written in Stone: Learning and Unlearning American History Through 200 Years of Textbooks, by Kyle Ward. New Press. Print Length: 304 p. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Kyle Ward, director of social studies education at St. Could State University, examines how history textbooks have depicted historical subjects and events over a span of time. Each of the book's chapters looks at a specific historical topic, from Pocahontas to the Mexican-American War, and presents a collection of passages from a range of textbook publication dates to illustrate how each topic may have changed over time. Kyle Ward is the author of History in the Making." - Book TV.

ON CSPAN'S BOOK TV (05 SEP 2010):
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience, by Kirstin Downey. Anchor. Print Length: 480 p. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Frances Perkins was named Secretary of Labor by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933. As the first female cabinet secretary, she spearheaded the fight to improve the lives of America’s working people while juggling her own complex family responsibilities. Perkins’s ideas became the cornerstones of the most important social welfare and legislation in the nation’s history, including unemployment compensation, child labor laws, and the forty-hour work week. Arriving in Washington at the height of the Great Depression, Perkins pushed for massive public works projects that created millions of jobs for unemployed workers. She breathed life back into the nation’s labor movement, boosting living standards across the country. As head of the Immigration Service, she fought to bring European refugees to safety in the United States. Her greatest triumph was creating Social Security. Written with a wit that echoes Frances Perkins’s own, award-winning journalist Kirstin Downey gives us a riveting exploration of how and why Perkins slipped into historical oblivion, and restores Perkins to her proper place in history." - Amazon.

ON ABC'S GOOD MORNING AMERICA (07 SEP 2010):
Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work, by Tim Gunn, with Ada Calhoun. Gallery. Print Length: 256 p. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.

"You’ve watched him mentor talented designers on the hit television show Project Runway. Now the inimitable Tim Gunn shares his personal secrets for 'making it work' - in your career, relationships, and life. Filled with delightfully dishy stories of fashion’s greatest divas, behind-the-scenes glimpses of Runway’s biggest drama queens, and never-before-revealed insights into Tim’s private life, Gunn’s Golden Rules is like no other how-to book you’ve ever read. In the world according to Tim, there are no shortcuts to success. Hard work, creativity, and skill are just the beginning. By following eighteen tried-and-true principles, you can apply Tim’s rules to anything you set your mind to... He is never one to mince words. But Tim Gunn is always warm, witty, wise, and wonderfully supportive - just the mentor you need to design a happy, creative, and fulfilling life that will never go out of style." - Amazon.

ON COMEDY CENTRAL'S THE DAILY SHOW (07 SEP 2010):
There is Power in a Union, by Philip Dray. Doubleday. Print Length: 368 p. Kindle edition $19.25. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Historian Dray (At the Hands of Persons Unknown) follows organized labor from the struggles of early 19th-century female textile workers to the present-day retreat of organized labor following the failed 1981 air traffic controllers' strike. His episodic narrative, structured around major strikes, shows labor's heroic age as an era of naked class warfare: strikers died by the dozens in pitched battles with police, soldiers, and Pinkerton agents, and such charismatic organizers as Eugene Debs, Big Bill Haywood, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn braved prison and worse. The post-WWII period, by contrast, is a story of union conservatism, corruption scandals, and one rout after another at the hands of union-busting corporations abetted by government indifference. Organized labor's legacy, the author argues, is as much political as economic; it challenges bedrock American values of self-reliance while championing civil liberties..." - Publishers Weekly.

ON NBC'S TODAY SHOW (07 SEP 2010):
True Prep: It's a Whole New Old World, by Lisa Birnbach, with Chip Kidd. Knopf. Print Length: 256 p. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"...a contemporary look at how the old guard of natural-fiber-loving, dog-worshipping, G&T-soaked preppies adapt to the new order of things. Birnbach considers the prep attitude towards money (ambivalent), schools (good investment), wardrobe (now your clothes fit), work (some careers will never be prep), decorating (ask mummy), scandal (including rehab and prison), and food and drink (with some classic recipes for both). She also looks at weekends (and what to do to get asked back), entertaining, sports (including sailing and shopping), weddings, etiquette, the Internet and electronic gadgetry, political correctness, reality TV, and...polar fleece." - Amazon.

ON NPR'S THE DIANE REHM SHOW (08 SEP 2010):
The Honey Trail: In Pursuit of Liquid Gold and Vanishing Bees, by Grace Pundyk. St. Martin's Press. Print Length: 384 p. Kindle edition $14.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"The Honey Trail is a global travel narrative that looks at different aspects of how honey and bees are being affected by globalization, terrorism, deforestation, the global food trade, and climate change. This unique book not only questions the state of our environment and the impact it is having on bees and honey, it also takes readers on an adventure across Yemeni deserts and Borneo jungles, through the Mississippi Delta and Tasmania's rain forests, over frozen Siberian snowscapes and ancient Turkish villages all in search of the liquid gold known as honey." - Amazon.

ON NPR'S THE DIANE REHM SHOW (09 SEP 2010):
Jane Addams: Spirit in Action, by Louise W. Knight. W. W. Norton & Company. Print Length: 352 p. Kindle edition $15.92. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"In this landmark biography, Jane Addams becomes America's most admired and most hated woman - and wins the Nobel Peace Prize. Jane Addams (1860-1935) was a leading statesperson in an era when few imagined such possibilities for women. In this fresh interpretation, the first full biography of Addams in nearly forty years, Louise W. Knight shows Addams's boldness, creativity, and tenacity as she sought ways to put the ideals of democracy into action. Starting in Chicago as a co-founder of the nation's first settlement house, Hull House - a community center where people of all classes and ethnicities could gather - Addams became a grassroots organizer and a partner of trade unionists, women, immigrants, and African Americans seeking social justice. In time she emerged as a progressive political force; an advocate for women's suffrage; an advisor to presidents; a co-founder of civil rights organizations, including the NAACP; and a leader for international peace. Written as a fast-paced narrative, Jane Addams traces how one woman worked with others to make a difference in the world." - books.wwnorton.com.