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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 ABC's Late Late Show (July 5, 2011)

Truth Be Told: Off the Record about Favorite Guests, Memorable Moments, Funniest Jokes, and a Half Century of Asking Questions, by Larry King. Weinstein Books, 2011. Print Length: 248 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (2 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99; Hardcover $14.85. Text-to-Speech: Enabled..
"...a revealing and irresistibly entertaining look back on Larry's remarkable run at CNN, and an honest look at Larry's own life behind the scenes. After more than a half-century of asking questions, Larry King suddenly found everyone wanted answers from him. Was Larry King Live, CNN's highest rated program, ending after three decades? Was Larry getting divorced again? Larry reflects on how much the world has changed around him over the course of his fifty-year career, and he has a lot to say about everything and everyone: from marriage, politics, sports, entertainment, to the justice system, broadcasting, and the American future... a candid and surprising look inside the monumental career of one of the most powerful and legendary talk-show hosts as he signs off from the nightly television program that has been close to all of our hearts." - Amazon.

On NBC's Today Show (July 6, 2011)

The Great American Awakening: Two Years that Changed America, Washington, and Me, by Jim DeMint. Foreword by Marco Rubio. B&H Publishing Group, 2011. Print Length: 240 p. Amazon customer rating: 3 1/2 stars (5 reviews).  Kindle edition $9.10; Paperback $9.58. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"U.S. Senator Jim DeMint's The Great American Awakening chronicles two tumultuous years from the presidential election of 2008 through the mid-term elections of 2010. Untold insider views of the controversial stimulus bill passage, corporate takeovers, and lesser-known executive actions that epitomize political paybacks and moral decay will further motivate DeMint's fellow citizens to reclaim their government and country in 2012. Just as fascinating, the South Carolina official talks openly about his seized upon high profile moments - from that 'Waterloo' comment regarding health care reform to becoming known as 'Senator Tea Party.' He also addresses close-to-home disappointments such as the infidelity of Christian friends like Governor Mark Sanford and Senator John Ensign, and shares personal spiritual insights that came from being part of such public battles." - Publisher.

On NBC's Today Show (July 7, 2011)

Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion, by Janet Reitman. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. Print Length: 464 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (18 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $16.46. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Scientology, created in 1954 by a prolific sci-fi writer named L. Ron Hubbard, claims to be the world’s fastest growing religion, with millions of members around the world and huge financial holdings. Its celebrity believers keep its profile high, and its teams of 'volunteer ministers' offer aid at disaster sites such as Haiti and the World Trade Center. But Scientology is also a notably closed faith, harassing journalists and others through litigation and intimidation, even infiltrating the highest levels of the government to further its goals. Now Janet Reitman offers the first full journalistic history of the Church of Scientology, in an evenhanded account that at last establishes the astonishing truth about the controversial religion. She traces Scientology’s development from the birth of Dianetics to today, following its metamorphosis from a pseudoscientific self-help group to a worldwide spiritual corporation with profound control over its followers and even ex-followers. Based on five years of research, unprecedented access to Church officials, confidential documents, and extensive interviews with current and former Scientologists, this is the defining book about a little-known world. Janet Reitman is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone." - Amazon.

On NBC's Today Show (July 12, 2011)

Of Thee I Zing: America's Cultural Decline from Muffin Tops to Body Shots, by Laura Ingraham, with Raymond Arroyo. Threshold Editions, 2011. Print Length: 320 p. Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $11.99; Hardcover $15.00. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.

"While Laura Ingraham was walking through a Northern Virginia shopping mall one Saturday afternoon, it all became clear to her. Everywhere she turned, she saw signs of the impending disaster: zombie teens texting each other across a café table; a man having his eyebrows threaded at a kiosk; a fiftyish woman shoe-horned into a tube top and skinny jeans; and a storefront ad featuring a Victoria’s Secret model spilling out of her push-up bra and into the faces of young passersby. Ingraham wondered to herself, 'Is this it? Is this what our forefathers fought for? What my parents struggled for? I wonder if Victoria’s Secret is still having that two-for-one sale?' Of Thee I Zing is cultural commentary too funny to ignore, igniting a national conversation long past due. America, your cultural recovery begins here." - Amazon.

On NPR's DIANE REHM Show (July 12, 2011)

The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting, by Rachel Shteir. The Penguin Press, 2011. Print Length: 272 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (2 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $16.69. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"...the first serious study of shoplifting, tracking the fascinating history of this ancient crime. Dismissed by academia and the mainstream media and largely misunderstood, shoplifting has become the territory of moralists, mischievous teenagers, tabloid television, and self-help gurus. But shoplifting incurs remarkable real-life costs for retailers and consumers. The crime tax - the amount every American family loses to shoplifting-related price inflation - is more than $400 a year. Shoplifting cost American retailers $11.7 billion in 2009. The theft of one $5.00 item from Whole Foods can require sales of hundreds of dollars to break even. In The Steal, Shteir guides us through a remarkable tour of all things shoplifting - we visit the Woodbury Commons Outlet Mall, where boosters run rampant, watch the surveillance footage from Winona Ryder's famed shopping trip, and learn the history of antitheft technology. A groundbreaking study..." - Amazon.

On ABC's Primetime (July 12, 2011)

A Stolen Life, by Jaycee Dugard. Simon & Schuster, 2011. Print Length: 288 p. Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $11.99; Hardcover $13.74. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.

"In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen. For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse. For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my own name. I became a mother and was forced to be a sister. For eighteen years I survived an impossible situation. On August 26, 2009, I took my name back. My name is Jaycee Lee Dugard. I don’t think of myself as a victim. I survived. A Stolen Life is my story - in my own words, in my own way, exactly as I remember it." - Jaycee Dugard.

On NPR's All Things Considered (July 12, 2011)

A Dance with Dragons, by George R. R. Martin. Bantam, 2011. Print Length: 1040 p. Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $14.99; Hardcover $18.81. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. This is book five in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series that began with A Game of Thrones.

"In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance - beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, and many have set out to find her. As they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind. From all corners, bitter conflicts reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all." - from the hardcover edition.

On NPR's Fresh Air (July 19, 2011)

The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA, by Joby Warrick. Doubleday, 2011. Print Length: 272 p. Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $13.99; Hardcover $15.54. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"In December 2009, a group of the CIA’s top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a rising superspy: Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double-agent who infiltrated the upper ranks of al-Qaeda. For months, he had sent shocking revelations from inside the terrorist network and now promised to help the CIA assassinate Osama bin Laden’s top deputy. Instead, as he stepped from his car, he detonated a thirty-pound bomb strapped to his chest, instantly killing seven CIA operatives, the agency’s worst loss of life in decades. In The Triple Agent, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Joby Warrick takes us deep inside the CIA’s secret war against al-Qaeda, a war that pits robotic planes and laser-guided missiles against a cunning enemy intent on unleashing carnage in American cities. Flitting precariously between the two sides was Balawi, a young man with extraordinary gifts who managed to win the confidence of hardened terrorists as well as veteran spymasters. With his breathtaking accounts from inside al-Qaeda’s lair, Balawi appeared poised to become America’s greatest double-agent in half a century - but he was not at all what he seemed...Warrick takes the readers on a harrowing journey from the slums of Amman to the inner chambers of the White House in an untold true story of miscalculation, deception, and revenge." - from the hardcover edition.
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