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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 Fresh Air (27 July 2011):

Black in Latin America, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. NYU Press, 2011. Print Length: 270 p. Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $9.99; Hardcover $18.17. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11.0 million survived the arduous journey, only about 450,000 of them arrived in the United States. The rest - over ten and a half million - were taken to the Caribbean and Latin America. This astonishing fact changes our entire picture of the history of slavery in the Western hemisphere, and of its lasting cultural impact. These millions of Africans created new and vibrant cultures, magnificently compelling syntheses of various African, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish influences. ...Henry Louis Gates, Jr. set out on a quest to discover how Latin Americans of African descent live now... Starting with the slave experience and extending to the present, Gates unveils the history of the African presence in six Latin American countries - Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, and Peru - through art, music, cuisine, dance, politics, and religion, but also the very palpable presence of anti-black racism that has sometimes sought to keep the black cultural presence from view... Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and holder of the distinguished title of Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University." - Amazon.

On NPR's Tell Me More (28 July 2011):

Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion, by Michael Levy. Holt, 2011. Print Length: 256 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (20 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99; Paperback $10.20. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"In this lively memoir of serving in the Peace Corps in Guiyang, China, Levy explores a society in flux - while mining the entertaining if familiar terrain of cross-cultural misunderstandings. He struggles to explain English terminology to students who unknowingly translate their names into expletives, is coerced into eating the specialty at Dog Meat King, and finds that the community distrusts him not merely because he is American, but because he is Jewish. But Levy turns his perceived otherness to his advantage, earning the nickname 'Friendship Jew' and being tapped to lead a student organization, the Guizhou University Jewish Friday Night English and Cooking Corner Club, a rare extracurricular activity in a culture Levy finds devoid of such opportunities..." - Publishers Weekly.

On the Charlie Rose Show (28 July 2011):

Tiger Trap: America's Secret Spy War with China, by David Wise. Houghton Mifflin, 2011. Print Length: 304 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (20 reviews). Kindle edition $14.99; Hardcover $16.66. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"For decades, while America obsessed over Soviet spies, China quietly penetrated the highest levels of government. Now, for the first time, based on numerous interviews with key insiders at the FBI and CIA as well as with Chinese agents and people close to them, David Wise tells the full story of China’s many victories and defeats in its American spy wars.Two key cases interweave throughout: Katrina Leung, code-named Parlor Maid, worked for the FBI for years, even after she became a secret double agent for China, aided by love affairs with both of her FBI handlers. Here, too, is the inside story of the case, code-named Tiger Trap, of a key Chinese-American scientist suspected of stealing nuclear weapons secrets. These two cases led to many others, involving famous names from Wen Ho Lee to Richard Nixon, stunning national security leaks, and sophisticated cyberspying. The story takes us up to the present, with a West Coast spy ring whose members were sentenced in 2010 - but it surely will continue for years to come..." - Amazon.

On NPR's All Things Considered (30 July 2011):

East of the West: A Country in Stories, by Miroslav Penkov. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. Print Length: 240 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (4 reviews). Kindle edition $10.99; Hardcover $16.32. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"A grandson tries to buy the corpse of Lenin on eBay for his communist grandfather. A failed wunderkind steals a golden cross from an Orthodox church. A boy meets his cousin (the love of his life) once every five years in the river that divides their village into east and west. These are Miroslav Penkov's strange, unexpectedly moving visions of his home country, Bulgaria, and they are the stories that make up his charming, deeply felt debut collection...Penkov writes with great empathy of centuries of tumult; his characters mourn the way things were and long for things that will never be. But even as they wrestle with the weight of history, with the debt to family, with the pangs of exile, the stories in East of the West are always light on their feet, animated by Penkov's unmatched eye for the absurd." - Amazon.

On NBC's Today Show (02 Aug 2011):

Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias, by Don Van Natta. Little, Brown and Company, 2011. Print Length: 416 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (4 reviews). Kindle edition $14.99; Hardcover $17.06. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"This is the extraordinary story of a nearly forgotten American superstar athlete. Texas girl Babe Didrikson never tried a sport too tough and never met a hurdle too high. Despite attempts to keep women from competing, Babe achieved All-American status in basketball and won gold medals in track and field at the 1932 Olympics. Then Babe attempted to conquer golf. One of the founders of the LPGA, Babe won more consecutive tournaments than any golfer in history. At the height of her fame, she was diagnosed with cancer. Babe would then take her most daring step of all: go public and try to win again with the hope of inspiring the world..." - Amazon.

On CNN's Situation Room (02 Aug 2011):

Keys to the Kingdom: A Novel of Suspense, by Bob Graham. Vanguard Press, 2011. Print Length: 320 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (12 reviews). Kindle edition $4.99; Hardcover $14.60. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Shortly after an explosive op-ed piece about the 9/11 investigation appears in the New York Times, its author, former Senator and Co-chair of the 9/11 Congressional Inquiry Commission John Billington, is murdered near his Florida home. Enter Tony Ramos, ex-Special Forces operative and former aide to Sen. Billington and currently a State Department intelligence analyst. Ramos, in conjunction with Billington's daughter Laura, uncovers a shocking international conspiracy linking the Saudi Kingdom to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Despite efforts to derail their investigation, whose scope encompasses Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, Ramos and Laura discover that the Kingdom has recently provided bin Laden and al-Qaeda with three nuclear devices, two of which are successfully detonated by the terrorists overseas. But they were just a warm up to the grand finale. The third device, Ramos learns, will be detonated off the California coast..." - Publisher.

On Comedy Central's Colbert Report (03 Aug 2011):

Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures, by Robert K. Wittman, with John Shiffman. Crown, 2010. Print Length: 336 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (100 reviews). Kindle edition $11.99.; Paperback $9.86 Text-to-Speech: Disabled.

"Former FBI agent Wittman, who created the agency's Art Crime Team and pursued a lifelong interest in antiques and collectibles, goes undercover to hobnob with infamous art thieves. The ineffective, the stupid, the clever, and the dangerous; Wittman befriends them all, in order to betray them, a fact that causes him a certain amount of angst... Wittman keeps the narrative interesting, and reveals himself as something of a renegade: 'Under the FBI's strict undercover rules, you're only supposed to work one case at a time. I never followed that rule.' " - Publishers Weekly.
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