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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 NBC's Today Show (20 Sep 2011) and on Fox News' Mike Huckabee Show (24 Sep 2011):

Life Is Not a Stage: From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond, by Florence Henderson. Center Street, 2011. Print Length: 288 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (2 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $15.13. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"For millions of people around the world, Carol Brady is synonymous with motherhood, but growing up as the youngest of ten children in rural Indiana in the aftermath of the Great Depression, Florence Henderson lived a life quite different from that of the quintessential TV mom she later played on television. Florence's father was a dirt-poor tobacco tenant farmer who was nearly fifty years old when he married Florence's twenty-five-year-old mother, and was nearly seventy when Florence was born. Florence's childhood was full of deprivation and abandonment. Her father was an alcoholic at a time when there was no rehab or help for the disease. Their home rarely had electricity or running water. When she was twelve, Florence's mother left the family to work in Cleveland and never returned. Florence opens up about her childhood, as well as the challenges she's faced as an adult... She writes with honesty and wisdom of how her faith and ability to survive has brought her through rough times to a life of profound joy and purpose." - Publisher.

On ABC's 20/20 (23 Sep 2011):

Love Times Three: Our True Story of a Polygamous Marriage, by Joe, Alina, Vicki and Valerie Darger, with Brooke Adams. HarperOne, 2011. Print Length: 304 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (12 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $17.63. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"He runs his own business and coaches Little League. She drives a minivan, and she’d be lost without her trusty BlackBerry. They go on date nights. Their kids attend public schools, play sports, and take music lessons. They live in a roomy house in the ’burbs. They’re about as mainstream as families come... They’re also polygamists. For decades, polygamous families have been forced to hide their lifestyle. Men risk prosecution and economic blacklisting, and women face social isolation and faulty assumptions about what it means to live as a sister wife. But Love Times Three, the first-ever memoir of a polygamous family, is a riveting inside look at a world most of us can hardly imagine, revealing the extraordinary workings of the Dargers’ day-to-day life.

On Comedy Central's Colbert Report (28 Sep 2011): and on the CBS Late Late Show (07 Oct 2011):

Drama: An Actor's Life, by John Lithgow. Harper, 2011. Print Length: 336 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (34 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $16.92. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"...Lithgow’s memoir is a tribute to his most important influence: his father, Arthur Lithgow, who, as an actor, director, producer, and great lover of Shakespeare, brought theater to John’s boyhood. From bedtime stories to Arthur’s illustrious productions, performance and storytelling were constant and cherished parts of family life. Before Lithgow gained fame with the film The World According to Garp and the television show 3rd Rock from the Sun, his early years were full of scenes both hilarious and bittersweet. A shrewd acting performance saved him from duty in Vietnam. His involvement with a Broadway costar brought an end to his early first marriage. The theater worlds of New York and London come alive as Lithgow relives his collaborations with renowned performers and directors, including Mike Nichols, Bob Fosse, Liv Ullmann, and Meryl Streep. His ruminations on the nature of theater, film acting, and storytelling cut to the heart of why actors are driven to perform, and why people are driven to watch them do it. Illuminating, funny, affecting, and thoroughly engrossing, Drama raises the curtain on the making of one of our most beloved actors." - Publisher.

On NPR's Diane Rehm Show (26 Sep 2011):

Keeping the Republic: Saving America by Trusting Americans, by Mitch Daniels. Sentinel, 2011. Print Length: 272 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (5 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $15.04. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has been called 'the most presidential man in America.' He has brought more change to his state in a few years than most see in decades. During his tenure, Daniels turned a $700 million deficit into a billion dollar surplus, balanced Indiana's budget even during the recession, converted its once unattractive business climate into one of the strongest for private sector job growth. Daniels has done this by focusing on government's core responsibilities, cutting taxes, empowering citizens, and performing what he calls an 'old tribal ritual' - spending less money than his state takes in, while distinguishing between skepticism towards big government and hostility towards all government. Unfortunately few politicians have the discipline or courage to follow his lead. And worse, many assume that Americans are too intimidated, gullible or dim-witted to make wise decisions about their health care, mortgages, the education of their kids, and other important issues. The result has been a steady decline in freedom, as elite government experts - 'our benevolent betters', in Daniels' phrase - try to regulate every aspect of our lives. But, the good news is that it's not too late to save America. However, real change can't be imposed from above. It has to be what he calls 'change that believes in you' -- a belief that Americans, properly informed of the facts, will pull together to make the necessary changes and that they are best- equipped to make the decisions governing their own lives." - Publisher.

On NPR's All Things Considered (25 Sep 2011):

Skyjack: The Hunt for D. B. Cooper, by Geoffrey Gray. Crown, 2011. Print Length: 320 p. Amazon customer rating: 3 1/2 stars (71 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $16.44. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me. That was the note handed to a stewardess by a mild-mannered passenger on a Northwest Orient flight in 1971. It was the start of one of the most astonishing whodunits in the history of American true crime: how one man extorted $200,000 from an airline, then parachuted into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest and into oblivion. D. B. Cooper’s case has become the stuff of legend and obsessed and cursed his pursuers with everything from bankruptcy to suicidal despair. Now with Skyjack, journalist Geoffrey Gray delves into this unsolved mystery uncovering new leads in the infamous case." - Publisher.
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