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YOU: STAYING YOUNG – THE
OWNER’S MANUAL FOR EXTENDING YOUR WARRANTY Read by Sally Miller. (17 episodes, 4/21-5/13/08)
The body is the most fascinating machine ever
created, and nobody talks about it in ways that
are as illuminating and compelling as Dr.
Michael Roizen and Dr. Mehmet Oz do. In YOU: The
Owner's Manual they showed us how bodies work in
general, and in In YOU: On a Diet, they
explained how bodies lose weight and stay fit;
both books have sold in the millions. Now, in In
YOU: Staying Young, the doctors are going to
talk to you about what happens as your body
ages. As with their previous books, they've
conducted tireless research and will introduce
fascinating and crucial information in an
unforgettable way.
Most people think of the aging of our bodies the same way we think of the aging of our cars: The older we get, it's inevitable that we're going to break down-it could be in just a few ways or it could be in dozens of ways. Most of us hold this notion that once we reach 40 or so, we begin the slow and steady decline of our minds, our eyes, our ears, our joints, our arteries, our libido, and every other system that affects the quality of life (and how long we live it) . But according to Dr. Roizen and Dr. Oz, that's a mistake. Aging isn't a decline of our systems. It's actually very purposeful. The very systems and biological processes that age us are actually designed to help us when we're a little bit younger. So what's our role as part of the aging population? To learn how those systems work, so we can reprogram them to work the way they did when we were younger. Your goal should be: Die young at any age. That means you live a high quality of life (with everything from working joints to working genitals) until the day you die. Because the doctors' real goal isn't just to make you live longer; it's to allow you to maintain vibrancy throughout your entire life. The authors will tantalize readers with completely novel concepts---they're not just going to tell you that all you have to do is eat well and sleep lots. They'll explain how our bodies have evolved to ensure 50 years of high quality life, but those same mechanisms can be counterproductive as you age (it's the concept of biologic necessity, rather than just an accident; a biological process that helps you cope better when young unfortunately does opposite as you age). They'll do this by using the metaphor of a city to explain how the body works. Just like your body ages, a city does, too-especially if decisions are made that negatively impact the health of the city, or if too many resources and investments are used in the wrong areas and too few resources are used in the right areas. A once vibrant body can deteriorate if you don't take care of it. But if you revitalize, maintain, and implement new ideas, you'll keep your body at its finest. This allows you to live gracefully and passionately with a fundamentally older infrastructure. Some examples you'll see throughout the book: Your arteries are like roadways that can be clogged, blocked, or worn down after years of abuse. Your brain is like the energy grid that supplies power to the entire city-and can be knocked out here and there if you let neurological branches fall on your power lines (keys, anyone?). Your skin, in many ways, is like a city's parks and green space-contributing to the overall sense of beauty and vibrancy. Your fat? Yep, landfill. But really, the ultimate goal isn't just to keep your biological city from turning into a ghost town-to keep you from dying. The goal is to make your body top the "best city to live in" list. It's to make it vibrant, hip, to give it lots of resources and manage them well, and, perhaps most of all, to give it the ability to reinvent itself in the face of changing times. The book will be full of signature YOU methods to convey the story, including YOU Tests, YOU Tips, and visual and verbal metaphors to bring the science alive; it will be heavily illustrated in the same playful, irreverent style as the previous books. Each section of the book will introduce a theory for why we age, with a quick intro into the science that will be followed by chapters of the health issues that primarily fall under each specific theory of aging. As always, the doctors' passion for spreading awareness and promoting good health will shine through and make this a funny, educational, essential book. NOW & THEN
Spenser knows something’s amiss the moment
Dennis Doherty walks into his office. The guy’s
aggressive yet wary, in the way men frightened
for their marriages always are. So when Doherty
asks Spenser to investigate his wife Jordan’s
abnormal behavior, Spenser agrees. A job’s a
job, after all.
Not surprisingly, Spenser catches Jordan with another man, tells Dennis what he’s found out, and considers the case closed. But a couple of days later, all hell breaks loose, and three people are dead. This isn’t just a marital affair gone bad. Spenser is in the middle of hornet’s nest of trouble, and he has to get out of it without getting stung. With Hawk watching his back and gun-for-hire Vinnie Morris providing extra cover, Spenser delves into a complicated and far-reaching operation: Jordan’s former lover Perry Alderson is the leader of a group that helps sponsor terrorists. The Boston P.I. will use all his connections–both above and below the law–to uncover the truth behind Alderson’s antigovernment organization. Alderson doesn’t like Spenser poking around his business, so he decides to get to him through Susan. But what Alderson doesn’t realize is that Spenser will do anything to keep Susan out of harm’s way; nothing will keep him from the woman he loves.
LIVING WELL: 21 DAYS TO
TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE, SUPERCHARGE YOUR HEALTH, AND
FEEL SPECTACULAR
In the fight for health and happiness, New York
Times bestselling author Montel Williams shares
his battle plan for better living.
In his inspiring autobiography Climbing Higher, Montel Williams told the story of his lifelong struggle for respect and success-and his ongoing struggle with multiple sclerosis. In Body Change: The 21-Day Fitness Program for Changing Your Body...and Changing Your Life!; he shared his successful workout strategies; And now, in Living Well with Montel, Montel imparts his personal recipe for healthy and happy living. He also shares his 21-Day Living Well Food and Workout Program-a hard-hitting, three-phased health plan for fast, fit results. For anyone who wants to fight chronic diseases like diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease, and neurological diseases like multiple sclerosis-or just wants to feel spectacular in their daily life, it's time for a push to the next level-by Living Well with Montel. 10 AM (Mon-Fri)
THE PREACHER AND THE PRESIDENTS:
BILLY GRAHAM IN THE WHITE HOUSE
No one man or woman has ever been in a position to see
the presidents, and the presidency, so intimately, over so
many years. They called him in for photo opportunities. They
called for comfort. They asked about death and salvation;
about sin and forgiveness.
IN DEFENSE OF FOOD: AN EATER’S
MANIFESTO Read by Wanda McMullen. (8 episodes, 5/07-5/16/08)
What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about
health: a manifesto for our times
SHATTERED DREAMS: MY LIFE AS A
POLYGAMIST’S WIFE
Read by Dianna DePriest. (15 episodes)
Irene Spencer did as she felt God commanded in marrying
her brother-in-law Verlan LeBaron, becoming his second wife.
Her dramatic story reveals how far religion can be stretched
and abused and how one woman and her children found their
way out, into truth and redemption.
1 PM (Mon-Fri)
OUTWITTING HISTORY: THE AMAZING ADVENTURES
OF A MAN WHO RESCUED A MILLION YIDDISH BOOKS
Read by Marty Kwatinetz. (11 episodes, 4/18-5/05/08)
In 1980, a twenty-three-year-old student named Aaron Lansky set out
to rescue the world’s abandoned Yiddish books before it was too
late. Twenty-five years and one and a half million books later, he’s
still in the midst of a great adventure. Filled with poignant and
often laugh-out-loud tales from Lansky’s travels across the country
as he collected books from older Jewish immigrants—books their own
children had no use for—Outwitting History also explores brilliant
Yiddish writers and enables us to see how an almost-lost culture is
the bridge between the Old World and the future.
A REMARKABLE MOTHER Read by Kevin Burnup. (5 episodes, 5/06-5/12/08)
A registered nurse, pecan grower, university housemother, Peace Corps volunteer, public speaker, and renowned raconteur, Miss Lillian ignored the mores and prejudices of the racially segregated South of the Great Depression years. She was an avid supporter of the Brooklyn Dodgers (because she happened to attend the first major league baseball game in which Jackie Robinson, from Cairo, Georgia, played), was a favored guest on television talk shows (usually able to "steal the microphone" from hosts such as Johnny Carson and Walter Cronkite), and an important role model for the nation. Jimmy Carter's mother emerges from this portrait as redoubtable, generous, and forward-looking. He ascribes to her the inspiration for his own life's work of commitment and faith.
HOME TO HOLLY SPRINGS
Read by Jonie LaBouff. (14 episodes, 5/13-5/30/08)
SHAKESPEARE: THE WORLD AS STAGE
Read by Tom Jowers. (6 episodes, 5/31-6/07/08)
What a match: Bill Bryson, expat American with a well-known love of the English language (see The Mother Tongue, 1990), takes on the life of Will Shakespeare (1564-1616), with his exceedingly well known ability to shape that language into works of genius. The result is a triumph of patience and insight over the obstacle of few facts. We know so little about the great poet and playwright that Bryson manages to indulge some of the wackier speculations, if only for sport. But his touch is, as usual, light and genial. Sifting through the slim evidence of Shakespeare's life, Bryson avoids "the urge to switch from conjunctive to indicative" that characterizes so many of the previous biographers. Using the best scholars and critics to amplify his own amateur research, he takes us to both the National Archives in London -- where he describes the mess that is 16th-century orthography -- and the basement of the Folger Library's collection of First Folios. This visit occasions Bryson's smart excursus on early bookmaking and allows him to celebrate the real heroes of Shakespeare's afterlife: the friends who preserved most of his plays in that first collected edition, itself the Holy Grail of Shakespeare scholarship. The final chapter, a survey of the silly debunkers of Shakespeare's authorship, is a real hoot, with Bryson at his wittiest. Not since Marchette Chute's somewhat prudish Shakespeare of London (1949) have we had such a succinct, reliable, and enjoyable Shakespeare bio for general readers. Bryson penetrates the mystery that was the life -- for the majesty that is the work. --Thomas De Pietro 10 PM (Mon-Sat)
PEOPLE OF THE BOOK Read by Rosemary Scalessa. (13 episodes, 4/23-5/07/08)
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, the
journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of
exile and war
L.A. OUTLAWS by T. Jefferson Parker Read by Tom Jowers. (11 episodes, 5/08-5/20/08)
Los Angeles is gripped by the exploding
celebrity of Allison Murietta, her real identity
unknown, a modern-day Jesse James with the
compulsion to steal beautiful things, the vanity
to invite the media along, and the conscience to
donate much of her bounty to charity. Nobody
ever gets hurt - until a job ends with ten
gangsters lying dead and a half-million dollars
worth of glittering diamonds missing.
Rookie Deputy Charlie Hood discovers the bodies, and he prevents an eyewitness - a schoolteacher named Suzanne Jones - from leaving the scene in her Corvette. Drawn to a mysterious charisma that has him off-balance from the beginning, Hood begins an intense affair with Suzanne. As the media frenzy surrounding Allison's exploits swells to a fever pitch and the Southland's most notorious killer sets out after her, a glimmer of recognition blooms in Hood, forcing him to choose between a deeply held sense of honor and a passion that threatens to consume him completely. With a stone-cold killer locked in relentless pursuit, Suzanne and Hood continue their desperate dance around the secrets that brought them together, unsure whether each new dawn may signal the day their lies catch up with them.
AMAZING GRACE Read by Lyn Cioci. (11 episodes, 5/21-6/02/08)
On a warm May night in San
Francisco, the Ritz-Carlton ballroom shimmers
with crystal and silver as a glittering,
celebrity-studded crowd gathers for a charity
dinner dance. The evening is perfect–until, just
minutes before midnight, the room begins to
sway. Glass shatters. And as the lights go out,
people begin to scream….
In the earthquake’s aftermath, the lives of four strangers will converge.… Sarah Sloane, the beautiful wife of a financial whiz, watches her perfect world fall to pieces…. Grammy-winning singer Melanie Free, the event’s headliner, comes to a turning point in her life and career…. Photographer Everett Carson, a former war correspondent whose personal demons have demoted him to covering society parties, finds new purpose amid the carnage…and Sister Maggie Kent, a nun who normally works in jeans and high-tops with the homeless, searches through the rubble–and knows instantly that there is much work to be done…. As the city staggers back to life, a chain reaction of extraordinary events will touch each of the survivors.… For Sarah, it begins with the discovery of a crime and a betrayal, then a strength she never knew she had. For Melanie, volunteering at a refugee camp will open new worlds of possibility. And Everett will be shaken by the unlikely relationship he forges with Maggie, who helps him rebuild his shattered life–and upends her own in the process. But as a year passes, and the anniversary of the earthquake approaches, more surprises are in store–as each discovers the unexpected gifts in a tragedy’s wake…and the amazing grace of newbeginnings. Throughout these enthralling pages, Danielle Steel creates a stunning array of contrasts–from the dazzle of a society benefit to the chaos of a makeshift hospital, from the pampered lives of rock stars to the quiet heroism of emergency volunteers. It is her most powerful and life-affirming novel to date.
11 PM
(Mon-Sat) RUN Read by Ann Woodall (11 episodes, 4/24-5/06/08)
It's a winter evening in Boston and the temperature has
drastically dropped as a blizzard approaches the city. On this
fateful night, Bernard Doyle plans to meet his two adopted sons, Tip
the older, and more serious and Teddy, the affectionate dreamer, at
a Harvard auditorium to hear a speech given by Jesse Jackson. Doyle,
an Irish Catholic and former Boston mayor, has done his best to keep
his two sons interested in politics, from the day he and his now
deceased wife became their parents, through their childhoods, and
now in their lives as college students. Though the two boys are
African-American, the bonds of the family's love have never been
tested. But as the snow begins to falls, an accident triggers into
motion a series of events that will forever change their lives.
THE JUDAS STRAIN Read by Bob Brier. (18 episodes, 5/07-5/27/08)
From the depths of the Indian Ocean, a horrific plague has arisen to devastate humankind—a disease that's unknown, unstoppable . . . and deadly. But it is merely a harbinger of the doom that is to follow. Aboard a cruise liner transformed into a makeshift hospital, Dr. Lisa Cummings and Monk Kokkalis—operatives of SIGMA Force—search for answers to the bizarre affliction. But there are others with far less altruistic intentions. In a savage and sudden coup, terrorists hijack the vessel, turning a mercy ship into a floating bio-weapons lab. A world away, SIGMA's Commander Gray Pierce thwarts the murderous schemes of a beautiful would-be killer who holds the first clue to the discovery of a possible cure. Pierce joins forces with the woman who wanted him dead, and together they embark upon an astonishing quest following the trail of the most fabled explorer in history: Marco Polo. But time is an enemy as a worldwide pandemic grows rapidly out of control. As a relentless madman dogs their every step, Gray and his unlikely ally are being pulled into an astonishing mystery buried deep in antiquity and in humanity's genetic code. And as the seconds tick closer to doomsday, Gray Pierce will realize he can truly trust no one, for any one ofthem could be . . . a Judas. STONE COLD by David Baldacci Read by Dana Letson. (11 episodes, 5/28-6/09/08)
Oliver Stone and the Camel Club are back in their most dangerous
adventure yet, a war on two fronts. Casino king Jerry Bagger from
THE COLLECTORS is hunting Annabelle Conroy who conned him out of
millions. Stone and his colleagues Reuben, Milton, and Caleb marshal
all their resources to protect Annabelle. Yet all their skills may
not be enough when a deadly new opponent rips off the veneer of
Stone's own mysterious past. Bagger's menace pales next to newcomer
Harry Finn's lethality. Seeming a normal family-man, Finn has
already killed three men with more targets to come. When Finn also
sets his bulls-eye on Stone, his reason why will be the greatest
shock of all, making readers reconsider their beliefs in good and
evil. As bodies and institutions topple, the story rockets toward a
shattering finale that will leave the survivors of this explosive
tale changed forever. MIDNIGHT (Tues-Sun)
NEW ENGLAND WHITE
Read by Roy Harris. (24 episodes, 4/16-5/13/08)
The author of The Emperor of Ocean
Park, with the powers of observation and richness of
plot and character, returns to the New England
university town of Elm Harbor, where a murder begins to
crack the veneer that has hidden the racial
complications of the town’s past, the secrets of a
prominent family, and the most hidden bastions of
African-American political influence. And at the center:
Lemaster Carlyle, the university president, and his
wife, Julia Carlyle, a deputy dean at the divinity
school–African Americans living in “the heart of
whiteness.”
THE SECRET
BETWEEN US
Read by Allison Smith. (9 episodes, 5/14-5/23/08)
Nothing will break this mother-daughter
bond. Not even the truth.
THE ALEXANDRIA LINK Read by Jeffry Finkel. (13 episodes, 5/24-6/07/08)
Cotton Malone retired from the high-risk
world of elite operatives for the U.S. Justice
Department to lead the low-key life of a rare-book
dealer. But his quiet existence is shattered when he
receives an anonymous e-mail: “You have something I
want. You’re the only person on earth who knows where to
find it. Go get it. You have 72 hours. If I don’t hear
from you, you will be childless.” His horrified ex-wife
confirms that the threat is real: Their teenage son has
been kidnapped. When Malone’s Copenhagen bookshop is
burned to the ground, it becomes brutally clear that
those responsible will stop at nothing to get what they
want. And what they want is nothing less than the lost
Library of Alexandria. 2 AM (Tues-Sun)
EAT, PRAY, LOVE: ONE WOMAN’S SEARCH FOR EVERYTHING ACROSS ITALY,
INDIA AND INDONESIA
Read by Beth Sanders. (15 episodes, 4/18-5/04/08)
Oddly but aptly titled, Eat, Pray, Love is an experience to be
savored: This spiritual memoir brims with humor, grace, and
scorching honesty. After a messy divorce and other personal
missteps, Elizabeth Gilbert confronts the "twin goons" of depression
and loneliness by traveling to three countries that she intuited had
something she was seeking. First, in Italy, she seeks to master the
art of pleasure by indulging her senses. Then, in an Indian ashram,
she learns the rigors and liberation of mind-exalting hours of
meditation. Her final destination is Bali, where she achieves a
precarious, yet precious equilibrium. Gilbert's original voice and
unforced wit lend an unpretentious air to her expansive spiritual
journey.
INVISIBLE PREY by John Sandford Read by Dick Edwards. (10 episodes, 5/06-5/16/08)
Lucas Davenport had reason to be relieved when he
was called off a morals case -- involving a Minnesota state senator
accused of having sex with a minor -- and assigned to a double
murder. For one thing, the killing of affluent widow Constance
Bucher and her maid isn't politically sensitive; for another, it
seems like a prosecutorial slam-dunk. The messy crime scene looks
like the calling card of drug-addled thieves who, like many others
before them, blundered into a situation they couldn't control.
Looking closer, though, Davenport detects the scent of more
sophisticated plunderers. And then the other murders begin….
Read by Laura Keyes. (17 episodes, 5/17-6/05/08)
Phoebe MacNamara found her calling when she was a hostage at the
age of 12: she now is Savannah, GA, PD's top negotiator. She crosses
paths with Duncan Swift while talking down a jumper who was one of
his former employees. Duncan is intrigued by Phoebe's drive and
commitment, and she feels the same way about him, but she comes with
a lot of baggage, including an agoraphobic mother and a
seven-year-old daughter. Worse, lurking around the corner is someone
who wants Phoebe to pay for past sins, and he doesn't care who dies
in the process. Narrator Susan Ericksen wrings tears and laughter
and incites anger and fear all with impressive ease. She becomes
Phoebe, while her Duncan is suave, fun, ambitious, and smart, rolled
into an attractive package. His drawl is a constant comfort. Roberts
created a blockbuster, and Ericksen amplifies it with spot-on
narration. Essential for public libraries. 5 AM (Tues-Sun)
WAY OFF THE ROAD: DISCOVERING THE PECULIAR CHARMS OF SMALL-TOWN AMERICA by Bill Geist Read by Terence Jenkins. (9 episodes, 4/24-5/03/08)
Throughout his career, Bill Geist’s most popular
stories have been about slightly odd but loveable individuals.
Coming on the heels of his 5,600-mile RV trip across our fair
land is Way Off the Road, a hilarious and compelling mix of
stories about the folks featured in Geist’s segments, along with
observations on his twenty years of life on the road. Written in
the deadpan style that has endeared him to millions, Geist
shares tales of eccentric individuals, such as the
ninety-three-year-old pilot-paperboy who delivers to his
far-flung subscribers by plane; the Arizona mailman who delivers
mail via horseback down the walls of the Grand Canyon; the
Muleshoe, Texas, anchorwoman who delivers the news from her
bedroom (occasionally wearing her bathrobe); and the struggling
Colorado entrepreneur who finds success employing a sewer vacuum
to rid Western ranchers of problematic prairie dogs. Geist also
takes us to events such as the Mike the Headless Chicken
Festival (celebrating an inspiring bird that survived
decapitation, hired an agent, and went on the road for eighteen
months) and Sundown Days in Hanlontown, Iowa, where the town
marks the one day a year when the sun sets directly between the
railroad tracks
by Daniel Silva Read by Don Kennedy. (13 episodes, 5/04-5/18/08)
He has been called his generation's finest
writer of international intrigue, one of America's most gifted
spy novelists ever, and the successor to Graham Greene and John
le Carre. But with his follow-up to the 2006 electrifying number
one bestseller The Messenger, Daniel Silva has written his most
compelling and entertaining novel to date.
HANK AARON AND THE HOME RUN THAT CHANGED AMERICA Read by Eric Roberts. (7 episodes, 5/20-5/27/08)
Baseball has witnessed more than 125,000 home runs. Many have
altered the outcome of games, and some have decided pennants and
become legend. But no dinger has had greater impact than Hank
Aaron's 715th home run. His historic blast on April 8, 1974,
lifted him above Babe Ruth on the all-time list, an achievement
that shook not only baseball but our nation itself. Aaron's
magnificent feat provoked bigotry and shattered prejudice,
inspired a generation, emboldened a flagging civil rights
movement, and called forth the demons that haunted Aaron's every
step and turned what should have been a joyous pursuit into a
hellish nightmare.
Read by Audray McCroskey. (12 episodes, 5/28- 6/10/08)
—From My First Five Husbands . . . And the Ones Who Got Away People always ask me if I'm like Blanche. And I say, 'Well, Blanche was an oversexed, self-involved, man-crazy, vain Southern Belle from Atlanta — and I'm not from Atlanta!’” — Rue McClanahan Who can forget Rue McClanahan as the sexy Southern vixen, Blanche Devereaux, on the Emmy-award winning series The Golden Girls? With her breezy sex appeal and sharp comedic timing, Rue infused her character with a sassy joie de vivre that captured the hearts of women everywhere. Now, the actress behind the magic reveals her life in and out of the spotlight in a laugh-out-loud funny memoir about love, marriage, men, and getting older that is every bit as colorful as the characters she plays. Raised in small-town Oklahoma in a house “thirteen telephone poles past the standpipe north of town,” Rue developed her two great passions—theater and men—at an early age. She arrived in New York City in 1957 with two-weeks worth of money in her pocket, hustled her way into a class with the legendary Uta Hagen, and began working her way up in the acting world against the vibrant, free-spirited backdrop of the sixties. That’s when she met and married Husband #1—a handsome rogue of an aspiring actor who quickly left her with a young son. Still, she was determined to make it on the stage and screen—and in the years that followed, rose to the top of the entertainment world with a host of adventures (and husbands) along the way. From her roles on Broadway opposite Dustin Hoffman and Brad Davis, to her first television appearances on Maude and All in the Family, to the Golden Girls era and beyond, My First Five Husbands is the irresistible story of one woman’s quest to find herself. Now happily married to her soul mate, Husband #6, Rue is proof that many things can and do get better with age—and that, if she keeps her wits about her, even a small-town girl can make it big. Told with Rue’s saucy wit and Southern charm, My First Five Husbands is a deliciously entertaining take on life and love from an irrepressible star. |