Taiye Selasi reads from and discusses her critically acclaimed debut novel Ghana Must Go. Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his home in suburban Accra. The news of Kweku’s death sends a ripple around the world, bringing together the family he abandoned years before. Ghana Must Go is their story. Electric, exhilarating, beautifully crafted, Selasi’s book is a testament to the transformative power of unconditional love, from a debut novelist of extraordinary talent.

($25.95) Penguin ISBN # 9781594204494. You can visit Taiye Selasi‘s official web site as well.

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Former bookseller Hugh Howey reads from and discusses his debut science fiction novel Wool. In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Now, the Silo’s inhabitants are about to learn just how badly their world is broken. The silo is about to confront what its history has only hinted about and its inhabitants have never dared to whisper.

“Howey’s Wool is an epic feat of imagination. You will live in this world.” – Justin Cronin, bestselling author of The Passage and The Twelve

($26.00 – Hardcover / $15.00 – Paperback) Simon & Schuster ISBN # 9781476735115 / 9781476733951. You can visit Hugh Howey‘s official web site as well.

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Colorado author Dan Baum, a former staff writer for The New Yorker, reads from and discusses his new book Gun Guys: A Road Trip. In his book, Baum, both a lifelong gun guy and a Jewish Democrat, grabs his licensed concealed handgun and hits the road to meet some of the 40 percent of Americans who own guns. Written equally for avid shooters and those who would never touch a firearm, Gun Guys is more than a travelogue. It gives a fresh assessment of the heated politics surrounding guns, one that will challenge and inform people on all sides of the issue.

($26.95) Knopf ISBN # 9780307595416. You can visit Dan Baum‘s official web site as well.

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Kent Haruf, the beloved and best-selling author of Plainsong and Eventide, reads from and discusses his new novel Benediction, a story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the High Plains in Holt, Colorado. Bracing, sad and deeply illuminating, Benediction captures the fullness of life by representing every stage of it, including its extinction, as well as the hopes and dreams that sustain us along the way. In his new novel, Haruf gives us his most indelible portrait yet of this small town and reveals, with grace and insight, the compassion, the suffering and, above all, the humanity of its inhabitants.

($25.95) Knopf ISBN # 9780307959881.

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David Burstein is the founder and executive director of Generation18 and director of the documentary 18 in ’08. A frequent contributor to Fast Company, Burstein has appeared as a commentator on youth and politics for a range of publications and media outlets, including CNN, ABC, NPR, and the New York Times. Burstein discusses his new book Fast Future: How the Millennial Generation Is Shaping Our World.

($25.95) Beacon Press ISBN # 9780807044698. You can visit David Burstein‘s official web site as well.

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Margot Berwin, author of the bestselling debut Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire, reads from and discusses her new novel Scent of Darkness. In this eagerly anticipated second novel, Berwin takes readers deep into the bayous of Louisiana, to a world of fortune-tellers, soothsayers, and potent elixirs. Scent of Darkness is a magical, seductive story about the power of scent, and about what happens when a perfume renders a young woman irresistible.

($25.00) Pantheon ISBN # 9780307907523.

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Deb Perelman is a self-taught home cook and photographer; and the creator of SmittenKitchen.com, an award-winning blog with a focus on stepped-up home cooking through unfussy ingredients. Perelman discusses her bestselling new book The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook.

($35.00) Knopf ISBN # 9780307595652. You can visit Deb Perelman‘s official web site as well.

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Gretel Ehrlich, the author of This Cold Heaven, The Future of Ice, and The Solace of Open Spaces, discusses and reads from her new book Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami. A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience the terror and exhilaration in villages and towns where all shelter and hope seemed lost. In an eloquent narrative that blends strong reportage, poetic observation, and deeply felt reflection, she takes us into the upside-down world of northeastern Japan, where nothing is certain and where the boundaries between living and dying have been erased by water.

($25.00) Pantheon ISBN # 9780307907318. You can visit Gretel Ehrlich‘s official web site as well.

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Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Susan Cain, whose record-smashing TED talk has been viewed over 3 million times, and was named by Bill Gates as one of his all-time favorite talks, discusses the new paperback edition of her acclaimed book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. Passionately argued, impressively researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet shows how dramatically we undervalue introverts, and how much we lose in doing so.

($16.00) Crown ISBN # 9780307352156. You can visit Susan Cain‘s official web site as well.

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Bestselling novelist, war and human rights journalist, and international energy expert Mike Bond lives on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. Based on his experiences in dangerous, remote and war-torn regions of the world, his critically acclaimed novels depict the innate hunger of the human heart for good, the intense joys of love, the terror and fury of battle, the sinister vagaries of international politics and multinational corporations, and the vanishing beauty of the natural world. Bond reads from and discusses his new novel Saving Paradise, an exciting thriller of politics, lies and remorseless murder.

($15.99) Mandevilla ISBN # 9781627040013. You can visit Mike Bond‘s official web site as well.

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Bestselling, award-winning thriller author Robert Crais, creator of the beloved Elvis Cole and Joe Pike mysteries, reads from and discusses his new stand-alone novel Suspect. Scott James is an LAPD officer whose partner, Stephanie, was murdered. Maggie was a USMC German shepherd patrol dog who lost her handler in Afghanistan. Now Scott and Maggie are an LAPD K9 team nobody trusts – damaged goods who are wounded, scared, and suspect. Scott and Maggie now have no one but each other. They will help each other learn to trust and love again, or die in the hunt for Stephanie’s killers.

($27.95) Penguin ISBN # 9780399161483. You can visit Robert Crais‘s official web site as well.

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Supernatural adventure master Kim Harrison reads from and discusses Ever After, the eleventh entry in her New York Times bestselling Hollows series. When witch-turned-daywalking-demon Rachel Morgan sets off a chain of events that could lead to the end of the world-demonic and human-she must use her gifts to save those closest to her while preventing an apocalypse.

($27.99) William Morrow ISBN # 9780061957918. You can visit Kim Harrison‘s official web site as well.

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Brad Meltzer is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Inner Circle and The Book of Fate, and six other bestselling thrillers. He is also the host of the History Channel series Brad Meltzer’s Decoded, the Eisner Award-winning writer of the graphic novel Justice League of America, and one of the co-creators of the TV show Jack & Bobby. Meltzer reads from and discusses his new thriller The Fifth Assassin, the story of a serial killer imitating all of the presidential assassins, from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald.

($27.99) Grand Central ISBN # 9780446553971. You can visit Brad Meltzer‘s official web site as well.

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Cuban-born, Miami Beach-based private investigator Carolina Garcia-Aguilera is the author of ten books, as well as a contributor to many anthologies, but she is perhaps best known for her Lupe Solano mystery series. Garcia-Aguilera reads from and discusses her new stand alone novel Magnolia. “Garcia-Aguilera creates a lovably imperfect heroine in this Pretty Woman-type tale…readers will fall in love with Magnolia in this engaging tale of what unexpected choices can be made when one’s back is against the wall.” – Publishers Weekly

($16.95) B & B Press ISBN # 97809839378458. You can visit Carolina Garcia-Aguilera‘s official web site as well.

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In 2004, Ken Jennings successfully auditioned for a spot on Jeopardy!, and went on an unprecedented seventy-four game victory streak worth $2.52 million. Jennings’s book Brainiac, about his Jeopardy! adventures, was a critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller, as was his follow-up, Maphead. Jennings reads from and discusses his entertaining new book Because I Said So!: The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids. “A fun, lighthearted compendium of conventional wisdom, mostly parental, which debunks plenty of old wives’ tales and urban myths while offering a few surprising truths…. ‘Occasionally Mom knew what she was talking about,’ as this clever book confirms, but often she did not.” – Kirkus Reviews

($19.99) Scribner ISBN # 9781451656251. You can visit Ken Jennings‘ official web site as well.

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Kevin J. Anderson is the bestselling science fiction author of over 100 novels, including twelve novels in the Dune universe, with Frank Herbert’s son Brian Herbert; the Saga of Seven Suns series; Terra Incognita; Resurrection, Inc.; Hopscotch; and many others. Anderson discusses his new novel Clockwork Angels, the novelization of legendary rock band Rush’s new album. Imagine if someone had written the novel of The Wall, Tommy, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band when those classic albums were released. For fans of the multi-platinum band Rush, Clockwork Angels: The Novel is that project. In collaboration with the band, Anderson turns the sonic journey of Rush’s new album into a full-length literary adventure.

($24.95) ECW Press ISBN # 9781770411210. You can visit Kevin J. Anderson’s official web site as well.

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Neil Landau teaches in the MFA in Screenwriting and Producing Programs at both UCLA School of Film & Television and USC School of Cinematic Arts, and is a faculty adviser in the MFA in Writing Program at Goddard College. An established Hollywood screenwriter and script doctor, his film credits include the cult hit Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead. Landau talks about the role of mystery and suspense in screenwriting and discusses his new book The Screenwriter’s Roadmap: 21 Ways to Jumpstart Your Story.

($21.95) Focal Press ISBN # 9780240820606. You can visit Neil Landau’s official web site as well.

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Before he wrote stories, Denver young adult author Chris Howard wrote songs, studied natural resources management, and led wilderness adventure trips for teenagers. Howard reads from and discusses his debut novel for young readers Rootless. In this dazzling debut, Howard presents a disturbing world with uncanny similarities to our own. Like the forests his main character, Banyan, seeks to rebuild, this visionary novel is both beautiful and haunting. “There’s a brilliant madness to this deadly post-apocalyptic world, filled with complex characters, shifting loyalties, and layers of mystery… it’s also a nonstop adventure, with wild concepts and an almost hypnotic quality to Banyan’s terse, weather-beaten narration.” – Publishers Weekly, starred reveiw

($17.99) Scholastic ISBN # 9780545387897. You can visit Chris Howard’s official web site as well.

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Simon Winchester is the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, A Crack in the Edge of the World, The Man Who Loved China, and more than a dozen other books. Mr. Winchester was made Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Elizabeth II in 2006. Winchester discusses his fascinating new book Skulls: An Exploration of Alan Dudley’s Curious Collection. In this captivating and visually stunning book, Winchester explores an array of more than 300 animal skulls, from the aardvark to the red-bellied piranha, and shares the fascinating story of the man who amassed much of the collection: an obsessive Englishman named Alan Dudley.

($29.95) Black Dog & Leventhal ISBN # 9781579129125. You can visit Simon Winchester’s official web site as well.

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Mark Bowden, author of the international bestseller Black Hawk Down, and a preeminent chronicler of our military and special forces, discusses his new book The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden. With access to key sources, Bowden takes us inside the rooms where decisions were made and on the ground where the action unfolded.

($26.00) Atlantic Monthly Press ISBN # 9780802120342.

Gregory Johnsen, a former Fulbright Fellow in Yemen, is a PhD candidate at Princeton University and a frequent guest on NPR. Johnsen discusses and his new book The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America’s War in Arabia, a gripping account of how al-Qaeda in Yemen rebounded from an initial defeat to once again threaten the United States.

($27.95) W.W. Norton ISBN # 9780393082425.

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Jo Nesbø, the author whose works include the electrifying international best-sellers The Snowman and The Leopard, reads from and discusses his new thriller Phantom. The brilliant, deeply troubled, now former police officer Harry Hole has fled to Hong Kong, fleeing the traumas of life as a cop. When the son of his lost love is charged with murder, Harry returns to Oslo and is plunged into a full-tilt investigation on which his own tenuous future will come to depend.

($25.95) Knopf ISBN # 9780307960474. You can visit Jo Nesbø’s official web site as well.

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Whitney Otto and Whitney Frick met by chance over an errant e-mail, and only later began working together due to mutual admiration of the other’s work. Otto, author of the bestselling novel How to Make an American Quilt, joins her editor Frick in conversation to discuss her new novel Eight Girls Taking Pictures, a finely woven, textured inquiry into the intersecting lives of women. Eight Girls Taking Pictures is a profoundly moving portrayal of the lives of women, imagining the thoughts and circumstances that produced eight famous female photographers of the twentieth century. It is a bold, immersive, and unforgettable narrative that shows how the art, loves, and lives of the past influence our present.

($25.00) Scribner ISBN # 9781451682694. You can visit Whitney Otto’s official web site as well.

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Susan Elia MacNeal introduced the remarkable Maggie Hope in her acclaimed debut, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary. MacNeal reads from and discusses her new Maggie Hope novel Princess Elizabeth’s Spy, in which Maggie returns to protect Britain’s beloved royals against an international plot-one that could change the course of history. When the upstairs-downstairs world at Windsor is thrown into disarray by a shocking murder, Maggie is drawn into a vast conspiracy that places the entire royal family in peril. As she races to save England from a most disturbing fate, Maggie realizes that a quick wit is her best defense, and that the smallest clues can unravel the biggest secrets, even within her own family.

($15.00) Bantam ISBN # 9780553593624. You can visit Susan Elia MacNeal’s official web site as well.

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Acclaimed journalist Randall Stross discusses his new book The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s Most Exclusive School for Startups. Investment firm Y Combinator is the most sought-after home for startups in Silicon Valley. Twice a year, it funds dozens of just-founded startups and provides three months of guid­ance from Paul Graham, YC’s impresario and his partners. The Launch Pad is the definitive story of a seismic shift that’s occurred in the business world, in which coding skill trumps employment experience, pairs of undergraduates confidently take on Goliaths, tiny startups working out of an apartment scale fast, and investors fall in love.

($26.95) Penguin ISBN # 9781591845294. You can visit Randall Stross’s official web site as well.

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Justin Cronin is the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Passage, in which he constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. Cronin reads from and discusses his new novel The Twelve, the eagerly awaited second book in The Passage trilogy. A heart-stopping thriller rendered with masterful literary skill, Cronin’s new story is a grand and gripping tale of sacrifice and survival.

($28.00) Random House ISBN # 9780345504982. You can visit Justin Cronin’s official web site as well.

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Jess Walter, the acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets, reads from and discusses his new novel Beautiful Ruins, the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962, and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later. Gloriously inventive, constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a story of flawed yet fascinating people, navigating the rocky shores of their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams.

($25.99) HarperCollins ISBN # 9780061928123. You can visit Jess Walter’s official web site as well.

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Damien Echols was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1993, only to be found innocent upon appeal and released in 2011. Westword journalist Alan Prendergast joins Damien in conversation in honor of his beautifully written memoir Life After Death, “Damien Echols spent eighteen years on death row for murders he did not commit. Somehow, in the depths of his unspeakable nightmare, he found the courage and strength not only to survive, but to grow, to create, to forgive, and to understand. Life After Death is a brilliant, haunting, painful, and uplifting narrative of a hopeless childhood, a wrongful conviction, a brutal incarceration, and the beginning of a new life.”-John Grisham

($26.95) Blue Rider Press ISBN # 9780399160202. You can visit Damien Echols’s official web site as well.

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Brilliantly whimsical yet oddly informative, The Oatmeal is an entertainment web site full of comics, quizzes, and stories. The site gets more than 5 million unique page views a month; 250,000 blogs and web sites have linked to it. The Oatmeal is written, drawn, and coded by Matthew Inman, a king of all trades when it comes to the Web. Inman discusses his hilarious new collection, How To Tell if Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You.

($14.99) Andrews McMeel ISBN # 9781449410247. You can visit Matthew Inman’s official web site as well.

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After months and months and months of campaigning, political commercials, and robocalls, we have arrived at Election Day 2012. With any luck, when we go to sleep tonight we’ll all know the outcome of this election.

Four years ago, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had some words of wisdom for our 44th President, detailed in her book Memo to the President Elect. But when she visited the Tattered Cover book store in LoDo, the race between Barack Obama and John McCain was far from settled.

Listen in as Albright details her advice for a successful presidency.

Jasper Fforde, the author of the bestselling Thursday Next mysteries and the Nursery Crime books, reads from and discusses his first novel for young readers The Last Dragonslayer. In his witty, effervescent new novel Fforde introduces fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange, who runs an agency for underemployed magicians in a world where magic is fading away. But when visions of the death of the world’s last dragon begin, all signs point to Jennifer-and Big Magic!

($16.99) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN # 9780547738475. You can visit Jasper Fforde’s official web site as well.

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