Today, NPR’s Morning Edition featured bestseller Michael Connelly, author of The Overlook (Little, Brown, $21.99; Hachette Audio unabridged CD, $29.98), which PW’s starred review declared a “dazzling 13th Harry Bosch novel. This is a quick read, almost half the length of Connelly's previous novels, but he spares no punches when it comes to complexity and suspense.”

On NPR’s Soundcheck: Kate Schatz, whose novel PJ Harvey's Rid of Me: A Story (33 1/3) (Continuum, $10.95) was inspired by Harvey's album of the same name.

Tonight on The Late Show with Dave Letterman Kristen Gore discusses her second novel, Sammy's House (Hyperion, $24.95). PW’s review considered it “funny, and the wonk's-eye view of how legislation and trade deals get done is illuminating, and even inspiring.”

Tavis Smiley speaks to novelist Lisa See, whose fifth novel is Peony in Love (Random House, $23.95; RH Audio CD, $29.95). From PW’s starred review: “Set in 17th-century China, See's is a coming-of-age story, a ghost story, a family saga and a work of musical and social history. See offers meticulous depiction of women's roles in Qing and Ming dynasty China (including horrifying foot-binding scenes) and vivid descriptions of daily Qing life, festivals and rituals.”

Saturday on Face the Nation: Elizabeth Edwards offers Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers (Broadway, $14.95; RH Audio abridged CD, $27.95).

On CBS Sunday Morning: Pattie Boyd, author of Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me (Harmony, $25.95; RH Audio abridged CD, $19.95). Boyd was married first to Harrison and later to Clapton.

On Weekend Edition Sunday, former Atlanta Falcon Tim Green passes the novel Football Genius (HarperCollins, $16.99). PW found it “a satisfying YA debut, using his own NFL experience to bring readers behind the scenes.”

This weekend on Book TV:

Attorney Scott Gant promises We're All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age (Free Press, $26).

Yuri Felshtinsky, co-author—with the late ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko—of Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror (Encounter, $23.95).

Novelist Barbara Kingsolver discusses Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (HarperCollins, $26.95; HarperAudio unabridged CD, $39.95). From PW’s Signature starred review by Nina Planck: “Kingsolver recounts a year spent eating home-grown food and, if not that, local. Her tale is both classy and disarming, substantive and entertaining, earnest and funny.”

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