Today, The Bourne Ultimatum opens in theaters, based on the book by Robert Ludlum (Bantam, $7.99; RH Audio abridged CD, $18).

Another film opening today is Becoming Jane. The book tie-in, by Anne Newgarden, is Becoming Jane: The Wit and Wisdom of Jane Austen (Miramax, $12.95).

On The Leonard Lopate Show, Wall Street Journal reporter Lucette Lagnado introduced The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (Ecco, $25.95).

Author interviews re-airing on tonight’s Tavis Smiley:

Legendary actor Kirk Douglas discusses his fifth memoir Let's Face It: 90 Years of Living, Loving, and Learning (Wiley, $22.95).

Jonathan Eig, author of Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season (S&S, $26; Tantor Media unabridged audio CD, $34.99).

Saturday, NPR’s Sound of Young America hosts Miranda July, with No One Belongs Here More Than You, (Scribner, $23), which PW called an “arresting first collection. These stories are as immediate and distressing as confessionals.

Saturday on ABC-TV’s Weekend Morning News, Hector Roca and Bruce Silverglade offer The Gleason's Gym Total Body Boxing Workout for Women: A 4-Week Head-to-Toe Makeover (Fireside, $16).

This weekend on Book TV:

Playwright and performer Eve Ensler, author of A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and A Prayer (Villard, $13.95). PW’s review had this to say: “Some of the essays carry more weight than others, and most run no longer than two pages, but the book's power lies in their combined effect, layering the subtle and frightening ways violence has been and continues to be perpetrated against women.”

Pulitzer Prize-winner and biologist Edward O. Wilson, author of The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth (Norton, $25.95). From PW’s starred review: “Wilson passionately leads us by the hand into an amazing and abundantly diverse natural order, singing its wonders and its beauty and captivating our hearts and imaginations with nature's mysterious ways.”

Syndicated columnist Connie Schultz, author of ...and His Lovely Wife: A Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man (Random House, $24.95), which PW called “a frank and adoring account of standing by her man, Sherrod Brown, in his run for U.S. Senate from Ohio.”

Stanley Weintraub, author of 15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century (Free Press, $30).

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