Today on Good Morning America: Mike May, the subject of Robert Kerson's biography, Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See (Random House, $25.95; RH Audio abridged CD. $29.95). PW called the book “a remarkable story of courage and endurance.” And PW's review of the audiobook said, "Christopher Evan Welch brings a tone of boyish wonder to the reading of Kurson's biography of Mike May, a highly successful entrepreneur, athlete, husband and father who undergoes experimental surgery to regain the vision that he lost in a chemical explosion at age three. Some listeners may not fully embrace the stance of hearty stoicism, but others will be captivated by the decidedly nonmelodramatic perspective. As an added bonus, the audiobook includes an insightful follow-up interview between Kurson and May."

Diane Rehm interviewed Pulitzer—winning historian Edward Larson, whose book is A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign (Free Press, $27; S&S Audio abridged CD, $29.95). PW found it an “absorbing, brisk account… an invaluable study of a crucial chapter in the lives of the founding fathers—and of the nation.”

On ABC News Now, Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx cracked open his memoir The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star (Pocket, $32.50).

Tonight, John Grisham visits The Colbert Report with his just-out Playing For Pizza: A Novel (Doubleday, $21.95; RH Audio unabridged CD, $29.95).

On Tavis Smiley: historian and former professor David Nichols, whose A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution (S&S, $26) coincides with the 50th anniversary of the “Little Rock Nine” school desegregation crisis.

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