This morning on the Early Show: Maya Angelou, whose latest offering is Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer (Random House, $16.95, 1400066107).
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This morning on Imus in the Morning: Carol Higgins Clark and Mary Higgins Clark, whose Christmas present to book readers this year is Santa Cruise: A Holiday Mystery at Sea (Scribner, $22, 1416535527).
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Today on the Martha Stewart Show: husband-and-wife restaurateurs
Johanne Killeen and George Germon, authors of Top of
Spaghetti . . . : . . . Macaroni, Linguine, Penne, and Pasta of Every
Kind (Morrow Cookbooks, $24.95, 0060598735).
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Today on the Ellen DeGeneres Show: no-nonsense Brit Jo Frost, author of
Ask Supernanny: What Every Parent Wants to Know (Hyperion, $14.95,
1401308643).
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Aujourd'hui on WAMU's Diane Rehm Show: Jean-Benoit Nadeau, a Montreal
journalist and co-author of The Story of French (St.Martin's, $25.95,
0312341830).
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Today on KCRW's Bookworm: Chris Adrian, author of The Children's
Hospital (McSweeney's, $24, 1932416609). As the show describes it: "The
author--a pediatrician and theologian--imagines a future in which a
children's hospital becomes an ark that survives the flood at the end
of the world. Add ministering angels and mysterious healing powers, and
a central question arises: is this fiction or wishful thinking?"
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Today on the Dr. Phil Show: Dr. Frank Lawlis, author of The IQ Answer:
Maximizing Your Child's Potential (Viking, $24.95, 0670037842).
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Tonight on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Ed Viesturs, high altitude mountaineer and author with David Roberts of No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (Broadway, $23.95, 0767924703).
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Tonight on the Colbert Report: Dr. Francis S. Collins, author of The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (Free Press, $26, 0743286391).