Media Heat: Kermit, Carter, Scottoline

This morning Kermit the Frog hops onto the Early Show to discuss his new book, Before You Leap: A Frog's Eye View of Life's Greatest Lessons (Disney, $16.95, 0696232324).

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Oggi on the Martha Stewart Show: Mario Batali, chef, restaurateur and author of Molto Italiano: 327 Simple Italian Recipes to Cook at Home (Ecco, $34.95, 0060734922).

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Today on WAMU's Diane Rehm Show: E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., author of Surviving Prostate Cancer: What You Need to Know to Make Informed Decisions (Yale University Press, $25, 0300116403).

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Today on the O'Reilly Factor: Christine Wicker, author of Lily Dale: The Town That Talks to the Dead (HarperSanFrancisco, $13.95, 0061153745) and Not In Kansas Anymore (HarperSanFrancisco, $13.95, 0060741155).

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Tonight on Court TV's Murder By the Book: Lisa Scottoline, one of the "masters of the American crime novel" (other shows featured James Ellroy, Michael Connelly and Linda Fairstein), who explores the real-life crimes that inspired her to write.

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Scheduled for tonight on the Charlie Rose Show: Lou Dobbs, whose new book is War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War on the American Dream and How to Fight Back (Viking, $24.95, 0670037923).

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Tonight on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno: former president Jimmy Carter, whose new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid (S&S, $27, 0743285026), maps his views in the Middle East.

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