David Baldacci "The Camel Club"

In David Baldacci's thriller The Camel Club, four men meet every week in Washington, D.C. to discuss events of the day, and -- more enthusiastically -- the conspiracies they think are behind those events. But their discussions are academic, since the four members of the Camel Club are all misfits and rejects who have no real power. Or do they? The situation turns deadly when they witness the murder of a high-profile government official.

Kenneth Sewell & Judith Pearson

True stories today from America's history -- we'll meet writer Judith Pearson, whose new book The Wolves at the Door tells the little-known story of Virginia Hall, who may be America's greatest female spy. But first, U.S. Navy veteran and nuclear engineer Kenneth Sewell tells the hair-raising story of how America very nearly sustained a second attack on Pearl Harbor, 27 years after the first one. But the one he describes in his book Red Star Rogue would have been a nuclear attack that would have started World War Three.

Joy Hakim & Dava Sobel

Today, two authors who try, in their new books, to make science -- that often brittle, tedious-sounding subject -- come to life. Dava Sobel offers up her unique take on our solar system in her book The Planets. But first, a book by Joy Hakim that seeks to draw young readers in by showing them the personalities of early science.

Tab Hunter & Peter Guralnick

It's back to the '50s today, as we talk with Peter Guralnick, the author of a new biography of iconic musician Sam Cooke, who carved out a destiny for himself in a too-short lifetime. But first, a memoir by another icon of the era, the movie star whose face seemed to be everywhere 50 years ago: Tab Hunter.

Iman & "A Day in the Life of the American Woman"

America is increasingly a multiracial country, but the cosmetics and beauty industry often seems to overlook that fact. Indeed, that's why supermodel Iman launched her own line of cosmetics over ten years ago. Now she has a book for women of color, and we'll talk with her today. But first, the team of women who put together a new book that celebrates America's women by capturing one day's worth of pictures.

Oliver North & Vince Flynn

You have to admire writers who can make us not only believe in, but root for, assassins -- people whose job it is to kill other people. Bad people. In new thrillers, Oliver North and Vince Flynn ask us to consider the consequences of giving an official blessing to assassination.

Suzanne Brockmann & Lee Martin

Today two novels of love and loss. In Lee Martin's novel The Bright Forever a little girl's parents are shattered by her death on a hot summer night in the 1970s. But first Suzanne Brockmann tempts us with some romantic suspense in her novel Breaking Point.

Walter Mosley "Cinnamon Kiss"

As Walter Mosley's tenth Easy Rawlins mystery opens, Easy is staring at a parent's nightmare: his adopted daughter Feather is sick, and needs the help only a Swiss clinic can offer -- at a price of $35,000. His pal Mouse has an idea, that involves an inside-job robbery, but then Easy gets another offer, that takes him to San Francisco. Mosley's book is called Cinnamon Kiss.

Graham Salisbury & Nelofer Pazira

Today, the authors of a memoir and a novel for young readers, both on the theme of how teenagers deal with war. Graham Salisbury grew up in Hawaii, so his new novel for young readers, Eyes of the Emperor, tells a story he's well familiar with: how Japanese-Americans struggled to fit in after Pearl Harbor. But first, Nelofer Pazira's memoir A Bed of Red Flowers, about one family's struggle to maintain its place in war-torn Afghanistan.

Brandt Goldstein and Alice Kaplan

The theme of both of today's interviews is injustice. When history and literature professor Alice Kaplan learned that the overwhelming majority of the U.S. servicemen executed for crimes in Europe in World War Two were black, she knew something was wrong, and she explores that bigotry in her new book The Interpreter. But first, Storming the Court, Brandt Goldstein's story of a latter-day injustice and what an idealistic group of college students did about it.

Amy Tan "Saving Fish From Drowning"

A group of Americans goes on an art tour in Burma, in Amy Tan's novel Saving Fish From Drowning. But the woman who was going to lead the tour dies under odd circumstances on the eve of the trip -- and then becomes the narrator for the tale of kidnapping, political shenanigans, and reality TV that follows.

Scott Ritter and Laurent Murawiec

In the volatile Middle East, we are told that one of America's dependable allies is Saudi Arabia. But Laurent Murawiec, the author of the new book Princes of Darkness argues that with friends like the Saudi royal family, who needs enemies? Also, Scott Ritter, the author of Iraq Confidential, another sobering book that aims to correct lingering misinformation about why we went to war in Iraq.

David Rakoff & Jon Katz

Ready to get a new dog? Or are you still trying to make peace with the one you already have? Either way, the new book by journalist Jon Katz should help -- we'll talk with him about his new book Katz on Dogs. But first it's GQ's David Rakoff, with his caustic take on modern high-end American consumerism, Don't Get Too Comfortable.

Jessica Hendra & Larry Kane

As a young reporter, Larry Kane toured America with the Beatles in 1964 and '65, befriending all of them but growing particularly close to the enigmatic John Lennon. Today we'll hear from Larry Kane on his new book Lennon Revealed. But first, a memoir by a woman who wants to fill in some of the gaps in what her father wrote in HIS book last year.

Jacqueline Winspear "Pardonable Lies"

A young London woman is drawn back to a time and place she thought she had long since been rid of, in Jacqueline Winspear's mystery Pardonable Lies. It's 1930, and for psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs, Winspear's series heroine, World War One is now history. Until two new cases she takes make her confront long-sealed memories.

Haynes Johnson & Doug Beason

Are laser beams, light sabers and death rays only for science fiction? Not anymore, says a man who should know -- he's been working on 'em for years. Doug Beason is here to talk about his new book The E-Bomb. But first a respected veteran journalist warns, in his new book, that we may be repeating political mistakes made over half a century ago.

Keith Lee Johnson & K'wan

Today, the authors of two new novels that graphically illustrate the consequences of choices we make, and how our choices impact our families. K'Wan is described by KING Magazine as "One of hip-hop fiction’s hottest authors." His new novel Hoodlum follows a family that's literally fighting for its life. But first we meet Keith Lee Johnson, whose new novel is Fate’s Redemption.

Christopher Kennedy Lawford "Symptoms of Withdrawal"

He's the son of the late Peter Lawford and Patricia Kennedy Lawford. He vividly remembers the public and violent deaths of his uncles, Jack and Bobby Kennedy. And now, Christopher Kennedy Lawford has written a memoir, offering up a very rare look inside the Kennedy world. It's called Symptoms of Withdrawal.

Bobbie Ann Mason & Yolonda Tonette Sanders

Today, interviews with two novelists, women who have penned books about romances that hit a snag. The acclaimed Bobbie Ann Mason writes, in An Atomic Romance, about a man who's having a romance with a woman he began dating after an impromptu discussion about Stephen Hawking and string theory. And Yolonda Tonette Sanders brings us the story of a young woman whose perfect life is shattered by infidelity, in Soul Matters.

Christopher Andrew & David Barrett

For the duration of the Cold War, the CIA and the KGB were tireless adversaries. Through the exhaustive research efforts of two men -- a historian, and a political scientist -- we now know much more about how each agency operated. Today we'll meet those men. David Barrett is associate professor of political science at Villanova University, and author of The CIA And Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy. Christopher Andrew is author of The World Was Going Our Way.

John Berendt "The City of Falling Angels"

For an incredible four years John Berendt's book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was on the New York Times bestseller list. And even though it was a true story of a murder in a southern town, and the brilliantly colorful eccentrics in that town, many people thought it was fiction. So with his new book The City of Falling Angels, set in Venice, Berendt is making it very clear: this is all true.

Alexander McCall Smith "Friends, Lovers, Chocolate"

Isabel Dalhousie is moonlighting, when Alexander McCall Smith's mystery Friends, Lovers, Chocolate opens. She's literally minding the store for her niece Cat, who runs an upscale delicatessen. It's there that Isabel meets a man who is haunted by visions he's been having ever since his heart transplant. In this second installment in McCall Smith's second popular mystery series, Isabel soon has some serious questions to resolve.

Bonnie Angelo "First Families"

Life inside the White House is very different for the President's family than it is for the chief executive himself. Spouse and children, after all, aren't elected, but they are subjected to the same constant public scrutiny as the President is. For some, it is a role that is difficult to adapt to, as we see in journalist Bonnie Angelo's book First Families.

Louise Erdrich & Nicholas Evans

Today we feature two luminous new works of fiction, by two well-known and bestselling novelists. We watch as a family is split apart in the new book by Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer, called The Divide. But first, Louise Erdrich, whose new novel The Painted Drum drew her back into the Ojibwe Indian folklore she has become so renowned for.

Robert Kaplan and Anthony Shadid

The war in Iraq gets plenty of time in the media. We hear from generals, colonels, admirals, the Defense Secretary, members of Congress, right on up to the President. But today we're going to talk with authors of two new books that tell us the story from different perspectives. Robert Kaplan goes around the world with Special Forces troops in his book Imperial Grunts. We will also meet Pulitzer prizewinning journalist Anthony Shadid, who embedded himself with Iraqi civilians for the reporting that forms his new book Night Draws Near.

Gregory Maguire "Son of a Witch"

In L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz, once the Wicked Witch of the West is vanquished, and Dorothy leaves in the balloon bound for Kansas, the story's over. But Gregory Maguire's novel Son of a Witch imagines what might have happened if the Wicked Witch, in all her green-skinned glory, had left behind an heir.

Myla Goldberg "Wickett's Remedy"

A young working-class woman from South Boston marries a medical student on the eve of World War One, and figures the world is about to become her oyster, in Myla Goldberg's much-anticipated second novel Wickett's Remedy. The first complication comes when her husband Henry announces he's quitting medical school. What follows is a period of tragedy, in a story that takes us up to the present day.

Robert Pinsky "The Life of David"

He was a warrior, a poet, and a king, but the Biblical David, of the Old Testament, remains a two-dimensional character to many people. Now poet, critic, and former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky examines the fullness of David's being -- including his wild years and his dark side -- in a book called The Life of David.

Sandra Brown "Chill Factor"

A woman who's just getting over a particularly difficult time in her life is about to undergo one more huge challenge, in Sandra Brown's new thriller Chill Factor. Through circumstances she can't control, she's about to be thrown together with a man who, by all appearances, is a serial killer.

Aron Ralston "Between a Rock and a Hard Place"

His was an unbelievable ordeal. While hiking alone in Canyonlands National Park in Utah in April 2003, Aron Ralston was climbing down a ledge when an 800-pound boulder fell, and lodged tight against his right hand and wrist. He was trapped, and knew he would die unless he did something drastic. Using only a dull, dirty knife he had in his backpack, Ralston methodically cut off his own arm, then hiked to his own rescue. His story made national news, and now Ralston tells how the episode has changed his life -- for the better -- in his book Between a Rock and a Hard Place.

R.L. Stine "The Good, the Bad and the Very Slimy"

For 20 years R.L. Stine has been scaring young readers, with books in the "Fear Street" series and the "Goosebumps" series, which have sold millions of copies. And now Stine has embarked on his biggest challenge yet -- to tickle his reader's funnybones instead of chilling their spines. His new series is called Rotten School, the third installment of which is called The Good, the Bad and the Very Slimy.