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Watch Barbara Walters on The Oprah Winfrey Show on Tuesday, May 6, the release date of Walters's new book, Audition.

Audition: A Memoir by Barbara Walters (Knopf Hardcover) On Sale: May 6, 2008

"Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: “I want to be you.” My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.”

And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package,” in her inspiring and riveting memoir. After more than forty years of interviewing heads of state, world leaders, movie stars, criminals, murderers, inspirational figures, and celebrities of all kinds, Barbara Walters has turned her gift for examination onto herself to reveal the forces that shaped her extraordinary life.

Also available as an abridged audio CD and in large print.

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf Hardcover)

From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories—longer and more emotionally complex than any she has yet written—that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers.

Also available as an unabridged audio CD.


Let New York Times bestselling author David Bach show you a whole new way to prosper—by going green.

Go Green, Live Rich: 50 Simple Ways to Save the Earth and Get Rich Trying
by David Bach and Hillary Rosnern (Broadway Books - Trade Paperback)

Internationally renowned financial expert and the author of five New York Times bestsellers, David Bach has always urged readers to put their financial lives in line with their values. But what if your values are a cleaner and greener earth? Most people think that “going green” is an expensive choice they can’t afford. Bach is here to say that you can have both: a life in line with your green values and a million dollars in the bank.

Also available as an unabridged audio CD.

Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood is now available in paperback and will soon be available in a movie-tie in edition!

Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares (Delacorte Books for Young Readers) Available now in trade paperback

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 by Ann Brashares Movie Tie-In (based on Forever in Blue) On Sale: June 24, 2008.

Ann Brashares Sisterhood novels, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (which was made into a major motion picture), The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, and Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood, comprise an internationally bestselling and award-winning series that reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

Also available as an unabridged audio CD..

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May 2008
May 2008 New Titles Brochure
CLAPTON by Eric Clapton (on sale: May 27, 2008)
METAL GEAR SOLID by Raymond Benson (on sale: May 27, 2008)
RANT by Chuck Palahniuk (on sale: May 1, 2008)

June 2008
June 2008 New Titles Brochure
AWAY by Amy Bloom (on sale: June 3, 2008)
PLAYING FOR PIZZA by John Grisham (on sale: June 5, 2008)

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