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Published Seasonally | Volume 2 | Fall 2009

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Screening Room

Penguin Storytime

• Jon Scieszka
  A day in the life of the National Ambassador of Young People's Literature
• Judy Schachner
  The inspiration behind Skippyjon Jones
• Ginger and Petunia
  Liz Shanks reads Ginger and Petunia by Patricia Polacco.
• Officer Buckle and Gloria
  Liz Shanks reads Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann.
• Three Little Pigs
  Liz Shanks reads the classic and a zany retelling.
• Author/Illustrator Spotlight: Tomie dePaola
  Creator of the beloved Strega Nona.
• Strega Nona
  Liz Shanks reads Strega Nona, Her Story and Brava, Strega Nona! By Tomie dePaola.
• The Moon Over Star
  Liz Shanks reads The Moon Over Star By Dianna Hutts Aston.

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Project Paranormal

• JR Ward: Behind the Black Dagger Brotherhood
  The author of Lover Avenged takes you behind the bestselling series.
• Laurell K. Hamilton: The Start of a Phenomenon
  The New York Times bestselling author takes you into the world of vampire hunter Anita Blake.
• Spotlight on Romance Writers of America
  This special installment of Project Paranormal takes readers behind the scenes of the 2009 RWA.
• Behind the Scenes with Christine Feehan
  Christine Feehan discusses her most popular series.

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Tarcher Talks

• Living a Tarcher Life
  An introduction to the imprint.
• Meaning
  The Little Book on Meaning by Laura Berman Fortgang.
• Think Yourself Thin
  Hypnotherapist Ursula James visits.
• Happiness
  A Course on Happiness by Mardi Horowitz, M.D.
• Freemasonry
  The History, Mystery and Truth.
• Julia Cameron
  On The Artist's Way, Creativity & Faith.

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YA Central

• Teens "Speak" Up by Laurie Halse Anderson
  Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
• John Green
  John Green talks mysteries, maps, and Margo.
• Lauren Myracle
  Peace, Love, and Baby Ducks with Lauren Myracle
• T.A. Barron
  T.A. Barron on Writing the World of Merlin

Radio Room

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The Business Beat

• The Dark Side of American Business
  Well timed advice on how to avoid crossing over to the dark side.
• The "Why" of Business Instead of the "What"
  Finding success by defining the purpose.

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Penguin Business Thought Leaders

• Secrets Of Great Small Businesses
  Editor David Moldawer talks to authors George Whalin and Tom Szaky on what makes a business great.
• Career Advice From Unique Perspectives
  Pamela Slim and Hugh MacLeod discuss different roads to success.
• Leading In Hard Times
  Management experts Geoff Colvin and Howard Behar on how to get through the recession and keep morale high.

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Penguin Classics On Air

• Why We Love Jane Austen
  Austen's place in contemporary culture.
• The Noli
  José Rizal and the Novel That Sparked the Philippine Revolution.
• Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time
  The First Major Russian Novel?
• Sholem Aleichem
  Yiddish Classics by the Creator of Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof.
• The Birth of a Knickerbocker
  Washington Irving's A History of New York.
• Who Would Have Thought It?
  The First Novel by a Mexican American Woman
• Vampires on Paper
  The Enduring Appeal of Vampires in Literature
• Philosophy is Easy
  The Philosophers Everyone Should (and Can) Read

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Penguin Audio Book Break

• English
  Twelve-year-old boy Love Liu wonders what life is like beyond the region of Xinjiang in China's remote northwest in English.
• The Wish Maker
  Set in modern Pakistan, The Wish Maker is a coming of age tale about the unbreakable bonds of family.
• Everything Matters!
  Ron Currie, Jr.'s first full length novel, Everything Matters! asks if the everyday things in life matter when the world is about to end.
• Shooting Stars
  A poignant, thrilling tale of the power of teamwork to transform young lives, including LeBron James's own.
• Juliet, Naked
  The latest book by Nick Hornby is a tale of music, superfandom, and the truths and lies we tell ourselves about life and love.

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A Cup of Poetry

• The Aztec Empire
  From Frances Richey's The Warrior: A Mother's Story of a Son at War.
• The Duck and the Kangaroo
  From Edward Lear's The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense.
• Little Bird
  From Lawrence Raab's The History of Forgetting.
• Elegy for Sol LeWitt
  From Ann Lauterbach's Or to Begin Again.
• Cheer Up, Cheer Up
  From The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis.
• The Mahabharata
  An excerpt from The Mahabharata from Penguin Classics.
• Language Mixology
  From the collection Mixology, introduced and read by the poet Adrian Matejka.
• Mannahatta
  From The Portable Walt Whitman.
• This Living Hand
  From Selected Poems by John Keats.
• "First Fig", "Second Fig", and "Travel"
  This week we feature From Early Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
• Preludes
  From The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot.
• I Know I Have Been Happiest
  From The Portable Dorothy Parker, a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition.
• Rope
  Alison Deming reads from her poetry collection Rope.
• Teddy Bear
  From A.A. Milne's When We Were Very Young.
• Manatee/Humanity
  Anne Waldman reads the title verse and other poems from her newest collection.
• Dearest Creature
  Amy Gerstler reading from her poetry collection Dearest Creature
• The Raven
  We feature a Halloween favorite from Edgar Allan Poe

Reading Room

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• This is Where I Leave You
  by Jonathan Tropper
• The Healing of America
  by T.R. Reid
• Hospital
  by Julie Salamon
• Why Our Health Matters
  by Andrew Weil, M.D.
• Imperial
  William T. Vollman.
• Impossible
  by Nancy Werlin
• The Magicians
  by Lev Grossman
• Spent
  by Geoffrey Miller
• The Art of Making Money
  by Jason Kersten
• Create Your Own Economy
  by Tyler Cowen.
• Dune Road
  by Jane Green
• Farm City
  by Novella Carpenter
• The Food of a Younger Land
  by Mark Kurlansky
• In Defense of Food
  by Michael Pollan.
• Down Around Midnight
  by Robert Sabbag
• The Ten-Year Nap
  by Meg Wolitzer
• City of Thieves
  by David Benioff
• "Stairway to Heaven"
  Aleksandar Hemon
• The Divorce Party
  by Laura Dave
• The Little Stranger
  by Sarah Waters
• The World in Half
  by Cristina Henriquez