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BOOKS and AUTHORS

Listed alphabetically by author's surname. Here are links to each letter:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

The author's name links to the program featuring the author.

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• Jonathan Raban, Bad Land: An American Romance (Pantheon)
• Jonathan Raban, Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings (Pantheon)
• Alan Rabinowitz, Beyond the Last Village: A Journey of Discover in Asia's Forbidden Wilderness (Island Press)
• Dominique Raccah, series editor, Elise Paschen, Rebekah Presson Mosby, eds. Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath (includes 3 cd's) (Sourcebooks Trade)
• Janice Radway, A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the -Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire (University of North Carolina Press)
• Louise Rafkin, Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Adventures from Cape Cod to Kyoto (Algonquin Books)
• V.S. Ramachandran, Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (Morrow)
• Tariq Ramadan, In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad (Oxford)
  (Tariq Ramadan is also heard in 071202a.html)
• Tariq Ramadan, What I Believe (Oxford)
• Sabrina Ramet, Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives Routledge
• Arnold Rampersad, Jackie Robinson: a biography Knopf
• Joshua Cooper Ramo, No Visible Horizon: surviving the world's most dangerous sport (Simon & Schuster)
• Mamphela Ramphele, Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South Africa Woman Leader The Feminist Press
• Katherine Ramsland, Ghost: Investigating the Other Side (St. Martin's Press)
• Robert Rand, Dancing Away an Anxious Mind (Terrace Books)
• Robert Rand, Dancing Away an Anxious Mind (Terrace Books) (http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/3572.htm)
• Mark Robert Rank, One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All (Oxford University Press)
  
• Ian Rankin, A Question of Blood: and Inspector Rebus Novel (Little, Brown)
• Cheeni Rao, In Hanuman's Hands (Harper One)
• Ahmed Rashid, Descent into Chaos: The US and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia (Penguin Press)
• Jonah Raskin, American Scream (California)
• Ben Ratliff, The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music (Times Books/Henry Holt and Company)
• Janisse Ray, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (Milkweed)
• Chet Raymo, Skeptics and True Believers Walker and Co.
• Aaaron Raz Link & Hilda Raz, What Becomes You
  ("American Lives Series'\/Tobias Wolff, Editor) (University of Nebraska Press)
• Hilda Raz, Divine Honors Wesleyan/New England
• Terrance Real, I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression Scribner
• David Rees, Get Your War On (Soft Skull Press)
• David Rees, Get Your War On II (Riverhead)
• Martin Rees, Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe (Basic)
• Cheri Register, Packinghouse Daughter: a memoir (Perennial/HarperCollins)
• Melanie Rehak, Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women who Created Her (Harcourt)
• Harriet Reisen, Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women (Holt)
• Jesse Reklaw, Dreamtoons (Shambhala)
• Elwood Reid, If I Don't Six (Doubleday)
• Elwood Reid, What Salmon Know (Doubleday)
• T.R. Reid, The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy (Penguin Press)
• Jason Rekulak, The Writer's Block: 786 Ideas to Jump-Start Your Imagination (Running Press)
• Benjamin Reiss, The Showman And The Slave: Race, Death, And Memory in Barnum's America
  (Harvard University Press)
• Paisley Rekdal, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In (Pantheon)
• Rachel Naomi Remen, My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging (Riverhead)
• David Remnick, King of the World (Random House)
• Boyce Rensberger, Life Itself: Exploring the Realm of the Living Cell Oxford
• David S. Reynolds, John Brown, Abolitionist : The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights (Knopf)
• David Reynolds, One World Divisible: A Global History since 1945 (Norton)
• Glenn Reynolds with Peter Morgan, The Appearance of Impropriety Free Press
• Richard Reynolds, On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening Without Boundaries (Bloomsbury)
• Tom Reynolds , I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You've Ever Heard (Hyperion)
• Paul Rezendes, The Wild Within: Adventures in Nature and Animal Teachings (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam)
• Richard Rhodes, Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist (Knopf)
• Adrienne Rich, Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998 (Norton)
• Frank Rich, Ghost Light: a memoir (Random House)
• Katherine Russell Rich, The Red Devil: A Memoir About Beating the Odds (Three Rivers)
• Joan Richards, Angles of Reflection: Logic and A Mother's Love (Freeman)
• Tim Richardson, Sweets: a history of candy (Bloomsbury)
• John Richardson, The Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 - The Painter of Modern Life Random House
• Keith Richberg, Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa Basic Books
• Frances Richey, The Warrior (A Mother's Story of a Son at War) (Viking)
• Donald Richie, A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, with A Selective Guide to Videos and DVDs (Kodansha International)
• Emma Richler, Sister Crazy (Anchor Books)
• Laurence Rickels, The Vampire Lectures (University of Minnesota)
• Thomas Ricks, Making the Corps Simon and Schuster
• Rick Ridgeway, Below Another Sky: A Mountain Adventure in Search of a Lost Father (Henry Holt)
• Matt Ridley, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Harper Collins)
• Matt Ridley, The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts & the Evolution of Cooperation (Viking)
• Robert Rieber, Manufacturing Social Distress (Plenum)
• David Rieff, Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir (Simon & Schuster)
• Jeremy Rifkin, The Biotech Century JP Tarcher
• Luke Rinehart, The Dice Man Overlook Press
• Dick Ringler, Beowulf : A New Translation for Oral Delivery (Hackett)
• Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson, Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age (Norton)
• Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and The Olympians #1 The Lightning Thief (Miramax)
• Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Why She Left Us (Harper Collins)
• Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (W.W. Norton)
• Graham Robb, Victor Hugo: A Biography (Norton)
• Graham Robb, Rimbaud: a Biography (W.W. Norton & Co)
• Peter Robb, M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio (Henry Holt)
• Jason Roberts, A Sense of the World: How A Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler (HarperCollins)
• Monty Roberts , The Man Who Listens to Horses Random House
• Jill Robinson, Past Forgetting: My Memory Lost and Found (Cliff Street)
• John P. Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey, Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time (Pennsylvania State University Press)
• Lillian S. Robinson, Ryan Bishop Night Market: Sexual Cultures and the Thai Economic Miracle (Routledge)
• Marilynne Robinson, Gilead: a novel (FSG)
• Marilynne Robinson, Gilead: a novel (FSG)
• Marilynne Robinson, Home (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Oscar Robertson, The Big O: My Life, My Times, My Game (Rodale Books)
• Harriet Welty Rochefort, French Fried (St. Martins)
• Fred Rochlin, Old Man in a Baseball Cap(Harper Collins)
• Andrea Rock, The Mind at Night: The New Science of How and Why We Dream (Basic Books)
• Claudia Roden, The New Book of Middle Eastern Food (Knopf)
• Max Rodenbeck, Cairo: The City Victorious (Knopf)
• Richard Rodriguez, Brown: The Last Discovery of America (Viking)
• Luis J. Rodriguez, The Republic of East L.A. (Rayo)
• Luis J. Rodriguez, Hearts and Hands: Creating Community in Violent Times (Seven Stories)
• Richard Rodriguez, Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father (Viking)
• David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class Verso
• Joel Rogers, Ruy Teixeira, America's Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters (Basic)
• Katharine M. Rogers, L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz: a biography (St. Martin's Press)
• Pattiann Rogers, Eating Bread and Honey Milkweed
• Pattiann Rogers, Song of the World Becoming: New and Collected Poems, 1981-2001 (Milkweed Press)
• Stuart Rojstaczer, Gone for Good: Tales of University Life after the Golden Age (Oxford)
• Joseph J. Romm, The Hype About Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate (Island Press)
• Lisa Roney, Sweet Invisible Body: Reflections on a Life with Diabetes (Henry Holt)
• Avital Ronell, Stupidity ( Illinois)
• Robert Root-Bernstein and Michelle Root-Bernstein, Honey Mud Maggots and other Medical Marvels Houghton Mifflin
• Daniel Asa Rose, Hiding Places: A Father and His Sons Retrace Their Family's Escape from the Holocaust (Simon & Schuster)
• Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Class (Yale)
• Steven Rose, The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience (Oxford University Press)
• Gary Rosen, The Right War?: The ConservativeDebate on Iraq (Cambridge)
• Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open (Viking)
• Ron Rosenbaum, Explaining Hitler (Random House)
• Ron Rosenbaum, The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasms (Random)
• Ron Rosenbaum is heard in Hidden Cultures, Secret Lives, Old Tales, New Truths and Holy Politics!,
• Mort Rosenblum, Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit North Point Press
• Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D., The Emotional Revolution: How the New Science of Feelings Can Transform Your Life (Citadel Press)
• Norman Rosenthal, St. John's Wort: The Herbal Way to Feeling Good Harper Collins
• Bernat Rosner and Frederic Tubach, An Uncommon Friendship (California)
• Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Picador)
• Andrew Ross, The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney's New Town (Ballantine)
• Mark C. Ross, Dangerous Beauty: Life and Death in Africa: True Stories from a Safari Guide (Talk Miramax Books)
• Colette Rossant, Memories of a Lost Egypt: A Memoir with Recipes (Potter)
• Walter Roth and Joe Krause, An Accidental Anarchist (Rudi - order at 800-999-6901)
• Davy Rothbart, Found Magazine (http://www.foundmagazine.com/)
• David Rothenberg, Why Birds Sing: a journey into the mystery of bird song (Basic Books)
• David Rothenberg, Why Birds Sing: a journey into the mystery of bird song (Basic Books)
• David Rothenberg, Thousand Mile Song (Basic Books)
• David Rothman, NetWorld!: What People Are Really Doing on the Internet, and What it Means to You (Prima Publishing)
• Rodney Rothman, Early Bird: a memoir of Premature Retirement (Simon & Schuster)
• Suze Rotolo, A Freewheelin’ Time (Broadway Books)
• Carl T. Rowan, The Coming Race War in America: a wake-up call Little Brown
• Erica Rowell, The Brothers Grim: The Films of Ethan and Joel Coen (The Scarecrow Press, Inc.)
• J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Arthur A. Levine)
• Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things Random House
• Elizabeth Royte, The Tapir's Morning Bath (Houghton Mifflin)
• Julian Rubinstein , Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts (Little, Brown)
  
• William Rubenstein, The Myth of Rescue Routledge
• Jay Rubin, Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words (Harvill Press)
• Lillian Rubin, The Transcendent Child: Tales of Triumph Over the Past Freeman
• Greg Ruggiero, Microradio & Democracy: (Low) Power to the People (Seven Stories)
• Michael Ruhlman: Wooden Boats: In Pursuit of the Perfect Craft at an American Boatyard (Viking)
• Al Runte, National Parks: The American Experience (University of Nebraska Press)
• Salman Rushdie, Fury (Random House)
• Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Henry Holt)
• Salman Rushdie, Luka and the Fire of Life: a novel (Random House)
• Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown: a novel (Random House)
• Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (Picador)
• Steve Rushin, Road Swing: One Fan's Journey Into the Soul of American Sports (Doubleday)
• Josh Rushing, Mission Al Jazeera (Palgrave MacMillan)
• Douglas Rushkoff, Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say (Riverhead)
• Douglas Rushkoff, Playing the Future: How Kids' Culture Can Teach Us to Thrive, (Harper Collins)
• Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow (Fawcett), Children of God (Fawcett)
• Sharman Apt Russell, When the Land Was Young Addison Wesley
• Gus Russo, The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America (Bloomsbury)
• Richard Russo, Straight Man Random House
• Scott Rutherford, The American Roller Coaster Foreword by Mike Schafer (Motorbooks International)
• Frank Ryan, Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues Out of the Present and Into the Future Little Brown
• M.J. Ryan, ed, A Grateful Heart: Daily Blessings for the Meal from Buddha to the Beatles (Conari Press)
• Terry Ryan, The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less (Simon & Schuster)

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BOOKS and AUTHORS

Listed alphabetically by author's surname. Here are links to each letter:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

The author's name links to the program featuring the author.

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