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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.

C

  • Thomas Cahill, The Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus (Doubleday)
  • Thomas Cahill, The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (Doubleday)
  • Thomas Cahill, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (Anchor)
  • Tim Cahill, Pass the Butterworms: Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered Villard
  • Chelsea Cain, Confessions of A Teen Sleuth (Bloomsbury)
  • Christopher Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West (Doubleday)
  • Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason, The Rule of Four (Dial)
  • Lucy Calkins with Lydia Bellino, Raising Lifelong Learners: A Parent's Guide (Addison Wesley)
  • John Callahan, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (Vintage)
  • Simon Callow, Orson Welles: Volume 2: Hello Americans (Viking)
  • Jane R. Camerini, ed., The Alfred Russel Wallace Reader: A Selection of Writings from the Field (Johns Hopkins)
  • Andrea Camilleri, The Snack Thief: An Inspector Montalbano Mystery (Penguin)
  • Thomas J. Campanella, Republic of Shade: New England and the American Elm (Yale)
  • Bruce Campbell, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor (LA Weekly Books)
  • Jeremy Campbell, The Liar's Tale: a history of falsehood (Norton)
  • Lt. Donovan Campbell, Joker One: A Marine Platoon’s Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood (Random House)
  • Paul Campos, The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to your Health (Gotham Books)
  • David Canon and Kenneth Mayer, A Dysfunctional Congress: The Individual Roots of an Institutional Dilemma to be published in 1999
  • Joanne Cantor, Mommy, I'm Scared: How TV and Movies Frighten Children and What We Can Do To Protect Them (Harvest Books)
  • David Cantwell & Bill Friskics-Warren, Heartaches by the Number: Country Music's 500 Greatest Singles (Vanderbilt University Press/Country Music Foundation Press)
  • Mariana Caplan, Untouched: The Need for Genuine Affection in an Impersonal World (Hohm Press)
  • Michael Capuzzo, Close To Shore: A True Story of Terror In An Age Of Innocence (Broadway Books)
  • Orson Scott Card,ed: Getting Lost: Survival, Baggage and Starting Over in J.J. Abrams' LOST (Smart Pop/Benbella Books)
  • Peter Carey, Jack Maggs: A Novel (Knopf)
  • Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang (Knopf)
  • Peter Carey, Wrong about Japan: A Father's Journey with His Son (Knopf)
  • Daniel J. Carlat, M.D., Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry – A Doctor's Revelations about a Profession in Crisis (Free Press)
  • John Carlin, Playing the Enemy (Penguin)
  • David Carlyon, Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You've Never Heard Of (Public Affairs)
  • Stokely Carmichael with Ekwueme Michael Thelwell, Ready for Revolution: Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) (Scribner)
  • Mark Carnes,(ed.) Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies (Henry Holt)
  • Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Vintage)
  • Novella Carpenter, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer (Penguin)
  • Caleb Carr, The Angel of Darkness Random House
  • Caleb Carr, Killing Time (Random House)
  • David Carradine The Kill Bill Diary: The Making of a Tarantino Classic as Seen Through the Eyes of a Screen Legend (Harper)
  • Jim Carrier, A Traveler's Guide to the Civil Rights Movement (Harcourt)
  • Andrew Carroll, ed., Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters (Broadway)
  • Andrew Carroll, ed., War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars (Scribner)
  • Jonathan Carroll, White Apples (Tor Books)
  • Sean B. Carroll, The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution (Norton)
  • Ciaran Carson, Last Night's Fun: In and Out with Time with Irish Music (First North Point Press)
    also heard in the "Irish Stories" program, #99-03-14-A
  • Tom Carson, Gilligan's Wake: A Novel (Picador)
  • Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt: his lives (FSG)
  • Stephen Carter, God's Name in Vain ? the Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics (Basic Books)
  • Nancy Cartwright, My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy (Hyperion)
  • Peter Carey, My Life as a Fake (Knopf)
  • Carole Case, The Right Blood: America's Aristocrats in Thoroughbred Racing (Rutgers)
  • John Casey, After Lives: A Guide to Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory (Oxford University Press)
  • Susan Casey, The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean (Doubleday)
  • Rosanne Cash, Composed: A Memoir (Viking)
  • Michelle Cassou, Point Zero : Creativity Without Limits (J.P. Tarcher)
  • John Casti, Would-Be Worlds: How Simulation is Changing the Frontiers of Science John Wiley and Sons, Inc
  • Ana Castillo, Peel My Love Like An Onion (Anchor Books)
  • Timothy James Castle, The Perfect Cup: a coffee-lover's guide to buying, brewing and tasting (Perseus Publishing)
  • Edward Castronova, Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games (Chicago)
  • Nick Cave, The Death of Bunny Munro (Cannongate Books)
  • Daniel Cavicchi, Tramps Like Us: Music and Meaning Among Springsteen Fans (Oxford)
  • Mary Ann Caws, ed., Surrealism (Themes and Movements) (Phaidon Press)
  • Susan Cayleff, Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias University of Illinois Press
  • Eugene Cernan with Don Davis, The Last Man on the Moon St. Martin's Press
  • Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Random House)
  • Michael Chabon, Manhood for Amateurs (Harper)
  • Michael Chabon, Summerland (Miramax)
  • Lisa Chamberlain, Slackonomics (Perseus)
  • Iris Chang, The Chinese in America: a narrative history (Viking)
  • Leslie Chang, Beyond the Narrow Gate: The Journey of Four Chinese Women From the Middle Kingdom to Middle America (Dutton)
  • Jerome Charyn, Sizzling Chops and Devilish Spins: Ping-Pong and the Art of Staying Alive (Four Walls Eight Windows)
  • Tom Chatfield, Fun Inc.: Why Gaming Will Dominate the Twenty-First Century (Pegasus)
  • Susana Chavez-Silverman, Killer Chronicas (Wisconsin)
  • Benjamin H. Cheever, essay in Men on Divorce: The Other Side of the Story, edited by Penny Kaganoff and Susan Spano (Harcourt Brace)
  • Benjamin Cheever, Famous After Death (Crown)
  • Da Chen, Colors of the Mountain (Random House)
  • Pauline Chen, Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality (Vintage)
  • Ron Chernow, The Death of the Banker - due out in July 1997 Vintage
  • Ron Chernow, Washington: a Life (Penguin)
  • Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller (Random House)
  • Kelly Cherry, Death and Transfiguration Louisiana
  • Laura Chester, Holy Personal: Looking for Small Private Places of Worship (Indiana)
  • Tracy Chevalier, The Girl With the Pearl Earring (Dutton, Plume)
  • Craig Childs, The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild (Little Brown)
  • Bruce Chilton, Abraham's Curse : The Roots of Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Doubleday)
  • Daniel D. Chiras, The Natural House: A Complete Guide to Healthy, Energy-Efficient, Environmental Homes (Chelsea Green)
  • Daniel Chirot, Modern Tyrants: The Power and Prevalence of Evil in Our Age Princeton University Press
  • Sonia Choquette, The Wise Child: A Spiritual Guide to Nurturing Your Child's Intuition (Three Rivers Press)
  • Claire S. Chow, Leaving Deep Water: The Lives of Asian American Women at the Crossroads of Two Cultures (Dutton)
  • Gale Christianson, Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of Global Warming (Walker)
  • Nicholas Christopher, The Bestiary: a novel (Dial Press)
  • Sarah Churchwell, The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe (Metropolitan Books)
  • CIA Wives, Spies, Black Ties and Mango Pies Community Communications Corporation
  • William Claassen, Alone in Community: Journeys into Monastic Life Around the World (Forest of Peace Publishing 1-800-659-3227)
  • William Clark The New Healers (Oxford)
  • Alison Clarke, Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America (Smithsonian)
  • Donald Clarke, All or Nothing at All: A Life of Frank Sinatra (Fromm International)
  • Gerald Clarke, Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (Random)
  • Susannah Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: a novel (Bloomsbury)
  • Claude Andrew Clegg, An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijuah Muhammad St. Martin's Press
  • Ann Cline, A Hut of One's Own: Life Outside the Circle of Architecture (M.I.T. Press)
  • Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson, Murrow's Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism Houghton Mifflin
  • Daniel Clowes, David Boring (Pantheon Books)
  • Daniel Clowes, Ghost World (Fantagraphics Books)
  • Nancy Cobb, In Lieu of Flowers: A Conversation for the Living (Pantheon)
  • Esmé Raji Codell, Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year (Algonquin)
  • Jonathan Coe, Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson (Continuum)
  • Adam Cohen, The Perfect Store: Inside E-Bay (Little, Brown)
  • Jennifer Cohen, Lying Together (Wisconsin)
  • Jon Cohen, Almost Chimpanzee: Searching for What Makes Us Human, in Rainforests, Labs, Sanctuaries, and Zoos (Times Books)
  • Lawrence Cohen, Playful Parenting (Ballantine)
  • Rachel Cohen, A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967 (Random House)
  • Rich Cohen, Lake Effect (Vintage)
  • Richard Cohen, By the Sword (Random House)
  • Steven A. Cohen, ed., The Games We Played: A Celebration of Childhood and Imagination (Simon & Schuster)
  • Louis Colaianni and Cal Pritner, How to Speak Shakespeare (Santa Monica Press)
  • John Colapinto, about the AUTHOR: a novel (Harper Collins)
  • Christine Colasurdo, Return to Spirit Lake: Journey Through a Lost Landscape (Sasquatch)
  • Jonathan Cole, About Face (MIT)
  • Juan Cole, Engaging The Muslim World (Palgrave MacMillan)
  • K.C. Cole, The Hole in the Universe: How Scientists Peered over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything (Harcourt)
  • K. C. Cole, The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty (Harcourt Brace)
  • Leonard Cole, The Eleventh Plague: the Politics of Biological and Chemical Warfare W.H. Freeman
  • Jonathan Coleman, Long Way to Go: Black & White in America Atlantic
  • Loren Coleman, Jerome Clark, Cryptozoology from A-Z (Simon & Schuster)
  • Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe, The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep (Tarcher/Penguin)
  • Robert Coles, The Moral Intelligence of Children: How to Raise a Moral Child Random House
  • Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl (Hyperion)
  • Billy Collins, Nine Horses: poems (Random House)
  • Billy Collins, Nine Horses: poems (Random House)
  • Billy Collins, Picnic, Lightning (Univ of Pittsburgh Press)
  • Chuck Collins, Pam Rogers, Joan Garner, Robin Hood Was Right: A Guide to Giving Your Money For Social Change (Norton)
  • Francis Collins, The Language of God (Free Press)
  • Gail Collins, Scorpion Tongues: the irresistable history of gossip in American politics (Harvest Books)
  • Paul Collins, Banvard's Folly (Picador USA)
  • Paul Collins, Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books (Bloomsbury)
  • Ronald K.L. Collins & David M.Skover, The Trials of Lenny Bruce: The Fall and Rise of an American Icon (Sourcebooks MediaFusion)
  • Suzan Colon Cherries in Winter: My Family's Recipe for Hope in Hard Times (Doubleday)
  • Dalton Conley, Honky (California)
  • Peter Conn, Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography Cambridge
  • Evan S. Connell, Francisco Goya: a life (Counterpoint)
  • Mark Connelly, ed., Christmas At The Movies: Images of Christmas in American, British and European Cinema (I.B. Tauris Publishers)
  • Richard Conniff, Every Creeping Thing: True Tales of Faintly Repulsive Wildlife (Henry Holt)
  • Steven Connor, Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism (Oxford)
  • Jill Ker Conway, Written by Herself: Volume II Vintage
  • Ted Conover, New Jack: guarding Sing Sing (Vintage)
  • Brother Guy Consolmagno, Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist (McGraw Hill)
  • John Conroy, Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture (Knopf)
  • Nick Cook, The Hunt for Zero Point (Atlantic)
  • Marc Cooper, The Last Honest Place in America: Paradise and Perdition in the New Las Vegas (Nation Books)
  • Susan Cooper, Dreams and Wishes - essays on writing for children McElderry Books
  • Robert Coover, A Child Again (McSweeney's Books)
  • Stanley Coren, The Modern Dog: A Joyful Exploration of How We Live with Dogs Today (Free Press)
  • Susan Corso, God's Dictionary: Divine Definitions for Everyday Enlightenment (Jeremy P. Tarcher)
  • George Cotkin, Existential America (The Johns Hopkins University Press)
  • Jonathan Cott, On the Sea of Memory: A Journey from Forgetting to Remembering (Random House)
  • Eddy Joe Cotton, Hobo: A Young Mang's Thoughts on Trains and Tramping in America ()
  • Phil Cousineau, Once and Future Myths: The Power of Ancient Stories in Modern Times (Conari Press)
  • Tyler Cowen, What Price Fame? (Harvard)
  • Harvey Cox. Fire From Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-First Century. Addison Wesley
  • Lynne Cox, Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer (Knopf)
  • Meg Cox, The Heart of a Family: Searching America for New Traditions That Fulfill Us (Random House)
  • Coyle & Sharpe, Audio Visionaries (CD) (Thirsty Ear)
  • Jim Crace, Being Dead (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • Jim Crace, The Pesthouse (Doubleday)
  • Jim Crace, Quarantine (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  • Amanda Craig, Love in Idleness: A Novel (Doubleday)
  • Galen Cranz, The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design (Norton)
  • Clare Crespo, The Secret Life of Food (Hyperion Books for Children)
  • Clio Cresswell, Mathematics and Sex (Allen & Unwin)
  • George Crile, Charlie Wilson's War (Atlantic)
  • Simon Critchley, The Book of Dead Philosophers (Vintage)
  • Greg Critser, Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging (Harmony Books)
  • Greg Critser, Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World (Houghton Mifflin)
  • Vicki Constantine Croke, The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal (Random House)
  • Vicki Croke, The Modern Ark: The Story of Zoos North Point Press
  • Justin Cronin, The Passage (Ballantine Books)
  • Gary Cross, Kids' Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood Harvard
  • Gary Cross, Kid's Stuff: Toys and the Changing Worlds of American Childhood (Harvard University)
  • Cynthia Crossen, The Rich and How They Got That Way (Crown)
  • Ken Croswell, Magnificent Mars (Free Press)
  • Ken Croswell, Planet Quest: The Epic Discovery of Alien Solar Systems Free Press
  • Jim Crotty, How to Talk American Mariner Books
  • Stanley Crouch, Always in Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives, 1995-1997 (Pantheon) Mr. Crouch also heard in Jazz Legends
  • Stanley Crouch, The Artificial White Man: essays on authenticity (Basic)
  • Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction (Wesleyan University Press)
  • Mikhaly Csikszentmihalyi, Finding Flow: the psychology of engagement with everyday life Basic Books
  • Jim Cullen, The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea That Shaped a Nation (Oxford)
  • Mitch Cullin, A Slight Trick of the Mind (Nan A. Talese)
  • Travis Hugh Culley, The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power (Villard)
  • Michael Cunningham, Specimen Days: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • Shirley Cunningham, Chasing God (Amoranita Publishing)
  • Phyllis Curott, Witch Crafting (Broadway)
  • Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons to Birmingham - 1963 (Bantam) and Bud, Not Buddy (Delacorte)
  • Clive Cussler, The Sea Hunters: True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks Simon and Schuster
  • Linda Katherine Cutting, Memory Slips: a memoir of music and healing Harper Collins

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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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