Wendy Williams Wendy's Got the Heat New York radio personality Wendy Williams doesn't have a "show" -- she calls her daily broadcast the Wendy Williams Experience. Her brash, gossipy style has made her a star, and now she reveals in a new book how she got where she is.
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Zane Nervous Jonquinette Pierce gets nervous around men. Sexually repressed, she avoids men when she can. Jude, on the other hand, is a highly-sexed woman who can't get enough of men, often in steamy anonymous settings. The hook in bestselling author Zane's novel is that Jonquinette and Jude are the same person.
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Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper A teenage girl who has survived a rare form of leukemia now needs a kidney transplant, in Jodi Picoult's novel. There's no trouble finding a perfect match, though, because the girl's parents conceived a little sister for their daughter specifically to provide a donor match. But there is a problem: the little sister, who's 13 now, has decided she would rather not be forced to donate a kidney. And she's hired a lawyer.
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Lisa Whelchel The Facts of Life: And Other Lessons My Father Taught Me She starred in a major network TV series for nine years, becoming a role model for millions of young women. Actress Lisa Whelchel, who played the snooty Blair Warner on "The Facts of Life," is now playing a far more important role. She's the mother of three home-schooled children, and the wife of a minister. And she's author of this inspirational book of stories about her life.
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Carl Weber So You Call Yourself a Man Three guys who have been best friends as long as they can remember have their love lives sorely tested, in Carl Weber's novel So You Call Yourself a Man. One is in a happy marriage, which evidence of a past indiscretion now threatens. Another's wife has just left him, and the third is a good Christian who nevertheless finds that temptation is too much for him.
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Janet Evanovich Sizzling Sixteen Uh oh, Vinnie's been kidnapped - bad, bad people are demanding a six-figure ransom. So Stephanie Plum, of course, leads the effort to get him back, in the new Janet Evanovich mystery "Sizzling Sixteen." The effort is not entirely altruistic, of course, since Stephanie, Connie, Lula et al owe their livelihoods to Vinnie's bail bond business. And what would happen to them, if something happened to him?
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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.
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Christopher Paolini Eldest A young dragon rider named Eragon travels to the land of the elves to finish his training, so he can battle the forces of a mad and dangerous emperor, in this fantasy novel for young readers by Christopher Paolini. It's the second volume of a trilogy that began with Paolini's 2003 book Eragon.
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Leonard Nimoy Shekhina Across America recently, actor Leonard Nimoy has been attracting applause -- punctuated by a little controversy -- over his collection of fine-art black and white photographs. The photos are of women, some of whom are wearing nothing but ritual Jewish prayer items.
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Jennifer Traig Devil in the Details From age 12 until her freshman year in college, Jennifer Traig was afflicted with obsessive compulsive disorder, including a rare form of OCD called scrupulosity that actually rendered her hyper-religious. She relished Judaism's hundreds of commandments, and became obsessed with Jewish ritual. Now she recalls that time of her life, in an offbeat coming of age book.
