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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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• Ani Pachen and Adelaide Donnelley, Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of A Tibetan Warrior Nun (Kodansha)
• George Packer, Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq (FSG; ISBN: 0374299633)
• George Packer, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq (FSG)
• Elaine Pagels & Karlen L. King, Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity (Viking)
• Trevor Paglen, I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me (Melville House Publishing)
• Camille Paglia, Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems (Pantheon)
• Camille Paglia, Break, Blow, Burn (Pantheon)
• Tom Paine, The Pearl of Kuwait (Harcourt)
• Nell Irvin Painter, Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol Norton
• Thomas Pakenham, Remarkable Trees of the World (Norton)
• Mary Palevsky, Atomic Fragments: A Daughter's Questions (University of California)
• Grace Paley, Just As I Thought (Farrar Straus & Giroux)
• Vivian Gussin Paley, The Kindness of Children (Harvard)
• Jessica Pallingston, Lipstick (St. Martin's Press)
• Dante Alighieri, Translated by Michael Palma, Inferno (Norton)
• Bryan Palmer, Cultures of Darkness: Night Travel in the Histories of Transgression (Monthly Review)
• Parker Palmer, A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward An Undivided Life (Jossey-Bass)
• Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (Jossey-Bass)
• Tenzin Palmo, Reflections on a Mountain Lake: Teachings on Practical Buddhism (Snow Lion)
• Stephen Palumbi, The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change (Norton)
• Orhan Pamuk, The New Life Farrar, Straus, Giroux
• Orhan Pamuk, Snow: a novel (Knopf)
• Richard Panek, Seeing and Believing: How the Telescope Opened Our Eyes and Minds to the Heavens (Viking)
• Robert Park: Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud (Oxford)
• Kathleen Parker, Save the Males: Why Men Matter Why Women Should Care (Random House)
• Russ Parsons, How to Read a French Fry: and Other Stories of Intriguing Kitchen Science (Houghton Mifflin)
• Tony Parsons, Man And Boy (Sourcebooks)
• Elizabeth Partridge, This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie (Viking)
• Judy Pascoe, Our Father Who Art in a Tree (Random House)
• Rachel Pastan, Lady of the Snakes (Harcourt)
• Zorba Paster, The Longevity Code: Your Personal Prescription for a Longer, Sweeter Life (Clarkson Potter)
• Ann Patchett, Truth and Beauty [a friendship] (Harper Collins)
• Michael Paterniti, Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain (Dial Press)
• Katherine Paterson, The Bridge to Tarabithia and The Great Gilly (Harper Trophy)
• Joe Nick Patoski, Willie Nelson: An Epic Life (Little, Brown and Company)
• Gareth Patterson, With My Soul Amongst Lions St. Martin's Press
• Phil Patton, Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Rosewell and Area 51 (Villard)
• Daniel Pauly, Jay Maclean, In a Perfect Ocean: The State of Fisheries and Ecosystems in the North Atlantic Ocean (Island Press)
• John Allen Paulos, Once Upon A Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic of Stories (Basic)
• Gary Paulsen, Brian's Return Delacorte Press
• Anna Pavord, The Tulip: The Story of a Flower That Has Made Men Mad (Bloomsbury)
• Anna Pavord, is also heard in Celebrating Spring
• Molly Peacock, Cornucopia: New and Selected Poems (Norton)
  
• Molly Peacock, How to Read a Poem ? And Start a Poetry Circle (Riverhead)
• Molly Peacock, is also heard in Celebrating Spring
• Fred Pearce, When the Rivers Run Dry : Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century (Beacon Press)
• Dale Peck, Hatchet Jobs: Writings on Contemporary Fiction (New Press)
• Stanton Peele, The Truth About Addiction and Recovery Simon and Schuster
• Kathy Peiss, Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture (Metropolitan)
• Harvey Pekar, Dean Haspiel, The Quitter (Vertigo)
  
• Harvey Pekar et al, American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar (Doubleday)
• Mark Pendergrast, Mirror, Mirror: A History of the Human Love Affair with Reflection (Basic Books)
• Mark Pendergrast, Uncommon Grounds: the history of coffee and how it transformed our world (Basic Books)
• Lynn Peril, Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons (Norton)
• David Perkins, The Eureka Effect: The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking (Norton)
• John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (BK Books)
• Sidney Perkowitz, Universal Foam: From Cappuccino to the Cosmos (Walker)
• Elliot Perlman, Seven Types of Ambiguity (Riverhead)
• Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (Scribner)
• Noel Perrin, First Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer (Penguin)
• Tom Perrotta, The Abstinence Teacher ( St. Martin's Press)
• Tom Perotta, Little Children (St. Martin's Press)
• Tony Perrottet, Pagan Holiday: on the trail of Ancient Roman Tourists (Random House)
• Anne Perry, Half Moon Street (Ballantine)
• Michael Perry, Population: 485 - Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time (Harper Collins)
• Joseph E. Persico, Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage (Random House)
• Candace B. Pert, Molecules of Emotion (Scribner)
• Candace Pert, Molecules of Emotion: Why You feel the Way You Feel (Scribner)
• Mark Pesce, The Playful World: How Technology Is Transforming Our Imagination (Ballantine)
• Allen Peterkin, One Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of Facial Hair (Arsenal Pulp Press)
• Margot Peters, Design for Living (Knopf)
• Margot Peters, May Sarton: a biography Random House
• Brenda Peterson and Linda Hogan, The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World (North Point Press)
• Henry Petroski, The Book on the Bookshelf (Knopf)
• Henry Petroski, Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering (Knopf)
• Clyde Prestowitz, Three Billion New Capitalists (Basic Books)
• Susan Phelps, A Guide to Hermit Living: Do You Have What It Takes? (Ashton Productions)
• Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Viking)
• Nathaniel Philbrick Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War (Viking)
• Adam Phillips, The Beast in the Nursery: On Curiosity and other Appetites (Pantheon)
• Caryl Phillips, The Atlantic Sound (Knopf)
• Christopher Phillips, Socrates Café: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy (Norton)
• Julie Phillips, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon (St. Martin's Press)
• Rodney Phillips, The Hand of the Poet: Poems & Papers in Manuscript (Rizzoli)
• Rosalind Picard, Affective Computing (MIT)
• Justine Picardie, If the Spirit Moves You: Life and Love after Death (Riverhead)
  
• Clifford Pickover, Surfing Through Hyperspace: Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessons (Oxford)
• Clifford Pickover, Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmen (Plenum)
• Clifford Pickover, Sushi Never Sleeps (Lighthouse Press)
• Michael Piechowski, Mellow Out, They Say. If I Only Could (Yunasa Books)
• Tamor Pierce, Trickster's Queen (Random House)
• D.B.C. Pierre, Vernon God Little (Canongate)
• Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Perfect Vehicle: What it is about Motorcycles Norton
• Daniel H. Pink, Free Agent Nation: How America's New Independent Workers Are Transforming the Way We Live (Warner)
• Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Penguin Putnam)
• Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works Norton
• Constancio Pinto and Matthew Jardine, East Timor's Unfinished Struggle Scribner
• Robert Pinsky, The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Mary Pipher, The Shelter of Each Other; Rebuilding Our Families, (Grosset/Putnam)
• Sadie Plant, Writing on Drugs (FSG)
• Bart Plantenga, Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World (Routledge)
• George Plimpton, Truman Capote: In Which His Various Friend's, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)
• Mark Plotkin, Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets (Viking)
• Mark Plotkin, Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice Penguin
• David Plowden, Bridges: The Spans of North America (Norton)
• Jacqueline Hornor Plumez, Mother Power : Discover the Difference That Women Have Made All over the World (Sourcebooks)
• Norman Podhoretz, Ex-Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer (Free Press)
• John Polkinghorne, The God of Hope and the End of the World (Yale)
• John Pollack, Cork Boat (Pantheon)
• Neal Pollack, The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature (McSweeney's Books)
• Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World (Random House)
• Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: a plant's-eye view of the world (Random House)
• Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Katha Pollitt, Learning to Drive (Random House)
• Lynn Ponton, The Romance of Risk: Why Teenagers Do the Things They Do Basic Books
• Joyce Poole, Coming of Age With Elephants Hyperion
• Steven Poolee, "Trigger Happy: Video Games and the Entertainment Revolution" (Arcade)
• David Popenoe, Life Without Father Free Press
• Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (Norton)
• John Portmann, In Defense of Sin (Palgrave)
• John Portmann, When Bad Things Happen to Other People (Routledge)
• Richard A. Posner, The Little Book of Plagiarism (Pantheon)
• Corey Powell, God in the Equation: How Einstein Became the Prophet of the New Religious Era (Free Press)
  
• Ann Powers, Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America (Simon & Schuster)
• Ron Powers, Mark Twain: a life (Free Press)
• Ron Powers, Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore: childhood and murder in the heart of America (St. Martin's Press)
• John Prag with Richard Neave, Making Faces Texas A&M
• Mark Prendergast, The Ambient Century: From Mahler to Trance ? the Evolution of Sound in the Electronic Age (Bloomsbury)
• Richard Preston, The Cobra Event Random House
• Brian D. Price, Meals to Die For (Dyna-Paige Corporation)
  
• Dan Price, Radical Simplicity (Perseus Books)
• Jennifer Price, Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America (Basic Books)
• Ms. Price was heard in both Fine Feathered Friends and Buying Stuff
• Jill Price The Woman Who Can't Forget: A Memoir with Bart Davis (Free Press)
• Richard Price, The Convict and the Colonel (Beacon Press)
• Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams. The View From the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extrodinary Place in the Cosmos. Riverhead Books.
• Robert Proctor, The Nazi War on Cancer (Princeton)
• Stephen Prothero, American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon (FSG)
• Stephen Prothero, Purified By Fire: A History of Cremation in America (University of California)
• Stephen Prothero, Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know -- And Doesn't (Harper San Francisco)
• Robert Provine, Laughter: A Scientific Investigation (Penguin)
• Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, No 3) (Knopf)
• Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle, ed., Nabokov's Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings (Beacon)
• Robert Pyle, Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage (Houghton Mifflin)
• Stephen Pyne, Vestal Fire (University of Washington Press)
• Darden Asbury Pyron, Liberace: An American Boy (Chicago)

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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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