Boxcar to Board Rooms: My Formula for 14 Years of Average Annual Double Digit Growth, Restoring The Harlem Globetrotters, and Changing Business Perceptions Along the Way, by Mannie Jackson (Boxcar Holdings)
Interview date: Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Tempest A Novel, by Julie Cross (Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin's Griffin)
Interview date: Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, by Susan Orlean (Simon & Schuster)
Interview date: Friday, December 09, 2011

Susan Lawrence: The Enigma in the Wright House, by Roberta Volkman (Bookstand Publishing)
Interview date: Thursday, October 27, 2011

Haunting Illinois: A Tourist's Guide to the Weird & Wild Places in the Prairie State, by Michael Kleen (Thunder Bay Press)
Interview date: Thursday, October 20, 2011

Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn't Want to Be One, by Mark Kurlansky (Yale University Press)
Interview date: Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Allerton's Paradises: Photographs , by Photographs by Michael Holtz; Text by Maureen Holtz (The News-Gazette, Inc.)
Interview date: Monday, June 06, 2011

January Moon: Book One in the Dell Carter Calendar Series, by Maureen Gill (Maureen Gill)
Interview date: Wednesday, June 01, 2011

The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics, by John Pollack (Gotham Books)
Interview date: Thursday, May 05, 2011

American Suite, by Diana E. Sheets (Jorge Pinto Books Inc.)
Interview date: Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Nonna Tell Me a Story: Lidia's Christmas Kitchen, by Lidian Bastianich (Running Press Kids)
Interview date: Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Christmas in Illinois: A Collection of Holiday Memories, Recipes, and Images, by edited by James Ballowe (University of Illinois Press)
Interview date: Monday, November 22, 2010

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, by David Grann (Doubleday)
Interview date: Thursday, April 01, 2010

The Art of Choosing, by Sheena Iyengar (Twelve)
Interview date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010

The Economics of Integrity: From Dairy Farmers to Toyota, How Wealth Is Built on Trust & What That Means for Our Future, by Anna Bernasek (HarperStudio)
Interview date: Monday, March 29, 2010

Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet, by Joseph Menn (Public Affairs)
Interview date: Friday, March 19, 2010

The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, by Gretchen Rubin (HarperCollinsPublishers)
Interview date: Thursday, March 18, 2010

The Courageto Start: Guide to Running for Your LIfe, by John "The Penguin" Bingham (Simon & Schuster)
Interview date: Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Pink Brain Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow into Troublesome Gaps--and What We Can Do About It, by Lise Eliot (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Interview date: Friday, March 12, 2010

Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process, by Irene M. Pepperberg (Collins)
Interview date: Thursday, March 11, 2010

The World Has Curves: The Global Quest for the Perfect Body, by Julia Savacool (Rodale)
Interview date: Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Death Investigation in America: Coroners, Medical Examiners, and the Pursuit of Medical Certainty, by Jeffrey M. Jentzen (Harvard University Press)
Interview date: Thursday, March 04, 2010

Communities of Frank Lloyd Wright: Taliesin and Beyond, by Myron A. Marty (Northern Illinois University)
Interview date: Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Ten Worlds: Everything That Orbits the Sun, by Ken Croswell (Boyds Mills Press)
Interview date: Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Communities of Frank Lloyd Wright: Taliesin and Beyond, by Myron A. Marty (Northern Illinois University)
Interview date: Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Paul Newman: A Life, by Shawn Levy (Harmony Books)
Interview date: Friday, February 26, 2010

Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villagtes to Five Continents, by Minal Hajratwala (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Interview date: Thursday, February 25, 2010

The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation, by Nancy Abelmann (Duke University Press)
Interview date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings, 9th Edition, by Jennifer Thorne Amann, Alex Wilson & Katie Ackerly (American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and New Society Publishers)
Interview date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010

The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine, by Thomas Goetz (Rodale)
Interview date: Monday, February 22, 2010

Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Politics of Meddicine in Nineteenth-Century America, by Carla Bittel, (The University of North Carolina Press)
Interview date: Friday, February 19, 2010

The Good Soldiers, by David Finkel (Sarah Crichton Books Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Interview date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010

The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One, by Sylvia A. Earle (National Geographic)
Interview date: Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Hook & Jill: A Novel, by Andrea Jones (Reginetta Press)
Interview date: Friday, February 12, 2010

Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility, by David M. Walker (Random House)
Interview date: Thursday, February 04, 2010

Danger to Self: On the Front with an ER Psychiatrist, by Paul R. Linde (University of California Press)
Interview date: Wednesday, February 03, 2010

The Language of Pain: Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief, by David Biro (W. W. Norton & Company)
Interview date: Tuesday, February 02, 2010

American Privacy: The 400-Year History of Our Most Contested Right, by Frederick S. Lane (Beacon Press)
Interview date: Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children, by Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman (Twelve)
Interview date: Friday, January 29, 2010

Procrstination: Why You Do It, What to Do About It Now, by Jane B. Burka and Lenora Yuen (Da Capo Press)
Interview date: Thursday, January 28, 2010

Free For All: Fixing School Food in America, by Jane Poppendieck (University of California Press)
Interview date: Wednesday, January 27, 2010

A Country Called Amreeka: Arab Roots, American Stories, by Alia Malek (Free Press)
Interview date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Small Wars: A Novel, by Sadie Jones (HarperCollinsPublishers)
Interview date: Friday, January 22, 2010

Gray Land: Soldiers on War, by Barry Goldstein (W. W. Norton & Company)
Interview date: Friday, January 15, 2010

The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, by T. R. Reid (The Penguin Press)
Interview date: Thursday, January 14, 2010

So Stressed: The Ultimate Stress-Relief Plan for Women, by Stephanie McClellan, Beth Hamilton, with Diane Reverand (Free Press)
Interview date: Thursday, January 14, 2010

Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits, by Linda Gordon (W. W. Norton & Company)
Interview date: Tuesday, January 12, 2010

The Tast for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society, by Janet A. Flammang (University of Illinois Press)
Interview date: Thursday, January 07, 2010

Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children, by Ashley Merryman (Twelve)
Interview date: Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Everything But the Coffee: Learning About America from Starbucks, by Bryant Simon (University of California Press)
Interview date: Thursday, December 17, 2009

In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide, by Nancy Rappaport (Basic Books)
Interview date: Wednesday, December 16, 2009

In My Father's Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles, by Chris Welles Feder (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
Interview date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009

American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, by Joan Biskupic (Sarah Crichton Books Farrar, Straus and Groux)
Interview date: Friday, December 11, 2009

Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq, by Christina Asquith (Random House)
Interview date: Tuesday, December 08, 2009

The Lives of Stars, by Ken Croswell (Boyds Mills Press)
Interview date: Monday, December 07, 2009

National Geographic Image Collection, by Maura Mulvihill (Focal Point National Geographic)
Interview date: Friday, December 04, 2009

Less is More: Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Eonomy and Lasting Happiness, by Cecile Andrews (New Society Publishers)
Interview date: Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Give a Little: How Your Small Donations Can Transform Our World, by Wendy Smith (Hyperion)
Interview date: Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present, by Hank Stuever (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Interview date: Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Soul of a Dog: Reflections on the Spirits of the Animals of Bedlam Farm, by Jon Katz (Villard)
Interview date: Monday, November 23, 2009

Parenting Without Power Struggles: Raising Joyful, Resillinet Kids While Staying Coll, Calm and Connected, by Susan Stiffleman (Morgan James)
Interview date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009

The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance, by Joan Ryan (Simon & Schuster)
Interview date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009

King of the Queen City: The Story of King Records, by Jon Hartley Fox (University of Illinois Press)
Interview date: Friday, November 13, 2009

Genetic Rounds: A Doctor's Encounters in the Field that Revolutionized Medicine, by Robert Marion (Kaplan Publishing)
Interview date: Thursday, November 12, 2009

Herblock: The Life and Work of the Great Political Cartoonist, by Haynes Johnson and Harry Katz (The Herb Block Foundation and the Library of Congress in association with W. W. Norton & Company)
Interview date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Barns of Illinois, by Larry and Alaina Kanfer (University of Illinois Press)
Interview date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist, by Thomas Levenson (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Interview date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Robert Allerton: The Private Man & the Public Gifts, by Martha Burgin and Maureen Holtz (The News-Gazetter)
Interview date: Monday, November 09, 2009

The Khaarijee: A Chronicle of Friendship and War in Kabul, by J. Malcolm Garcia (Beacon Press)
Interview date: Thursday, November 05, 2009

Lies My Mother Never Told Me: A Memoir, by Kaylie Jones (William Morrow)
Interview date: Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words, by John Bemelmans Marciano (Bloomsbury)
Interview date: Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Why cant U teach me 2 read? Three Students and a Mayor Put Our Schools to the Test, by Beth Fertig (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Interview date: Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress, by Candacy A. Taylor (Cornell University Press)
Interview date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009

You Were Always Mom's Favorite! Sisters in Conversation Throughout Their Lives, by Deborah Tannen (Random House)
Interview date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly, by James E. McWilliams (Little, Brown And Company)
Interview date: Monday, October 26, 2009

Equal: Women Reshape American Law, by Fred Strebeigh (W. W. Norton & Company)
Interview date: Friday, October 23, 2009

The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience, by Kirstin Downey (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)
Interview date: Thursday, October 22, 2009

Healing the Wounds: Overcoming the Trauma of Layoffs and Revitalizing Downsized Organizations, by David M. Noer (Jossey-Bass)
Interview date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Canine and Feline Behavior and Training: A Complete Guide to Understanding Our Two Best Friends, by Linda P. Case (Delmar Cengage Learning)
Interview date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009