Randy Lewis is the former vice president of Walgreens and has created thousands of full-time jobs for people with disabilities. He will talk about his new book, No Greatness Without Goodness: How a Father’s Love Changed a Company and Sparked a Movement. (Tyndale House Publishers) Terry Irving is an award-winning TV producer and journalist who has won four National Emmy Awards, multiple Peabody awards and will talk about his new thriller Courier. (Exhibit A Books) Irving has produced stories...
Scott Stossel is the editor of The Atlantic magazine and the author of the New York Times bestseller My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind. Scott Stossel has countless phobias and anxieties — some you’ve heard of, others you probably haven’t. Stossel says he wrote the book to help him understand and find relief from — or redemption in — anxious suffering. He’s a very high-functioning anxious person and in fact, before this book, most of his...
Dan Harris, the co-host of ABC’s Nightline, revealed that it was drug abuse that caused an embarrassing on-air meltdown in 2004.Then a fill-in anchor for Good Morning America, Harris was giving news updates one morning when he suddenly seized up and had to cut his segment short half-way through. Phillip Bailey is the lead singer of the legendary musical act Earth, Wind & Fire and will talk about his new memoir, Shining Star: Braving the Elements of Earth, Wind & Fire. (Viking) Master...
Kathy Reichs is a forensic anthropologist, formerly for the office of the chief medical examiner in North Carolina. She is now a professor in the department of anthropology at the University of North Carolina. She will talk about her latest book with her son Brendan, Exposure. (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) Go to www.KathyReichs.com for more information. Dr. Sharon Moalem wis an award-winning geneticist and new York Times bestselling author and will talk about her new book, INHERITANCE: How Our Genes...
John Wayne was one of Hollywood’s most famous and most successful actors, but he was more than that. He became a symbol of America itself. He epitomized the Western film, which for many people epitomized America. He identified with conservative political causes from the early 1930s to his death in 1979, making him a hero to one generation of Americans and a villain to another. But unlike fellow actor Ronald Reagan, Wayne had no interest in politics as a career. Scott Eyman has written eleven...
Mary Higgins Clark was born on December 24, 1927, in the Bronx. She published her first short story in 1956. Widowed in 1964 and with five children to care for, Clark decided to try her hand at books. Her first suspense novel, Where Are the Children? was an instant bestseller. She will talk about her new novel, I’ve Got You Under My Skin: A Novel. (Simon & Schuster) Bill Palmini Jr. is currently Chief of the Department of Public safety at UC Hastings, College of Law in San Francisco. He...
In her NY Times bestselling book “Radical Remission,” Dr. Turner presents her decade-long research on radical remission – when someone heals from cancer against all odds. Kelly Turner Ph.D. is a researcher, lecturer, and counselor in integrative oncology and will talk about her new book, Radical Remission: Surviving cancer Against All Odds. (HarperOne) For more information, visit www.RadicalRemission.com. Thomas Goetz w is a noted science journalist and healthcare innovator and former...
How much can you eat before your stomach bursts? Why doesn’t the stomach digest itself? Can wine tasters really tell a $10 bottle from a $100 bottle? Why is crunchy food so appealing? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis? Sara Davidson is a New York Times best-selling author of eight books and will talk about her latest, The December Project: An Extraordinary Rabbi and a Skeptical Seeker Confront Life’s Greatest Mystery. (HarperOne) Mary Roach is “America’s Funniest Science...
“But fiction. It began as a hobby, an escape to where my imagination could explore the richness of fresh landscapes, interact with new characters desperate for their voices to be heard, or hold its breath and soar into the stars to see what was really out there. I’d finish reading a book or walk out of a film moved in such a way that I became anxious, almost to the point of obsession, to create something that would stir people in the same way.” Jake Smith Lynne Cheney is the wife...
Having come of age during the Dust Bowl, Willard Garvey rode the rails during the height of the Great Depression to work in the California orchards made famous by The Grapes of Wrath. He sailed the Queen Mary to fight in World War II, and was one of the first three American officers in Berlin after its fall, subsequently attending the Potsdam Conference. Upon returning to the United States, he found success in real estate and foreign investments and funded affordable housing projects from South...
In the 1960s, the Righteous Brothers topped the charts with hits like “Unchained Melody”, “You’re My Soul and Inspiration”, and, of course, “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling”. After the duo split up, Bill Medley became known to a new generation for “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life”, the hit duet with Jennifer Warnes that was featured in the 1987 film “Dirty Dancing”. Bill Medley has won a Grammy, a Golden Globe, an American Music Award and an Oscar. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of...
Dan Rather is a journalist and the former news anchor for CBS Evening News. He is now managing editor and anchor of the television news magazine Dan Rather Reports on the cable channel AXS TV. He will talk about his career and his TV documentary series on AXS TV, Dan Rather Presents, with the first episode, One Way Ticket To Nowhere: America’s Mental Health Crisis. Patrick Dempsey & Kathryn West with Carole Marks is a race car driver and an actor best known for his role as neurosurgeon Dr...
Douglas Perry is an award-winning writer and the author of Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of An American Hero. (Viking) Eliot Ness is famous for leading the Untouchables against the notorious mobster Al Capone. But it turns out that the legendary Prohibition Bureau squad’s daring raids were only the beginning. Ness’s true legacy reaches far beyond Big Al and Chicago. Patricia Cori with Carole Marks is a best-selling author and founder of the Non-profit Save Earth’s Oceans. She will talk about...
Landscaper awarded $4M in medical misdiagnosis case Robert Wyble was told that he had myasthenia gravis — which led to chest surgery to take out his thymus, blood treatments and medication that caused him to put on 80 pounds. His health-damaging ordeal gave him hypertension and was for nothing. He did not have the condition. Atty. Richard Gurfein & Robert Wyble Robert Wyble will discuss his harrowing personal story about the importance of getting a second opinion. Atty. Gurfein is a...
Baby boomers are turning 65 at the rate of 12,000 a day. And they’re not their mothers’ generation. Although we can learn from previous generations’ books, our expectations and our circumstances have changed. This is the ultimate guide, filled with positive and practical wisdom from various sources for women for the second half of life. Getting Older Better by Pamela D. Blair, PhD. Sprague Theobold is a two-time Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker and founder of Hole...
Wendy Aaronson is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in Greenwich CT. She will talk about her new book, Refeathering the Empty Nest: Life After the Children Leave Dr. Robin Cook is the New York Times #1 best-selling author of the medical thriller, Coma, and will talk about his latest thriller, Cell. (Putnam) Shari Belafonte is an actress, model and photographer and the daughter of Harry Belafonte. She will talk about her career and share the secret to her weight loss. Go to www...
“Sex After … Women Share How Intimacy Changes as Life Changes.” It’s filled with interviews of 150 women talking about sex after marriage. Sex after childbirth. Sex after cheating. Sex after divorce. Sex after menopause, surgery, widowhood. Sex after years of wanting it and not getting it. Iris Krasnow is a New York Times bestselling author, journalist, professor, and professional speaker and will talk about her new book, SEX AFTER…:Women Share How Intimacy Changes as Life Changes. (Gotham...
We’ve been told that old age offers us nothing that the adult does not already possess in abundance,” he writes, “but this is a lie.” As children, we’re allowed to explore our identities and try on different roles, realizing that we’re still a work in progress. As adults, we’re acculturated to winnow down those identities (“What do you want to be when you grow up?”), and adults who experience ambiguity around those identities are labeled as flighty, insecure and immature. Dr. Bill homas...
Stacey Sanders is the federal policy director for Medicare Rights Center and Carole spoke to her at Families USA’s National Grassroots Meeting Health Action 2014. Go to www.MedicareRights.org for more information. Max Richtman is the president and CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare and Carole spoke to him at Families USA’s National Grassroots Meeting Health Action 2014. For more information, visit www.NCPSSM.org. Virginia Morris is an award-winning...
Dr. Thomas Vangness Jr. is professor of orthopedic surgery and the chief of sports medicine at the University of California’s Keck School of Medicine. He will talk about his new book, The New Science of Overcoming Arthritis: Prevent or Reverse Your Pain, Discomfort, and Limitations. (Da Capo/Lifelong Books) Nicholas Freudenberg is distinguished professor of public health at the City University of New York School of Public health and at Hunter College. He will talk about his book, Lethal But...