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Carl Reiner yucks it up in 'Just Desserts'
Award-winner has made audiences laugh for decades in his various roles
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Nov. 20: TODAY’s Ann Curry talks with Time magazine’s Jeff Kluger about the new book “Great Discoveries: Explorations That Changed History.”
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Alex Cross is back in Patterson’s latest thriller
Palin offers readers insight into ’08 ups, downs
  Bobbi Brown’s dad pens kids’ book
  A look at intimate moments with jazz artists
Ali Vincent on going from fat to ‘Biggest Loser’
Andre Agassi: I have the body of an old man
Former Miss California: I was smeared
How dog poop led to love for Paula Deen
Racing to save Earth’s most endangered species
  Harden unveils ‘Big Book of Dreams’
Lupica’s latest book: ‘Million-Dollar Throw’
How one mom learned to translate baby cries
Grisham back in ‘Ford County’ for short stories
  Stars open up in ‘Proust Questionnaire’
Alan Thicke on raising kids who won’t hate you
Book excerpt: Testimony of an abortion addict
  Obama had ‘audacity to win,’ insider says
‘Full House’ star writes about meth, coke binges
Parents share diary of child’s cancer battle
How America can get 'Smart on Crime'
  Children of war
Hulk Hogan: Why I almost killed myself
‘A History of Ghosts’ explores paranormal past
A month of giving helped her deal with MS
A twin’s struggle to be ‘One and the Same’
Susie Essman offers up hilarious health advice
Al’s Book Club for kids: ‘Mountain Meets the Moon’
Seriously! Beer sparked Norm’s ‘Cheers’ career
Suzanne Somers works to ‘Knockout’ cancer
Quiz: Test your smarts about children’s health
Jimmy Carter: How volunteering gave me joy
‘K2’: Anatomy of a deadly climbing expedition
Capt. ‘Sully’ flies into details of ‘Highest Duty’
  Peek into historic Hearst estate
Richard Belzer: ‘I Am Not a Psychic!’
  How to savor your life
Jim Cramer: How to invest in current economy
Help! I'm buried in bills and my credit is bad
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Where has it gone?
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  Fiction
Alex Cross is back in Patterson’s latest thriller
Lupica’s latest book: ‘Million-Dollar Throw’
Grisham back in ‘Ford County’ for short stories
  Biography and memoirs
Andre Agassi: I have the body of an old man
Former Miss California: I was smeared
How dog poop led to love for Paula Deen
  Money
Jim Cramer: How to invest in current economy
Help! I'm buried in bills and my credit is bad
Rules of dating can help you land a dream job
  History and politics
What was the greatest moment in sports history?
‘A History of Ghosts’ explores paranormal past
David Alan Grier: Is beige the new black?
  Humor
Susie Essman offers up hilarious health advice
David Alan Grier: Is beige the new black?
‘Roast’ will help channel your inner insult comic
  Relationships
Ex education: 10 signs you’re not ‘just friends’
‘Superior Wife Syndrome’ aims to save couples
RUEA? (That is, are you emotionally available?)
  Family and health
Over 50? Simple secrets to grow younger
How one mom learned to translate baby cries
Quiz: Test your smarts about children’s health
  COOKBOOKS
‘Biggest Loser’: Make simple swaps, see results
Broke? Can’t cook? Go back to the basics
Whip up decadent desserts in minutes
  Miscellaneous
Racing to save Earth’s most endangered species
Jimmy Carter: How volunteering gave me joy
‘K2’: Anatomy of a deadly climbing expedition
  Book news
Natural selection? Rare Darwin book found in bathroom
Christie's auction house says the book — one of around 1,250 copies first printed in 1859 — had been on a toilet bookshelf at a home in England.
Colum McCann wins national award for fiction
Tales of rich and poor at National Book Awards
Karl Rove memoir coming in March
‘The Carrie Diaries’ book cover revealed
Palin says presidency ‘not on my radar screen’
Palin’s memoirs trigger a boomlet of other books
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Nov. 20: The legendary Radio City Rockettes perform one of their pieces from their Christmas Spectacular live on the TODAY plaza.
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20 Nobel Prize winners
From American author Toni Morrison to French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, meet the writers who have won the highest literary honor.
Children of war
  Children of war
Photographer Bobby Sager captures the pain and surprisingly joyous moments of kids in conflict regions.
Character Project
  Capturing the 'American Character'
Eleven photographers come together to celebrate the everyday people who make this country unique.
Tom Harvey and Keith Philpott
  Earning their tiger stripes 
Abandoned at birth by their mother, three white tiger cubs discover the world with their adoptive mom, a golden retriever named Isabella.
  Home sweet home
Top photographers capture the diverse rituals and experiences of U.S. life in the new book, “America at Home”.
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Guts and Glory
  Glory of the game
The best of sports photographer Neil Leifer’s iconic football images, culled from over 10,000 rolls of film.
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Celebs' favorite books
From Mary-Louise Parker to LL Cool J, stars share the books that have influenced them most.
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Al’s Book Club for kids: ‘Mountain Meets the Moon’
The latest book club pick tells the story of a young girl who, inspired by her father's  folktales, journeys to find the Old Man on the Moon and ask him to help her struggling family. An excerpt.
Al’s Book Club pick: ‘Septimus Heap: Magyk’
Club pick: ‘The Black Circle’
Club pick: ‘Savvy’
Al’s Book Club pick: ‘Wolf Brother’
Al’s pick: ‘Mysterious Benedict Society’
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Club pick: ‘Tale of Despereaux’

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