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Economist Tyler Cowen's new book Discover Your Inner Economist explains how economic reasoning in everyday decisions can work to your advantage. He argues that money isn't always the best motivator.

Writer Sherman Alexie is out with his first book for young adults. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian tracks the misadventures of a young teen, Arnold Spirit, Jr., who decides to leave the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school.

Al-Qaida's publicity arm issues an audiotape of Osama bin Laden calling on Pakistanis to wage a holy war against their military ruler President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Pakistan's army suffers daily attacks in the tribal borderlands where support for al-Qaida and the Taliban has been hardening.

After 10 years, the best-selling book Into the Wild is coming to the big screen. Author Jon Krakauer discusses the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who went to live off the land in the Alaskan wilderness, where he died at age 24.

Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel Kite Runner opens as a film in November. But it is already causing concern in Afghanistan and in Hollywood for its depiction of ethnic tensions in Afghanistan and harsh portrayal of life under the Taliban.

In an NPR interview, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan weighs in on the Fed's recent move to cut interest rates by half a point and about President Bush's economic and tax policies.

The former U.S. Attorney and longtime New Yorker staff writer has a new book about the nation's highest court. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court contains new information about the 2000 presidential election challenge.

Fresh Air's book critic reviews Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, Janet Malcom's joint biography of Gertrude Stein and her longtime companion, Alice B. Toklas.

For 18 years, Alan Greenspan chaired the Federal Reserve Board, steering U.S. monetary policy. His pronouncements were read like tea leaves for clues to his thoughts on the economy's health. Now he's put those thoughts on paper in a memoir.

If you've got a stack of books that you know you should read, but you never do, maybe you have something in common Queen Elizabeth II. Or at least with the queen as imagined by writer Alan Bennett in The Uncommon Reader.