Today our Readers’ Alert series will shine a fresh light on some recent Kindle titles whose authors have been in the media this week:

Psychotherapist Stacy Kaiser appeared on the Today show to discuss How to Be a Grown Up: The Ten Secret Skills Everyone Needs to Know.

Former MTV VJ Daisy Fuentes, also on the Today show, with Unforgettable You: Master the Elements of Style, Spirituality, and True Beauty.

Jennifer Baggett and Holly C. Corbett were on The Early Show with The Lost Girls: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World. 

My s.o. Betty reported to me that she’d enjoyed Bonnie Hunt’s chat with Lori Gottlieb, author of Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough, but I was pretty sure it had nothing to do with me.

New Yorker contributing writer Patricia Marx appeared on The Leonard Lopate Show to talk about her novel Him Her Him Again The End of Him, which according to reviewer Claudia Deane chronicles its protagonist’s involvement with one of those “caddishly bad college boyfriends you somehow can’t quit.”

• Isobel Coleman, Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women Are Transforming the Middle East
• Bruce Feiler, The Council of Dads: My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me
• Ross Donaldson, The Lassa Ward: One Man’s Fight Against One of the World’s Deadliest Diseases 
• Russell Brand, My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up
• Fred Thompson, Teaching the Pig to Dance: A Memoir of Growing Up and Second Chances 
• Don Van Ryn, Susie Van Ryn, Colleen Cerak, and Whitney Cerak, Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope 
• Meghan Daum, Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House 
• Rose George, The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters 
• Carol Burnett, This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection
• Cheryl Forberg, The Biggest Loser: 6 Weeks to a Healthier You: Lose Weight and Get Healthy For Life!