Allan Gregg In Conversation (audio)

We're all going to die -- that's inevitable. But according to Dr. Andrew Weil, there's a lot we can do to stay healthy as we age. In his new book, Dr. Weil shares his secrets for living better longer. It's called "Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being".

It's called the "Book of Negroes" -- an actual historical record of thousands of blacks who fled American slavery for Nova Scotia. In his new novel, Lawrence Hill recounts this chapter in black history through the story of one woman and her personal journey. It's called "The Book of Negroes".

Bill Bryson -- bestselling author and humourist. He's known for his travel writing and now he's written a light-hearted memoir about his boyhood in 1950s Iowa called "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid".

In a new book, Monbiot argues that we have to take drastic action to have even a chance of preventing runaway global warming. His book is called "Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning".

Pierre Elliott Trudeau fascinates us still. A new biography reveals more intimate details than ever before about his personal life. It's the first in a two-volume biography by John English. The book is called "Citizen of the World".

Gay Talese--legendary reporter and writer, pioneer of the New Journalism. In his latest book, Talese turns the focus on himself. It's called "A Writer's Life".

Global warming, the energy shortage, international terrorism; with all the urgent problems confronting us in the twenty-first century, are we be facing the breakdown of our civilization? In a new book, "The Upside of Down", Thomas Homer-Dixon sets out to answer that question.

In 1972, Richard Nixon became the first American president to go to China. In a new book, historian Margaret MacMillan tells the dramatic story of how that fateful event came to be. It is called "Nixon in China: The Week That Changed the World".

Sir Martin Gilbert, Churchill's official biographer looks back on the legendary British leader's political career spanning more than half a century. It's called "The Will of the People: Winston Churchill and Parliamentary Democracy".

Educator Michael Gurian was one of the first to look at how boys and girls learn differently. His latest book is called, "The Minds of Boys: Saving our Sons from Falling Behind in School and Life".