Welcome to episode 19 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books.

In this episode, we talk with Larry Doyle about his novel I Love You, Beth Cooper. It's a teen comedy that will resonate with anyone who's survived their teenage years.

High-school geek Denis Cooverman, in his valedictory speech to his graduating class, blurts out "I love you, Beth Cooper." Beth is the school's head cheerleader, who has only a vague idea of who Denis is. And, as the book jacket says, "complications ensue."

I Love You, Beth Cooper is available now at bookstores and online retailers.

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Welcome to episode 18 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books. In this episode, we look at two recent Harper Perennial releases:

We Disappear, by Scott Heim is a novel about a man who struggles to discover the truth about his mother's life as she succumbs to a long battle with cancer. There are threads of memoir woven through the novel, as Scott wrote much of it while his own mother was dying.

Serpent Box, by Vincent Louis Carrella, tells the story of Jacob Flint, a small boy of great faith living in a community of Pentecostal serpent-handlers in Appalachia. Vincent brings his own faith to the novel, and found that writing it shaped that faith anew.

Both We Disappear and Serpent Box are available now at bookstores and online retailers.

Also, be sure to visit HarperPerennial.com, the Harper Perennial blog, OliveReader.com, and the Harper Perennial MySpace page. All content copyright HarperCollins Publishers. Music created with Garage Band.