Book buzz

0 Comments | USA TODAY, June, 2008 | by Deirdre Donahue and Bob Minzesheimer

Think Pink: It's no surprise

that Oprah Winfrey gave copies

of Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth

to the 4,666 graduates of Stanford

University when she gave

the commencement address on

Sunday. Now No. 8, A New

Earth was No. 1 for 11 consecutive

weeks on USA TODAY's

Best-Selling Books list after

Winfrey chose it as her book

club pick in January. She also gave copies of Daniel

Pink's A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will

Rule the Future (Riverhead, $15), published in 2005.

The book argues that professional and personal success

in the 21st century will require traits such as

empathy in addition to left-brain...