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Product Details
Simon & Schuster, October 2010
Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN-10: 143918948X
ISBN-13: 9781439189481
Description
SHE’S JUST LIKE THE REST OF US : overstuffed purse, always losing keys, high-maintenance hair, snack guilt after an evening binge. But she’s something different, too. Hoda Kotb grew up in two cultures—one where summers meant playing at the foot of the ancient pyramids and another where she had to meet her junior prom date at the local 7-Eleven to spare them both the wrath of her conservative Egyptian parents. She’s traveled the globe for network television, smuggling videotapes in her shoes and stepping along roads riddled with land mines. She’s weathered the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, and a personal Category 5 as well: divorce and breast cancer in the same year. And if that’s not scary enough, she then began cohosting the fourth hour of Today with Kathie Lee Gifford. (Oh, c’mon, KLG! That’s funny . . . put down the huge pour of Chardonnay and laugh with us.) HODA reads just like Hoda—light, funny, positive, and positively inspiring.
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Browse Inside Hoda“Hoda Kotb is a wonderful storyteller. Hilarious, honest and inspiring, you will marvel as she describes her family's roots in Egypt, and their American sojourn which leads her to the career of her dreams. This book is a manual for overcoming obstacles and living life with passion and purpose. I loved it. Hoda is the working girl’s Cleopatra. She rules!”
-- Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of Brava, Valentine and Lucia, Lucia
“This is the Hoda I know. She’s written this book the way she lives: out loud and up-front. She has written about the stuff of all of our lives. . . love, loss. . . and what she wore!”
-- Brian Williams, anchor of NBC Nightly News
“Kinda kooky, Open and outrageous, Tremendously talented, Born to write. . .Kotb’s voice is as distinctive as her name. Hoda’s life story makes for a great read. Hurry out and get your ‘kotb’ today!”
-- Meredith Viera, cohost of NBC’s The Today Show
“It ain’t all about the reporting y’all. Ain’t nothin’ that can stop Hoda. This gal has more guts than a super hero. She does it all and she does it with class. Now she has a delicious book on her hands. Next, we’ll use those super powers to teach her how to cook!”
-- Paula Deen, New York Times bestselling author of Paula Deen's The Deen Family Cookbook
"A smart, striking, and sassy memoir. Despite her extraordinary life and success, Hoda Kotb is as real as they come, and if I can’t be her, I at least want to read about her. You won’t know whether to laugh or cry (I did plenty of both), but Hoda’s stories--like the woman behind them--are guaranteed to charm and inspire."
-- Emily Giffin, New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed and Heart of the Matter
“Hoda writes the way she lives: honestly, intelligently and beautifully. No matter how her hair looks. And the reader can tell no matter what she’s sharing at the moment that she is smiling that big Hoda smile. You will too.”
-- Kathie Lee Gifford, New York Times bestselling author of Just When I Thought I'd Dropped My Last Egg: Life and Other Calamities
“I love Hoda. She’s reported on the most dangerous, history-making stories of our time; made it to the Today show; survived cancer; survived a bad marriage, and she’s the only woman with more opinions than me. Who cares? You will after reading the first sentence of this page-turning memoir.”
-- Joan Rivers
"Kotb’s voice is as infectiously enthusiastic as her trademark smile, each episode imbued with stalwart courage and sincere charm. From her fondness for the music of James Taylor to her fierce loyalty to New Orleans, Kotb’s memoir of life on the road, on the air, and in the trenches is not only an absorbing inside look at the highspeed world of high-stakes journalism, it is also one charismatic woman’s story of how a can-do attitude and caring family have provided the foundation and support for an exhilarating life."
-- Booklist
MSNBC, July 24, 2011
...Yesterday, Hoda talked to TODAY's Al Roker about her New York Times best-seller "Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer and Kathie Lee," which is now out in ...
MSNBC, July 8, 2011
...could be forgiven if they did double takes to see where that big voice was coming from. Certainly Hoda Kotb and everyone else in Studio 1A gaped at the 10-year-old behind the baby grand piano. Aside from her angelic voice, the youngster from ...
Gayot, July 1, 2011
...for: inventing the grilled peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or chastising Today show hosts Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb for their constant interruptions. Zien wants everyone — not just macho men — to fire up the grill and he ...
New York Daily News, June 22, 2011
...Tom Taylor, editor of Radio-Info.com. "And he embraces it. But he also loves radio." Dots all ... Hoda Kotb, co-host of the fourth hour of NBC's "Today" show, was presented with the Women of Concern Humanitarian and Leadership Award ...
PRWeb, May 24, 2011
...at the festival include Edmund Morris, Louis Bayard, Isabel Wilkerson, pianist Leon Fleisher, former Poet Laureate Rita Dove, Hoda Kotb of the “Today” show, Gregory Maguire, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Katherine ...
PRWeb, May 24, 2011
...at the festival include Edmund Morris, Louis Bayard, Isabel Wilkerson, pianist Leon Fleisher, former Poet Laureate Rita Dove, Hoda Kotb of the “Today” show, Gregory Maguire, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Katherine ...
WBAL, October 18, 2010
...News Audio Highlights 2010 Schedule Ravens Roosts Monday, October 18, 2010 Scott Wykoff On , NBC Today Show's Hoda Kotb talks with WBAL's Bill Vanko about her new book "Surviving War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer And Even Kathie Lee. On , NBC ...
USA Today, October 15, 2010
...Kathie Lee Gifford has been tirelessly peddling co-hort Hoda Kotb's new book all week on Today, and yesterday KLG continued the fun off-air. She threw her co-host a luncheon to help launch the new tell-all titled Hoda: How ...
NBC Dallas-Fort Worth, October 13, 2010
...The "Today" host chats about her new book Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee ...
MSNBC, October 13, 2010
...TODAY Show host Hoda Kotb joins the Morning Joe gang to discuss the rescue of the Chilean miners, as well as her new book, "Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer and ...
AllVoices, October 12, 2010
...Hoda Kotb is an award winning journalist who has recently launched her new book titled ‘Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer and Kathie Lee’ Hoda Kotb has been ...
ETonline, October 12, 2010
...ET was with "Today"'s Hoda Kotb at her book signing on October 11 and we captured the veteran newswoman revealing her feelings about the controversy surrounding CNN's Rick Sanchez and more. "What he said ...
PublishersWeekly.com, October 12, 2010
...Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, ISBN 978-0385738798); Hoda Kotb, author of Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee (Simon & Schuster, ISBN ...
NOLA Live, October 10, 2010
...Share this story Story tools What's new in book stores this week. "Hoda: How I survived war zones, bad hair, cancer and Kathie Lee," by Hoda Kotb. HARDBACKS: Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee By Hoda ...
NOLA Live, October 5, 2010
...New Orleans figures heavily in “Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer and Kathie Lee,” Hoda Kotb’s new autobiography due October 12 from Simon & Schuster. Courtesy of NBC UniversalAnchors Hoda Kotb and ...
