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Singer Carrie Underwood On "Oprah Goes Country" Show - Video Clip

On today's Oprah show "Oprah Goes Country." In this summer repeat country episode of the Oprah Show, guests Kenney Chesney, Darius Rucker, Carrie Underwood, and Sugarland perform.

Here's more on this special country music themed show, and below you'll find a video clip of Carrie Underwood on today's show:

Testing Out New Website Themes

I just wanted to let my regular Everything Oprah readers know that I've been testing out new website themes over the past week and will continue to do so for another few days.

You may have noticed this website's colors and layout changing quite a bit, I apologize for any convenience (or confusion) this has caused. Once in a while it is necessary for me to see which website themes perform the best and unfortunately the only way to figure it out is through trial and error.

Thanks for your continued patience!

Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli, and Marie Osmond On The Oprah Show

Today's Oprah Winfrey summer repeat show featured celebrities who have lost weight and have so far successsfully kept it off. Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli, and Marie Osmond all revealed their new sexy bodies after their weight losses.

Valerie Bertinelli showed the world her amazing bikini body and new Jenny Craig commercial. You can find out more details about this show and the guests weight loss here.

Here are some video clips of Valerie Bertinelli, Marie Osmond, and Star Jones talking about their weight loss and more:

Oprah Special Offer - Free Book Download - Heroic Measures - 25 Books Of Summer List 2009

Oprah Winfrey is offering a special free download of the novel "Heroic Measures" from 11:00 a.m. Monday, July 20, 2009 until Wednesday, 22, 2009 10:59 a.m. (Eastern Time)

"Heroic Measures" by author Jill Ciment is one of Oprah's "25 books of summer" list. You'll find the link to the free Heroic Measures download here at Oprah.com. You must register on Oprah.com to receive the free book download.

If you enjoy reading and want to join in the summer book fun, you can follow Oprah's summer reading calendar or simply choose the books off the list you think you'll find interesting. 

Here is Oprah's full summer reading list "25 Books Of Summer:"

The Irresistables

Let the Great World Spin: A Novel by Colum McCann

Heroic Measures by Jill Climent

Yes, My Darling Daughter: A Novel : A Novel (Kindle Edition) by Margaret Leroy

Into The Unknown

Dreaming in Hindi by Katherien Russell Rich

What I Thought I Knew: A Memoir by Alice Eve Cohen

A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean by Tori Murden McClure

Unholy Terrors

Columbine by David Cullen The Glister: A Novel by John Burnside

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame - Smith and Jane Austen


Tales Out Of School

Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz


Consuming Passions

The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food--Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonal by Mark Kurlansky

The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors by Hal Niedzviecki



Nature Girls

Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter

Plan Bee: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Hardest-Working Creatures on the Planet by Susan Brackney


Great Dames

Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne by James Gavin

Eye of My Heart: 27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and Perils of Being a Grandmother by Barbara Graham


The Writer's Edge

One D.O.A., One on the Way by Mary Robison

The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards: Stories by Robert Boswell


Classics, Take II

A Meaningful Life (New York Review Books Classics) by L.J. Davis

A Moveable Feast by Earnest Hemingway


The Young and The Restless

Lime Tree Can't Bear Orange: A Novel by Amanda Smyth

Camilla by Madeleine L'Engle


Pure Poetry

Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud edited by Robert Pinsky

Poems from the Women's Movement (American Poets Project) edited by Honor Moore


The Most Artful Dodger

Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo

You can find out more about Oprah's summer reading list at Oprah.com/summerreading.