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AOT #168: Jennifer Chiaverini Podcasts The Lost Quilter

Jennifer Chiaverini, celebrating the 10th anniversary of her beloved Elm Creek Quilts series, reads from and discusses her 14th series installment The Lost Quilter, which picks up the threads from The Runaway Quilt, to tell another tale of adventure, love, perseverance and, of course, quilting. ($24.00) Simon and Schuster ISBN #0-06-156714-0. You can visit Jennifer Chiaverini’s official web site as well. AOT Partner Offer: Download The... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #167: Mario Acevedo Podcasts Jailbait Zombie

Colorado author Mario Acevedo is a former infantry and aviation officer, engineer, art teacher to incarcerated felons, and the bestselling author of The Nymphos of Rocky Flats, X-Rated Bloodsuckers, and The Undead Kama Sutra. Acevedo reads from and discusses his new novel Jailbait Zombie, which finds vampire detective Felix Gomez coming face-to-face with the worst sort of undead. To stop a ravenous army of zombies, Gomez must team up with a precocious... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #166: Stephen Mitchell Podcasts The Second Book of the Tao

Bestselling author and translator Stephen Mitchell reads from and discusses his new book The Second Book of the Tao. The most widely translated book in world literature after the Bible, Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living. Following the phenomenal success of his own version of the Tao Te Ching, Mitchell has composed this innovative new book drawn from the work of Lao-tzu’s disciple Chuang-tzu... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #165: Jeffrey Siger Podcasts Murder in Mykonos

Jeffrey Siger left his life as a lawyer in New York City to write about mystery and intrigue on his beloved Greek island paradise of Mykonos–as only a local could. Siger reads from and discusses his new mystery Murder in Mykonos. “Siger captures the rare beauty of the Greek islands in this series debut, the first serial killer thriller published by Poisoned Pen. His sense of place recalls Donna Leon’s Venetian series, but his... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #164: Abraham Verghese Podcasts Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese, the author of The Tennis Partner, a New York Times Notable Book, and My Own Country, a National Book Critics Circle finalist, discusses his first novel Cutting for Stone. This sweeping, emotionally riveting novel is an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. It takes readers on an unforgettable journey into one man’s remarkable life, and offers an epic story about the power, intimacy,... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #163: Jamie Ford Podcasts Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Jamie Ford is an award-winning short-story writer, an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and a survivor of Orson Scott Card’s Literary Boot Camp. Ford reads from and discusses his critically acclaimed debut novel Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. “A tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost forever, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet gives us a glimpse of the damage that is caused by war–not... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #162: Jacqueline Winspear Podcasts Among the Mad

New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear reads from and discusses Among the Mad, her thrilling new mystery in which Maisie Dobbs must catch a madman before he commits murder on an unimaginable scale. In Among the Mad, Winspear combines a heart-stopping story with a rich evocation of a fascinating period to create her most compelling and satisfying novel yet. ($25. 00) Henry Holt ISBN #0-8050-8216-6. You can visit Jacqueline Winspear’s... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #161: Allegra Huston Podcasts Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found

Allegra Huston reads from and discusses her fascinating memoir Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found. When Allegra Huston was four years old, her mother was killed in a car crash. Soon after, she was introduced to her father, the legendary film director John Huston. Then, at the age of twelve, she was, once more, introduced to her father—her real one this time, the British aristocrat and historian John Julius Norwich. ($26.95) Simon... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #160: Dana Canedy Podcasts A Journal for Jordan

Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and journalist Dana Canedy reads from and discusses A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor. In 2005, Canedy’s husband, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King, began to write a journal for his son in case he did not make it home from the war in Iraq. He was killed on October 14, 2006, when an improvised explosive device detonated under his Humvee on an isolated road near Baghdad. His son, Jordan, was seven... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #159: David Eagleman Podcasts SUM: 40 Tales from the Afterlives

Neuroscientist David Eagleman currently runs a research lab where he studies time perception, synesthesia, and how neuroscience will influence the legal system. At night he writes fiction. Eagleman reads from and discusses his new collection SUM: 40 Tales from the Afterlives, a dazzling exploration of funny and unexpected afterlives that have never been considered–each presented as a vignette that offers us a stunning lens through which to... [Listen to this podcast]

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