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AOT #303: Anne Holt Podcasts 1222

Anne Holt, Norway’s bestselling female crime writer, discusses her new Hanne Wilhelmsen novel 1222. This suspenseful locked-room mystery, set in an isolated hotel in Norway, has guests stranded during a monumental snowstorm start turning up dead! ($25.00) Simon & Schuster ISBN #9781451634716. You can visit Anne Holt’s official web site as well. Anne Holt Podcasts 1222 [ 28:28 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Listen... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #302: Susan Orlean Podcasts Rin Tin Tin: The Life and Legend

Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the author of seven books, including Saturday Night and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award-winning film Adaptation. Orlean discusses her new book Rin Tin Tin: The Life and Legend, a sweeping, powerfully moving account of Rin Tin Tin’s journey from orphaned puppy to movie star and international icon. ($26.99) Simon & Schuster ISBN #9781439190135.... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #301: Corey Henderson and Dan Rollman Podcast The RecordSetter Book of World Records: More Than 300 Extraordinary Feats by Ordinary People

A celebration of the nuttiness and obsessives in all of us, RecordSetter.com is the new world record-setting phenomenon, a website that believes everyone can be the world’s best at something – and where 80,000 people a month come to prove it, or just enjoy watching. Corey Henderson and Dan Rollman, the creators of RecordSetter, discuss their new book The RecordSetter Book of World Records: More Than 300 Extraordinary Feats by Ordinary... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #300: Gregory Maguire Podcasts Out of Oz

Gregory Maguire is the bestselling author of Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister; Lost; Mirror, Mirror; and the Wicked Years series, including Wicked (the basis for the blockbuster Tony Award-winning Broadway musical of the same name), Son of a Witch, and A Lion Among Men. Maguire reads from and discusses the stirring, long-awaited conclusion to the series, Out of Oz, which is a magical journey rife with revelations and reversals, reprisals and surprises. ... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #299: Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith Podcast Van Gogh: The Life

Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith are graduates of Harvard Law School. Together they have written many books on art and other subjects, including four New York Times bestsellers. Naifeh and Smith discuss their new book Van Gogh: The Life, the “definitive biography for decades to come.” — Leo Jansen, curator, the Van Gogh Museum, and co-editor of Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Letters ($40.00) Random House ISBN #9780375507489. ... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #298: Kathleen Flinn Podcasts The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks

Le Cordon Bleu trained writer and journalist Kathleen Flinn, author of the award-nominated book The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry, reads from and discusses her new book The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks. This inspiring book includes practical, healthy tips that boost readers’ culinary self-confidence, and strategies to get the most from their grocery... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #297: Russell Banks Podcasts Lost Memory of Skin

Russell Banks, the acclaimed author of The Sweet Hereafter, Rule of the Bone, Cloudsplitter, Continental Drift, and Affliction, reads from and discusses his new novel Lost Memory of Skin. Uncompromising and complex, Lost Memory of Skin is the story of The Kid, a young sex offender recently released from prison and forced to live beneath a South Florida causeway. When The Professor, a man of enormous intellect and appetite, takes The Kid under his... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #296: Dava Sobel Podcasts A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos

Dava Sobel, the acclaimed author of the internationally bestselling titles Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter, and The Planets, discusses her new book A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos. In her elegant, compelling style, Sobel chronicles, as nobody has, the conflicting personalities and extraordinary discoveries that shaped the Copernican Revolution. At the heart of the book is her play And the Sun Stood Still, imagining... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #295: Alton Brown Podcasts Good Eats 3: The Later Years

Food Network star Alton Brown, host of the wildly popular show Good Eats, and commentator on Iron Chef America, discusses his new book Good Eats 3: The Later Years. Like his previous books, Good Eats 3 packs a bounty of information and entertainment between its covers. More than 200 recipes are accompanied by hundreds of photographs, drawings, and stills from the show, as well as lots of science-of-food facts, cooking tips, food trivia, behind-the-scenes... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #294: Mike Dooley Podcasts Leveraging the Universe: 7 Steps to Engaging Life’s Magic

Mike Dooley, the bestselling author of Infinite Possibilities and Manifesting Change, discusses his new book Leveraging the Universe: 7 Steps to Engaging Life’s Magic. Building on the principles from his earlier books, Dooley now offers a step-by-step strategy for leveraging the universe in the course of self-fulfillment and success. In just seven steps, Dooley teaches readers how to channel the Universe’s incredible energy to achieve... [Listen to this podcast]

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