AOT #10: Al Franken Podcasts from The Truth (with Jokes)

This week we podcast podcast Al Franken, comedian, liberal radio talk-show host, and author of the hilarious and insightful book Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. In this podcast, Franken will discuss and read from his follow-up book The Truth (with Jokes). Armed with an arsenal of facts and research (and of course comedy!), Franken takes the fight to the Bush administration and their right-wing cronies. Intelligent, insightful, inspiring and laugh-out-loud funny, Franken’s book is a hard-hitting work of political satire.

($25.95) Dutton ISBN 0-525-94906-2. Visit Al Franken’s web site as well.

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AOT #9: Audrey Niffenegger Podcasts The Three Incestuous Sisters

This week we podcast Audrey Niffenegger, artist and critically accalimed author of the best-selling The Time Traveler’s Wife.

Niffenegger’s wonderful new creation is The Three Incestuous Sisters, an evocative illustrated book reminiscent of the gothic style of Edward Gorey. It is a visually stunning tale — “a novel in pictures” — of three very different sisters, (one smart, one beautiful, one talented) affirming Niffenegger’s genius as a storyteller. The melodrama that follows of sibling rivalry escalates to a dizzying climax of passion, revenge, shame and despair.

($27.95) Abrams ISBN 0-8109-5297-5. Visit Audrey Niffenegger’s sumptuous web site as well.

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AOT #8: Zadie Smith Podcasts On Beauty

Zadie Smith, the critically acclaimed author of White Teeth and The Autograph reads from her new novel On Beauty, which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Set on both sides of the Atlantic, Smith’s very funny third novel is a brilliant analysis of family life, the institution of marriage, intersections of the personal and political, and an honest look at people’s deceptions.

($25.95) Penguin ISBN 1-59420-063-7. Visit Zadie Smith’s page at the British Council for the Arts web site.

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AOT #7: Michael Connelly Podcasts The Lincoln Lawyer

Multiple award-winning mystery writer Michael Connelly has been called “today’s Dostoyevsky of crime literature” by Publisher’s Weekly . Connelly’s new novel, The Lincoln Lawyer, features Mickey Haller, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car. Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn’t recognize innocence if it stood right in front of him. But what he should have been on the watch for was evil.

With The Lincoln Lawyer, bestselling author Connelly delivers his first legal thriller–an incendiary tale about a cynical defense attorney whose one remaining spark of integrity may cost him his life.

($26.95) Little, Brown ISBN 0-316-73493-4. Visit Michael Connelly’s web site as well.

AOT #6: Carl Hiaasen Podcasts Flush

The Tattered Cover welcomes Carl Hiaasen, a columnist for the Miami Herald, and the author of many bestselling adult novels including "Basket Case," "Sick Puppy" and "Skinny Dip." Carl's first novel for young readers, "Hoot," was also a bestseller and received a Newberry Honor Award.

His wonderful new novel for young readers, "Flush," was recently named a Winner in the New York Times Notable Books of the Year for 2005 and a Winner in the National Parenting Publications awards. Out to help his father prove that the casino boat, the Coral Queen, is dumping illegally, Noah rounds up all the allies he can – his sister Abbey, an unreformed childhood biter; Shelly, a bartender and a woman scorned; and a mysterious pirate. With their assistance, he devises a plan to flush the crooks out into the open. A plan that should sink the crooked little casino once and for all.

($16.95) Knopf Books for Young Readers ISBN 0-375-82182-1). Visit Carl Hiaasen's web site as well.