AOT #82: Marina Lewycka Podcasts Strawberry Fields

Marina Lewycka, author of the international bestseller A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, reads from and discusses her new novel Strawberry Fields. This tender and hilarious novel about a crew of migrant workers from three continents follows them as they are forced to flee their English strawberry field in pursuit of their various dreams of a better future – thus setting off one of the most enchanting, merry, and moving picaresque journeys across the length and breadth of England since Chaucer’s pilgrims set off to Canterbury.

($24.95) Penguin ISBN #9781594201370.

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AOT #81: Terry Pratchett Podcasts Making Money

Terry Pratchett, the internationally bestselling author of the hilarious, satirical Discworld series, discusses his new novel Making Money. The Ankh-Morpork Post Office is running like, well, not at all like a government office. The mail is delivered promptly; meetings start on time; five out of six letters relegated to the Blind Letter Office ultimately wend their way to the correct addresses. Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig, former arch-swindler and confidence man, has exceeded all expectations-including his own. So it’s somewhat disconcerting when Lord Vetinari summons Moist and asks, “Tell me, Mr. Lipwig, would you like to make some real money?”

($24.95) William Morrow ISBN #0-06-116164-0. You can visit Terry Pratchett’s official web site as well.

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AOT #80: Michael Korda Podcasts Ike

New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda‘s books include Horse People, Country Matters, Ulysses S. Grant, and Charmed Lives. Korda discusses his new biography Ike. This big, ambitious, and enthralling new biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower is full of fascinating details and anecdotes, which place particular emphasis on his brilliant generalship and leadership in World War Two. It also provides, with the advantage of hindsight, a far more acute analysis of Ike’s character and personality than any that has previously been available, reaching the conclusion that he was perhaps America’s greatest general and one of America’s best presidents, a man who won the war and thereafter kept the peace.

($34.95) HarperCollins ISBN #0-06-075665-9.

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AOT #79: Robert Fulghum Podcasts What On Earth Have I Done? Stories, Observations, and Affirmations

Robert Fulghum, the bestselling author of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten and numerous other books, discusses What On Earth Have I Done? Stories, Observations, and Affirmations. This wonderful new collection is an armchair tour of everyday life as seen by Fulghum, one of America’s great essayists, a man who has two feet planted firmly on the earth, one eye on the heavens and, at times, a tongue planted firmly in his cheek.

($22.95) St. Martin’s ISBN # 0-312-36549-7. You can visit Robert Fulghum’s official web site as well.

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AOT #78: Michael Connelly Podcasts The Overlook

Multiple award-winning writer Michael Connelly discusses the newest book featuring detective Harry Bosch, The Overlook. A body has been found on the overlook near Mulholland Drive and LAPD detective Harry Bosch is called out to investigate. It is the case he has been waiting for, his first since being recruited to the city’s Homicide Special squad. However, what begins as a routine homicide investigation opens up before Bosch into something much larger, more dangerous—and much more urgent.

($21.95) Little, Brown ISBN # 978-0-316-01895-1. You can visit Michael Connelly’s official web site as well.

AOT #77: Joyce Carol Oates Podcasts The Gravedigger’s Daughter

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and the 2005 Prix Femina for The Falls. Oates discusses her new novel The Gravedigger’s Daughter, a masterpiece of domestic yet mythic realism, at once emotionally engaging and intellectually provocative: an intimately observed testimony to the resilience of the individual.

($26.95) HarperCollins ISBN #978-0-06-123682-2.

AOT #76: Michael Ondaatje Podcasts Divisadero

Michael Ondaatje, the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion, discusses his new novel Divisadero, a remarkable tale of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. Breathtakingly evoked and with unforgettable characters, Divisadero is a multilayered novel about passion, loss, and the unshakable past—and about the often discordant demands of family, love, and memory.

($25.00) Knopf ISBN #978-0-307-26635-4.

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AOT #75: Garrison Keillor Podcasts Pontoon

Garrison Keillor, founder and host of the acclaimed radio show A Prairie Home Companion and the daily program The Writer’s Almanac, and author of nearly a dozen books, discusses his new novel Pontoon. A fresh and funny Lake Wobegon novel about a woman with a secret life, Pontoon is a comic and heartfelt tale of courage and transformation in a town stuck in its ways.

($24.95) Viking ISBN # 0-670-06356-8.

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