AOT #86: Mary Carwile Podcasts Fear of Flying-Tips and Tales from a Pro

Mary Carwile, the author of Heartstrings at 35,000 Feet and Heartstrings and Pink Ribbons, is a flight attendant with Frontier Airlines, who has suffered from “fear of flying” and claustrophobia. Carwile presents fun, down-to-earth tips for dealing with fears associated with flying, and answers nagging questions like “does de-icing really help?”

($12.95) Verbena Pond Publishing ISBN #978-0975285442. You can visit Mary Carwile’s official web site as well.

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AOT #85: Richard Russo Podcasts Bridge of Sighs

Richard Russo, the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls, Nobody’s Fool, and others, reads from and discusses his critically acclaimed new novel Bridge of Sighs. Bridge of Sighs is classic Russo, coursing with small-town rhythms and the claims of family, yet it is brilliantly enlarged by an expatriate whose motivations and experiences – often contrary, sometimes not – resonate through richly different lives. Here is a town, as well as a world, defined by magnificent and nearly devastating contradictions.

($26.95) Knopf ISBN #978-0-375-41495-4.

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AOT #84: Carl Bernstein Podcasts A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton

Carl Bernstein discusses his new book A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Bernstein’ s stunning portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton shows us, as nothing else has, the true trajectory of her life and career with its zigzag bursts of risks taken and safety sought. Marshaling all the skills and energy that propelled his history-making Pulitzer Prize reporting on Watergate, Bernstein gives us the most detailed, sophisticated, comprehensive, and revealing account we have had of the complex human being and political meteor who has already helped define one presidency and may well become, herself, the woman in charge of another.

($27.95) Knopf ISBN #9780375407666. You can visit Carl Bernstein’s official web site as well.

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AOT #83: Ann Packer Podcasts Songs Without Words

Ann Packer received a Great Lakes Book Award and the Kate Chopin Literary Award for her national bestseller The Dive from Clausen’s Pier. Packer reads from and discusses her new novel Songs Without Words. In her long-awaited second novel, Packer takes us on a journey into a lifelong friendship pushed to the breaking point. Expertly, with the keen introspection and psychological nuance that are her hallmarks, she explores what happens when there are inequities between friends and when the hard-won balances of a long relationship are disturbed, perhaps irreparably, by a harrowing crisis.

($24.95) Knopf ISBN #978-0-375-41281-3. You can visit Ann Packer’s official web site as well.

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