AOT #93: Madeleine Albright Podcasts Memo to the President Elect

Former Secretary of State and bestselling author Madeleine Albright discusses her new book Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America’s Reputation & Leadership. The next president, whether Democrat or Republican, will face the daunting task of repairing America’s core relationships and tarnished credibility after the damage caused during the past seven years. In Memo to the President Elect, Albright offers provocative ideas about how to confront the striking array of challenges that the next commander-in-chief will face and how to return America to its rightful role as a source of inspiration across the globe.

($26.95) HarperCollins ISBN #0-06-135180-6.

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AOT #92: Joanne Harris Podcasts Runemarks

Joanne Harris, the bestselling author whose adult books include Chocolat and Five Quarters of the Orange, reads from and discusses her new novel for young readers Runemarks. Seven o’clock on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the end of the world, and goblins had been at the cellar, again. Not that anyone would admit it was goblins. In Maddy Smith’s world, order rules. Chaos, old gods, fairies, goblins, magic, glamours-all of these were supposedly vanquished centuries ago. But Maddy knows that a small bit of magic has survived, and in this epic romp she’ll need every scrap of forbidden magic if she is to survive her destiny.

($18.99) Random House ISBN #978-0-375-84444-7. You can visit Joanne Harris’ official web site as well.

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AOT #91: Kurt Andersen Podcasts Heyday

Kurt Andersen, the co-founder of Spy magazine, and author of the brash and brilliant debut novel Turn of the Century, reads from and discusses the paperback edition of his new novel Heyday. A fresh, impeccable portrait of an era startlingly reminiscent of our own times, Heyday is by turns tragic and funny and sublime, filled with bona fide heroes and lost souls, visionaries (Walt Whitman, Charles Darwin, Alexis de Tocqueville) and monsters, expanding horizons and narrow escapes. It is also an affecting story of four people passionately chasing their American dreams at a time when America herself was still being dreamed up-an enthralling, old-fashioned yarn interwoven with a bracingly modern novel of ideas.

($15.95) Random House ISBN #0-8129-7846-3. You can visit Kurt Anderson’s official web site as well.

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AOT #90: Paula Kamen Podcasts Finding Iris Chang

Paula Kamen discusses her new book Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind. Iris Chang’s mysterious suicide in 2004, at age thirty-six, didn’t seem to make any sense. Some even wondered if the controversial author of The Rape of Nanking had been murdered. Long-time friend Paula Kamen was among those left wondering what had gone so wrong. A literary investigation of an important writer’s journey, Finding Iris Chang is a tribute to a lost heroine, a portrait of the real and vulnerable woman who inspired so many around the world.

($26.00) DaCapo ISBN #978-0-306-81466-2. You can visit Paula Kamen’s official web site as well.

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