AOT #111: Leif Enger Podcasts So Brave, Young, and Handsome

Leif Enger, the acclaimed, bestselling author of Peace Like a River, reads from and discusses his new novel So Brave, Young, and Handsome, a touching, nimble, and rugged story of an aging train robber on a quest, and the failed writer who goes with him. With its smooth mix of romanticism and gritty reality, Enger’s novel often recalls the Old West’s greatest cowboy stories. But it is also about an ordinary man’s determination as he risks everything in order to understand what it’s all worth, and follows an unlikely dream in the hope it will lead him back home.

($24.00) Atlantic Monthly Press ISBN #978-0-87113-985-6. You can visit Leif Enger’s official web site as well.

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AOT #110: Arthur Agatston, M.D. Podcasts The South Beach Diet Supercharged

Five years after publication of the #1 international blockbuster bestseller, The South Beach Diet, renowned cardiologist, Arthur Agatston, M.D. releases The South Beach Diet Supercharged: Faster Weight Loss and Better Health for Life.

In the original South Beach Diet book, Dr. Agatston changed the way America eats, with his right carbs, right fats approach. Now his mission is to change the way America lives, not only by helping people lose weight and eat healthfully but also by becoming more fit.

Listen to Dr. Agatston’s previous Authors on Tour podcast.

($25.95) Rodale Press ISBN #978-1594864575. You can visit Arthur Agatston’s official web site as well.

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AOT #109: Elizabeth George Podcasts Careless in Red

Elizabeth George, the New York Times bestselling author of fourteen novels of psychological suspense, reads from and discusses her new mystery Careless in Red. In this eagerly anticipated novel, George brings back Scotland Yard’s Thomas Lynley to investigate a ruthless crime.

($26.95) HarperCollins ISBN #978-0-06-116087-5. You can visit Elizabeth George’s official web site as well.

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AOT #108: Mary Roach Podcasts Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Mary Roach, “the funniest science writer in the country” (Burkhard Bilger of The New Yorker), is the author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. Her writing has appeared in such publications as Salon, GQ, Vogue, and the New York Times Magazine. Roach discusses her new book Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, in which she turns her outrageous curiosity and infectious wit on the most alluring scientific subject of all!

($24.95) W.W. Norton ISBN #0-393-06464-6. You can visit Mary Roach’s official web site as well.

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AOT #107: Frances Richey Podcasts The Warrior: A Mother’s Story of a Son at War

Frances Richey reads from and discusses The Warrior: A Mother’s Story of a Son at War, her stunning, urgent, and heart-wrenching memoir, written in verse, about a mother who sees her son, a Green Beret and captain in the Army, go off for two tours of duty in Iraq. The Warrior centers around a mother’s love for her son, a son from whom she feels distant both literally and metaphorically, for she is a liberal who is against the war, but who realizes that she needs to accept and support the choice her son has made, and to try to understand what has drawn him to the military life. The poems explore the agonizing process of a mother who is always saying goodbye to her son, missing her son, praying for her son, waiting for her son to come home.

($21.95) Viking ISBN #978-0-670-01961-8. You can visit Frances Richey’s official web site as well.

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