AOT #146: Katherine Neville Podcasts The Fire

Bestselling author Katherine Neville reads from and discusses her long anticipated new book The Fire. Neville’s groundbreaking novel The Eight dazzled audiences more than twenty years ago and set the literary stage for the epic thriller. A quest for a mystical chess service that once belonged to Charlemagne, the story spans two centuries and three continents, and intertwines historic and modern plots, archaeological treasure hunts, esoteric riddles, and puzzles encrypted with clues from the ancient past. Now the electrifying global adventure continues, in Neville’s sequel The Fire.

($26.00) Ballantine ISBN #0-345-50067-9. You can visit Katherine Neville’s official web site as well.

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AOT #145: Gene Guerin Podcasts The Song of Jonah

Denver author Gene Guerin, whose novel Cottonwood Saints won the 2006 Premio Aztlan award, a national award for first-time Hispanic authors, and the 2007 Mountain and Plains Independent Booksellers Association award for best adult fiction, reads from and discusses The Song of Jonah. In this modern retelling of the Book of Jonah, a charismatic but brash young priest accustomed to hobnobbing with the upper crust of New England society is exiled to the Archdiocese of Santa Fe in the early 1960s.

($18.95) University of New Mexico Press ISBN #0-8263-4336-8.

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AOT #144: Liz Robbins Podcasts A Race Like No Other: 26.2 Miles Through the Streets of New York

New York Times sportswriter Liz Robbins reads from and discusses her new book A Race Like No Other: 26.2 Miles Through the Streets of New York. When 39,195 competitors begin the thirty-eighth running of the famed New York City Marathon, they experience one of the most exhilarating moments in sports. But as they cross over bridges and through boroughs, carried 26.2 miles by the cheers of two million fans and by their own indomitable wills, grueling challenges await them. Robbins brings race day to life in this gripping saga of the 2007 Marathon, weaving the unforgettable stories of runners into a vibrant mile-by-mile portrait of the world’s largest marathon.

($24.95) HarperCollins ISBN #0-06-137313-3. You can visit Liz Robbins’s official web site as well.

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AOT #143: Randall Stross Podcasts Planet Google

Acclaimed New York Times columnist Randall Stross discusses his new book Planet Google: One Company’s Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know. Based on unprecedented access he received to the highly secretive “Googleplex,” this book takes readers deep inside Google, the most important, most innovative, and most ambitious company of the Internet Age. Stross’s access to those who have spearheaded so many of Google’s new initiatives, his penetrating research into the company’s strategy, and his gift for lively storytelling produce an entertaining, deeply informed, and provocative examination of the company’s audacious vision for the future and the consequences not only for the business world, but for our culture at large.

($26.00) Free Press ISBN # 1-41654-691-x. You can visit Randall Stross’s official web site as well.

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