AOT #204: Connie Willis Podcasts Blackout

Connie Willis, who was recently inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, has received six Nebula Awards and ten Hugo Awards for her fiction. Her novel, Passage, was nominated for both awards, and her other acclaimed works include Doomsday Book, Lincoln’s Dreams, Bellwether, To Say Nothing of the Dog, and others. Willis discusses her new novel Blackout. In her first novel since 2002, Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds-great and small-of ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collide-and the result is at once intriguing, elusive, and frightening.

($26.00) Random House ISBN #978-0-553-80319-8. You can visit Connie Willis’s official web site as well.

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AOT #203: Robert Crais Podcasts The First Rule

Robert Crais, the New York Times-bestselling author who sets the standard for intense, powerful crime-writing, reads from and discusses his new novel The First Rule, a blistering thriller featuring Joe Pike and Elvis Cole. This astonishing novel finds Pike and Cole on an investigation that quickly entangles them both in a web of ancient grudges, blood ties, blackmail, vengeance, double crosses, and cutthroat criminality, and at the heart of it, an act so terrible even Pike and Cole have no way to measure it.

($26.95) Putnam ISBN #0-399-15613-5. You can visit Robert Crais’s official web site as well.

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AOT #202: Audrey Niffenegger Podcasts Her Fearful Symmetry

Audrey Niffenegger, author of the acclaimed, bestselling debut novel The Time Traveler’s Wife, reads from and discusses her new novel Her Fearful Symmetry. An unnerving, unforgettable and enchanting ghost story, Niffenegger’s spectacularly compelling second novel is about love and identity, secrets and sisterhood and the tenacity of life-even after death.

($26.99) Simon & Schuster ISBN #978-1-43916-539-3. You can visit Audrey Niffenegger’s official web site as well.

Please also listen to Audrey Niffenegger Podcast The Three Incestuous Sisters.

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AOT #201: Stephen Hunter Podcasts I, Sniper

Award winning author Stephen Hunter reads from and discusses his new thriller I, Sniper. Filled with Hunter’s signature blend of brilliant plotting, vivid characters, razor-sharp dialogue, and extraordinary gunfights, this novel will satisfy Stephen Hunter’s legions of fans and win him droves of new ones.

($26.00) Simon & Schuster ISBN #978-1-41-656515-4 .

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AOT #200: David Wroblewski Podcasts The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

David Wroblewski reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of his extraordinary debut novel The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Filled with breathtaking scenes-the elemental north woods, the sweep of seasons, an iconic American barn, a fateful vision rendered in the falling rain-The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a meditation on the limits of language and what lies beyond, a brilliantly inventive retelling of an ancient story, and an epic tale of devotion, betrayal, and courage in the American heartland.

($26.99) Ecco ISBN #978-0-06-137423-4. You can visit David Wroblewski’s official web site as well.

Please also listen to David Wroblewski’s podcast recorded while on book tour for The Story of Edgar Sawtelle hardcover edition.

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AOT #199: Zachary Lazar Podcasts Evening’s Empire

Zachary Lazar, whose novel Sway was named one of the Best Books of 2008 by Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications, reads from and discusses his new book Evening’s Empire: The Story of My Father’s Murder. When he was just six years old, Lazar’s father, Edward, was shot dead by hit men in a Phoenix, Arizona, parking garage. The year was 1975, a time when, according to the Arizona Republic, “land-fraud artists roamed the state in sharp suits, gouging money from buyers and investors.” How did his father fit into this world and how could his son ever truly understand the man, his time and place, and his motivations? In Evening’s Empire, Lazar brilliantly attempts to reconstruct the sequence of events that led to his father’s murder.

($24.99) Little, Brown ISBN #978-0-316-03768-6.

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AOT #198: Lucinda Scala Quinn Podcasts Mad Hungry: Feeding Men & Boys

Born to a family that always cared about food, Lucinda Scala Quinn started cooking professionally as a teenager. She has worked as a chef, cooking teacher, caterer, and food writer. She is Executive Food Director for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and she appears regularly on NBC’s Today and Martha, as well as co-hosting PBS’s Everyday Food. Quinn discusses her new book Mad Hungry: Feeding Men & Boys. With four hungry brothers, three ravenous sons, and a husband who loves to eat, Quinn has spent much of her life feeding the men and boys in her life and teaching them how to feed themselves. In her new book, she shares winning strategies for how to sate the seemingly insatiable, trade food for talk, and get men to manage in the kitchen.

($29.95) Workman ISBN #978-1-57965-356-9. You can visit Lucinda Scala Quinn’s official web site as well.

AOT #197: T. A. Barron Podcasts Merlin’s Dragon: Doomraga’s Revenge

T.A. Barron is the award-winning author of fantasy novels such as The Lost Years of Merlin epic–soon to be a major motion picture. He serves on a variety of environmental and educational boards including The Nature Conservancy and The Land and Water Fund of the Rockies, and is the founder of a national award for heroic children. Barron reads from and discusses his new book Merlin’s Dragon: Doomraga’s Revenge, in which Basil becomes Merlin’s partner as they battle the mysterious shadows that threaten the new Avalon. In this jaw-dropping sequel to the mega-hit Merlin’s Dragon, Barron sends Merlin, Rhia, and Basil, the greatest dragon ever, on a mission across Avalon to root out this new enemy. But sacrifices will be made, relationships will be tested, and precious lives will be lost.

($19.99) Philomel ISBN #978-0-399-25212-9. You can visit T.A. Barron’s official web site as well.

AOT #196: Elizabeth Beckwith Podcasts Raising the Perfect Child through Guilt and Manipulation

Successful actress, stand-up comedienne, and television writer Elizabeth Beckwith reads from and discusses her hilarious first book Raising the Perfect Child through Guilt and Manipulation. A frequent guest on The Late, Late Show and one of seven comics featured in the Time magazine article, “Funny: The Next Generation,” Beckwith now puts forth a hilarious new parenting philosophy that would shock Dr. Spock and traumatize T. Berry Brazelton. Raising the Perfect Child through Guilt and Manipulation is a riotously irreverent take on contemporary child rearing.

($14.99) HarperCollins ISBN #978-0-0617-5957-4 . You can visit Elizabeth Beckwith’s official web site as well.

AOT #195: Karl Alexander Podcasts Jaclyn the Ripper

In Karl Alexander’s book Time After Time, H.G. Wells used his time machine to chase after Jack the Ripper who was on a killing spree in 1979 San Francisco. After H.G. met Amy Catherine Robbins, the love of his life, and banished the serial killer to the indefinite future, H.G. and Amy returned to 1893 London, believing they could live happily ever after. But that wasn’t the end of the story. Alexander reads from and discusses his sequel to Time After Time, Jaclyn the Ripper, in which Amy returns to the present, accidentally freeing Jack from his prison in the far future while also transforming Jack into a woman. Jaclyn the Ripper sets out on a new killing spree in 2010 Los Angeles, vowing revenge on H.G. and Amy. With the panache, excitement, and thrills that made Time After Time so popular, Karl Alexander has penned another winning tale of Wells: author, inventor, and unlikely hero.

($24.99) Tor ISBN #978-0-7653-1894-7. You can visit Karl Alexander’s official web site as well.

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