Bestselling mystery writer Nevada Barr reads from and discusses The Rope, the latest in her series featuring Anna Pigeon. In The Rope, Barr gathers together the many strings of Anna’s past and finally reveals the story that her many fans have been long asking for, Anna Pigeon’s first case. For those legions of readers who have been entranced over the years by Park Ranger Anna Pigeon’s strength and determination and those who are new to Nevada Barr’s captivating, compelling novels, this is where it all starts.

($25.99) Minotaur ISBN #9780312614577. You can visit Nevada Barr’s official web site as well.

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Anne Holt, Norway’s bestselling female crime writer, discusses her new Hanne Wilhelmsen novel 1222. This suspenseful locked-room mystery, set in an isolated hotel in Norway, has guests stranded during a monumental snowstorm start turning up dead!

($25.00) Simon & Schuster ISBN #9781451634716. You can visit Anne Holt’s official web site as well.

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Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the author of seven books, including Saturday Night and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award-winning film Adaptation. Orlean discusses her new book Rin Tin Tin: The Life and Legend, a sweeping, powerfully moving account of Rin Tin Tin’s journey from orphaned puppy to movie star and international icon.

($26.99) Simon & Schuster ISBN #9781439190135. You can visit Susan Orlean’s official web site as well.

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A celebration of the nuttiness and obsessives in all of us, RecordSetter.com is the new world record-setting phenomenon, a website that believes everyone can be the world’s best at something – and where 80,000 people a month come to prove it, or just enjoy watching. Corey Henderson and Dan Rollman, the creators of RecordSetter, discuss their new book The RecordSetter Book of World Records: More Than 300 Extraordinary Feats by Ordinary People. At the event, the authors and attendees set the world record for Most People To Dance The Macarena In A Bookstore.

($12.95) Workman ISBN #9780761165774. You can visit Corey Henderson and Dan Rollman’s official web site as well.

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Gregory Maguire is the bestselling author of Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister; Lost; Mirror, Mirror; and the Wicked Years series, including Wicked (the basis for the blockbuster Tony Award-winning Broadway musical of the same name), Son of a Witch, and A Lion Among Men. Maguire reads from and discusses the stirring, long-awaited conclusion to the series, Out of Oz, which is a magical journey rife with revelations and reversals, reprisals and surprises.

($26.99) HarperCollins ISBN #9780060548940. You can visit Gregory Maguire’s official web site as well.

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Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith are graduates of Harvard Law School. Together they have written many books on art and other subjects, including four New York Times bestsellers. Naifeh and Smith discuss their new book Van Gogh: The Life, the “definitive biography for decades to come.” — Leo Jansen, curator, the Van Gogh Museum, and co-editor of Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Letters

($40.00) Random House ISBN #9780375507489.

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Le Cordon Bleu trained writer and journalist Kathleen Flinn, author of the award-nominated book The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry, reads from and discusses her new book The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks. This inspiring book includes practical, healthy tips that boost readers’ culinary self-confidence, and strategies to get the most from their grocery dollar, and simple recipes that get readers cooking.

($26.95) Viking ISBN #9780670023004. You can visit Kathleen Flinn’s official web site as well.

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Russell Banks, the acclaimed author of The Sweet Hereafter, Rule of the Bone, Cloudsplitter, Continental Drift, and Affliction, reads from and discusses his new novel Lost Memory of Skin. Uncompromising and complex, Lost Memory of Skin is the story of The Kid, a young sex offender recently released from prison and forced to live beneath a South Florida causeway. When The Professor, a man of enormous intellect and appetite, takes The Kid under his wing, his own startling past will cause upheavals in both of their worlds. At once lyrical, witty, and disturbing, Banks’s extraordinary novel showcases his abilities as a world-class storyteller as well as his incisive understanding of the dangerous contradictions and hypocrisies of modern American society.

($25.99) Ecco ISBN #9780061857638. You can visit Russell Banks’s official web site as well.

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Dava Sobel, the acclaimed author of the internationally bestselling titles Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter, and The Planets, discusses her new book A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos. In her elegant, compelling style, Sobel chronicles, as nobody has, the conflicting personalities and extraordinary discoveries that shaped the Copernican Revolution. At the heart of the book is her play And the Sun Stood Still, imagining young German mathematician Georg Joachim Rheticus’s struggle to convince Copernicus to publish his theories. As she achieved with her previous bestsellers, Sobel expands the boundaries of narration, giving us an unforgettable portrait of scientific achievement, and of the ever-present tensions between science and faith.

($24.00) Walker & Company ISBN #9780802717931. You can visit Dava Sobel’s official web site as well.

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Food Network star Alton Brown, host of the wildly popular show Good Eats, and commentator on Iron Chef America, discusses his new book Good Eats 3: The Later Years. Like his previous books, Good Eats 3 packs a bounty of information and entertainment between its covers. More than 200 recipes are accompanied by hundreds of photographs, drawings, and stills from the show, as well as lots of science-of-food facts, cooking tips, food trivia, behind-the-scenes glimpses-and bonus sock puppet instructions!

($37.50) Abrams ISBN #9781584799030. You can visit Alton Brown’s official web site as well.

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Mike Dooley, the bestselling author of Infinite Possibilities and Manifesting Change, discusses his new book Leveraging the Universe: 7 Steps to Engaging Life’s Magic. Building on the principles from his earlier books, Dooley now offers a step-by-step strategy for leveraging the universe in the course of self-fulfillment and success. In just seven steps, Dooley teaches readers how to channel the Universe’s incredible energy to achieve your greatest dreams.

($21.99) Beyond Words ISBN #9781582703145. You can visit Mike Dooley’s official web site as well.

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Neal Stephenson, the New York Times bestselling author whose books include Anathem, Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, and Cryptonomicon, discusses and reads from his new novel Reamde, a high-intensity, high-stakes, action-packed adventure in which a tech entrepreneur gets caught in the very real crossfire of his own online war game. Racing around the globe from the Pacific Northwest to China to the wilds of northern Idaho and points in between, Reamde is a swift-paced thriller that traverses worlds virtual and real. Filled with unexpected twists and turns in which unforgettable villains and unlikely heroes face off in a battle for survival, it is a brilliant refraction of the twenty-first century, from the global war on terror to social media, computer hackers to mobsters, entrepreneurs to religious fundamentalists.

($35.00) HarperCollins ISBN #9780061977961. You can visit Neal Stephenson’s official web site as well.

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Laurie R. King, the New York Times bestselling author of ten Mary Russell mysteries, joined us to celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day and discuss her new book Pirate King. In this latest adventure featuring the intrepid Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, King takes readers into the frenetic world of silent films-where the pirates are real and the shooting isn’t all done with cameras. Aye maties, Pirate King is a treasure chest of a novel-thrilling, intelligent, and romantic-a swiftly unreeling masterpiece of suspense! Guests are invited to wear their best pirate gear, practice their pirate vocabulary, and enjoy a sing-a-long, and pirate stories!

($25.00) Random House ISBN #9780553807981. You can visit Laurie R. King’s official web site as well.

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Alexandra Fuller, the author of the bestselling memoir Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, a New York Times Notable Book of 2002, and a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award, reads from and discusses her new book Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness. A story of survival and madness, love and war, loyalty and forgiveness, Fuller’s new book is an intimate exploration of her family. In the end we find her parents, Nicola and Tim at a coffee table under their Tree of Forgetfulness on the banana and fish farm where they plan to spend their final days. In local custom, the Tree of Forgetfulness is where villagers meet to resolve disputes and it is here that the Fullers at last find an African kind of peace.

($25.95) Penguin ISBN #9781594202995. You can visit Alexandra Fuller’s official web site as well.

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Multiple award-winning author Laura Lippman, the author of eleven Tess Monaghan mysteries, reads from and discusses her new stand alone novel The Most Dangerous Thing. Five best friends, who share a terrible lie from their youth, have grown apart as they’ve grown up. Now, after one of them dies, they are all thrown together for the first time in years. And then the revelations start. Could their long-ago lie be the reason for their troubles today? Is it more dangerous to come clean, or is it the strain of keeping the secret that is beginning to wear on them and everyone close to them? Each one of these old friends has to wonder if their secret has been discovered-and if someone within the circle is out to destroy them.

($25.99) HarperCollins ISBN #9780061706516. You can visit Laura Lippman’s official web site as well.

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Alexi Zentner is the winner of the 2008 Narrative Prize and 2008 O. Henry Prize, and his fiction has been featured in The Atlantic and Tin House. Zentner reads from and discusses his debut novel Touch. In Sawgamet, a north woods boomtown gone bust, the cold of winter breaks the glass of the schoolhouse thermometer and the dangers of working in the cuts are overshadowed by the mysteries and magic lurking in the woods. Touch introduces readers to a world where monsters and witches oppose singing dogs and golden caribou, and where the living and the dead part and meet again in the crippling beauty of winter and the surreal haze of summer.

($24.95) WW Norton ISBN #978-0-393-07987-6. You can visit Alexi Zentner’s official web site as well.

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Christopher Boucher, who has been traveling cross country in his 1971 VW bug, reads from and discusses his critically acclaimed debut novel How to Keep Your Volkswagon Alive, his hilarious radical story that breaks every rule-yet also spins a tender, bittersweet tale about a single dad struggling to raise his son. Modeled on the bestselling 1969 hippie handbook of the same title, this wildly inventive tale is both a stunning tour de force and a wise and charming consideration of the stuff of great fiction: death, love, loss, responsibility, and road trips.

($15.00) Melville ISBN #978-1-935554-63-9. You can visit Christopher Boucher’s official web site as well.

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In her national bestseller Alice I Have Been, Melanie Benjamin imagined the life of the woman who inspired Alice in Wonderland. Benjamin reads from and discusses her jubilant new novel The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb, in which she shines a dazzling spotlight on another fascinating female figure whose story has never fully been told: Mercy Lavinia “Vinnie” Bump, a woman who became a nineteenth century icon and inspiration-and whose most daunting limitation became her greatest strength.

($25.00) Random House ISBN #978-0-385-34415-9. You can visit Melanie Benjamin’s official web site as well.

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Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Rosanne Cash reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of her bestselling book Composed: A Memoir. As moving, disarming, and elusive as one of her classic songs, Composed is Rosanne Cash’s testament to the power of art, tradition, and love to transform a life. Her remarkable body of work has often been noted for its emotional acuity, its rich and resonant imagery, and its unsparing honesty. Those qualities have enabled her to establish a unique intimacy with her audiences, and it is those qualities that inform her long-awaited memoir.

($16.00) Penguin ISBN #978-0-14-311939-5. You can visit Rosanne Cash’s official web site as well.

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Michael Wallis, the bestselling author of Route 66, Billy the Kid, and Pretty Boy, is the host of the PBS series “American Roads,” and the voice of the Sheriff in the animated Pixar feature Cars. Wallis reads from and discusses his new book David Crockett: The Lion of the West. Steeped in legend, shrouded in folklore, the real David Crockett, American frontiersman and cultural icon, finally emerges in this engrossing biography. Wallis’s David Crockett is more than a riveting story. It is a revelatory, authoritative biography that separates fact from fiction, providing us with an extraordinary evocation of a true American hero and the rough-and-tumble times in which he lived.

($27.95) WW Norton ISBN #978-0-393-06758-3. You can visit Michael Wallis’s official web site as well.

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Chad Kultgen, cult hero and author of the buzz-generating illicit classics The Average American Male and The Lie, reads from and discusses his new novel Men, Women & Children, a shocking, salacious, and surprisingly subtle story of the average American family. In his novel, Kultgen explores the sexual pressures at work on a handful of troubled, conflicted junior-high students and their equally dysfunctional parents. From porn-surfing fathers to World of Warcraft-obsessed sons, from competitive cheerleaders to their dissatisfied, misguided mothers, Kultgen clicks open the emotionally treacherous culture in which we live-in his most ambitious and surprising book yet.

($14.99) HarperPerennial ISBN #978-0-06-165731-3. You can visit Chad Kultgen’s official web site as well.

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In her beloved New York Times bestsellers Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, and, most recently, Shanghai Girls, Lisa See has brilliantly illuminated the potent bonds of mother love, romantic love, and love of country. See reads from and discusses her most powerful novel yet Dreams of Joy, in which she returns to these timeless themes, continuing the story of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl’s strong-willed nineteen-year-old daughter Joy. Acclaimed for her richly drawn characters and vivid storytelling, Lisa See once again renders a family challenged by tragedy and time, yet ultimately united by the resilience of love.

($26.00) Random House ISBN #978-1-40006-712-1. You can visit Lisa See’s official web site as well.

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Ann Brashares, the New York Times bestselling author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, reads from and discusses her new novel Sisterhood Everlasting. With this book comes the welcome return of the characters whose friendship became a touchstone for a generation. Now Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget have grown up, starting their lives on their own. And though the jeans they shared are long gone, the sisterhood is everlasting. As moving and life-changing as an encounter with long-lost best friends, Sisterhood Everlasting is a powerful story about growing up, losing your way, and finding the courage to create a new one.

($25.00) Random House ISBN #978-0-385-52122-2. You can visit Ann Brashares’s official web site as well.

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Jeffery Deaver is the international bestselling author of Roadside Crosses, The Bodies Left Behind, The Broken Window, The Sleeping Doll, The Bone Collector (which was made into a feature film starring Denzel Washington), and twenty-one other suspense novels. He has been nominated for six Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America and is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader’s Award for Best Short Story of the Year. Jeffery Deaver has been selected by Ian Fleming Publications to write the new James Bond thriller. The plot of the new novel features a contemporary setting and brings Fleming’s legendary 007 character firmly into the modern age. Deaver discusses this new James Bond novel Carte Blanche.

($26.99) Simon & Schuster ISBN #978-1-45162-069-6. You can visit Jeffery Deaver’s official web site as well.

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Author and journalist Alex Prud’homme discusses his new book The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century. As Prud’homme and his great-aunt Julia Child were completing their collaboration on her memoir, My Life in France, they began to talk about the French obsession with bottled water, which had finally spread to America. From this spark of interest, Prud’homme began what would become an ambitious quest to understand the evolving story of freshwater. What he found was shocking: as the climate warms and world population grows, demand for water has surged, but supplies of freshwater are static or dropping, and new threats to water quality appear every day. The Ripple Effect is Prud’homme’s vivid and engaging inquiry into the fate of freshwater in the twenty-first century.

($27.00) Simon & Schuster ISBN #978-1-41653-545-4. You can visit Alex Prud’homme’s official web site as well.

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Joe Henry received his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. A renowned lyricist, he has had his words performed on more than a hundred recordings by artists ranging from Frank Sinatra and John Denver to Garth Brooks and Rascal Flatts. In addition to his many music awards, Henry also received a National Conservation Achievement Award from the National Wildlife Federation “for the celebration of the natural world in his work” and the Colorado Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. Henry reads from and discusses his debut novel Lime Creek, which explores the complex relationship between a father and his sons, whose deep connections to one another, to the land, and to the creatures that inhabit it give meaning to their lives.

Acclaimed character actor Anthony Zerbe joined us for this event and offered a dramatic reading from Lime Creek. Zerbe won critical praise for his adaptation of, and performance in, “Prelude to Lime Creek,” taken from the prose and poetry of Joe Henry, at the Denver Center Theatre Company. He also appeared with Garth Brooks and John Denver in “Lime Creek Christmas,” which he devised from the novel before it was published.

($24.00) Random House ISBN #978-1-40006-941-5. You can visit Joe Henry’s official web site as well.

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New York Times science reporter Matt Richtel, a Pulitzer Prize winner for Journalism in 2010 and the critically acclaimed author of Hooked, reads from and discusses his new book Devil’s Plaything. This phenomenal “neuro-tech” thriller about a dark and insidious plot to reengineer the human brain is a smart, fast, and terrifyingly plausible-a page-turner of the first order.

($9.99) HarperCollins ISBN #978-0-06-199969-7. You can visit Matt Richtel’s official web site as well.

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Spiritual leader and New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra and his son Gotham Chopra, author and cofounder of Liquid Comics, discuss their new book The Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes: Harnessing Our Power to Change the World. From Buddha’s search for truth to Batman’s struggle with his dark side, from Wolverine exposing his greatest fears to Hanuman’s divine gifts of inspiration, this timely book decodes the seven essential laws that govern the realm of superheroes both ancient and modern, cosmic and commercial, and explain their relevance, importance, and perhaps most critically, how to apply them to our daily lives.

($25.99) HarperCollins ISBN #978-0-06-205966-6. You can visit Deepak Chopra’s official web site as well.

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Deepak Chopra first visited the Tattered Cover in 1988, but in this Best of AOT podcast, we take you back to 2007, when he came to discuss his novel Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment. In Buddha, Chopra tells the story of Prince Siddhartha, who becomes the Buddha. This re-imagining of the Buddha’s life presents a new form of teaching which shows how the iconic journey of the prince who became the Buddha has changed the world forever.

Listen in as Chopra talks about the early life of this legendary character. If you enjoyed this Best of Authors On Tour podcast, please listen to the entire Deepak Chopra podcast.

This podcast was originally recorded on May 21, 2007.

John Sayles‘s previous novels include the National Book Award-nominated Union Dues. He has directed seventeen feature films, including Matewan, Lone Star, and Eight Men Out, and the recent Amigo. His many awards include a John Steinbeck Award, a John Cassavetes Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Writers Guild of America, and two Academy Award nominations. Sayles reads from and discusses his new book A Moment in the Sun. It’s 1897. Gold has been discovered in the Yukon. New York is under the sway of Hearst and Pulitzer. And in a few months, an American battleship will explode in a Cuban harbor, plunging the U.S. into war. This is the unforgettable story of that extraordinary moment: the turn of the twentieth century, as seen by one of the greatest storytellers of our time.

($29.00) McSweeney’s ISBN #978-1-936365-18-0. You can visit John Sayles’s official web site as well.

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