AOT #426: Mary Roach Podcasts Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Humorous science writer Mary Roach, author of the bestsellers Stiff and Packing for Mars, discusses the new paperback edition of her recent book Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal. “Roach’s approach is grounded in science, but the virtuosic author rarely resists a pun, and it’s clear she revels in giving readers a thrill-even if it is a queasy one. Adventurous kids and doctors alike will appreciate this fascinating and sometimes ghastly tour of the gastrointestinal system.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review)

($15.95) W.W. Norton ISBN # 9780393348743. You can visit Mary Roach‘s official web site as well.

AOT #425: Claire Cameron Podcasts The Bear

Award-winning author Claire Cameron reads from and discusses her new novel The Bear, a powerful suspense story narrated by a young girl who must fend for herself and her little brother after a brutal bear attack. “The Bear is a taut and touching story of how a child’s love and denial become survival skills. Claire Cameron takes a fairytale situation of children pitted against the wilderness, removes the fairies, and adds a terrifying and ravenous bear. I devoured this wonderful new novel in one day.”-Charlotte Rogan, author of the national bestseller The Lifeboat

($25.00) Little, Brown ISBN # 9780316230124. You can visit Claire Cameron‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #424: Timothy Schaffert Podcasts The Swan Gondola

Critically acclaimed author Timothy Schaffert reads from and discusses his new novel The Swan Gondola, a lush and thrilling romantic fable about two lovers, set against the scandalous burlesques, midnight séances, and aerial ballets of the 1898 Omaha World’s Fair. “Schaffert’s whimsical epic of illusion and reality at the 1898 Omaha World’s Fair promises and delivers grand entertainment….” — Booklist (starred review)

($24.00) Penguin ISBN # 9781594486098. You can visit Timothy Schaffert‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #423: Daniel Levine Podcasts Hyde

Colorado author Daniel Levine reads from and discusses his debut novel Hyde. A reimagining of Robert Lewis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Levine’s novel tells the the story from the monster’s perspective-making a hero of a villain. “Prepare to be seduced by literary devilry! Go back to Victorian times to find a very postmodern whodunit. Visceral prose, atmosphere you could choke on, characters who seem to be at your very shoulder. My sole regret after spending several hours inside Daniel Levine’s highly literate thriller is that I didn’t think of Hyde for myself.”-Ronald Frame, author of Havisham

($24.00) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN # 9780544191181. You can visit Daniel Levine‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #422: Bruce Weber Podcasts Life Is a Wheel

Journalist, blogger, author, and cyclist Bruce Weber reads from and discusses his new book Life is a Wheel: Love, Death, Etc., and a Bike Ride Across America. Riding a bicycle across the United States is one of those bucket-list goals that many dream about but few fulfill. During the summer and fall of 2011, at the age of fifty-seven, Bruce Weber, an obituary writer for The New York Times, made the trip, alone, and wrote about it as it unfolded mile by mile, a vivid and immediate report of the self-powered life on the road. Now, expanding upon the articles and blog posts that quickly became a must-read adventure story, Weber gives us Life Is a Wheel, a witty, inspiring, and reflective diary of his journey.

($26.00) Scribner ISBN # 9781451695014.

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AOT #421: Phil Klay Podcasts Redeployment

Phil Klay reads from and discusses Redeployment, his critically acclaimed debut collection of stories. “Klay grasps both tough-guy characterization and life spent in the field, yet he also mines the struggle of soldiers to be emotionally freed from the images they can’t stop seeing. It’s clear that Klay, himself a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps who served in Iraq, has parlayed his insider’s knowledge of soldier-bonding and emotional scarring into a collection that proves a powerful statement on the nature of war, violence, and the nuances of human nature.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

($26.95) Penguin Press ISBN # 9781594204999. You can visit Phil Klay‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #420: Michio Kaku Podcasts The Future of the Mind

Michio Kaku is the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at the CUNY Graduate Center, a leader in the field of theoretical physics, and cofounder of string field theory. Kaku, the New York Times best-selling author of Physics of the Impossible, Physics of the Future and Hyperspace, discusses his new book The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind. With Dr. Kaku’s deep understanding of modern science and keen eye for future developments, The Future of the Mind is a scientific tour de force – an extraordinary, mind-boggling exploration of the frontiers of neuroscience.

($27.95) Doubleday ISBN # 9780385530828. You can visit Michio Kaku‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #419: Jennifer McMahon Podcasts The Winter People

Jennifer McMahon, the author of six novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Island of Lost Girls and Promise Not to Tell, reads from and discusses her new novel The Winter People. West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter, Gertie. In this simmering literary thriller, McMahon explores ghostly secrets, dark choices, and the unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters…sometimes too unbreakable.

($25.99) Doubleday ISBN # 9780385538497. You can visit Jennifer McMahon‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #418: TaraShea Nesbit Podcasts The Wives of Los Alamos

TaraShea Nesbit reads from and discusses her critically-acclaimed debut novel The Wives of Los Alamos. Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London, Chicago-and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship as they were forced to adapt to a rugged military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. “I am in awe of this novel. TaraShea Nesbit’s brave and brilliant choice of point of view for these women living inside their earth-shattering secret crucible brings home to us in the fullest way possible that our personal story is never just ours. The Wives of Los Alamos will be read and re-read and remembered.” – Gail Godwin

($25.00) Bloomsbury ISBN # 9781620405031. You can visit TaraShea Nesbit‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #417: Len Vlahos Podcasts The Scar Boys

Len Vlahos, former punk-pop indie band guitar player, longtime American Booksellers Association staffer-turned-COO, now executive director of the Book Industry Study Group, reads from and discusses his debut novel for teen readers The Scar Boys. In attempting to describe himself in his college application essay, Harbinger (Harry) Jones goes way beyond the 250-word limit and gives a full account of his life. A severely burned teenager, a guitar, punk rock-each a chord of a rock ‘n’ roll road trip that is a must-read story about finding your place in the world…even if you carry scars inside and out.

($17.99) Egmont USA ISBN # 9781606844397. You can visit Len Vlahos‘s official web site as well.

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