AOT #396: Jason Mott Podcasts The Returned

Award-winning poet Jason Mott reads from and discusses his debut novel The Returned. With spare, elegant prose and searing emotional depth, Mott’s book explores timeless questions of faith and morality, love and responsibility. A spellbinding and stunning debut, The Returned is an unforgettable story that marks the arrival of an important new voice in contemporary fiction.

($24.95) Harlequin ISBN # 9780778315339. You can visit Jason Mott‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #395: Joyce Maynard Podcasts After Her

Joyce Maynard, the New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and The Good Daughters reads from and discusses her new novel After Her. Loosely inspired by the Trailside Killer case that terrorized Marin County, California, in the late 1970s, After Her is part thriller, part love story. Maynard has created a poignant, suspenseful, and painfully real family saga that traces a young girl’s first explorations of sexuality, the loss of innocence, the bond shared by sisters, and the tender but damaged relationship between a girl and her father that endures even beyond the grave.

($25.99) William Morrow ISBN # 9780062257390. You can visit Joyce Maynard‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #394: Jeff Guinn Podcasts Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson

Formerly an award-winning investigative journalist and now a frequent guest on national radio and TV programs, Jeff Guinn is the bestselling author of several books of fiction and nonfiction, including The Last Gunfight and Go Down Together, which was a finalist for an Edgar Award in 2010. Guinn discusses his new book Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson, the most authoritative account ever written of how an ordinary juvenile delinquent named Charles Manson became the notorious murderer whose crimes still shock and horrify us today.

($27.50) Simon & Schuster ISBN # 9781451645163.

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AOT #393: J. Maarten Troost Podcasts Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story

J. Maarten Troost, the bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals, discusses his new book Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story. Recounting his latest hilarious misadventures in the South Pacific, following in the footsteps of his unlikely idol, Robert Louis Stevenson, Headhunters on My Doorstep is a funny yet poignant account of one man’s journey to find himself that will captivate travel writing aficionados, Robert Louis Stevenson fans, and anyone who has ever lost his way.

($26.00) Gotham ISBN # 9781592407897. You can visit J. Maarten Troost‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #392: Sophie Hannah Podcasts Kind of Cruel

Bestselling author Sophie Hannah reads from and discusses Kind of Cruel, the latest page-turner in her Zailer and Waterhouse mystery series. “This is a dark exploration of the intricacies of control and desire, and what can happen when they turn horribly warped. This may be Sophie Hannah’s best book yet.” – Tana French

($26.95) Putnam ISBN # 9780670785858. You can visit Sophie Hannah‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #391: Anne Waldman Podcasts Gossamurmur

Internationally renowned poet Anne Waldman, co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where she still teaches, is acclaimed for her visionary, incantatory verse and her experimental ethos. Waldman reads from and discusses her new book Gossamurmur, a book-length oracular poem offering a witty meditation on identity theft and a searing plea for the primacy of imagination and for collective sanity in our provocative yet precarious time.

($20.00) Viking ISBN # 9780143123088. You can visit Anne Waldman‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #390: Sam Halpern Podcasts A Far Piece to Canaan

Sam Halpern, whose salty paternal wisdom made his son Justin Halpern’s Sh*t My Dad Says a phenomenal bestseller, reads from and discusses his debut novel A Far Piece to Canaan. Inspired by Halpern’s own childhood in rural Kentucky, this novel tells the story of of Samuel Zelinsky, a celebrated but troubled former professor who reluctantly returns after his wife’s death to the Kentucky hills where he lived as a child to reconnect with long-buried memories and make good on a forgotten promise.

($14.99) HarperCollins ISBN # 9780062233165.

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AOT #389: Chris Bohjalian Podcasts The Light in the Ruins

Chris Bohjalian, the New York Times bestselling author whose books include Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls, reads from and discusses his new novel The Light in the Ruins, a spellbinding novel of love, despair, and revenge-set in war-ravaged Tuscany. Set against an exquisitely rendered Italian countryside, The Light in the Ruins unveils a breathtaking story of moral paradox, human frailty, and the mysterious ways of the heart.

($25.95) Doubleday ISBN # 9780385534819. You can visit Chris Bohjalian‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #388: Adam Johnson Podcasts The Orphan Master’s Son

Adam Johnson reads from and discusses the paperback edition of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Orphan Master’s Son. In this epic, critically acclaimed tour de force, Johnson provides a riveting portrait of a world rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love. “An exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart.”-Pulitzer Prize citation

($15.00) Random House ISBN # 9780812982626.

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AOT #387: Temple Grandin Podcasts The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum

Temple Grandin is one of the world’s most accomplished and well-known adults with autism. She is a professor at Colorado State University and the author of several best-selling books including Animals Make Us Human and Animals in Translation. Grandin discusses her new book The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum, a cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism.

($28.00) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN # 9780547636450. You can visit Temple Grandin‘s official web site as well.

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