AOT #346: Matthew Inman Podcasts How To Tell if Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You

Brilliantly whimsical yet oddly informative, The Oatmeal is an entertainment web site full of comics, quizzes, and stories. The site gets more than 5 million unique page views a month; 250,000 blogs and web sites have linked to it. The Oatmeal is written, drawn, and coded by Matthew Inman, a king of all trades when it comes to the Web. Inman discusses his hilarious new collection, How To Tell if Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You.

($14.99) Andrews McMeel ISBN # 9781449410247. You can visit Matthew Inman’s official web site as well.

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Best of AOT: Madeleine Albright Offers Advice for the Last President Elect

After months and months and months of campaigning, political commercials, and robocalls, we have arrived at Election Day 2012. With any luck, when we go to sleep tonight we’ll all know the outcome of this election.

Four years ago, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had some words of wisdom for our 44th President, detailed in her book Memo to the President Elect. But when she visited the Tattered Cover book store in LoDo, the race between Barack Obama and John McCain was far from settled.

Listen in as Albright details her advice for a successful presidency.

AOT #345: Jasper Fforde Podcasts The Last Dragonslayer

Jasper Fforde, the author of the bestselling Thursday Next mysteries and the Nursery Crime books, reads from and discusses his first novel for young readers The Last Dragonslayer. In his witty, effervescent new novel Fforde introduces fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange, who runs an agency for underemployed magicians in a world where magic is fading away. But when visions of the death of the world’s last dragon begin, all signs point to Jennifer-and Big Magic!

($16.99) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN # 9780547738475. You can visit Jasper Fforde’s official web site as well.

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AOT #344: Will Schwalbe Podcasts The End of Your Life Book Club

Will Schwalbe is the founder and CEO of Cookstr.com. Prior to that, he was editor-in-chief of Hyperion Books and a journalist, writing for such publications as the New York Times and Business Traveller. Schwalbe reads from and signs his new book The End of Your Life Book Club, a memoir about the two years he spent reading and discussing books with his mother as she was dying from pancreatic cancer. Schwalbe’s book is a profoundly moving tale of loss that is also a joyful, and often humorous, celebration of life: Will’s love letter to his mother, and theirs to the printed page.

($25.00) Knopf ISBN # 9780307594037. You can visit Will Schwalbe’s official web site as well.

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AOT #343: Hedrick Smith Podcasts Who Stole the American Dream?

Hedrick Smith is a bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, and Emmy Award-winning producer. His books The Russians and The Power Game were critically acclaimed bestsellers and are widely used in college courses today. Smith discusses his important new book Who Stole the American Dream?, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas.

($30.00) Random House ISBN # 9781400069668. You can visit Hedrick Smith’s official web site as well.

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Mad Dog House by Mark Rubinstein

Can people change? That’s the central theme of this gritty, debut novel by author Mark Rubinstein, a longtime psychiatrist and Cornell University professor.

Mad Dog House follows Roddy Dolan, a suburban surgeon who thinks he’s left behind a past—one that nearly landed him in jail at 17.

But when Dolan agrees to invest in a Manhattan restaurant with his childhood “blood brother,” events spin out of control, threatening the new lives they’ve built–and their families.

Struggling with a monster he thought he’d buried, Roddy must make momentous choices, and none are good. But he has a daring plan…

($12.99) Thunder Lake Press ISBN # 978-0985626846. You can visit Mark Rubinstein’s official web site as well.

The book is also available as an eBook on Kindle for $2.99 (for a limited time only). Click here to buy now.

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AOT #342: Tony La Russa Podcasts One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and a Half Games Back, and One Final Championship Season

Legendary baseball manager Tony La Russa discusses his new book One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and a Half Games Back, and One Final Championship Season. In addition to his fifty years in baseball, La Russa, the winner of four Manager of the Year awards-who led his teams to six Pennant wins and three World Series crowns-chronicles the 2011 St. Louis Cardinals’ World Series win, one of the most exciting end-of-season runs in baseball history.

($27.99) HarperCollins ISBN # 9780062207388.

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AOT #341: Stephen Tobolowsky Podcasts The Dangerous Animals Club

Stephen Tobolowsky is a character actor – one of the most prolific screen and stage presences of our time – having appeared in productions that range from Deadwood to Glee, from Mississippi Burning to Groundhog Day. Tobolowsky discusses his new collection of essays and stories The Dangerous Animals Club. “Stephen Tobolowsky has found his true calling as a storyteller. He is candid, insightful, often profound, and very, very funny, especially when he recounts his adventures in show business. By blending sharp memories of his childhood with astute, adult observations of the world around him, he weaves a spell not unlike Jean Shepherd or Garrison Keillor… but he has a voice all his own, and I love it.” – Leonard Maltin, film critic and author

($24.00) Simon & Schuster ISBN # 9781451633153. You can visit Stephen Tobolowsky’s official web site as well.

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AOT #340: Marisol Murano Podcasts Valentina Goldman’s Immaculate Confusion

Since her arrival in the United States from Venezuela, Valentina Goldman isn’t exactly living the American Dream. She’s living the American Nightmare. Her late husband, Max, has left her a young widow, a step-daughter whom Valentina didn’t want, and a bi-polar ex-wife. And oh, having given up her dream job in New York, Valentina is also unemployed in Arizona. Part Bridget Jones Diary, part Modern Family, Valentina Goldman’s Immaculate Confusion is the story of a woman trying to get a handle on her whacky life in America. In breathless, blog-like snippets, Valentina compares her own story with that of her eccentric sister, Azucena, who has bizarre troubles of her own down in the tropics. Valentina Goldman’s Immaculate Confusion is a funny and moving story about what happens when a passionate South American woman moves to the USA and, like so many of us, ends up with a life she never imagined.

($6.99 e-book) HIPSO MEDIA ISBN #9780984055654.

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AOT #339: David Abrams Podcasts Fobbit

Writer David Abrams, who served in the U.S. Army for twenty years, and was deployed to Iraq in 2005 as part of a public affairs team, reads from and discusses his debut novel Fobbit. Abrams’ book is a darkly ironic novel of the Iraq war that marks the acclaimed debut of a new voice in literary fiction. Based on his own experiences serving in Iraq and the diary he kept there, Fobbit takes us into the cha­otic world of Baghdad’s Forward Operating Base Triumph. Like Catch-22 and M*A*S*H, Fobbit fuses pathos with dark humor to cre­ate a brilliantly witty and profound work about the ugly and banal truth of life in the modern-day war zone.

($15.00) Grove Press ISBN #9780802120328. You can visit David Abrams’s official web site as well.

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