AOT #294: Mike Dooley Podcasts Leveraging the Universe: 7 Steps to Engaging Life’s Magic

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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AOT #293: Neal Stephenson Podcasts Reamde

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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AOT #292: Laurie R. King Podcasts Pirate King

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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AOT #291: Alexandra Fuller Podcasts Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

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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AOT #290: Laura Lippman Podcasts The Most Dangerous Thing

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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AOT #289: Alexi Zentner Podcasts Touch

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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AOT #288: Christopher Boucher Podcasts How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive

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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AOT #287: Melanie Benjamin Podcasts The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb

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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AOT #286: Rosanne Cash Podcasts Composed: A Memoir

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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AOT #285: Michael Wallis Podcasts David Crockett: The Lion of the West

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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