AOT #275: Jessica Anya Blau Podcasts Drinking Closer to Home

Jessica Anya Blau, the critically-acclaimed author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, reads from and discusses her new novel Drinking Closer to Home. This poignant and funny exploration of one family’s over-the-top eccentricities is a story of California, growing up, and learning to love your insane family.

($14.99) HarperCollins ISBN #978-0-06-198402-0. You can visit Jessica Anya Blau’s official web site as well.

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AOT #274: Larry Flynt and David Eisenbach Podcasts One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History

Larry Flynt is the legendary publisher of Hustler magazine and has been a famous crusader for First Amendment and privacy rights for over three decades. His landmark Supreme Court case, Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, is taught in law schools throughout the United States. David Eisenbach, Ph.D., is an award-winning historian who teaches American political history at Columbia University. He was the creator and host of the two-hour History Channel special “The Beltway Unbuckled,” about how presidential sex shaped American history. Flynt and Eisenbach discuss their new book One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History.

($25.00) Palgrave ISBN #978-0-230-10503-4. You can visit Larry Flynt’s official web site as well.

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AOT #273: Josh Chetwynd Podcasts The Secret History of Balls: The Stories Behind the Things We Love to Catch, Whack, Throw, Kick, Bounce and Bat

Josh Chetwynd is an award-winning journalist who has worked as a staff reporter for USA Today and U.S. News & World Report. A former professional baseball player, he’s also broadcasted Major League Baseball games in Great Britain on BBC Radio. Chetwynd reads from and discusses his new book The Secret History of Balls: The Stories Behind the Things We Love to Catch, Whack, Throw, Kick, Bounce and Bat. You may fancy yourself a sports fan, but chances are you don’t know: A fish eyeball was used as the center of some nineteenth-century baseballs? The race to make better billiard balls led to the invention of plastics? The Nerf ball was originally created to be part of a board game featuring cavemen? Chetwynd’s book mines these stories, and many more, from backyards to stadiums around the globe.

($13.95) Penguin ISBN #978-0-399-53674-8.

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It’s So Easy (and Other Lies) by Duff McKagan

A founding member of Guns N’ Roses shares the story of his rise to the pinnacle of fame and fortune with the band, his struggles with alcoholism and drug addiction, his unusual path to sobriety and success as a savvy business investor and loving husband and dad.

Touchstone, October 2011, ISBN#: 9781451606638

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2011 in New York City.

No Direction Home edited by Elizabeth Thomson

In time for Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday, this new, restored edition of Robert Shelton seminal biography, No Direction Home, included 20,000 words cut from the original manuscript. The result is a book closer to the author’s intentions and a truer picture of a legendary talent.

Backbeat Books, $35.00, May 2011, ISBN#: 978-61713-012-0

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2011 in New York City.

Make it Right by Mike Holmes

Star of the popular HGTV program “Holmes on Homes,” Mike Holmes has written a book every home owner considering or doing a home renovation needs to have. It walks readers through renovation from start to finish from finding a contractor to explaining the inner workings if a house.

Time Home Entertainment, $21.95, May 2011, ISBN#: 978-1-60320-194-0

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2011 in New York City.

Life of Shouty: Food and Fitness by NeonSeon

In the second book of the Life of Shouty series, Shouty goes from overweight and overwhelmed, to fit and focused. Life of Shouty: Food & Fitness is an encouraging story for children (and adults) who want to live healthier, active lives.

Rixkin, $14.95, October 2011, ISBN#: 9780984206919

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2011 in New York City.

Return to Life! An Empowerment of the Spirit by R.Krystaline Carbajal

How many of us can really say we have lived life to its fullest?Nowadays, we are reduced to bullet points and a list of “things to do” … today, this week, this year, in this lifetime.We are all born with these very primal instincts and needs. We view the world with this sense of awe and wonderment, when we are children. But where does it go? We grow into adulthood and we somehow shed these once cherished views. We become intricately tangled in the web of life; modern life anyways, as modern technology creeps in from every angle, we slip easily into automaton mode. The change happens so gradual, that we don’t even notice! Until one day, we look back and wonder; What ever happened to my bullet point? To my goals? To my will? To my REAL needs?

The answer to these questions, is often sought after “outside” of ourselves, somewhere unreachable, and far away. Within ourselves we hold the key to passage into the bliss we seek all our lives. Therein are the answers to the “Perception” we have of life. We have the power to co-create our environment by adjusting our perceptions, and view life in a whole new way, to finally discover that although lost… it is now time to Return to Life! Religion, ethnicity, ancient customs, or traditional beliefs, have nothing to do with this. That is what makes this message so different from any other.

This book is about the Inner Journey that one must…

Return to Life!, April 2011, $24.99, ISBN#: 978-0615427942

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2011 in New York City.

Tego Arcana Dei by Andrew Man

Dashing from one continent to another, Tego Arcana Dei – Keeping God’s Secret sees hero James Pollack’s life unravel at high speed. We follow Pollack through his years as a banker in the City of London to working in the beautiful and seductive Caribbean island of Antigua, before escaping to Switzerland after being hotly pursued by a mysterious agency. In each city he arrives in, James meets alluring women who act as his personal guides, in more ways than one.

AuthorHouse, May 2011, $24.95, ISBN#: 978-0977525805

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2011 in New York City.

Sexy Single and Ready to Mingle by Shelley Sykes

Are you Sexy Single and Ready to Mingle? Are you looking to attract your soul mate? Or are you already in a relationship and want to increase your love and passion?

This is the book for you. Get Syked with Shelley Sykes for relationships.

Beautiful Unlimited, September 2006, $24.95, ISBN#: 978-0977525805

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2011 in New York City.

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