AOT #263: Camilla Läckberg Podcasts The Ice Princess

International crime writing sensation Camilla Läckberg worked as an economist in Stockholm until a course in creative writing triggered a drastic career change. Her first six novels have all become bestsellers in Sweden and she is the most profitable native author in Swedish history. Läckberg reads from and discusses her new novel The Ice Princess, an electrifying tale of suspense in which a grisly death exposes the dark heart of a Scandinavian seaside village.

($15.00) Simon & Schuster ISBN #978-1-45162-174-7. You can visit Camilla Läckberg’s official web site as well.

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AOT #262: Jasper Fforde Podcasts One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Jasper Fforde, author the bestselling Thursday Next series, the Nursery Crime series, and the novel Shades of Grey, reads from and discusses his eagerly awaited new installment featuring Thursday Next, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing. Fforde’s exuberant return to the fantastical BookWorld opens during a time of great unrest. All-out Genre war is rumbling, and the BookWorld desperately needs a heroine like Thursday Next. But with the real Thursday apparently retired to the Realworld, the Council of Genres turns to the written Thursday. Once again Fforde has a field day gleefully blending satire, romance, and thriller with literary allusions galore in a fantastic adventure through the landscape of a frisky and fertile imagination.

($25.95) Viking ISBN #978-0-670-02252-6. You can visit Jasper Fforde’s official web site as well.

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AOT #261: Lisa Genova Podcasts Left Neglected

Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University and is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Still Alice, discusses her new novel Left Neglected. “The journey Lisa Genova takes us on in Left Neglected is a personal one, for any woman who’s ever had to make a business call while driving to day care, or who finishes a full day’s work at a high-powered job only to start the second shift as a mom: sometimes, we literally need a shock to the system to remember what matters the most in life. Remember how you couldn’t put down Still Alice? Well, clear your schedule-because you’re going to feel the same way.”–Jodi Picoult

($25.00) Gallery Books ISBN #978-1-43916-463-1. You can visit Lisa Genova’s official web site as well.

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Best of AOT: Les Claypool Reels in “The Big One”

Your local bookstore’s shelves are littered with books penned by rock stars, oozing with tales of groupies and explicit drug use. A rock ‘n’ roll memoir might, in fact, be a rite of passage for those who left their mark on society by breaking the rules.

Les Claypool, art-rock pioneer, bassist, and front man for the band Primus, has never subscribed to the rock playbook. Claypool’s debut novel, South of the Pumphouse, is not a book of tales from the road, but rather a dark, clever tale of two brothers, a fishing tip, misconceptions, drugs and murder (OK, he did have to put drugs in there, right?).

In this Best of Authors on Tour podcast, Claypool reads from “The Big One” a chapter from South of the Pumphouse.

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This podcast was originally recorded on November 21, 2006.

AOT #260: Wendy Kopp Podcasts A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn’t in Providing an Excellent Education for All

Since 1990, Teach for America has been building a movement to end educational inequity in America. In her new book, its founder Wendy Kopp shares the lessons learned from the experiences of more than 25,000 teachers and alumni who have taught and led schools in low-income communities during those years. Kopp discusses A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn’t in Providing an Excellent Education for All, which cuts through the noise of today’s debates to describe precisely what it will take to provide transformational education-education that changes the academic and life trajectories predicted by children’s socioeconomic backgrounds.

($25.99) PublicAffairs ISBN #978-1-58648-740-9. You can visit Wendy Kopp’s official web site as well.

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AOT #259: Jonathan Evison Podcasts West of Here

Jonathan Evison reads from and discusses his new novel West of Here, which has been chosen as a Tattered Cover V.I.B. (very impressive book) by the Tattered Cover’s staff. An exposition on the effects of time, on how something said or done in one generation keeps echoing through all the years that follow, and how mistakes keep happening and people keep on trying to be strong and brave and, most important, just and right, West of Here harks back to the work of such masters of Americana as Bret Harte, Edna Ferber, and Larry McMurtry. Writers whose fiction turned history into myth and myth into a nation’s shared experience. It is a bold novel by a writer destined to become a major force in American literature.

($24.95) Algonquin ISBN #978-1-56512-952-8.

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AOT #258: Benjamin Hale Podcasts The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore

A Colorado native, now living in New York, Benjamin Hale is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he received a Provost’s Fellowship to complete his novel, which went on to win a Michener-Copernicus Award. He has been a night shift baker, a security guard, a trompe l’oeil painter, a pizza deliverer, a cartoonist, an illustrator and a technical writer. Hale reads from and discusses his critically acclaimed debut novel The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore. Bruno is quite unlike any chimpanzee in the world. Precocious, self-conscious and preternaturally gifted, young Bruno, born and raised in a habitat at the local zoo, falls under the care of a university primatologist named Lydia Littlemore. Like its protagonist, this novel is big, loud, abrasive, witty, perverse, earnest and amazingly accomplished. This novel goes beyond satire by showing us not what it means, but what it feels like be human-to love and lose, learn, aspire, grasp, and, in the end, to fail.

($24.99) Twelve ISBN #978-0-446-57157-9. You can visit Benjamin Hale’s official web site as well.

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AOT #257: Ree Drummond Podcasts The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels-A Love Story

Wildly popular award-winning blogger, accidental ranch wife, and New York Times bestselling author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks Ree Drummond discusses her new book The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels-A Love Story. In this readable memoir, Drummond tells the true tale of her storybook romance that led her from the Los Angeles glitter to a cattle ranch in rural Oklahoma, and into the arms of her real-life Marlboro Man.

($25.99) William Morrow ISBN #978-0-06-199716-7. You can visit Ree Drummond’s official web site as well.

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AOT #256: Gary Taubes Podcasts Why We Get Fat: And What To Do About It

In his New York Times best seller, Good Calories, Bad Calories, Gary Taubes argued that our diet’s overemphasis on certain kinds of carbohydrates-not fats and not simply excess calories-has led directly to the obesity epidemic we face today. The result of thorough research, keen insight, and unassailable common sense, Good Calories, Bad Calories immediately stirred controversy and acclaim among academics, journalists, and writers alike. Michael Pollan heralded it as “a vitally important book, destined to change the way we think about food.” Taubes discusses his new book Why We Get Fat: And What To Do About It , which builds upon the critical work in the previous book and presents fresh evidence for his claim. Persuasive, straightforward, and practical, Why We Get Fat makes Taubes’s arguments newly accessible to a wider audience.

($24.95) Knopf ISBN #978-0-307-27270-6. You can visit Gary Taubes’s official web site as well.

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AOT #255: Siobhan Fallon Podcasts You Know When the Men are Gone

Siobhan Fallon reads from and discusses her debut work You Know When the Men are Gone, an unforgettable collection of short stories, reminiscent of the writing of Raymond Carver and Tim O’Brien. There is an army of women waiting for their men to return in Fort Hood, Texas. Through a series of loosely interconnected stories, Fallon takes readers onto the base, inside the homes, into the marriages and families-intimate places not seen in newspaper articles or politicians’ speeches. When you leave Fort Hood, the sign above the gate warns, You’ve Survived the War, Now Survive the Homecoming. It is eerily prescient.

($23.95) Amy Einhorn ISBN #978-0-399-15720-2. You can visit Siobhan Fallon’s official web site as well.

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