AOT #237: William Gibson Podcasts Zero History

William Gibson, “one of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working” (The Boston Globe), is the author of the bestselling books Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Idoru, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Pattern Recognition, and Spook Country, among others. Gibson reads from and discusses his new book Zero History, another look at a dystopian world, strangely similar to our own, featuring many of the characters from Spook Country.

($26.95) Putnam ISBN #978-0-399-15682-3. You can visit William Gibson’s official web site as well.

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Best of AOT: Nando Parrado Tells His Amazing Tale of Survival

The world watched this past week as 33 Chilean miners were brought to the earth’s surface in what many are calling a miracle. Although the disastrous circumstances could not have more different, parallels were inevitably drawn to the “Miracle in the Andes” of nearly 40 years ago, when a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the treacherous mountains. Of the 45 people on board that plane, twelve died in the crash, and only 16 survived 72 days of isolation, hunger, and 30 degree-below-zero temperatures during the night.

One of the survivors was Nando Parrado who, years later, recounted the events in his book Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home. Back in 2006, Parrado visited the Tattered Cover book store in Denver to share his story with us.

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This podcast was originally recorded on May 12, 2006.

AOT #236: Nancy G. Brinker Podcasts Promise Me: How a Sister’s Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer

Suzy Goodman Komen and Nancy Goodman Brinker were more than sisters. They were best friends, confidantes, and partners in the grand adventure of life. For three decades, nothing could separate them. Not college, not marriage, not miles. Then Suzy got sick. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1977; three agonizing years later, at thirty-six, she died. Nancy Brinker went on to found and head Susan G. Komen for the Cure. She has served as Ambassador to Hungary and United States Chief of Protocol and is currently the Goodwill Ambassador for Cancer Control for the United Nations World Health Organization. She is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Ambassador Brinker, in Denver for the 18th anniversary of the Race for the Cure, discussed her memoir Promise Me: How a Sister’s Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer.

($25.99) Broadway ISBN #978-0-307-71812-9. You can visit Nancy G. Brinker’s official web site as well.

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AOT #235: Bryan Gruley Podcasts The Hanging Tree

Bryan Gruley is the Chicago bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal. An award winning journalist, Gruley shared in the Pulitzer Prize given to the Wall Street Journal in 2002 for coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Gruley reads from and discusses his new novel The Hanging Tree . The second book in Gruley’s irresistible Starvation Lake series, The Hanging Tree is a compelling story about family and friendship, sex and violence, and the failure of love to make everything right. “Haunting, observant, and filled with complex characters that will remind you just how much you don’t trust your neighbors. The Hanging Tree will pry its way into your imagination. And it won’t leave.”-Brad Meltzer

($15.00) Touchstone ISBN #978-1-4165-6364-8. You can visit Bryan Gruley’s official web site as well.

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AOT #234: Brent Weeks Podcasts The Black Prism

Brent Weeks is the author of the New York Times bestselling Night Angel Trilogy, which includes The Way of Shadows, Shadow’s Edge and Beyond the Shadows. Weeks discusses The Black Prism, the first book in his new Lightbringer series. Gavin Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. But Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live: Five years to achieve five impossible goals. But when Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he’s willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.

($25.99) Orbit ISBN #978-0-425-23660-4. You can visit Brent Weeks’ official web site as well.

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AOT #233: Margaret Coel Podcasts The Spider’s Web

Boulder author Margaret Coel is the creator of the award-winning Wind River Mysteries. Coel reads from and discusses her new addition to the bestselling series, The Spider’s Web. It is the time of the annual Sun Dance on the Wind River Reservation, the ancient sacred ceremony that unites Arapahos in prayer and peaceful renewal. Yet when a blonde, beautiful outsider arrives on the rez, murder, suspicion and recrimination follow in her path. When Vicky Holden agrees to represent the woman against murder charges, she finds herself not only at odds with her own people, but with her long-time friend Father John O’Malley.

($24.95) Berkley ISBN #978-0-425-23660-4. You can visit Margaret Coel’s official web site as well.

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AOT #232: Jennifer Weiner Podcasts Fly Away Home

Jennifer Weiner is the author of six novels: Good in Bed; In Her Shoes, which was made into a major motion picture; Little Earthquakes; Goodnight Nobody; Certain Girls; and Best Friends Forever, as well as the short story collection The Guy Not Taken. Weiner reads from and discusses her new novel Fly Away Home, an unforgettable story of a mother and two daughters who after a lifetime of distance finally learn to find refuge in one another.

($26.99) Atria ISBN #978-0-7432-9427-0. You can visit Jennifer Weiner’s official web site as well.

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Best of AOT: Mark Bowden Recounts 1958 NFL Championship Game

Orange and yellow leaves, grandma’s pumpkin pie, hay rides, going back to school, and the return of NFL football are all autumn traditions in the United States. Not so many years ago, though, pro football was not the all-encompassing, church-skipping, prime time activity that it is today.

As Mark Bowden details in his book The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL, the 1958 NFL Championship Game was a definitive turning point in this country’s love affair with the game of pro football. In this Best of AOT podcast, Bowden explains that on this late December day in 1958 the stands at Yankee Stadium were not even full (can you image that at a Super Bowl today?). Due to the game’s sudden death overtime (the first in NFL history), however, the end of the game bumped NBC’s prime time programming, and an estimate 45-50 million viewers saw Johnny Unitas’ Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants 23-17.

Listen in as Bowden delivers a brilliant narrative on the game itself, the story behind the key players in that game, and the effect the contest had on the modern game of football and today’s NFL.

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This podcast was originally recorded on June 3, 2008.

AOT #231: Anne Fortier Podcasts Juliet

Anne Fortier reads from and discusses her debut novel Juliet. Twenty-five-year-old Julie Jacobs is heartbroken over the death of her beloved aunt Rose. But the shock goes even deeper when she learns that the woman who has been like a mother to her has left her entire estate to Julie’s twin sister. The only thing Julie receives is a key-one carried by her mother on the day she herself died-to a safety-deposit box in Siena, Italy. This sweeping, beautifully written novel of intrigue and identity, of love and legacy, follows Julie as she discovers that her own fate is irrevocably tied-for better or worse-to literature’s greatest star-crossed lovers.

($25.00) Ballantine ISBN #978-0-345-51610-7. You can visit Anne Fortier’s official web site as well.

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AOT #230: Mona Simpson Podcasts My Hollywood

Mona Simpson, the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Anywhere but Here and A Regular Guy, reads from and discusses My Hollywood, her first novel in ten years. This tender, witty, and resonant book tells the story of two women whose lives entwine and unfold behind the glittery surface of Hollywood.

($26.95) Knopf ISBN #978-0-307-27352-9. You can visit Mona Simpson’s official web site as well.

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