AOT #501: Kennedy Odede & Jessica Posner Podcast Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum

Kennedy Odede is one of Africa’s best-known community organizers and social entrepreneurs, and among the first from Kibera, a Kenyan slum, to get a degree from an elite American university, Wesleyan University. Jessica Posner is a nationally recognized, award-winning social entrepreneur and activist and is the cofounder, with Kennedy, and chief operating officer of Shining Hope for Communities, which provides a school for girls in Kibera, as well as clean water, health care, and more for over seventy-thousand people. Odede and Posner read from and discuss their memoir Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum.

($27.99) Ecco ISBN # 9780062292858. You can visit Kennedy Odede & Jessica Posner‘s official web site as well.

AOT #500: Brandon Sanderson Podcasts Shadows of Self

Brandon Sanderson is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Steelheart, the first book in the Reckoners series, and the internationally bestselling books in the Stormlight Archive and the Mistborn series. He was also chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series. With The Alloy of Law, Sanderson surprised readers with a bestselling spinoff of his Mistborn books, set after the action of the trilogy in a period corresponding to late 19th-century America. Now Sanderson reads from and discusses Shadows of Self, the next eagerly anticipated book in the series.

($27.99) Tor ISBN # 9780765378552. You can visit Brandon Sanderson‘s official web site as well.

AOT #499: Jonathan Evison Podcasts This is Your Life, Harriet Chance!

Jonathan Evison, whose previous works include the award-winning novels All About Lulu, West of Here, and The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving (currently in development for a film starring Paul Rudd), reads from and discusses his new novel This is Your Life, Harriet Chance!, an irresistible, inventive novel, filled with racing, breathless, and vibrant prose. “An insightful, richly entertaining look at a woman who, very late in the game, finds that life remains full of surprises . . . Evison writes humanely and with good humor of his characters, who, like the rest of us, muddle through, too often without giving ourselves much of a break. A lovely, forgiving character study that’s a pleasure to read.” – Kirkus Reviews, starred review

($25.95) Algonquin ISBN # 9781616202613. You can visit Jonathan Evison‘s official web site as well.

AOT #498: John Lahr Podcasts Joy Ride: Show People and Their Shows

John Lahr, the author of eighteen books, including the multiple award-winning biography Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, was the senior drama critic of The New Yorker for over two decades. He has twice won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism and is the first critic ever to win a Tony Award for coauthoring the 2002 play Elaine Stritch at Liberty. Lahr discusses his new book Joy Ride: Show People and Their Shows, a collection of biographical detail and critical analysis which explores with insight and panache not only the lives of the theatricals but the liveliness of the stage worlds they have created.

($27.95) W.W. Norton ISBN # 9780393246407. You can visit John Lahr‘s official web site as well.

AOT #497: R.A. Salvatore Podcasts Archmage

Multiple award-winning fantasy author R. A. Salvatore may still be best known as the creator of the dark elf Drizzt, one of fantasy’s most beloved characters. Salvatore reads from and discusses Archmage, in which Drizzt returns to the Underdark. With everything Drizzt’s fans crave – action, adventure, characters that resonate with equal measures of warrior spirit and deep compassion, and no shortage of wicked dark elves – Archmage is another exciting addition to Salvatore’s bestselling series.

($27.95) Wizards of the Coast ISBN # 9780786965755. You can visit R.A. Salvatore‘s official web site as well.

AOT #496: Travis Hugh Culley Podcasts A Comedy & A Tragedy: A Memoir of Learning How to Read and Write

Playwright, director, and former bicycle messenger Travis Hugh Culley, author of the acclaimed memoir The Immortal Class, reads from and discusses his powerful new book A Comedy & A Tragedy: A Memoir of Learning How to Read and Write, in which he recounts his difficult journey to literacy. “This tale of struggle, survival, and triumph addresses the inner lives of children and the grave responsibility of adults to ensure that their voices are heard. Readers will readily warm to the story of a bright, illiterate boy who is destined to become a lauded writer.” – Publishers Weekly

($26.00) Ballantine ISBN # 9780345506160. You can visit Travis Hugh Culley‘s official web site as well.

AOT #495: Eli Gottlieb Podcasts Best Boy

Eli Gottlieb, author of several critically acclaimed novels, including the 2008 Indie Next pick Now You See Him, reads from and discusses his new novel Best Boy, a September, 2015, Indie Next pick. Written astonishingly in the first-person voice of an autistic adult man, Best Boy is a piercing, achingly funny, shattering novel no reader will forget.

($24.95) Liveright Publishing ISBN # 9781631490477. You can visit Eli Gottlieb‘s official web site as well.

AOT #494: Jena Lee Nardella & Dan Haseltine Podcast One Thousand Wells

Ten years ago, Jena Lee Nardella was a fresh-out-of-college, twenty-something with the lofty goal of truly changing the world. Armed with a diploma, a thousand dollars, and a dream to build one thousand wells in Africa, she joined forces with Dan Haseltine, the lead singer of the Grammy Award-winning band Jars of Clay to found the non-profit Blood: Water. Nardella, accompanied by Haseltine, discusses her memoir One Thousand Wells: How an Audacious Goal Taught Me to Love the World Instead of Save It, in which she shares how her passion for saving the world grew into a humbler long-term calling of loving the world in all its brokenness.

($24.00) Howard Books ISBN # 9781501107436. You can visit Jena Lee Nardella‘s official web site as well.

Forget Me Not by Jacqueline Falcomer

Alex, the storyteller in Forget Me Not unfurls the multicolored banner that is his family history. In vivid and rich narration, from his grandfather’s bull fighting ranch in Mexico and his father’s chiropractic education in Iowa, to his own search for self and the women he cannot forget, Alejandro is both guide and lost soul.

Through three generations and across four continents, this tale of yearning, searching, loss and forgiveness grabs the reader on every level and yanks you through turmoil, depravity, tenderness and awakening.

A late-night page turner, this is not a book you will soon forget.

($14.99) You can visit Jacqueline Falcomer‘s official web site as well.

AOT #493: Christopher Moore Podcasts Secondhand Souls

Acclaimed for his satire, humor, and surprisingly deep characters, Christopher Moore is the author of fifteen novels, including the international bestsellers Lamb, A Dirty Job and You Suck. Moore discuss his new novel Secondhand Souls, the eagerly anticipated sequel to A Dirty Job.

($26.99) William Morrow ISBN # 9780061779787. You can visit Christopher Moore‘s official web site as well.

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