AOT #215: Rick Reilly Podcasts Sports from Hell: My Search for the World’s Dumbest Competition

Colorado author and sports journalist Rick Reilly, whose “Life of Reilly” column appears each week in Sports Illustrated, has been voted five times as National Sportswriter of the Year by his peers. Reilly reads from and discusses his new book Sports from Hell: My Search for the World’s Dumbest Competition. Asking himself, “What is the stupidest sport in the world?” Rick Reilly set out on a global journey-with stops in Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Denmark, England, and even a maximum security prison at Angola, Louisiana-to discover the answer to this enduring question. From the physically and mentally taxing sport of chess boxing to the psychological battlefield that is the rock-paper-scissors championship, to the underground world of illegal jart throwing, to several competitions that involve nudity, Reilly, in his valiant quest, subjected himself to both bodily danger and abject humiliation (or, in the case of ferret legging, both).

($26.00) Doubleday ISBN #978-0-385-51438-5. You can visit Rick Reilly’s official web site as well.

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AOT #214: Roddy Doyle Podcasts The Dead Republic

Roddy Doyle is an internationally bestselling writer and winner of the 1993 Booker Prize for the novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. His first three novels-The Commitments, The Snapper, and The Van-are known as The Barrytown Trilogy. Doyle reads from and discusses his eagerly anticipated new novel The Dead Republic, the triumphant conclusion to the trilogy that includes A Star Called Henry and Oh, Play That Thing. Raucous, colorful, epic, and full of intrigue and incident, The Dead Republic is also a moving love story-the magnificent final act in the life of one of Roddy Doyle’s most unforgettable characters, Henry Smart.

($26.95) Viking ISBN #978-0-670-02177-2.

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AOT #213: Dave Isay Podcasts Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps

Dave Isay is the founder of StoryCorps and its parent company, Sound Portraits Productions. Over the past two decades his radio documentary work has won nearly every award in broadcasting, including five Peabody awards. He is the author (or coauthor) of four books based on Sound Portraits radio stories, including Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago and Flophouse. Isay discusses his new book Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps . In this new collection, Isay presents StoryCorps’s most revelatory stories on moms, looking across a diversity of experience to present an entirely original portrait of motherhood.

($21.95) Penguin ISBN #978-1-59420-261-2. You can visit Dave Isay’s official web site as well.

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AOT #212: Kathy Kinney & Cindy Ratzlaff Podcast Queen of Your Own Life

Kathy Kinney (best known as Mimi on “The Drew Carey Show”) and Cindy Ratzlaff (marketing genius behind the launch of The South Beach Diet program) have been best friends for more than thirty years, and have helped each other navigate the ups and downs of their lives with humor and grace. Kinney and Ratzlaff discuss their new book Queen of Your Own Life. In this entertaining and inspiring book, Kinney and Ratzlaff share the tried-and-true techniques they call “the seven best gifts a woman can give herself.” They reveal how they learned to value themselves just the way they are-women in full bloom, sensual, vibrant, wise and more beautiful than ever-and they’ll show you how you can, too.

($18.95) Harlequin ISBN #978-0-373-89215-0. You can visit Kathy Kinney & Cindy Ratzlaff’s official web site as well.

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AOT #211: Harlan Coben Podcasts Caught

Harlan Coben, the New York Times bestselling master of suspense, discusses his new thriller Caught. In a novel that challenges as much as it thrills- filled with the astonishing tension and unseen suburban machinations that have become Coben’s trademark-Caught tells the story of a missing girl, the community stunned by her loss, the predator who may have taken her, and the reporter who suddenly realizes she can’t trust her own instincts about this story, or the motives of the people around her.

($27.95) Dutton ISBN #978-0-525-95158-2. You can visit Harlen Coben’s official web site as well.

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AOT #210: Christopher Moore Podcasts Bite Me

Christopher Moore, the acclaimed, bestselling author whose works include Lamb, Fool, and Practical Demonkeeping, discusses his new novel Bite Me, the third book in his wonderfully twisted vampire saga. Joining his farcical gems Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck, Moore’s latest in the continuing story of young, urban, nosferatu style love, is no Twilight-but rather a tsunami of the irresistible outrageousness that has earned him the appellation “Stephen King with a whoopee cushion and a double-espresso imagination” from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and inspired Denver’s Rocky Mountain News to declare him “the 21st century’s best satirist.”

($23.99) William Morrow ISBN #978-0-06-177972-5. You can visit Christopher Moore’s official web site as well.

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AOT #209: Ted Conover Podcasts The Routes of Man

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Ted Conover is the author most recently of the National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing. Conover reads from and discusses his new book The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today, an absorbing book about roads and their power to change the world. Roads bind our world-metaphorically and literally-transforming landscapes and the lives of the people who inhabit them. Roads have unparalleled power to impact communities, unite worlds and sunder them, and reveal the hopes and fears of those who travel them. This spirited, urgent book reveals the costs and benefits of being connected-how, from ancient Rome to the present, roads have played a crucial role in human life, advancing civilization even as they set it back.

($26.95) Random House ISBN #978-1-4000-4244-9. You can visit Ted Conover’s official web site as well.

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AOT #208: Heidi Durrow Podcasts The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

Heidi Durrow has won the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition and the Chapter One Fiction Contest. She has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the American Scandinavian Foundation, and the Lois Roth Endowment, and a Fellowship for Emerging Writers from the Jerome Foundation. Durrow reads from and discusses her acclaimed debut novel The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, which tells the story of Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., who becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy. In the tradition of Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, here is a portrait of a young girl- and society’s ideas of race, class, and beauty. It is the winner of the Bellwether Prize for best fiction manuscript addressing issues of social justice.

($22.95) Algonquin ISBN #978-1-56512-680-0. You can visit Heidi Durrow’s official web site as well.

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AOT #207: Chris Cleave Podcasts Little Bee

Chris Cleave is a columnist for The Guardian newspaper in London, and his first novel, Incendiary, won the 2006 Somerset Maugham Award; was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; won the United States Book-of-the-Month Club’s First Fiction Award; and won the Prix Special du Jury at the French Prix des Lecteurs 2007. Cleave reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of his second novel, Little Bee , which was shortlisted for the prestigious Costa Award for Best Novel. “The voice that speaks from the first page of Chris Cleave’s Little Bee is one you might never have heard-the voice of a smart, wary, heartsick immigrant scarred by the terrors of her past….Read this urgent and wryly funny novel for its insights into simple humanity, the force that can disarm fear.”- O Magazine

($14.00) Simon & Schuster ISBN #978-1-41658-964-8. You can visit Chris Cleave’s official web site as well.

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AOT #206: Lisa See Podcasts Shanghai Girls

Lisa See, the bestselling author whose novels include Peony in Love, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, and Dragon Bones, reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of her novel Shanghai Girls. In 1937 Shanghai-the Paris of Asia-twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree-until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth. To repay his debts, he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from Los Angeles to find Chinese brides. As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, Pearl and May set out on the journey of a lifetime, from the Chinese countryside to the shores of America. Though inseparable best friends, the sisters also harbor petty jealousies and rivalries. Along the way they make terrible sacrifices, face impossible choices, and confront a devastating, life-changing secret, but through it all the two heroines of this astounding new novel hold fast to who they are-Shanghai girls.

($15.00) Random House ISBN #978-0-8129-8053-0. You can visit Lisa See’s official web site as well.

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