AOT #205: Joshua Ferris Podcasts The Unnamed

Joshua Ferris‘s first novel, Then We Came to the End, won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was a National Book Award finalist. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Best New American Voices, New Stories from the South, Prairie Schooner, and The Iowa Review. Ferris reads from and discusses his new novel The Unnamed, a dazzling novel about a marriage and a family and the unseen forces of nature and desire that seem to threaten them both. It is the heartbreaking story of a life taken for granted and what happens when that life is abruptly and irrevocably taken away.

($24.99) Reagan Arthur ISBN #978-0-316-03401-2. You can visit Joshua Ferris’s official web site as well.

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AOT #204: Connie Willis Podcasts Blackout

Connie Willis, who was recently inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, has received six Nebula Awards and ten Hugo Awards for her fiction. Her novel, Passage, was nominated for both awards, and her other acclaimed works include Doomsday Book, Lincoln’s Dreams, Bellwether, To Say Nothing of the Dog, and others. Willis discusses her new novel Blackout. In her first novel since 2002, Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds-great and small-of ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collide-and the result is at once intriguing, elusive, and frightening.

($26.00) Random House ISBN #978-0-553-80319-8. You can visit Connie Willis’s official web site as well.

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AOT #203: Robert Crais Podcasts The First Rule

Robert Crais, the New York Times-bestselling author who sets the standard for intense, powerful crime-writing, reads from and discusses his new novel The First Rule, a blistering thriller featuring Joe Pike and Elvis Cole. This astonishing novel finds Pike and Cole on an investigation that quickly entangles them both in a web of ancient grudges, blood ties, blackmail, vengeance, double crosses, and cutthroat criminality, and at the heart of it, an act so terrible even Pike and Cole have no way to measure it.

($26.95) Putnam ISBN #0-399-15613-5. You can visit Robert Crais’s official web site as well.

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AOT #202: Audrey Niffenegger Podcasts Her Fearful Symmetry

Audrey Niffenegger, author of the acclaimed, bestselling debut novel The Time Traveler’s Wife, reads from and discusses her new novel Her Fearful Symmetry. An unnerving, unforgettable and enchanting ghost story, Niffenegger’s spectacularly compelling second novel is about love and identity, secrets and sisterhood and the tenacity of life-even after death.

($26.99) Simon & Schuster ISBN #978-1-43916-539-3. You can visit Audrey Niffenegger’s official web site as well.

Please also listen to Audrey Niffenegger Podcast The Three Incestuous Sisters.

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Best of AOT: Before Hitting Hollywood, Carleen Brice Reads from Orange Mint and Honey

In Denver we get excited when a Tattered Cover employee graduates to “author,” when they go from dreaming of their words on the printed page to walking into one of the best independent book stores in the country to see their book displayed with pride at the store entrance.

We feel an extra bit of pride when one of these books becomes a Hollywood film, a trip Carleen Brice‘s Orange Mint and Honey will complete this Sunday, February 21 (8 PM ET/5 PM PT) as Sins of the Mother, based on Orange Mint and Honey, premiers on Lifetime Movie Network.

Boasting an all-start cast, Sins of the Mother stars Jill Scott (singer and star of the HBO original film The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency) as Nona. Nicole Beharie (American Violet) portrays Shay, and Mimi Rogers plays Nona’s sponsor Lois.

Let’s rewind nearly two years to February 2008, when Carleen Brice returned to her old haunts to find a packed house waiting for her to read from her debut novel. In this Best of Authors On Tour podcast, Carleen reads two passages from Orange Mint and Honey. If you’d like to hear more, you can also listen to Carleen podcast her second novel, Children of the Waters

The Battle For The Spirits Of Mankind by V.W. Thomson

The Battle for the Spirits of Mankind uses the whole Bible to seek answers to such questions as: Who is the devil? Where did he come from? Of whom does the Godhead consist? Who is in charge of the Universe now? Who will say when time shall be no more? What will happen on Judgment Day? Who records names in the Book of Life after the persons have met certain commands?

For only those whose names are in the Book of Life will be able to go to Heaven, which is our whole purpose for living on this Earth.

Xlibris, $34.99, ISBN#: 978-1-4363-2592-9

AOT #201: Stephen Hunter Podcasts I, Sniper

Award winning author Stephen Hunter reads from and discusses his new thriller I, Sniper. Filled with Hunter’s signature blend of brilliant plotting, vivid characters, razor-sharp dialogue, and extraordinary gunfights, this novel will satisfy Stephen Hunter’s legions of fans and win him droves of new ones.

($26.00) Simon & Schuster ISBN #978-1-41-656515-4 .

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Six Days Till Sunday by Fred Gaertner

Aaron the Wayshower is the author’s spokesman who appears in each of a series of novels to combat some form of subhuman behavior. In Six Days Till Sunday, he visits America’s antebellum South (1855 – 1857) to oppose the institution of human bondage.

He’s not just another great teacher. He is the procreator of a Life-Stream which includes Earthlings as a tiny fraction of his total Progeny. Even more important, the totality of his responsibilities is similar in scope to that which each of us must one day assume!

Xlibris, $19.54, ISBN#: 978-1-4134-8816-6

AOT #200: David Wroblewski Podcasts The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

David Wroblewski reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of his extraordinary debut novel The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Filled with breathtaking scenes-the elemental north woods, the sweep of seasons, an iconic American barn, a fateful vision rendered in the falling rain-The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a meditation on the limits of language and what lies beyond, a brilliantly inventive retelling of an ancient story, and an epic tale of devotion, betrayal, and courage in the American heartland.

($26.99) Ecco ISBN #978-0-06-137423-4. You can visit David Wroblewski’s official web site as well.

Please also listen to David Wroblewski’s podcast recorded while on book tour for The Story of Edgar Sawtelle hardcover edition.

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AOT #199: Zachary Lazar Podcasts Evening’s Empire

Zachary Lazar, whose novel Sway was named one of the Best Books of 2008 by Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications, reads from and discusses his new book Evening’s Empire: The Story of My Father’s Murder. When he was just six years old, Lazar’s father, Edward, was shot dead by hit men in a Phoenix, Arizona, parking garage. The year was 1975, a time when, according to the Arizona Republic, “land-fraud artists roamed the state in sharp suits, gouging money from buyers and investors.” How did his father fit into this world and how could his son ever truly understand the man, his time and place, and his motivations? In Evening’s Empire, Lazar brilliantly attempts to reconstruct the sequence of events that led to his father’s murder.

($24.99) Little, Brown ISBN #978-0-316-03768-6.

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