Buddha by Deepak Chopra

In this major new work, New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra brings the teachings of the East to the West as he breathes life into the iconic path of Buddha.

HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95, May 1, 2007, ISBN#: 0060878800

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2007 in New York City.

AOT #166: Stephen Mitchell Podcasts The Second Book of the Tao

Bestselling author and translator Stephen Mitchell reads from and discusses his new book The Second Book of the Tao. The most widely translated book in world literature after the Bible, Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living. Following the phenomenal success of his own version of the Tao Te Ching, Mitchell has composed this innovative new book drawn from the work of Lao-tzu’s disciple Chuang-tzu and Confucius’s grandson Tzu-ssu. He has selected the freshest, clearest teachings from these two great students of the Tao and adapted them into versions that reveal the poetry, depth, and humor of the original texts with a thrilling new power.

($25.95) Penguin ISBN #1-59420-203-6. You can visit Stephen Mitchell’s official web site as well.

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AOT #165: Jeffrey Siger Podcasts Murder in Mykonos

Jeffrey Siger left his life as a lawyer in New York City to write about mystery and intrigue on his beloved Greek island paradise of Mykonos–as only a local could. Siger reads from and discusses his new mystery Murder in Mykonos. “Siger captures the rare beauty of the Greek islands in this series debut, the first serial killer thriller published by Poisoned Pen. His sense of place recalls Donna Leon’s Venetian series, but his portrayal of rape and murder is all his own.”–Library Journal

($24. 95) Poisoned Pen Press ISBN #1-59058-581-x. You can visit Jeffrey Siger’s official web site as well.

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AOT #164: Abraham Verghese Podcasts Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese, the author of The Tennis Partner, a New York Times Notable Book, and My Own Country, a National Book Critics Circle finalist, discusses his first novel Cutting for Stone. This sweeping, emotionally riveting novel is an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. It takes readers on an unforgettable journey into one man’s remarkable life, and offers an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others.

($26.95) Knopf ISBN #0-375-41449-5. You can visit Abraham Verghese’s official web site as well.

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AOT #163: Jamie Ford Podcasts Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Jamie Ford is an award-winning short-story writer, an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and a survivor of Orson Scott Card’s Literary Boot Camp. Ford reads from and discusses his critically acclaimed debut novel Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. “A tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost forever, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet gives us a glimpse of the damage that is caused by war–not the sweeping damage of the battlefield, but the cold, cruel damage to the hearts and humanity of individual people. Especially relevant in today’s world, this is a beautifully written book that will make you think. And, more importantly, it will make you feel.”–Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain

($24.00) Ballantine ISBN #0-345-50533-6. You can visit Jamie Ford’s official web site as well.

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AOT #162: Jacqueline Winspear Podcasts Among the Mad

New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear reads from and discusses Among the Mad, her thrilling new mystery in which Maisie Dobbs must catch a madman before he commits murder on an unimaginable scale. In Among the Mad, Winspear combines a heart-stopping story with a rich evocation of a fascinating period to create her most compelling and satisfying novel yet.

($25. 00) Henry Holt ISBN #0-8050-8216-6. You can visit Jacqueline Winspear’s official web site as well.

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AOT #161: Allegra Huston Podcasts Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found

Allegra Huston reads from and discusses her fascinating memoir Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found. When Allegra Huston was four years old, her mother was killed in a car crash. Soon after, she was introduced to her father, the legendary film director John Huston. Then, at the age of twelve, she was, once more, introduced to her father—her real one this time, the British aristocrat and historian John Julius Norwich.

($26.95) Simon and Schuster ISBN #978-1-41655-1577. You can visit Allegra Huston’s official web site as well.

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AOT #160: Dana Canedy Podcasts A Journal for Jordan

Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and journalist Dana Canedy reads from and discusses A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor. In 2005, Canedy’s husband, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King, began to write a journal for his son in case he did not make it home from the war in Iraq. He was killed on October 14, 2006, when an improvised explosive device detonated under his Humvee on an isolated road near Baghdad. His son, Jordan, was seven months old. This book is Canedy’s letter to her son-fierce in its honesty-about the father he lost before he could even speak. It is also a father’s advice and prayers for the son he will never know.

($25.95) Crown ISBN #0-307-39579-0.

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AOT #159: David Eagleman Podcasts SUM: 40 Tales from the Afterlives

Neuroscientist David Eagleman currently runs a research lab where he studies time perception, synesthesia, and how neuroscience will influence the legal system. At night he writes fiction. Eagleman reads from and discusses his new collection SUM: 40 Tales from the Afterlives, a dazzling exploration of funny and unexpected afterlives that have never been considered–each presented as a vignette that offers us a stunning lens through which to see ourselves here and now.

($20.00) Random House ISBN # 0-307-37734-2. You can visit David Eagleman’s official web site as well.

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AOT #158: Christopher Moore Podcasts Fool

Christopher Moore, whose bitingly witty and fantastical tales include the bestsellers Lamb, A Dirty Job, and You Suck, reads from and discusses his hilarious and raunchy new novel Fool. Taking on no less than the legendary Bard himself (with the utmost humility and respect), Moore’s story is a twisted and insanely funny tale of a moronic monarch and his deceitful daughters. A rousing story of plots, subplots, counterplots, betrayals, war, revenge, bared bosoms, unbridled lust, and a ghost (there’s always a bloody ghost), as seen through the eyes of a man wearing a codpiece and bells on his head.

($26.99) William Morrow ISBN #978-0-06-059031-4. You can visit Christopher Moore’s official web site as well.

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