AOT #147: Peter Greenberg Podcasts Don’t Go There – The Travel Detective’s Essential Guide to the Must-Miss Places of the World

Peter Greenberg is the travel editor for NBC’s Today Show and America Online. Considered the nation’s preeminent expert on travel, his bestselling books include The Travel Detective, Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective, The Traveler’s Diet, and The Complete Travel Detective Bible. Greenberg discusses his new book Don’t Go There: The Travel Detective’s Essential Guide to the Must-Miss Places of the World. In this follow-up to The Complete Travel Detective Bible, Greenberg offers his expert, hard-won knowledge of where not to go and why.

($17.95) Rodale ISBN #1-60529-994-4. You can visit Peter Greenberg’s official web site as well.

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AOT #146: Katherine Neville Podcasts The Fire

Bestselling author Katherine Neville reads from and discusses her long anticipated new book The Fire. Neville’s groundbreaking novel The Eight dazzled audiences more than twenty years ago and set the literary stage for the epic thriller. A quest for a mystical chess service that once belonged to Charlemagne, the story spans two centuries and three continents, and intertwines historic and modern plots, archaeological treasure hunts, esoteric riddles, and puzzles encrypted with clues from the ancient past. Now the electrifying global adventure continues, in Neville’s sequel The Fire.

($26.00) Ballantine ISBN #0-345-50067-9. You can visit Katherine Neville’s official web site as well.

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AOT #145: Gene Guerin Podcasts The Song of Jonah

Denver author Gene Guerin, whose novel Cottonwood Saints won the 2006 Premio Aztlan award, a national award for first-time Hispanic authors, and the 2007 Mountain and Plains Independent Booksellers Association award for best adult fiction, reads from and discusses The Song of Jonah. In this modern retelling of the Book of Jonah, a charismatic but brash young priest accustomed to hobnobbing with the upper crust of New England society is exiled to the Archdiocese of Santa Fe in the early 1960s.

($18.95) University of New Mexico Press ISBN #0-8263-4336-8.

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AOT #144: Liz Robbins Podcasts A Race Like No Other: 26.2 Miles Through the Streets of New York

New York Times sportswriter Liz Robbins reads from and discusses her new book A Race Like No Other: 26.2 Miles Through the Streets of New York. When 39,195 competitors begin the thirty-eighth running of the famed New York City Marathon, they experience one of the most exhilarating moments in sports. But as they cross over bridges and through boroughs, carried 26.2 miles by the cheers of two million fans and by their own indomitable wills, grueling challenges await them. Robbins brings race day to life in this gripping saga of the 2007 Marathon, weaving the unforgettable stories of runners into a vibrant mile-by-mile portrait of the world’s largest marathon.

($24.95) HarperCollins ISBN #0-06-137313-3. You can visit Liz Robbins’s official web site as well.

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AOT #143: Randall Stross Podcasts Planet Google

Acclaimed New York Times columnist Randall Stross discusses his new book Planet Google: One Company’s Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know. Based on unprecedented access he received to the highly secretive “Googleplex,” this book takes readers deep inside Google, the most important, most innovative, and most ambitious company of the Internet Age. Stross’s access to those who have spearheaded so many of Google’s new initiatives, his penetrating research into the company’s strategy, and his gift for lively storytelling produce an entertaining, deeply informed, and provocative examination of the company’s audacious vision for the future and the consequences not only for the business world, but for our culture at large.

($26.00) Free Press ISBN # 1-41654-691-x. You can visit Randall Stross’s official web site as well.

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AOT #142: William Least Heat-Moon Podcasts Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey

William Least Heat-Moon‘s first book Blue Highways was acclaimed as a classic–a travel book like no other. Quirky, discursive, endlessly curious, Heat-Moon had embarked on a journey off the beaten path. Sticking to the small places via the small roads-those colored blue on maps-he uncovered a nation deep in character, story, and charm. Heat-Moon reads from and discusses his new book Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey, his newest adventure on the back roads-a lyrical, funny, and touching account of a series of American journeys into small-town America.

($27.99) Little, Brown ISBN #0-316-11025-6.

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AOT #141: Sandra Lee Podcasts Semi-Homemade

Sandra Lee, the host of the Food Network’s Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee, is a popular television personality and internationally-acclaimed home and style expert who has revolutionized the way people think about homemade. Lee, whose new books include Semi-Homemade Desserts 2, Semi-Homemade Fast Fix Family Favorites, and Semi-Homemade Money Saving Meals discusses her books.

($19.95) Meredith ISBN #0-696-24181-1. You can visit Sandra Lee’s official web site as well.

AOT #140: John Grogan Podcasts The Longest Trip Home

John Grogan, author of the international bestseller Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog, reads from and discusses his new book The Longest Trip Home: A Memoir, a book about mortality and grace, spirit and faith, and the powerful love of family. With his trademark blend of humor and pathos that made Marley & Me beloved by millions, Grogan traces the universal journey each of us must take to find our unique place in the world.

($25.95) Morrow ISBN #0-06-171324-4. You can visit John Grogan’s official web site as well.

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AOT #139: Louis Sachar Podcasts Holes

Newbery Award-winning author Louis Sachar is the creator of the entertaining Marvin Redpost books as well as the much-loved There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom, winner of 17 child-voted state awards. His book Holes, winner of the 1999 Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, is also an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA Quick Pick, an ALA Notable Book, and was made into a major motion picture. Sachar reads from and discusses the 10th anniversary edition of Holes.

($18.00) Farrar, Straus, and Giroux ISBN #978-0-374-33266-2. You can visit Louis Sachar’s official web site as well.

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AOT #138: Alice Schroeder Podcasts The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

Alice Schroeder was a noted insurance industry analyst and writer who was a managing director at Morgan Stanley when she first met Warren Buffett. Schroeder discusses her new biography of her friend The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. This is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as “The Oracle of Omaha.”

($30.00) Bantam Dell ISBN #0-553-80509-6. You can visit Alice Schroeder’s official web site as well.

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