AOT #127: William Dewey Podcasts Without a Soul to Move

Former Tattered Cover staff member William Dewey reads from and discusses his new novel Without a Soul to Move. In Denver, Colorado, three men are trying, with strange elegance, to extract meaning from their wilting lives: Howie struggles with the demise of a love that was never quite whole to begin with; Wayne attempts to create a world defined by his absence; and Adam plots a quixotic war against suffering itself. Their wonderful, relatively sane efforts all coalesce as the winter confines of a snowbound Denver close in around them. With graceful writing and an easy understanding of the humor and sadness of the everyday, Without a Soul to Move reveals the brilliant and complex shadows cast by the seemingly ordinary.

($16.05) Lawrence and Gibson ISBN # 978-0-473-13451-8. You can visit William Dewey’s official web site as well.

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AOT #126: Nancy Pelosi Podcasts Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters

Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the House in 2007 after serving twenty years in Congress. She and her husband Paul have been married for forty-five years, and she is the mother of five children and the grandmother of seven. Pelosi speaks with Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper about her new book Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters. When Nancy Pelosi became the first woman Speaker of the House, she made history. She gaveled the House to order that day on behalf of all of America’s children and said, “We have made history, now let us make progress.” Now, in her book, she continues to inspire women everywhere with a thought-provoking collection of wise words-her own and those of the important people who played pivotal roles in her journey.

($23.95) Doubleday ISBN #978-0-385-52586-2. You can visit Nancy Pelosi’s official web site as well.

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AOT #125: David Carr Podcasts The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own

New York Times columnist David Carr reads from and discusses The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own. In his book, Carr redefines memoir with the revelatory story of his years as an addict and chronicles his journey from crack-house regular to regular columnist for The New York Times. Built on sixty videotaped interviews, legal and medical records, and three years of reporting, The Night of the Gun is a ferocious tale that uses the tools of journalism to fact-check the past. Carr’s investigation of his own history reveals that his odyssey through addiction, recovery, cancer, and life as a single parent was far more harrowing-and, in the end, more miraculous-than he allowed himself to remember.

($26.00) Simon and Schuster ISBN #1-41654-152-7. You can visit David Carr’s official web site as well.

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AOT #124: J. Maarten Troost Podcasts Lost on Planet China

J. Maarten Troost is the author of Getting Stoned with Savages and The Sex Lives of Cannibals, and his essays have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Post, and the Prague Post. Troost reads from and discusses his new travel tale Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man’s Attempt to Understand the World’s Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid.

($22.95) Broadway ISBN #978-0-7679-2200-5.

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AOT #123: Kate Veitch Podcasts Without a Backward Glance

Australian journalist Kate Veitch reads from and discusses her debut novel Without a Backward Glance, a deeply felt novel of family, choices, and coming to terms with the past. On a stifling Christmas Eve in 1967 the lives of the McDonald children–Deborah, Robert, James, and Meredith–changed forever. Their mother, Rosemarie, told them she was running out to buy some lights for the tree and she never came back. The children were left with their father, and a gnawing question: why had their mother abandoned them? Veitch’s family portrait reveals the joys and sorrows, the complexity and ambiguity of family life, and poignantly probes what it means to love and what it means to leave.

($14.00) Plume ISBN #0-425-28947-5. You can visit Kate Veitch’s official web site as well.

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AOT #122: Lisa Lillien Podcasts Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World

Lisa Lillien is not a nutritionist, she’s just hungry. She is the founder of www.hungry-girl.com, and close to half a million loyal fans receive her daily emails containing guilt-free recipes, food and product reviews, dieting news, shockers, and more. Lillien will discusses her new book Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World. From breakfast ideas and chopped salads to guilt-free junk food and cocktails, Hungry Girl recipes taste great but are low in fat and calories.

($17.95) St. Martin’s ISBN #0-312-37742-8. You can visit Lisa Lillien’s official web site as well.

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AOT #121: David Iglesias Podcasts In Justice: Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Bush Administration

David Iglesias served as United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico from 2001 to 2007. He headed a panel that advised former Attorney General John Ashcroft on border security issues. A former White House Fellow, he is also a captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve. Iglesias discusses his new book In Justice: Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Bush Administration. The Bush administration’s drive to politicize the Justice Department reached a new low with the wrongful firing of seven U.S. Attorneys in late 2006. Their action has ignited public outrage on a scale that far surpassed the reaction to any of the Bush administration’s other political debacles. David Iglesias was one of those federal prosecutors, and now he tells his story.

($25.95) Wiley ISBN #0-470-26197-8.

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AOT #120: David Sirota Podcasts The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington

Political organizer and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist David Sirota‘s first book, Hostile Takeover, was a New York Times bestseller. Sirota blogs at credoaction.com/sirota, and his column runs weekly in the Denver Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and Seattle Times, as well as in other newspapers. He is a senior fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future and the founder of the Progressive States Network-both nonpartisan research institutions. Sirota discusses his new book The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington.

($25.95) Crown Publishing Group ISBN #0-307-39563-4. You can visit David Sirota’s official web site as well.

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AOT #119: Darin Strauss Podcasts More Than It Hurts You

Darin Strauss, the acclaimed author of Chang and Eng, discusses his new novel More Than It Hurts You. This literary showstopper is a beautifully realized novel that at its heart is the story of a woman who will risk everything to feel something; a doctor whose diagnosis brings her entire life into question; and a man who suddenly realizes that being a good husband and a good father can no longer comfortably coexist.

“Darin Strauss’s latest is an eviscerating portrayal of contemporary American life, surgical and exact. At turns funny and disturbing, unsparing in its insights yet generous with understanding, More Than It Hurts You is a relentlessly rewarding piece of art.”-Colson Whitehead, author of Apex Hides the Hurt

($24.95) Dutton ISBN #978-0-525-95070-7. You can visit Darin Strauss’s official web site as well.

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AOT #118: Andre Dubus III Podcasts The Garden of Last Days

Andre Dubus III, the author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club selection House of Sand and Fog, reads from and discusses his new novel The Garden of Last Days. This big-hearted, painful, page-turning novel, set in the seamy underside of American life, juxtaposes lust for domination with hunger for connection, sexual violence with family love. It is filled with the same psychological tension, depth, and realism that characterized House of Sand and Fog-and an even greater sense of the dark and anguished places in the human heart

($24.95) W. W. Norton ISBN #0-393-04165-4.

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