AOT #107: Frances Richey Podcasts The Warrior: A Mother’s Story of a Son at War

Frances Richey reads from and discusses The Warrior: A Mother’s Story of a Son at War, her stunning, urgent, and heart-wrenching memoir, written in verse, about a mother who sees her son, a Green Beret and captain in the Army, go off for two tours of duty in Iraq. The Warrior centers around a mother’s love for her son, a son from whom she feels distant both literally and metaphorically, for she is a liberal who is against the war, but who realizes that she needs to accept and support the choice her son has made, and to try to understand what has drawn him to the military life. The poems explore the agonizing process of a mother who is always saying goodbye to her son, missing her son, praying for her son, waiting for her son to come home.

($21.95) Viking ISBN #978-0-670-01961-8. You can visit Frances Richey’s official web site as well.

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AOT #106: Jane Smiley Podcasts Ten Days in the Hills

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of her bestselling book Ten Days in the Hills. With its breathtaking passion and sexy irreverence, Ten Days in the Hills is “a blazing farce, a fiery satire of contemporary celebrity culture and a rich, simmering meditation on the price of war and fame and desire.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review

($14.95) Anchor ISBN #1-40003-320-9.

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AOT #105: Isabel Allende Podcasts The Sum of Our Days

Award-winning novelist Isabel Allende reads from and discusses her new book The Sum of Our Days, the sequel to her bestselling memoir Paula. In this heartfelt memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of tragic loss-the death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, The Sum of Our Days is a portrait of a contemporary family, bound together by the love, fierce loyalty, and stubborn determination of a beloved, indomitable matriarch.

($26.95) HarperCollins ISBN #978-0-06-155183-3. You can visit Isabel Allende’s official web site as well.

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AOT #104: Lisa Daily Podcasts Fifteen Minutes of Shame

Relationship expert and non-fiction author Lisa Daily reads from and discusses Fifteen Minutes of Shame, a hilarious debut novel that will delight fans of Jane Green and Sophie Kinsella. What happens when America’s favorite dating expert finds out on national television that her husband is cheating on her? Darby Vaughn’s fifteen minutes of fame quickly becomes fifteen minutes of shame when the story of her divorce is splashed across supermarket tabloids. If Darby takes her philandering husband back, her career will be over. If she doesn’t, she’ll lose the only man she’s ever loved. As she rebuilds her life with help from her girlfriends, Darby has to make some tough choices, but she stays true to her heart every step of the way.

($14.00) Plume ISBN #0-452-28913-0. You can visit Lisa Daily’s official web site as well.

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AOT #103: Pam Anderson Podcasts The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight and Eating Great

Pam Anderson, the author of The Perfect Recipe, which won a Julia Child Award, CookSmart, and Perfect Recipes for Having People Over, discusses her new book The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight and Eating Great. Filled with voice-of-experience tips for curbing appetite (she is still maintaining her forty-pound weight loss), no-nonsense shortcuts for getting food on the table pronto, and recipes that could only have been developed by this food-loving pro-this new book offers no compromises, no wasted steps, just extraordinary results from ordinary ingredients.

($27.00) Houghton Mifflin ISBN # 0-618-83596-2.

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AOT #102: Benjamin Black Podcasts The Silver Swan

Benjamin Black is the pen name of acclaimed author John Banville, whose novels have won numerous awards, most recently the Man Booker Prize in 2005 for The Sea. Black reads from his new mystery, The Silver Swan, his sequel to Christine Falls. In this haunting, masterfully written, and utterly mesmerizing story, Quirke, the irascible, formerly hard-drinking Dublin pathologist, returns in this spellbinding crime novel, in which a young woman’s dubious suicide sets off a new string of hazards and deceptions.

($25.00) Henry Holt ISBN #0-8050-8153-4. You can visit Benjamin Black’s official web site as well.

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AOT #101: Manil Suri Podcasts The Age of Shiva

Manil Suri‘s critically acclaimed first novel The Death of Vishnu was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Suri reads from his long awaited new novel The Age of Shiva, a mesmerizing story of modern India, richly layered with themes from Hindu mythology. The Age of Shiva is at once a powerful story of a country in turmoil and an extraordinary portrait of maternal love.

($24.95) W.W. Norton ISBN #978-0-393-06569-5. You can visit Manil Suri’s official web site as well.

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AOT #100: Rick Steves Podcasts Europe Through the Back Door 2008

Travel guru, bestselling author, and PBS personality Rick Steves offers travel tips and discusses his many books, including Europe Through the Back Door 2008 and Europe 101: History and Art for the Traveler.

($21.95) Avalon Travel ISBN #1-56691-853-7. You can visit Rick Steves’s official web site as well.

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AOT #99: Carleen Brice Podcasts Orange Mint and Honey

Local author Carleen Brice reads from her debut novel Orange Mint and Honey. “The marriage of historical confidence with creativity brings forth the first novel by Carleen Brice. Orange Mint and Honey makes use of the oldest of relationships: mothers and daughters. Looking at the plights of love, forgiveness, understanding and redemption brings to this first novel a fresh and unique feel. A wonderful jazzy exciting read.”-poet and activist Nikki Giovanni

($13.95) One World ISBN #0-345-49906-9. You can visit Carleen Brice’s official web site as well.

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AOT #98: Russell Banks Podcasts The Reserve

Russell Banks, the acclaimed author whose works include Cloudsplitter and Continental Drift, reads from his new novel The Reserve. Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Banks’s sharp-witted and deeply engaging new novel raises dangerous questions about class, politics, art, love, and madness-and explores what happens when two powerful personalities, trapped at opposite ends of a social divide, begin to break the rules.

($24.95) HarperCollins ISBN #978-0-06-143025-1.

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