AOT #449: Craig Johnson Podcasts Wait for Signs: Twelve Longmire Stories

Bestselling Wyoming mystery author Craig Johnson reads from and discusses his new book Wait for Signs, a collection of twelve Walt Longmire stories, including one never-before-published story. The Denver Post has said of Johnson’s work, “Stepping into Walt’s world is like slipping on a favorite pair of slippers, and it’s where those slippers lead that provides a thrill. Johnson pens a series that should become a ‘must’ read, so curl up, get comfortable, and enjoy the ride.”

($22.00) Viking ISBN # 9780525427919. You can visit Craig Johnson‘s official web site as well.

AOT #448: Paolo Giordano Podcasts The Human Body

Paolo Giordano, the bestselling author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers, reads from and discusses his new novel The Human Body, a searing novel of war and the journey from youth into manhood. A heartrending, redemptive story about brotherhood and family, modern war and the wars we wage with ourselves, Giordano’s visceral novel reminds us what it is to be human.

($27.95) Pamela Dorman Books ISBN # 9780670015641. You can visit Paolo Giordano‘s official web site as well.

AOT #447: Matthew Inman Podcasts The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances

Best-selling author, Matthew Inman, creator of The Oatmeal, discusses his new book The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances. This hilarious, beautiful, poignant collection of comics and stories about running, eating, and one cartoonist’s reasons for jogging across mountains, contains over 70 pages of never-before-seen material. “He runs. He sweats. He heaves. He hates it. He loves it. He runs so hard his toenails fall off. He asks himself, why? Why do I do this? Here, gorgeously, bravely, hilariously, is Matt’s deeply honest answer.” – Robert Krulwich, NPR

($16.99) Andrews McMeel ISBN # 9781449459956. You can visit Matthew Inman‘s official web site as well.

AOT #446: Adriana Lisboa Podcasts Crow Blue

Brazilian author Adriana Lisboa reads from and discusses her new novel Crow Blue, “a classic coming-of-age narrative that also explores the dark side of Brazil’s political history.” (The Observer) Rendered in lyrical and passionate prose, Crow Blue is a literary road trip through Brazil and America, and through dark decades of familial and political history.

($16.00) Bloomsbury ISBN # 9781620403365. You can visit Adriana Lisboa‘s official web site as well.

AOT #445: Les Claypool & Larry Lalonde Podcast Primus, Over the Electric Grapevine

Les Claypool and Larry Lalonde discuss the new book Primus, Over the Electric Grapevine: Insight Into Primus and the World of Les Claypool, an oral history of the legendary band Primus, with a star-studded cast of interviewees. This fascinating and beautifully curated oral history tells the tale of this truly one-of-a-kind band. Compiled from nearly fifty all-new interviews conducted by journalist/author Greg Prato-including Primus members past and present and many more fellow musicians-this book is sure to appeal to longtime fans of the band, as well as admirers of the musicians interviewed for the book.

($24.95) Akashic Books ISBN # 9781617753220. You can visit Primus‘s official web site as well.

AOT #444: William Kent Krueger Podcasts Windigo Island

Bestselling mystery author William Kent Krueger reads from and discusses Windigo Island, which finds Cork O’Connor battling vicious villains, both mythical and modern, to rescue a young girl. “A punch-to-the-gut blend of detective story and investigative fiction…. Krueger has written an investigative novel as blistering and crucial in its indictments of contemporary evil as The Jungle.”- Booklist (starred review)

($24.99) Atria ISBN # 9781476749235. You can visit William Kent Krueger‘s official web site as well.

AOT #443: Susan Spann Podcasts Blade of the Samurai

Susan Spann reads from and discusses her new novel Blade of the Samurai: A Shinobi Mystery. “After her exciting historical mystery debut, Claws of the Cat, Spann proves she has the touch in her sophomore entry. The deceptively simple prose educates readers about 16th-century Japan, while the well-plotted story moves at ninja speed.” —Library Journal

($26.99) Minotaur ISBN # 9781250027054. You can visit Susan Spann‘s official web site as well.

AOT #443: Anne Waldman & Laura Wright Podcast Cross Worlds, Eleni Sikelianos Podcasts You Animal Machine

Editor Anne Waldman is the author of more than forty collections of poetry, the editor of numerous anthologies, and, for The Iovis Trilogy, the winner of the Shelley Memorial Award and the USA PEN Center Award for Poetry. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Waldman reads from and discusses Cross Worlds: Transcultural Poetics: An Anthology, along with poet and translator Laura Wright, who co-edited the collection.

($18.95) Coffee House Press ISBN # 978-1-56689-358-9. You can visit Anne Waldman‘s official web site as well.

Eleni Sikelianos is the author of six previous books of poetry, most recently Body Clock and The California Poem; the hybrid memoir, The Book of Jon; and a translation of Jacques Roubaud’s Exchanges on Light. Sikelianos reads from and discusses You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek), a memoir of Melena, five-times married, mother, burlesque dancer, and “the hardest-assed woman to ever eat wood and bite nails.”

($18.95) Coffee House Press ISBN # 978-1-56689-360-2.

AOT #442: James Rollins Podcasts The 6th Extinction

New York Times bestselling thriller writer James Rollins discusses his new book The 6th Extinction: A SIGMA Force Novel. From millennia-old secrets out of the frozen past to mysteries buried deep in the darkest jungles of today, Sigma will face its greatest challenge to date: stopping the coming extinction of mankind.

($27.99) William Morrow ISBN # 9780061784811. You can visit James Rollins‘s official web site as well.

AOT #441: Spencer Quinn Podcasts Paw and Order

Stephen King has called Chet “a canine Sam Spade full of joie de vivre,” and Robert B. Parker dubbed Spencer Quinn‘s writing “major league prose.” Listen to Quinn as he reads from and discusses his new book Paw and Order: A Chet and Bernie Mystery. In the seventh book in this brilliant bestselling mystery series, canine narrator Chet and P.I. Bernie journey to Washington, DC, and the dog-eat-dog world of our nation’s capital.

($25.00) Atria ISBN # 9781476703398. You can visit Spencer Quinn‘s official web site as well.

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