AOT #420: Michio Kaku Podcasts The Future of the Mind

Michio Kaku is the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at the CUNY Graduate Center, a leader in the field of theoretical physics, and cofounder of string field theory. Kaku, the New York Times best-selling author of Physics of the Impossible, Physics of the Future and Hyperspace, discusses his new book The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind. With Dr. Kaku’s deep understanding of modern science and keen eye for future developments, The Future of the Mind is a scientific tour de force – an extraordinary, mind-boggling exploration of the frontiers of neuroscience.

($27.95) Doubleday ISBN # 9780385530828. You can visit Michio Kaku‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #419: Jennifer McMahon Podcasts The Winter People

Jennifer McMahon, the author of six novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Island of Lost Girls and Promise Not to Tell, reads from and discusses her new novel The Winter People. West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter, Gertie. In this simmering literary thriller, McMahon explores ghostly secrets, dark choices, and the unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters…sometimes too unbreakable.

($25.99) Doubleday ISBN # 9780385538497. You can visit Jennifer McMahon‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #418: TaraShea Nesbit Podcasts The Wives of Los Alamos

TaraShea Nesbit reads from and discusses her critically-acclaimed debut novel The Wives of Los Alamos. Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London, Chicago-and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship as they were forced to adapt to a rugged military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. “I am in awe of this novel. TaraShea Nesbit’s brave and brilliant choice of point of view for these women living inside their earth-shattering secret crucible brings home to us in the fullest way possible that our personal story is never just ours. The Wives of Los Alamos will be read and re-read and remembered.” – Gail Godwin

($25.00) Bloomsbury ISBN # 9781620405031. You can visit TaraShea Nesbit‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #417: Len Vlahos Podcasts The Scar Boys

Len Vlahos, former punk-pop indie band guitar player, longtime American Booksellers Association staffer-turned-COO, now executive director of the Book Industry Study Group, reads from and discusses his debut novel for teen readers The Scar Boys. In attempting to describe himself in his college application essay, Harbinger (Harry) Jones goes way beyond the 250-word limit and gives a full account of his life. A severely burned teenager, a guitar, punk rock-each a chord of a rock ‘n’ roll road trip that is a must-read story about finding your place in the world…even if you carry scars inside and out.

($17.99) Egmont USA ISBN # 9781606844397. You can visit Len Vlahos‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #416: Willy Vlautin Podcasts The Free

Willy Vlautin, the award-winning author of The Motel Life, Northline and Lean on Pete, reads from and discusses his new novel The Free. “Courageous, powerful, and mercifully refreshing, The Free is nothing less than an affirmation, that rare novel about lost souls which dares to be hopeful in the face of despair. Vlautin’s hard knock characters will break your heart with their humanity and grace.”-Jonathan Evison, author of West of Here and The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving

($14.99) HarperCollins ISBN # 9780062276742. You can visit Willy Vlautin‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #415: Nancy Sharp Podcasts Both Sides Now: A True Story of Love, Loss and Bold Living

Colorado author and blogger Nancy Sharp reads from and discusses her memoir Both Sides Now: A True Story of Love, Loss and Bold Living. Sharp’s moving story hinges on the day she delivered premature twins and her husband’s brain cancer returned after eighteen months in remission. In plainspoken language the story moves back through Nancy and her husband’s courtship and marriage-and forward through his death when the twins were two and a half, and onward as Sharp moved to Denver and fell in love once again.

($16.95) Books & Books Press ISBN # 9780983937869. You can visit Nancy Sharp‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #414: Ishmael Beah Podcasts Radiance of Tomorrow

When Ishmael Beah‘s A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone’s civil war and the fate of child soldiers that “everyone in the world should read” (The Washington Post). Beah, whom Dave Eggers has called “arguably the most read African writer in contemporary literature,” reads from and discusses his debut novel Radiance of Tomorrow, an affecting, tender parable about postwar life in Sierra Leone.

($25.00) FS&G ISBN # 9780374246022. You can visit Ishmael Beah‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #413: Lisa Unger Podcasts In the Blood

Award-winning, internationally bestselling mystery writer Lisa Unger reads from and discusses her new book In the Blood. “In the Blood is a psychological thriller that played me — in the best sense — from beginning to surprising end. I guarantee Lisa Unger will pull the rug out from under you more than once, so hold tight.” – Andrew Pyper

($25.99) Simon & Schuster ISBN # 9781451691177. You can visit Lisa Unger‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #412: George Saunders Podcasts Tenth of December

George Saunders, one of the most important and original writers of his generation, and an undisputed master of the short story, reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of his bestselling collection Tenth of December. “A feat of inventiveness . . . This eclectic collection never ceases to delight with its at times absurd, surreal, and darkly humorous look at very serious subjects. . . . George Saunders makes you feel as though you are reading fiction for the first time.”- Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner

($15.00) Random House ISBN # 9780812984255. You can visit George Saunders‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #411: James Scott Podcasts The Kept

Debut novelist James Scott reads from and discusses his acclaimed first book The Kept. Set in rural New York state at the turn of the twentieth century, The Kept is a propulsive novel reminiscent of the works of Michael Ondaatje, Cormac McCarthy, and Bonnie Jo Campbell, in which a mother and her young son embark on a quest to avenge a terrible and violent tragedy that has shattered their secluded family. “With its vivid sense of time and place, lyrical writing, and complex questions of what constitutes a family, The Kept is an outstanding debut by a bright new voice in American fiction.” – Ron Rash, author of Nothing Gold Can Stay

($25.99) HarperCollins ISBN # 9780062236739. You can visit James Scott‘s official web site as well.

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