AOT #390: Sam Halpern Podcasts A Far Piece to Canaan

Sam Halpern, whose salty paternal wisdom made his son Justin Halpern’s Sh*t My Dad Says a phenomenal bestseller, reads from and discusses his debut novel A Far Piece to Canaan. Inspired by Halpern’s own childhood in rural Kentucky, this novel tells the story of of Samuel Zelinsky, a celebrated but troubled former professor who reluctantly returns after his wife’s death to the Kentucky hills where he lived as a child to reconnect with long-buried memories and make good on a forgotten promise.

($14.99) HarperCollins ISBN # 9780062233165.

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AOT #389: Chris Bohjalian Podcasts The Light in the Ruins

Chris Bohjalian, the New York Times bestselling author whose books include Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls, reads from and discusses his new novel The Light in the Ruins, a spellbinding novel of love, despair, and revenge-set in war-ravaged Tuscany. Set against an exquisitely rendered Italian countryside, The Light in the Ruins unveils a breathtaking story of moral paradox, human frailty, and the mysterious ways of the heart.

($25.95) Doubleday ISBN # 9780385534819. You can visit Chris Bohjalian‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #388: Adam Johnson Podcasts The Orphan Master’s Son

Adam Johnson reads from and discusses the paperback edition of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Orphan Master’s Son. In this epic, critically acclaimed tour de force, Johnson provides a riveting portrait of a world rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love. “An exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart.”-Pulitzer Prize citation

($15.00) Random House ISBN # 9780812982626.

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AOT #387: Temple Grandin Podcasts The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum

Temple Grandin is one of the world’s most accomplished and well-known adults with autism. She is a professor at Colorado State University and the author of several best-selling books including Animals Make Us Human and Animals in Translation. Grandin discusses her new book The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum, a cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism.

($28.00) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN # 9780547636450. You can visit Temple Grandin‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #386: Craig Johnson Podcasts A Serpent’s Tooth: A Walt Longmire Mystery

The success of Craig Johnson‘s Walt Longmire series that began with The Cold Dish continues to grow after A&E’s hit show Longmire introduced new fans to the Wyoming sheriff. Johnson joins us to read from and discuss his ninth Western mystery, A Serpent’s Tooth, in which Longmire stares down his most dangerous foes yet.

($26.95) Viking ISBN # 9780670026456. You can visit Craig Johnson‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #385: Daniel Smith Podcasts Monkey Mind

Daniel Smith is the author of Muses, Madmen, and Prophets and a contributor to The Atlantic, New York magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and Slate. Smith discusses his new book Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety, a stunning articulation of what it is like to live with anxiety. As he travels through anxiety’s demonic layers, Smith defangs the disorder with great humor and evocatively expresses its self-destructive absurdities and painful internal coherence.

($16.00) Simon & Schuster ISBN # 9781439177310. You can visit Daniel Smith‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #384: David Morrell Podcasts Murder as a Fine Art

David Morrell is best known for his 1972 debut novel First Blood, which would later become the successful Rambo film franchise starring Sylvester Stallone. Morrell reads from and dicusses his new mystery Murder as a Fine Art, which recreates gaslit London as a battleground between a literary luminary and a master killer.

($25.99) Little, Brown ISBN # 9780316216791. You can visit David Morrell‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #383: Nathaniel Philbrick Podcasts Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution

Nathaniel Philbrick, the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, reads from and discusses his new history Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution, the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution. With passion and insight, Philbrick reconstructs the revolutionary landscape-geographic and ideological-in a mesmerizing narrative of the robust, messy, blisteringly real origins of America.

($32.95) Viking ISBN # 9780670025442. You can visit Nathaniel Philbrick‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #382: Joe Hill Podcasts NOS4A2

Joe Hill, the acclaimed, award-winning author of the New York Times bestsellers Heart-Shaped Box and Horns, reads from and discusses his new novel NOS4A2. Disturbing, mesmerizing, and full of twisting thrills, Hill’s phantasmagoric, devilishly playful masterpiece is a terrifying high-octane ride.

($28.99) William Morrow ISBN # 9780062200570. You can visit Joe Hill‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #381: Rory Freedman Podcasts Beg: A Radical New Way of Regarding Animals

Rory Freedman, the co-author of the New York Times mega-seller Skinny Bitch, discusses her new book Beg: A Radical New Way of Regarding Animals. Freedman’s book is an unapologetically sappy “ode” to how animals can enrich our lives, as well as a no holds-barred treatise on how we can better protect them. Just as Skinny Bitch inspired millions to change their diets to improve the lives of factory farm animals, Beg will galvanize readers to return some of the love, trust, and loyalty they receive from their pets, and to change their choices and actions to improve the lives of ALL domestic animals.

($18.00) Running Press ISBN # 9780762449545. You can visit Rory Freedman‘s official web site as well.

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