AOT #360: Carolina Garcia-Aguilera Podcasts Magnolia

Cuban-born, Miami Beach-based private investigator Carolina Garcia-Aguilera is the author of ten books, as well as a contributor to many anthologies, but she is perhaps best known for her Lupe Solano mystery series. Garcia-Aguilera reads from and discusses her new stand alone novel Magnolia. “Garcia-Aguilera creates a lovably imperfect heroine in this Pretty Woman-type tale…readers will fall in love with Magnolia in this engaging tale of what unexpected choices can be made when one’s back is against the wall.” – Publishers Weekly

($16.95) B & B Press ISBN # 97809839378458. You can visit Carolina Garcia-Aguilera‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #359: Ken Jennings Podcasts Because I Said So!: The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids

In 2004, Ken Jennings successfully auditioned for a spot on Jeopardy!, and went on an unprecedented seventy-four game victory streak worth $2.52 million. Jennings’s book Brainiac, about his Jeopardy! adventures, was a critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller, as was his follow-up, Maphead. Jennings reads from and discusses his entertaining new book Because I Said So!: The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids. “A fun, lighthearted compendium of conventional wisdom, mostly parental, which debunks plenty of old wives’ tales and urban myths while offering a few surprising truths…. ‘Occasionally Mom knew what she was talking about,’ as this clever book confirms, but often she did not.” – Kirkus Reviews

($19.99) Scribner ISBN # 9781451656251. You can visit Ken Jennings‘ official web site as well.

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AOT #358: Kevin J. Anderson Podcasts Clockwork Angels

Kevin J. Anderson is the bestselling science fiction author of over 100 novels, including twelve novels in the Dune universe, with Frank Herbert’s son Brian Herbert; the Saga of Seven Suns series; Terra Incognita; Resurrection, Inc.; Hopscotch; and many others. Anderson discusses his new novel Clockwork Angels, the novelization of legendary rock band Rush’s new album. Imagine if someone had written the novel of The Wall, Tommy, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band when those classic albums were released. For fans of the multi-platinum band Rush, Clockwork Angels: The Novel is that project. In collaboration with the band, Anderson turns the sonic journey of Rush’s new album into a full-length literary adventure.

($24.95) ECW Press ISBN # 9781770411210. You can visit Kevin J. Anderson’s official web site as well.

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AOT #357: Neil Landau Podcasts The Screenwriter’s Roadmap: 21 Ways to Jumpstart Your Story

Neil Landau teaches in the MFA in Screenwriting and Producing Programs at both UCLA School of Film & Television and USC School of Cinematic Arts, and is a faculty adviser in the MFA in Writing Program at Goddard College. An established Hollywood screenwriter and script doctor, his film credits include the cult hit Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead. Landau talks about the role of mystery and suspense in screenwriting and discusses his new book The Screenwriter’s Roadmap: 21 Ways to Jumpstart Your Story.

($21.95) Focal Press ISBN # 9780240820606. You can visit Neil Landau’s official web site as well.

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AOT #356: Chris Howard Podcasts Rootless

Before he wrote stories, Denver young adult author Chris Howard wrote songs, studied natural resources management, and led wilderness adventure trips for teenagers. Howard reads from and discusses his debut novel for young readers Rootless. In this dazzling debut, Howard presents a disturbing world with uncanny similarities to our own. Like the forests his main character, Banyan, seeks to rebuild, this visionary novel is both beautiful and haunting. “There’s a brilliant madness to this deadly post-apocalyptic world, filled with complex characters, shifting loyalties, and layers of mystery… it’s also a nonstop adventure, with wild concepts and an almost hypnotic quality to Banyan’s terse, weather-beaten narration.” – Publishers Weekly, starred reveiw

($17.99) Scholastic ISBN # 9780545387897. You can visit Chris Howard’s official web site as well.

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AOT #355: Simon Winchester Podcasts Skulls: An Exploration of Alan Dudley’s Curious Collection

Simon Winchester is the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, A Crack in the Edge of the World, The Man Who Loved China, and more than a dozen other books. Mr. Winchester was made Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Elizabeth II in 2006. Winchester discusses his fascinating new book Skulls: An Exploration of Alan Dudley’s Curious Collection. In this captivating and visually stunning book, Winchester explores an array of more than 300 animal skulls, from the aardvark to the red-bellied piranha, and shares the fascinating story of the man who amassed much of the collection: an obsessive Englishman named Alan Dudley.

($29.95) Black Dog & Leventhal ISBN # 9781579129125. You can visit Simon Winchester’s official web site as well.

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AOT #354: Mark Bowden Podcasts The Finish and Gregory Johnsen Podcasts The Last Refuge

Mark Bowden, author of the international bestseller Black Hawk Down, and a preeminent chronicler of our military and special forces, discusses his new book The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden. With access to key sources, Bowden takes us inside the rooms where decisions were made and on the ground where the action unfolded.

($26.00) Atlantic Monthly Press ISBN # 9780802120342.

Gregory Johnsen, a former Fulbright Fellow in Yemen, is a PhD candidate at Princeton University and a frequent guest on NPR. Johnsen discusses and his new book The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America’s War in Arabia, a gripping account of how al-Qaeda in Yemen rebounded from an initial defeat to once again threaten the United States.

($27.95) W.W. Norton ISBN # 9780393082425.

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AOT #353: Jo Nesbø Podcasts Phantom

Jo Nesbø, the author whose works include the electrifying international best-sellers The Snowman and The Leopard, reads from and discusses his new thriller Phantom. The brilliant, deeply troubled, now former police officer Harry Hole has fled to Hong Kong, fleeing the traumas of life as a cop. When the son of his lost love is charged with murder, Harry returns to Oslo and is plunged into a full-tilt investigation on which his own tenuous future will come to depend.

($25.95) Knopf ISBN # 9780307960474. You can visit Jo Nesbø’s official web site as well.

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AOT #352: Whitney Otto Podcasts Eight Girls Taking Pictures

Whitney Otto and Whitney Frick met by chance over an errant e-mail, and only later began working together due to mutual admiration of the other’s work. Otto, author of the bestselling novel How to Make an American Quilt, joins her editor Frick in conversation to discuss her new novel Eight Girls Taking Pictures, a finely woven, textured inquiry into the intersecting lives of women. Eight Girls Taking Pictures is a profoundly moving portrayal of the lives of women, imagining the thoughts and circumstances that produced eight famous female photographers of the twentieth century. It is a bold, immersive, and unforgettable narrative that shows how the art, loves, and lives of the past influence our present.

($25.00) Scribner ISBN # 9781451682694. You can visit Whitney Otto’s official web site as well.

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AOT #351: Susan Elia MacNeal Podcasts Princess Elizabeth’s Spy

Susan Elia MacNeal introduced the remarkable Maggie Hope in her acclaimed debut, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary. MacNeal reads from and discusses her new Maggie Hope novel Princess Elizabeth’s Spy, in which Maggie returns to protect Britain’s beloved royals against an international plot-one that could change the course of history. When the upstairs-downstairs world at Windsor is thrown into disarray by a shocking murder, Maggie is drawn into a vast conspiracy that places the entire royal family in peril. As she races to save England from a most disturbing fate, Maggie realizes that a quick wit is her best defense, and that the smallest clues can unravel the biggest secrets, even within her own family.

($15.00) Bantam ISBN # 9780553593624. You can visit Susan Elia MacNeal’s official web site as well.

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