AOT #300: Gregory Maguire Podcasts Out of Oz
January 4, 2012 by Rob
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Gregory Maguire is the bestselling author of Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister; Lost; Mirror, Mirror; and the Wicked Years series, including Wicked (the basis for the blockbuster Tony Award-winning Broadway musical of the same name), Son of a Witch, and A Lion Among Men. Maguire reads from and discusses the stirring, long-awaited conclusion to the series, Out of Oz, which is a magical journey rife with revelations and reversals, reprisals and surprises.
($26.99) HarperCollins ISBN #9780060548940. You can visit Gregory Maguire’s official web site as well.
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AOT #299: Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith Podcast Van Gogh: The Life
December 29, 2011 by Rob
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Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith are graduates of Harvard Law School. Together they have written many books on art and other subjects, including four New York Times bestsellers. Naifeh and Smith discuss their new book Van Gogh: The Life, the “definitive biography for decades to come.” — Leo Jansen, curator, the Van Gogh Museum, and co-editor of Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Letters
($40.00) Random House ISBN #9780375507489.
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AOT #298: Kathleen Flinn Podcasts The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks
December 19, 2011 by Rob
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Le Cordon Bleu trained writer and journalist Kathleen Flinn, author of the award-nominated book The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry, reads from and discusses her new book The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks. This inspiring book includes practical, healthy tips that boost readers’ culinary self-confidence, and strategies to get the most from their grocery dollar, and simple recipes that get readers cooking.
($26.95) Viking ISBN #9780670023004. You can visit Kathleen Flinn’s official web site as well.
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AOT #297: Russell Banks Podcasts Lost Memory of Skin
December 12, 2011 by Rob
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Russell Banks, the acclaimed author of The Sweet Hereafter, Rule of the Bone, Cloudsplitter, Continental Drift, and Affliction, reads from and discusses his new novel Lost Memory of Skin. Uncompromising and complex, Lost Memory of Skin is the story of The Kid, a young sex offender recently released from prison and forced to live beneath a South Florida causeway. When The Professor, a man of enormous intellect and appetite, takes The Kid under his wing, his own startling past will cause upheavals in both of their worlds. At once lyrical, witty, and disturbing, Banks’s extraordinary novel showcases his abilities as a world-class storyteller as well as his incisive understanding of the dangerous contradictions and hypocrisies of modern American society.
($25.99) Ecco ISBN #9780061857638. You can visit Russell Banks’s official web site as well.
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AOT #296: Dava Sobel Podcasts A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
December 6, 2011 by Rob
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Dava Sobel, the acclaimed author of the internationally bestselling titles Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter, and The Planets, discusses her new book A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos. In her elegant, compelling style, Sobel chronicles, as nobody has, the conflicting personalities and extraordinary discoveries that shaped the Copernican Revolution. At the heart of the book is her play And the Sun Stood Still, imagining young German mathematician Georg Joachim Rheticus’s struggle to convince Copernicus to publish his theories. As she achieved with her previous bestsellers, Sobel expands the boundaries of narration, giving us an unforgettable portrait of scientific achievement, and of the ever-present tensions between science and faith.
($24.00) Walker & Company ISBN #9780802717931. You can visit Dava Sobel’s official web site as well.
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AOT #295: Alton Brown Podcasts Good Eats 3: The Later Years
November 28, 2011 by Rob
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Food Network star Alton Brown, host of the wildly popular show Good Eats, and commentator on Iron Chef America, discusses his new book Good Eats 3: The Later Years. Like his previous books, Good Eats 3 packs a bounty of information and entertainment between its covers. More than 200 recipes are accompanied by hundreds of photographs, drawings, and stills from the show, as well as lots of science-of-food facts, cooking tips, food trivia, behind-the-scenes glimpses-and bonus sock puppet instructions!
($37.50) Abrams ISBN #9781584799030. You can visit Alton Brown’s official web site as well.
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AOT #294: Mike Dooley Podcasts Leveraging the Universe: 7 Steps to Engaging Life’s Magic
November 21, 2011 by Rob
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Mike Dooley, the bestselling author of Infinite Possibilities and Manifesting Change, discusses his new book Leveraging the Universe: 7 Steps to Engaging Life’s Magic. Building on the principles from his earlier books, Dooley now offers a step-by-step strategy for leveraging the universe in the course of self-fulfillment and success. In just seven steps, Dooley teaches readers how to channel the Universe’s incredible energy to achieve your greatest dreams.
($21.99) Beyond Words ISBN #9781582703145. You can visit Mike Dooley’s official web site as well.
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AOT #293: Neal Stephenson Podcasts Reamde
November 14, 2011 by Rob
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Neal Stephenson, the New York Times bestselling author whose books include Anathem, Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, and Cryptonomicon, discusses and reads from his new novel Reamde, a high-intensity, high-stakes, action-packed adventure in which a tech entrepreneur gets caught in the very real crossfire of his own online war game. Racing around the globe from the Pacific Northwest to China to the wilds of northern Idaho and points in between, Reamde is a swift-paced thriller that traverses worlds virtual and real. Filled with unexpected twists and turns in which unforgettable villains and unlikely heroes face off in a battle for survival, it is a brilliant refraction of the twenty-first century, from the global war on terror to social media, computer hackers to mobsters, entrepreneurs to religious fundamentalists.
($35.00) HarperCollins ISBN #9780061977961. You can visit Neal Stephenson’s official web site as well.
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AOT #292: Laurie R. King Podcasts Pirate King
November 7, 2011 by Rob
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Laurie R. King, the New York Times bestselling author of ten Mary Russell mysteries, joined us to celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day and discuss her new book Pirate King. In this latest adventure featuring the intrepid Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, King takes readers into the frenetic world of silent films-where the pirates are real and the shooting isn’t all done with cameras. Aye maties, Pirate King is a treasure chest of a novel-thrilling, intelligent, and romantic-a swiftly unreeling masterpiece of suspense! Guests are invited to wear their best pirate gear, practice their pirate vocabulary, and enjoy a sing-a-long, and pirate stories!
($25.00) Random House ISBN #9780553807981. You can visit Laurie R. King’s official web site as well.
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AOT #291: Alexandra Fuller Podcasts Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
October 31, 2011 by Rob
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Alexandra Fuller, the author of the bestselling memoir Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, a New York Times Notable Book of 2002, and a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award, reads from and discusses her new book Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness. A story of survival and madness, love and war, loyalty and forgiveness, Fuller’s new book is an intimate exploration of her family. In the end we find her parents, Nicola and Tim at a coffee table under their Tree of Forgetfulness on the banana and fish farm where they plan to spend their final days. In local custom, the Tree of Forgetfulness is where villagers meet to resolve disputes and it is here that the Fullers at last find an African kind of peace.
($25.95) Penguin ISBN #9781594202995. You can visit Alexandra Fuller’s official web site as well.
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