AOT #290: Laura Lippman Podcasts The Most Dangerous Thing

Multiple award-winning author Laura Lippman, the author of eleven Tess Monaghan mysteries, reads from and discusses her new stand alone novel The Most Dangerous Thing. Five best friends, who share a terrible lie from their youth, have grown apart as they’ve grown up. Now, after one of them dies, they are all thrown together for the first time in years. And then the revelations start. Could their long-ago lie be the reason for their troubles today? Is it more dangerous to come clean, or is it the strain of keeping the secret that is beginning to wear on them and everyone close to them? Each one of these old friends has to wonder if their secret has been discovered-and if someone within the circle is out to destroy them.

($25.99) HarperCollins ISBN #9780061706516. You can visit Laura Lippman’s official web site as well.

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AOT #289: Alexi Zentner Podcasts Touch

Alexi Zentner is the winner of the 2008 Narrative Prize and 2008 O. Henry Prize, and his fiction has been featured in The Atlantic and Tin House. Zentner reads from and discusses his debut novel Touch. In Sawgamet, a north woods boomtown gone bust, the cold of winter breaks the glass of the schoolhouse thermometer and the dangers of working in the cuts are overshadowed by the mysteries and magic lurking in the woods. Touch introduces readers to a world where monsters and witches oppose singing dogs and golden caribou, and where the living and the dead part and meet again in the crippling beauty of winter and the surreal haze of summer.

($24.95) WW Norton ISBN #978-0-393-07987-6. You can visit Alexi Zentner’s official web site as well.

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AOT #288: Christopher Boucher Podcasts How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive

Christopher Boucher, who has been traveling cross country in his 1971 VW bug, reads from and discusses his critically acclaimed debut novel How to Keep Your Volkswagon Alive, his hilarious radical story that breaks every rule-yet also spins a tender, bittersweet tale about a single dad struggling to raise his son. Modeled on the bestselling 1969 hippie handbook of the same title, this wildly inventive tale is both a stunning tour de force and a wise and charming consideration of the stuff of great fiction: death, love, loss, responsibility, and road trips.

($15.00) Melville ISBN #978-1-935554-63-9. You can visit Christopher Boucher’s official web site as well.

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AOT #287: Melanie Benjamin Podcasts The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb

In her national bestseller Alice I Have Been, Melanie Benjamin imagined the life of the woman who inspired Alice in Wonderland. Benjamin reads from and discusses her jubilant new novel The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb, in which she shines a dazzling spotlight on another fascinating female figure whose story has never fully been told: Mercy Lavinia “Vinnie” Bump, a woman who became a nineteenth century icon and inspiration-and whose most daunting limitation became her greatest strength.

($25.00) Random House ISBN #978-0-385-34415-9. You can visit Melanie Benjamin’s official web site as well.

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AOT #286: Rosanne Cash Podcasts Composed: A Memoir

Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Rosanne Cash reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of her bestselling book Composed: A Memoir. As moving, disarming, and elusive as one of her classic songs, Composed is Rosanne Cash’s testament to the power of art, tradition, and love to transform a life. Her remarkable body of work has often been noted for its emotional acuity, its rich and resonant imagery, and its unsparing honesty. Those qualities have enabled her to establish a unique intimacy with her audiences, and it is those qualities that inform her long-awaited memoir.

($16.00) Penguin ISBN #978-0-14-311939-5. You can visit Rosanne Cash’s official web site as well.

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AOT #285: Michael Wallis Podcasts David Crockett: The Lion of the West

Michael Wallis, the bestselling author of Route 66, Billy the Kid, and Pretty Boy, is the host of the PBS series “American Roads,” and the voice of the Sheriff in the animated Pixar feature Cars. Wallis reads from and discusses his new book David Crockett: The Lion of the West. Steeped in legend, shrouded in folklore, the real David Crockett, American frontiersman and cultural icon, finally emerges in this engrossing biography. Wallis’s David Crockett is more than a riveting story. It is a revelatory, authoritative biography that separates fact from fiction, providing us with an extraordinary evocation of a true American hero and the rough-and-tumble times in which he lived.

($27.95) WW Norton ISBN #978-0-393-06758-3. You can visit Michael Wallis’s official web site as well.

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AOT #284: Chad Kultgen Podcasts Men, Women and Children

Chad Kultgen, cult hero and author of the buzz-generating illicit classics The Average American Male and The Lie, reads from and discusses his new novel Men, Women & Children, a shocking, salacious, and surprisingly subtle story of the average American family. In his novel, Kultgen explores the sexual pressures at work on a handful of troubled, conflicted junior-high students and their equally dysfunctional parents. From porn-surfing fathers to World of Warcraft-obsessed sons, from competitive cheerleaders to their dissatisfied, misguided mothers, Kultgen clicks open the emotionally treacherous culture in which we live-in his most ambitious and surprising book yet.

($14.99) HarperPerennial ISBN #978-0-06-165731-3. You can visit Chad Kultgen’s official web site as well.

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AOT #283: Lisa See Podcasts Dreams of Joy

In her beloved New York Times bestsellers Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, and, most recently, Shanghai Girls, Lisa See has brilliantly illuminated the potent bonds of mother love, romantic love, and love of country. See reads from and discusses her most powerful novel yet Dreams of Joy, in which she returns to these timeless themes, continuing the story of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl’s strong-willed nineteen-year-old daughter Joy. Acclaimed for her richly drawn characters and vivid storytelling, Lisa See once again renders a family challenged by tragedy and time, yet ultimately united by the resilience of love.

($26.00) Random House ISBN #978-1-40006-712-1. You can visit Lisa See’s official web site as well.

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AOT #282: Ann Brashares Podcasts Sisterhood Everlasting

Ann Brashares, the New York Times bestselling author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, reads from and discusses her new novel Sisterhood Everlasting. With this book comes the welcome return of the characters whose friendship became a touchstone for a generation. Now Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget have grown up, starting their lives on their own. And though the jeans they shared are long gone, the sisterhood is everlasting. As moving and life-changing as an encounter with long-lost best friends, Sisterhood Everlasting is a powerful story about growing up, losing your way, and finding the courage to create a new one.

($25.00) Random House ISBN #978-0-385-52122-2. You can visit Ann Brashares’s official web site as well.

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AOT #281: Jeffery Deaver Podcasts Carte Blanche

Jeffery Deaver is the international bestselling author of Roadside Crosses, The Bodies Left Behind, The Broken Window, The Sleeping Doll, The Bone Collector (which was made into a feature film starring Denzel Washington), and twenty-one other suspense novels. He has been nominated for six Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America and is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader’s Award for Best Short Story of the Year. Jeffery Deaver has been selected by Ian Fleming Publications to write the new James Bond thriller. The plot of the new novel features a contemporary setting and brings Fleming’s legendary 007 character firmly into the modern age. Deaver discusses this new James Bond novel Carte Blanche.

($26.99) Simon & Schuster ISBN #978-1-45162-069-6. You can visit Jeffery Deaver’s official web site as well.

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