AOT #260: Wendy Kopp Podcasts A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn’t in Providing an Excellent Education for All
March 28, 2011 by Rob
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Since 1990, Teach for America has been building a movement to end educational inequity in America. In her new book, its founder Wendy Kopp shares the lessons learned from the experiences of more than 25,000 teachers and alumni who have taught and led schools in low-income communities during those years. Kopp discusses A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn’t in Providing an Excellent Education for All, which cuts through the noise of today’s debates to describe precisely what it will take to provide transformational education-education that changes the academic and life trajectories predicted by children’s socioeconomic backgrounds.
($25.99) PublicAffairs ISBN #978-1-58648-740-9. You can visit Wendy Kopp’s official web site as well.
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AOT #259: Jonathan Evison Podcasts West of Here
March 21, 2011 by Rob
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Jonathan Evison reads from and discusses his new novel West of Here, which has been chosen as a Tattered Cover V.I.B. (very impressive book) by the Tattered Cover’s staff. An exposition on the effects of time, on how something said or done in one generation keeps echoing through all the years that follow, and how mistakes keep happening and people keep on trying to be strong and brave and, most important, just and right, West of Here harks back to the work of such masters of Americana as Bret Harte, Edna Ferber, and Larry McMurtry. Writers whose fiction turned history into myth and myth into a nation’s shared experience. It is a bold novel by a writer destined to become a major force in American literature.
($24.95) Algonquin ISBN #978-1-56512-952-8.
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AOT #258: Benjamin Hale Podcasts The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
March 14, 2011 by Rob
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A Colorado native, now living in New York, Benjamin Hale is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he received a Provost’s Fellowship to complete his novel, which went on to win a Michener-Copernicus Award. He has been a night shift baker, a security guard, a trompe l’oeil painter, a pizza deliverer, a cartoonist, an illustrator and a technical writer. Hale reads from and discusses his critically acclaimed debut novel The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore. Bruno is quite unlike any chimpanzee in the world. Precocious, self-conscious and preternaturally gifted, young Bruno, born and raised in a habitat at the local zoo, falls under the care of a university primatologist named Lydia Littlemore. Like its protagonist, this novel is big, loud, abrasive, witty, perverse, earnest and amazingly accomplished. This novel goes beyond satire by showing us not what it means, but what it feels like be human-to love and lose, learn, aspire, grasp, and, in the end, to fail.
($24.99) Twelve ISBN #978-0-446-57157-9. You can visit Benjamin Hale’s official web site as well.
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AOT #257: Ree Drummond Podcasts The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels-A Love Story
March 7, 2011 by Rob
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Wildly popular award-winning blogger, accidental ranch wife, and New York Times bestselling author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks Ree Drummond discusses her new book The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels-A Love Story. In this readable memoir, Drummond tells the true tale of her storybook romance that led her from the Los Angeles glitter to a cattle ranch in rural Oklahoma, and into the arms of her real-life Marlboro Man.
($25.99) William Morrow ISBN #978-0-06-199716-7. You can visit Ree Drummond’s official web site as well.
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AOT #256: Gary Taubes Podcasts Why We Get Fat: And What To Do About It
February 28, 2011 by Rob
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In his New York Times best seller, Good Calories, Bad Calories, Gary Taubes argued that our diet’s overemphasis on certain kinds of carbohydrates-not fats and not simply excess calories-has led directly to the obesity epidemic we face today. The result of thorough research, keen insight, and unassailable common sense, Good Calories, Bad Calories immediately stirred controversy and acclaim among academics, journalists, and writers alike. Michael Pollan heralded it as “a vitally important book, destined to change the way we think about food.” Taubes discusses his new book Why We Get Fat: And What To Do About It , which builds upon the critical work in the previous book and presents fresh evidence for his claim. Persuasive, straightforward, and practical, Why We Get Fat makes Taubes’s arguments newly accessible to a wider audience.
($24.95) Knopf ISBN #978-0-307-27270-6. You can visit Gary Taubes’s official web site as well.
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AOT #255: Siobhan Fallon Podcasts You Know When the Men are Gone
February 21, 2011 by Rob
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Siobhan Fallon reads from and discusses her debut work You Know When the Men are Gone, an unforgettable collection of short stories, reminiscent of the writing of Raymond Carver and Tim O’Brien. There is an army of women waiting for their men to return in Fort Hood, Texas. Through a series of loosely interconnected stories, Fallon takes readers onto the base, inside the homes, into the marriages and families-intimate places not seen in newspaper articles or politicians’ speeches. When you leave Fort Hood, the sign above the gate warns, You’ve Survived the War, Now Survive the Homecoming. It is eerily prescient.
($23.95) Amy Einhorn ISBN #978-0-399-15720-2. You can visit Siobhan Fallon’s official web site as well.
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AOT #254: Sister Madonna Buder Podcasts The Grace to Race: The Wisdom and Inspiration of the 80-Year-Old World Champion Triathlete Known as the Iron Nun
February 14, 2011 by Rob
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Sister Madonna Buder is 80 years old, has run more than 340 triathlons, and doesn’t know what all the fuss is about! Sister Madonna discusses her inspiring book The Grace to Race: The Wisdom and Inspiration of the 80-Year-Old World Champion Triathlete Known as the Iron Nun, in which she shares the no-nonsense spirit and deep faith that inspired her extraordinary journey from a prominent St. Louis family to a Catholic Convent and finally to championship finish lines all over the world. “Sister Madonna’s story is one of purpose, conviction and passion. She dismisses boundaries and proves to us that nothing is impossible. The Grace to Race is both inspirational and energizing; long live the Iron Nun!”-Dean Karnazes, New York Times bestselling author of Ultramarathon Man
($25.00) Simon & Schuster ISBN #978-1-4391-7748-8.
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AOT #253: Christian Lander Podcasts Whiter Shades of Pale: The Stuff White People Like, Coast to Coast, from Seattle’s Sweaters to Maine’s Microbrews
February 7, 2011 by Rob
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Christian Lander, the creator of the website Stuff White People Like, reads from and discusses his book Whiter Shades of Pale: The Stuff White People Like, Coast to Coast, from Seattle’s Sweaters to Maine’s Microbrews. If you thought you had white people pegged as Oscar-party-throwing, Prius-driving, Sunday New York Times-reading, self-satisfied latte lovers-you were right. But if you thought diversity was just for other races, then hang on to your eco-friendly tote bags! Veteran white person Christian Lander is back with fascinating new information and advice on dealing with the Caucasian population.
($15.00) Random House ISBN #978-0-8129-8206-0. You can visit Christian Lander’s official web site as well.
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AOT #252: Chris Cleave Podcasts Incendiary
January 31, 2011 by Rob
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Chris Cleave, the acclaimed author of Little Bee, which was short listed for the Costa Prize for Best Novel, reads from and discusses the paperback edition of his debut novel Incendiary. A distraught woman writes a letter to Osama bin Laden after her four-year-old son and her husband are killed in a massive suicide bomb attack at a soccer match in London. In an emotionally raw voice alive with grief, compassion, and startling humor, she tries to convince Osama to abandon his terror campaign by revealing to him the desperate sadness-“I am a woman built on the wreckage of myself”-and the broken heart of a working-class life blown apart. A surreal vision made brilliantly, viscerally powerful and undeniable, Incendiary is a stunning novel.
($15.00) Simon & Schuster ISBN #978-1-45161-849-5. You can visit Chris Cleave’s official web site as well.
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AOT #251: Roseanne Barr Podcasts Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm
January 24, 2011 by Rob
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Television star and bestselling author Roseanne Barr reads from and discusses her new book Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm. Displaying her brilliance and sharp wit, Barr’s new book discusses the humor of everyday life, and includes musings on more serious topics such as class warfare, feminism, the cult of celebrity, and Kabbalah. Bold, brash, and insightful, Roseannearchy shows that Barr can still skewer any subject under the sun, and illustrates why the New York Times describes her appeal as “the power of a whole planet, pulling everything around it inexorably into its orbit.”
($26.00) Simon & Schuster ISBN #978-1-43915-482-3. You can visit Roseanne Barr’s official web site as well.
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