AOT #210: Christopher Moore Podcasts Bite Me

Christopher Moore, the acclaimed, bestselling author whose works include Lamb, Fool, and Practical Demonkeeping, discusses his new novel Bite Me, the third book in his wonderfully twisted vampire saga. Joining his farcical gems Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck, Moore’s latest in the continuing story of young, urban, nosferatu style love, is no Twilight-but rather a tsunami of the irresistible outrageousness that has earned him the appellation “Stephen King with a whoopee cushion and a double-espresso imagination” from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and inspired Denver’s Rocky Mountain News to declare him “the 21st century’s best satirist.”

($23.99) William Morrow ISBN #978-0-06-177972-5. You can visit Christopher Moore’s official web site as well.

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AOT #209: Ted Conover Podcasts The Routes of Man

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Ted Conover is the author most recently of the National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing. Conover reads from and discusses his new book The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today, an absorbing book about roads and their power to change the world. Roads bind our world-metaphorically and literally-transforming landscapes and the lives of the people who inhabit them. Roads have unparalleled power to impact communities, unite worlds and sunder them, and reveal the hopes and fears of those who travel them. This spirited, urgent book reveals the costs and benefits of being connected-how, from ancient Rome to the present, roads have played a crucial role in human life, advancing civilization even as they set it back.

($26.95) Random House ISBN #978-1-4000-4244-9. You can visit Ted Conover’s official web site as well.

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AOT #208: Heidi Durrow Podcasts The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

Heidi Durrow has won the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition and the Chapter One Fiction Contest. She has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the American Scandinavian Foundation, and the Lois Roth Endowment, and a Fellowship for Emerging Writers from the Jerome Foundation. Durrow reads from and discusses her acclaimed debut novel The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, which tells the story of Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., who becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy. In the tradition of Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, here is a portrait of a young girl- and society’s ideas of race, class, and beauty. It is the winner of the Bellwether Prize for best fiction manuscript addressing issues of social justice.

($22.95) Algonquin ISBN #978-1-56512-680-0. You can visit Heidi Durrow’s official web site as well.

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AOT #207: Chris Cleave Podcasts Little Bee

Chris Cleave is a columnist for The Guardian newspaper in London, and his first novel, Incendiary, won the 2006 Somerset Maugham Award; was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; won the United States Book-of-the-Month Club’s First Fiction Award; and won the Prix Special du Jury at the French Prix des Lecteurs 2007. Cleave reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of his second novel, Little Bee , which was shortlisted for the prestigious Costa Award for Best Novel. “The voice that speaks from the first page of Chris Cleave’s Little Bee is one you might never have heard-the voice of a smart, wary, heartsick immigrant scarred by the terrors of her past….Read this urgent and wryly funny novel for its insights into simple humanity, the force that can disarm fear.”- O Magazine

($14.00) Simon & Schuster ISBN #978-1-41658-964-8. You can visit Chris Cleave’s official web site as well.

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AOT #206: Lisa See Podcasts Shanghai Girls

Lisa See, the bestselling author whose novels include Peony in Love, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, and Dragon Bones, reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of her novel Shanghai Girls. In 1937 Shanghai-the Paris of Asia-twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree-until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth. To repay his debts, he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from Los Angeles to find Chinese brides. As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, Pearl and May set out on the journey of a lifetime, from the Chinese countryside to the shores of America. Though inseparable best friends, the sisters also harbor petty jealousies and rivalries. Along the way they make terrible sacrifices, face impossible choices, and confront a devastating, life-changing secret, but through it all the two heroines of this astounding new novel hold fast to who they are-Shanghai girls.

($15.00) Random House ISBN #978-0-8129-8053-0. You can visit Lisa See’s official web site as well.

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AOT #205: Joshua Ferris Podcasts The Unnamed

Joshua Ferris‘s first novel, Then We Came to the End, won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was a National Book Award finalist. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Best New American Voices, New Stories from the South, Prairie Schooner, and The Iowa Review. Ferris reads from and discusses his new novel The Unnamed, a dazzling novel about a marriage and a family and the unseen forces of nature and desire that seem to threaten them both. It is the heartbreaking story of a life taken for granted and what happens when that life is abruptly and irrevocably taken away.

($24.99) Reagan Arthur ISBN #978-0-316-03401-2. You can visit Joshua Ferris’s official web site as well.

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AOT #204: Connie Willis Podcasts Blackout

Connie Willis, who was recently inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, has received six Nebula Awards and ten Hugo Awards for her fiction. Her novel, Passage, was nominated for both awards, and her other acclaimed works include Doomsday Book, Lincoln’s Dreams, Bellwether, To Say Nothing of the Dog, and others. Willis discusses her new novel Blackout. In her first novel since 2002, Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds-great and small-of ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collide-and the result is at once intriguing, elusive, and frightening.

($26.00) Random House ISBN #978-0-553-80319-8. You can visit Connie Willis’s official web site as well.

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AOT #203: Robert Crais Podcasts The First Rule

Robert Crais, the New York Times-bestselling author who sets the standard for intense, powerful crime-writing, reads from and discusses his new novel The First Rule, a blistering thriller featuring Joe Pike and Elvis Cole. This astonishing novel finds Pike and Cole on an investigation that quickly entangles them both in a web of ancient grudges, blood ties, blackmail, vengeance, double crosses, and cutthroat criminality, and at the heart of it, an act so terrible even Pike and Cole have no way to measure it.

($26.95) Putnam ISBN #0-399-15613-5. You can visit Robert Crais’s official web site as well.

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AOT #202: Audrey Niffenegger Podcasts Her Fearful Symmetry

Audrey Niffenegger, author of the acclaimed, bestselling debut novel The Time Traveler’s Wife, reads from and discusses her new novel Her Fearful Symmetry. An unnerving, unforgettable and enchanting ghost story, Niffenegger’s spectacularly compelling second novel is about love and identity, secrets and sisterhood and the tenacity of life-even after death.

($26.99) Simon & Schuster ISBN #978-1-43916-539-3. You can visit Audrey Niffenegger’s official web site as well.

Please also listen to Audrey Niffenegger Podcast The Three Incestuous Sisters.

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AOT #201: Stephen Hunter Podcasts I, Sniper

Award winning author Stephen Hunter reads from and discusses his new thriller I, Sniper. Filled with Hunter’s signature blend of brilliant plotting, vivid characters, razor-sharp dialogue, and extraordinary gunfights, this novel will satisfy Stephen Hunter’s legions of fans and win him droves of new ones.

($26.00) Simon & Schuster ISBN #978-1-41-656515-4 .

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