AOT #190: Christopher Kimball Podcasts The Complete America’s Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook

In honor of the 10th Anniversary of the popular cooking show America’s Test Kitchen, Chris Kimball, founder and host of America’s Test Kitchen and founder and editor of Cook’s Illustrated magazine, will discusses the new Complete America’s Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook.

($39.95) America’s Test Kitchen ISBN #978-1-933615-55-4.

AOT #189: Jeannette Walls Podcasts Half Broke Horses

Journalist Jeanette Walls, author of the critically acclaimed memoir The Glass Castle, discusses her new novel Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel, the story of her grandmother, told in a first-person voice that is authentic, irresistible, and triumphant. Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls’s no nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling grandmother, lived a life of adventure, toil, heartbreak and triumph. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa or Beryl Markham’s West with the Night.

($25.00) Scribner ISBN #978-1-41658-628-9.

AOT #188: Michael Chabon Podcasts Manhood for Amateurs

Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose works include The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, reads from and discusses his new book Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son. Chabon’s first major work of nonfiction, Manhood for Amateurs is a memoir as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as his acclaimed, award-winning fiction. In these insightful, provocative, slyly interlinked essays, Chabon presents his autobiography and his vision of life and explores what it means to be a man today.

($25.99) Ecco ISBN #978-0-06-149018-7. You can visit Michael Chabon’s official web site as well.

AOT #187: Joseph Kanon Podcasts Stardust

Joseph Kanon, the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Good German and Los Alamos, discusses his new novel Stardust. In his most absorbing and accomplished novel yet, Kanon tells a mesmerizing tale of Hollywood, post-war political intrigue, and one man’s determination to learn the truth about his brother’s death.

($27.95) Atria ISBN #978-1-4391-5614-8. You can visit Joseph Kanon’s official web site as well.

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AOT #186: Ralph Nader Podcasts Only The Super-Rich Can Save Us!

Ralph Nader, consumer advocate and two-time candidate for President of the United States, is a relentless force for grassroots activism and democratic change in America. Nader discusses and reads from his new novel Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!, a vivid fictional account that answers the question “What if?” What if a cadre of super-rich individuals tried to become a driving force in America to organize and institutionalize the interests of the citizens of this troubled nation?

($27.50) Seven Stories ISBN #978-1-58322-903-3. You can visit Ralph Nader’s official website as well.

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AOT #185: David Cross Podcasts I Drink for a Reason

David Cross, known for roles on the small screen such as “never-nude” Tobias Funke on Arrested Development and the role of “David” in Mr. Show With Bob And David, as well as a hugely successful stand-up routine full of sharp-tongued rants and rages, reads from and discusses his first book I Drink for a Reason. With a mix of personal essays, satirical fiction posing as truth, advice for rich people, information from America’s least favorite Rabbi and a top-ten list of top-ten lists, Cross’ first book is as unique as the comedian himself.

($23.99) Grand Central ISBN #978-0-4465-7948-3. You can visit David Cross’s official web site as well.

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AOT #184: Diana Gabaldon Podcasts An Echo in the Bone

Diana Gabaldon’s brilliant storytelling has captivated millions of readers in her bestselling and award-winning Outlander saga. Gabaldon reads from and discusses An Echo in the Bone, the enormously anticipated seventh volume which continues the extraordinary story of the eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall.

($30.00) Delacorte ISBN #978-0-3853-4245-2 .

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AOT #183: Helen Thorpe Podcasts Just Like Us

Helen Thorpe, wife of Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, is a freelance writer who has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, The New York Observer, and Texas Monthly, among other publications. Thorpe reads from and discusses Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America, a powerful and moving account of four young women from Mexico who have lived most of their lives in the United States and attend the same high school. Two of them have legal documentation and two do not. This brilliant, fast-paced work of narrative journalism is a vivid coming-of-age story about girlhood, friendship, and, most of all, identity. No matter what one’s opinions are about immigration, Just Like Us offers fascinating insight into one of our most complicated social issues today.

($27.99) Scribner ISBN #978-1-4165-3893-6. You can visit Helen Thorpe’s official web site as well.

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AOT #182: T. R. Reid Podcasts The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

Bestselling author T. R. Reid is a longtime correspondent for the Washington Post and former chief of its Tokyo and London bureaus as well as a commentator for National Public Radio. Reid discusses his new book The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, which offers a whirlwind tour of successful health care systems worldwide, revealing possible paths toward U.S. reform. The Healing of America lays bare the moral question at the heart of our troubled system, dissecting the misleading rhetoric surrounding the health care debate. In the end, this is a good news book: It finds models around the world that Americans can borrow to guarantee health care for everybody who needs it.

($25.95) Penguin ISBN #978-1-59420-234-6.

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AOT #181: George McGovern Podcasts Abraham Lincoln: The American Presidents Series

George S. McGovern–a Midwesterner, former U.S. senator, presidential candidate, veteran, and historian by training, discusses his new book Abraham Lincoln: The American Presidents Series: The 16th President, 1861-1865. “McGovern’s Lincoln is a finely wrought gem. In this small volume McGovern captures Lincoln’s character and leadership strength better than many weighty tomes. It is a worthy addition to the brilliant American Presidents Series.”–Doris Kearns Goodwin

($22.00) Henry Holt ISBN #978-0-8050-8345-6.

You can also listen to George McGovern podcast Social Security and the Golden Age: An Essay on the New American Demographic.

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