AOT #170: Michael Connelly Podcasts The Scarecrow

Multiple award-winning journalist and author Michael Connelly is the bestselling author of the Harry Bosch series of novels as well as The Poet, Blood Work, Void Moon, Chasing the Dime, and the New York Times bestseller The Lincoln Lawyer. Connelly reads from and discusses his new mystery featuring newspaperman Jack McEvoy, The Scarecrow, which includes the story of the closing of the Rocky Mountain News, where the fictional McEvoy once worked. As Jack follows the biggest story since The Poet made his career years ago, he tracks a killer who operates completely below police radar-and with perfect knowledge of any move against him.

($27.99) Little, Brown ISBN #978-0-316-16630-0. You can visit Michael Connelly’s official web site as well.

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AOT #169: Reif Larsen Podcasts The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

Writer and filmmaker Reif Larsen reads from and discusses his first book The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, a brilliant, boundary-leaping debut novel tracing twelve-year-old genius mapmaker T.S. Spivet’s attempts to understand the ways of the world. When T.S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins. T.S.’s trip begins at his family’s ranch and ends in Washington, D.C., but his journey’s movement is far harder to track: How do you map the delicate lessons learned about family and self? How do you depict how it feels to first venture out on your own? Is there a definitive way to communicate the ebbs and tides of heartbreak, loss, loneliness, love? These are the questions that strike at the core of this very special debut.

($27.95) Penguin Press ISBN #978-1-59420-217-9. You can visit Reif Larsen’s official web site as well.

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AOT #168: Jennifer Chiaverini Podcasts The Lost Quilter

Jennifer Chiaverini, celebrating the 10th anniversary of her beloved Elm Creek Quilts series, reads from and discusses her 14th series installment The Lost Quilter, which picks up the threads from The Runaway Quilt, to tell another tale of adventure, love, perseverance and, of course, quilting.

($24.00) Simon and Schuster ISBN #0-06-156714-0. You can visit Jennifer Chiaverini’s official web site as well.

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AOT #167: Mario Acevedo Podcasts Jailbait Zombie

Colorado author Mario Acevedo is a former infantry and aviation officer, engineer, art teacher to incarcerated felons, and the bestselling author of The Nymphos of Rocky Flats, X-Rated Bloodsuckers, and The Undead Kama Sutra. Acevedo reads from and discusses his new novel Jailbait Zombie, which finds vampire detective Felix Gomez coming face-to-face with the worst sort of undead. To stop a ravenous army of zombies, Gomez must team up with a precocious teen with clairvoyant powers whose cooperation comes at a price: she won’t help unless Felix makes her a vampire-if the zombies don’t get her first.

($14.95) HarperCollins ISBN #0-06-156714-0. You can visit Mario Acevedo’s official web site as well.

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AOT #166: Stephen Mitchell Podcasts The Second Book of the Tao

Bestselling author and translator Stephen Mitchell reads from and discusses his new book The Second Book of the Tao. The most widely translated book in world literature after the Bible, Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living. Following the phenomenal success of his own version of the Tao Te Ching, Mitchell has composed this innovative new book drawn from the work of Lao-tzu’s disciple Chuang-tzu and Confucius’s grandson Tzu-ssu. He has selected the freshest, clearest teachings from these two great students of the Tao and adapted them into versions that reveal the poetry, depth, and humor of the original texts with a thrilling new power.

($25.95) Penguin ISBN #1-59420-203-6. You can visit Stephen Mitchell’s official web site as well.

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AOT #165: Jeffrey Siger Podcasts Murder in Mykonos

Jeffrey Siger left his life as a lawyer in New York City to write about mystery and intrigue on his beloved Greek island paradise of Mykonos–as only a local could. Siger reads from and discusses his new mystery Murder in Mykonos. “Siger captures the rare beauty of the Greek islands in this series debut, the first serial killer thriller published by Poisoned Pen. His sense of place recalls Donna Leon’s Venetian series, but his portrayal of rape and murder is all his own.”–Library Journal

($24. 95) Poisoned Pen Press ISBN #1-59058-581-x. You can visit Jeffrey Siger’s official web site as well.

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AOT #164: Abraham Verghese Podcasts Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese, the author of The Tennis Partner, a New York Times Notable Book, and My Own Country, a National Book Critics Circle finalist, discusses his first novel Cutting for Stone. This sweeping, emotionally riveting novel is an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. It takes readers on an unforgettable journey into one man’s remarkable life, and offers an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others.

($26.95) Knopf ISBN #0-375-41449-5. You can visit Abraham Verghese’s official web site as well.

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AOT #163: Jamie Ford Podcasts Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Jamie Ford is an award-winning short-story writer, an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and a survivor of Orson Scott Card’s Literary Boot Camp. Ford reads from and discusses his critically acclaimed debut novel Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. “A tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost forever, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet gives us a glimpse of the damage that is caused by war–not the sweeping damage of the battlefield, but the cold, cruel damage to the hearts and humanity of individual people. Especially relevant in today’s world, this is a beautifully written book that will make you think. And, more importantly, it will make you feel.”–Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain

($24.00) Ballantine ISBN #0-345-50533-6. You can visit Jamie Ford’s official web site as well.

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AOT #162: Jacqueline Winspear Podcasts Among the Mad

New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear reads from and discusses Among the Mad, her thrilling new mystery in which Maisie Dobbs must catch a madman before he commits murder on an unimaginable scale. In Among the Mad, Winspear combines a heart-stopping story with a rich evocation of a fascinating period to create her most compelling and satisfying novel yet.

($25. 00) Henry Holt ISBN #0-8050-8216-6. You can visit Jacqueline Winspear’s official web site as well.

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AOT #161: Allegra Huston Podcasts Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found

Allegra Huston reads from and discusses her fascinating memoir Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found. When Allegra Huston was four years old, her mother was killed in a car crash. Soon after, she was introduced to her father, the legendary film director John Huston. Then, at the age of twelve, she was, once more, introduced to her father—her real one this time, the British aristocrat and historian John Julius Norwich.

($26.95) Simon and Schuster ISBN #978-1-41655-1577. You can visit Allegra Huston’s official web site as well.

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