AOT #160: Dana Canedy Podcasts A Journal for Jordan

Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and journalist Dana Canedy reads from and discusses A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor. In 2005, Canedy’s husband, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King, began to write a journal for his son in case he did not make it home from the war in Iraq. He was killed on October 14, 2006, when an improvised explosive device detonated under his Humvee on an isolated road near Baghdad. His son, Jordan, was seven months old. This book is Canedy’s letter to her son-fierce in its honesty-about the father he lost before he could even speak. It is also a father’s advice and prayers for the son he will never know.

($25.95) Crown ISBN #0-307-39579-0.

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AOT #159: David Eagleman Podcasts SUM: 40 Tales from the Afterlives

Neuroscientist David Eagleman currently runs a research lab where he studies time perception, synesthesia, and how neuroscience will influence the legal system. At night he writes fiction. Eagleman reads from and discusses his new collection SUM: 40 Tales from the Afterlives, a dazzling exploration of funny and unexpected afterlives that have never been considered–each presented as a vignette that offers us a stunning lens through which to see ourselves here and now.

($20.00) Random House ISBN # 0-307-37734-2. You can visit David Eagleman’s official web site as well.

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AOT #158: Christopher Moore Podcasts Fool

Christopher Moore, whose bitingly witty and fantastical tales include the bestsellers Lamb, A Dirty Job, and You Suck, reads from and discusses his hilarious and raunchy new novel Fool. Taking on no less than the legendary Bard himself (with the utmost humility and respect), Moore’s story is a twisted and insanely funny tale of a moronic monarch and his deceitful daughters. A rousing story of plots, subplots, counterplots, betrayals, war, revenge, bared bosoms, unbridled lust, and a ghost (there’s always a bloody ghost), as seen through the eyes of a man wearing a codpiece and bells on his head.

($26.99) William Morrow ISBN #978-0-06-059031-4. You can visit Christopher Moore’s official web site as well.

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AOT #157: David and Nic Sheff Podcast Beautiful Boy and Tweak

This father and son event offers a unique look at one family’s struggle with drug addiction from two very different points of view. Author and journalist David Sheff discusses the new paperback edition of his bestselling book Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction, his fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond help. Nic Sheff discusses his memoir Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines, the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his drug addictions, getting sober, violent relapses and the road to recovery.

Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction
($14.95) Houghton Mifflin ISBN #0-547-20388-8.

Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
($9.99) Simon & Schuster ISBN #1-41697-219-6.

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AOT #156: Muhammad Yunus Podcasts Creating a World Without Poverty

Muhammad Yunus, a native of Bangladesh, was educated at Dhaka University and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at Vanderbilt University, and in 1972 he became head of the economics department at Chittagong University. He is the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, a pioneer of microcredit, an economic movement that has helped lift millions of families around the world out of poverty. Yunus and Grameen Bank are winners of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Yunus dicusses his book Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism, in which he outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world-and tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today.

($14.95) Public Affairs ISBN #1-58648-667-5. You can visit Muhammad Yunus’s official web site as well.

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AOT #155: Ann Brashares Podcasts 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows

Ann Brashares, author of the phenomenally bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, reads from and discusses her new novel for younger readers 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows. Meet the new sisterhood, Polly, Jo, and Ama, spending their summers growing in ways they never imagined!

($18.99) Delacorte ISBN #0-385-73676-2. You can visit Ann Brashares’s official web site as well.

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AOT #154: Merrill Markoe Podcasts Nose Down, Eyes Up

Merrill Markoe, the Emmy Award-winning writer and creator of Stupid Pet Tricks, reads from and discusses Nose Down, Eyes Up, her second fun-loving doggie novel, following Walking in Circles Before Lying Down. In this hilarious new story, Markoe offers uncanny insight into the bonds between hounds and humans, as well as their respective ideas of the way that love and family are supposed to work. Nose Down, Eyes Up is a revealing examination of the interspecies power of love, sex, family, and real estate and why everyone-on two legs or four-deserves to have his or her day.

($24.00) Ballantine ISBN #0-345-50020-2. You can visit Merrill Markoe’s official web site as well.

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AOT #153: Norm Clarke Podcasts Vegas Confidential: Sinsational Celebrity Tales

Norm Clarke, the Las Vegas Review-Journal‘s award-winning columnist, has spent years at the epicenter of Vegas’ sizzling celebrity scene writing his widely read “Vegas Confidential” column. Clarke reads from and discusses his second book Vegas Confidential: Sinsational Celebrity Tales, which offers an inside look at one of the wildest eras in the entertainment capital of the world. The eye-patched celebrity columnist, who writes six columns a week and covers breaking news 24-7 at NormClarke.com, has been at the forefront of celebrity news and it’s all in Vegas Confidential.

($15.95) Stephens Press ISBN #1-932173-77-3. You can visit Norm Clarke’s official web site as well.

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AOT #152: Temple Grandin Podcasts Animals Make Us Human

In her groundbreaking and bestselling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her distinguished career as an animal scientist to deliver extraordinary insights into how animals think, act, and feel. Grandin discusses her new book Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals, in which she builds on those insights to show us how to give our animals the best and happiest life-on their terms, not ours. It’s usually easy to pinpoint the cause of physical pain in animals, but to know what is causing them emotional distress is much harder. Drawing on the latest research and her own work, Grandin identifies the core emotional needs of animals. Then she explains how to fulfill them for dogs and cats, horses, farm animals, and zoo animals.

($26.00) Houghton Mifflin ISBN #0-15-101489-2. You can visit Temple Grandin’s official web site as well.

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AOT #151: Scott Sigler Podcasts Contagious

Scott Sigler‘s fiction podcasts have drawn a huge and devoted following, and his serialized stories have held the number one position in all the podcast indexes, including iTunes. Scott’s first hardcover release, Infected, was translated into a dozen languages and is being adapted for film by Random House Films/Rogue Pictures. Sigler reads from and discusses his second novel Contagious. Catapulting the reader into a world where humanity’s life span is measured in hours and the president’s finger hovers over the nuclear button, Sigler takes us on a breathtaking, hyper-adrenalized ride filled with terror and jaw-dropping action. Contagious is a truly grand work of suspense, science, and horror from a new master.

($24.95) Crown ISBN # 978-0-307-40631-8. You can visit Scott Sigler’s official web site as well.

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