AOT #100: Rick Steves Podcasts Europe Through the Back Door 2008

Travel guru, bestselling author, and PBS personality Rick Steves offers travel tips and discusses his many books, including Europe Through the Back Door 2008 and Europe 101: History and Art for the Traveler.

($21.95) Avalon Travel ISBN #1-56691-853-7. You can visit Rick Steves’s official web site as well.

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AOT #99: Carleen Brice Podcasts Orange Mint and Honey

Local author Carleen Brice reads from her debut novel Orange Mint and Honey. “The marriage of historical confidence with creativity brings forth the first novel by Carleen Brice. Orange Mint and Honey makes use of the oldest of relationships: mothers and daughters. Looking at the plights of love, forgiveness, understanding and redemption brings to this first novel a fresh and unique feel. A wonderful jazzy exciting read.”-poet and activist Nikki Giovanni

($13.95) One World ISBN #0-345-49906-9. You can visit Carleen Brice’s official web site as well.

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AOT #98: Russell Banks Podcasts The Reserve

Russell Banks, the acclaimed author whose works include Cloudsplitter and Continental Drift, reads from his new novel The Reserve. Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Banks’s sharp-witted and deeply engaging new novel raises dangerous questions about class, politics, art, love, and madness-and explores what happens when two powerful personalities, trapped at opposite ends of a social divide, begin to break the rules.

($24.95) HarperCollins ISBN #978-0-06-143025-1.

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AOT #97: Eli Gottlieb Podcasts Now You See Him

Boulder, Colorado author Eli Gottlieb‘s The Boy Who Went Away won the prestigious Rome Prize and the 1998 McKitterick Prize from the British Society of Authors. It also received extraordinary notices and was a New York Times Notable Book. Gottlieb reads from his critically acclaimed new novel Now You See Him. In this ambitious and thrilling novel, Gottlieb-with extraordinarily luxuriant and evocative prose-takes us deep into the human psyche, where the most profound of secrets are kept.

($22.95) William Morrow ISBN #978-0-06-128464-9. You can visit Eli Gottlieb’s official web site as well.

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AOT #96: John Gray Podcasts Why Mars and Venus Collide

John Gray, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of communication and relationships, and the author of fifteen books, including the internationally bestselling Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. Gray discusses his new book Why Mars and Venus Collide: Improving Relationships by Understanding How Men and Women Cope Differently with Stress, in which he focuses on the ways that men and women misinterpret and mismanage the stress in their daily lives, and how these reactions ultimately affect their relationships.

($24.95) HarperCollins ISBN #0-06-124296-9. You can visit John Gray’s official web site as well.

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AOT #95: Anne Byrn Podcasts What Can I Bring?

Anne Byrn, known to millions of fans through her Cake Mix Doctor and Dinner Doctor cookbooks, shares tips for entertaining year-round and discusses her new cook book What Can I Bring? Cutting through menu block-a condition familiar to everyone who cooks-Byrn offers over 200 delicious suggestions for crowd-pleasing food that’s designed to travel. And, as a special treat for our listeners who belong to book clubs, Anne highlights her menu for hosting a book club luncheon.

($14.95) Workman ISBN #0-7611-4392-0. You can visit Anne Byrn’s official web site as well.

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AOT #94: Stephen Cannell Podcasts Three Shirt Deal

Bestselling mystery novelist and Emmy Award-winning television writer Stephen Cannell discusses his new Shane Scully novel Three Shirt Deal. In Cannell’s latest heart-pounding thriller, Shane is tried in ways he has never been, risking his family, his job, and his life.

($24.95) St. Martin’s ISBN #0-312-36627-2. You can visit Stephen Cannell’s official web site as well.

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AOT #93: Madeleine Albright Podcasts Memo to the President Elect

Former Secretary of State and bestselling author Madeleine Albright discusses her new book Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America’s Reputation & Leadership. The next president, whether Democrat or Republican, will face the daunting task of repairing America’s core relationships and tarnished credibility after the damage caused during the past seven years. In Memo to the President Elect, Albright offers provocative ideas about how to confront the striking array of challenges that the next commander-in-chief will face and how to return America to its rightful role as a source of inspiration across the globe.

($26.95) HarperCollins ISBN #0-06-135180-6.

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AOT #92: Joanne Harris Podcasts Runemarks

Joanne Harris, the bestselling author whose adult books include Chocolat and Five Quarters of the Orange, reads from and discusses her new novel for young readers Runemarks. Seven o’clock on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the end of the world, and goblins had been at the cellar, again. Not that anyone would admit it was goblins. In Maddy Smith’s world, order rules. Chaos, old gods, fairies, goblins, magic, glamours-all of these were supposedly vanquished centuries ago. But Maddy knows that a small bit of magic has survived, and in this epic romp she’ll need every scrap of forbidden magic if she is to survive her destiny.

($18.99) Random House ISBN #978-0-375-84444-7. You can visit Joanne Harris’ official web site as well.

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AOT #91: Kurt Andersen Podcasts Heyday

Kurt Andersen, the co-founder of Spy magazine, and author of the brash and brilliant debut novel Turn of the Century, reads from and discusses the paperback edition of his new novel Heyday. A fresh, impeccable portrait of an era startlingly reminiscent of our own times, Heyday is by turns tragic and funny and sublime, filled with bona fide heroes and lost souls, visionaries (Walt Whitman, Charles Darwin, Alexis de Tocqueville) and monsters, expanding horizons and narrow escapes. It is also an affecting story of four people passionately chasing their American dreams at a time when America herself was still being dreamed up-an enthralling, old-fashioned yarn interwoven with a bracingly modern novel of ideas.

($15.95) Random House ISBN #0-8129-7846-3. You can visit Kurt Anderson’s official web site as well.

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