AOT #90: Paula Kamen Podcasts Finding Iris Chang

Paula Kamen discusses her new book Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind. Iris Chang’s mysterious suicide in 2004, at age thirty-six, didn’t seem to make any sense. Some even wondered if the controversial author of The Rape of Nanking had been murdered. Long-time friend Paula Kamen was among those left wondering what had gone so wrong. A literary investigation of an important writer’s journey, Finding Iris Chang is a tribute to a lost heroine, a portrait of the real and vulnerable woman who inspired so many around the world.

($26.00) DaCapo ISBN #978-0-306-81466-2. You can visit Paula Kamen’s official web site as well.

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AOT #89: Jenna Bush Podcasts Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope

First daughter and author Jenna Bush discusses her book Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope. Based on her work with UNICEF in Latin America and the Caribbean, Bush has written a personal, narrative nonfiction account about a girl who struggles to break free from a vicious cycle of abuse, poverty, and illness.

($18.99) HarperCollins ISBN #978-0-061-37908-6.

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AOT #88: Paul Krugman Podcasts The Conscience of a Liberal

Paul Krugman writes a twice-weekly column for the op-ed page of the New York Times. A winner of the John Bates Clark Medal who was also named Columnist of the Year by Editor and Publisher magazine, he teaches economics at Princeton University. Krugman discusses The Conscience of a Liberal, which challenges America to reclaim the values that made it great.

($24.95) WW Norton ISBN #978-0-393-06069-0. You can visit Paul Krugman’s official web site as well.

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AOT #87: Noah Oppenheim Podcasts The Intellectual Devotional: American History

Along with David S. Kidder, Noah Oppenheim is the acclaimed author of The Intellectual Devotional series of books. Oppenheim discusses their new edition The Intellectual Devotional: American History: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently about Our Nation’s Past, a collection of 365 American history lessons that will inspire and invigorate the reader every day of the year.

($24.00) Rodale ISBN #9781594867446. You can visit The Intellectual Devotional‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #86: Mary Carwile Podcasts Fear of Flying-Tips and Tales from a Pro

Mary Carwile, the author of Heartstrings at 35,000 Feet and Heartstrings and Pink Ribbons, is a flight attendant with Frontier Airlines, who has suffered from “fear of flying” and claustrophobia. Carwile presents fun, down-to-earth tips for dealing with fears associated with flying, and answers nagging questions like “does de-icing really help?”

($12.95) Verbena Pond Publishing ISBN #978-0975285442. You can visit Mary Carwile’s official web site as well.

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AOT #85: Richard Russo Podcasts Bridge of Sighs

Richard Russo, the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls, Nobody’s Fool, and others, reads from and discusses his critically acclaimed new novel Bridge of Sighs. Bridge of Sighs is classic Russo, coursing with small-town rhythms and the claims of family, yet it is brilliantly enlarged by an expatriate whose motivations and experiences – often contrary, sometimes not – resonate through richly different lives. Here is a town, as well as a world, defined by magnificent and nearly devastating contradictions.

($26.95) Knopf ISBN #978-0-375-41495-4.

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AOT #84: Carl Bernstein Podcasts A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton

Carl Bernstein discusses his new book A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Bernstein’ s stunning portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton shows us, as nothing else has, the true trajectory of her life and career with its zigzag bursts of risks taken and safety sought. Marshaling all the skills and energy that propelled his history-making Pulitzer Prize reporting on Watergate, Bernstein gives us the most detailed, sophisticated, comprehensive, and revealing account we have had of the complex human being and political meteor who has already helped define one presidency and may well become, herself, the woman in charge of another.

($27.95) Knopf ISBN #9780375407666. You can visit Carl Bernstein’s official web site as well.

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AOT #83: Ann Packer Podcasts Songs Without Words

Ann Packer received a Great Lakes Book Award and the Kate Chopin Literary Award for her national bestseller The Dive from Clausen’s Pier. Packer reads from and discusses her new novel Songs Without Words. In her long-awaited second novel, Packer takes us on a journey into a lifelong friendship pushed to the breaking point. Expertly, with the keen introspection and psychological nuance that are her hallmarks, she explores what happens when there are inequities between friends and when the hard-won balances of a long relationship are disturbed, perhaps irreparably, by a harrowing crisis.

($24.95) Knopf ISBN #978-0-375-41281-3. You can visit Ann Packer’s official web site as well.

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AOT #82: Marina Lewycka Podcasts Strawberry Fields

Marina Lewycka, author of the international bestseller A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, reads from and discusses her new novel Strawberry Fields. This tender and hilarious novel about a crew of migrant workers from three continents follows them as they are forced to flee their English strawberry field in pursuit of their various dreams of a better future – thus setting off one of the most enchanting, merry, and moving picaresque journeys across the length and breadth of England since Chaucer’s pilgrims set off to Canterbury.

($24.95) Penguin ISBN #9781594201370.

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AOT #81: Terry Pratchett Podcasts Making Money

Terry Pratchett, the internationally bestselling author of the hilarious, satirical Discworld series, discusses his new novel Making Money. The Ankh-Morpork Post Office is running like, well, not at all like a government office. The mail is delivered promptly; meetings start on time; five out of six letters relegated to the Blind Letter Office ultimately wend their way to the correct addresses. Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig, former arch-swindler and confidence man, has exceeded all expectations-including his own. So it’s somewhat disconcerting when Lord Vetinari summons Moist and asks, “Tell me, Mr. Lipwig, would you like to make some real money?”

($24.95) William Morrow ISBN #0-06-116164-0. You can visit Terry Pratchett’s official web site as well.

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