AOT #50: James McGreevey Podcasts The Confession

James McGreevey reads from and discusses his provocative memoir, The Confession.

In August 2004, New Jersey Governor James McGreevey made history when he stepped before microphones and declared, “My truth is that I am a gay American,” and announced his resignation. The story made international headlines – but what led to that moment was a human and political drama more complex and fascinating than anyone knew. Now, in this extraordinarily candid memoir, McGreevey shares his story of a life of ambition, moral compromise and redemption.

($26.95) Regan Books ISBN #0-06-089862-3.

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AOT #49: Francine Mathews Podcasts The Alibi Club

Francine Mathews reads from and discusses her new historical thriller, The Alibi Club.

Francine Mathews worked as a foreign-policy analyst for the CIA. She is the author of The Cutout, The Secret Agent and Blown, and under the pseudonym Stephanie Barron, she is the author of eight bestselling Jane Austen mysteries. Epic and yet intimate, The Alibi Club is a seamless blend of fact and fiction based on a little-known episode of WWII. Mathews’ own life in the spy world makes espionage in her books come uniquely alive.

($24.00) Bantam ISBN #0-553-80331-x. You can visit Francine Mathews’ official web site as well.

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AOT #48: John Berendt Podcasts The City of Falling Angels

John Berendt, author of the record-breaking bestseller Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, reads from and discusses the paperback edition of his new book, The City of Falling Angels.

In this great example of the “non-fiction novel” genre that Berendt helped create, Berendt turns to the magic, mystery and decadence of Venice to gradually reveal the truth behind a fire that in 1996 destroyed the historic Venice opera house. Encountering a rich cast of characters, Berendt tells a tale full of atmosphere and surprise as the stories build, one after the other, ultimately coming together to portray a world as finely drawn as a still-life painting.

($15.00) Penguin ISBN # 0-14-303693-9.

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AOT #47: Ellen Burstyn Podcasts Lessons in Becoming Myself

Ellen Burstyn, Academy and Tony Award-winning actress, discusses her life and her new memoir, Lessons in Becoming Myself.

In this powerful story of a woman’s search for a deeper understanding of herself, Burstyn explores the unexpected paths her life has taken in this unflinchingly honest, moving and inspirational memoir. For this podcast, Burstyn is interviewed by television critic-at-large and author, Greg Moody.

($25.95) Riverhead ISBN # 1-59448-929-7. You can visit Ellen Burstyn’s web site as well.

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AOT #46: Elizabeth Berg Podcasts We Are All Welcome Here

Elizabeth Berg, the New York Times bestselling author, reads from and discusses her new novel, We Are All Welcome Here.

In this novel, set during the summer of 1964 in Tupelo, Mississippi, Berg, who has a rare talent for revealing her characters’ hearts and minds in a manner that makes us empathize completely, tells the stories of three women – each struggling against overwhelming odds for her own kind of freedom.

($22.95) Random House ISBN # 1-40006-161-x. You can visit Elizabeth Berg’s web site as well.

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AOT #45: Augusten Burroughs Podcasts Possible Side Effects

Augusten Burroughs, bestselling author of Running with Scissors, Dry and Magical Thinking, reads from — no, performs from — his new collection of stories, Possible Side Effects.

Burroughs, who has been named one of the 15 funniest people in America by Entertainment Weekly, has written another highly entertaining and provocative book based on his wild personal life. Possible Side Effects is a collection of true, and mostly-true, stories that Burroughs uses to enlighten his readers on the concept of cause and effect, all told in his amusing and anecdotal style.

($23.95) St. Martin’s Press ISBN # 0-3123-1596-1. You can visit Augusten Burrough’s raucous official web site as well.

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AOT #44: Nando Parrado Podcasts Miracle in the Andes

Nando Parrado survived 72 days in the Andes mountains after a plane, carrying him and his rugby teammates, crashed into the wintery mountains. Miracle in the Andes is his story, told for the first time since the accident 34 years ago.

In 1972, a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the Andes. Nando Parrado, one of the survivors of the crash, tells his story in Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home, and for the first time discusses how and why he survived. Piers Paul Read wrote, “Given up for dead after an air crash…Parrado not only survived but showed the strength and determination that saved his own life and that of his fifteen friends. Now he gives his own account of his ordeal — enthralling, enlightening, modest and moving. An impressive testimony to what love can achieve.”

($25.00) Crown ISBN #1-40009-767-3. You can visit Nando Parrado’s official web site as well.

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AOT #43 – Rick Reilly Podcasts Shanks for Nothing

Rick Reilly reads from and discusses his hilarious new novel, Shanks for Nothing, while riffing on anything else that comes to mind.

Bestselling author Rick Reilly, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, has been voted National Sportswriter of the Year ten times. Reilly discusses, rants and reads from his new book Shanks for Nothing, the hilarious sequel to his beloved golf novel, Missing Links.

($24.95) Doubleday ISBN #0-385-50111-0. If you want to read Rick’s columns at SI, please visit Life of Reilly as well.

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AOT #42: James Fallows Podcasts Blind Into Baghdad

James Fallows reads from and discusses the paperback edition of his provocative book, Blind Into Baghdad: America’s War in Iraq.

American Book Award-winning author James Fallows is The Atlantic Monthly’s national correspondent, and has worked for the magazine for more than twenty years. In Blind Into Baghdad, Fallows take us from the planning of the war through the struggles of reconstruction. With unparalleled access and incisive analysis, he shows us how many of the difficutlites were anticipated by experts whom the Administration ignored. Fallows examines how the war in Iraq undercut the larger “war on terror” and why Iraq still had no army two years after the invasion.

($13.95) Vintage ISBN #0-307-27796-8. Please visit James Fallows’ official web site as well.

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AOT #41: John Perkins Podcasts Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

John Perkins discusses and reads from the new paperback edition of his internationally bestselling and controversial book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman.

Perkins’ story is an in-depth look at one man’s experiences inside the intrigue, greed, corruption and little-known government and corporate activities that America has been involved in since World War II, and which have dire consequences for the future of democracy and the world.

($15.00) Penguin ISBN #0-452-28708-1. Please visit John Perkins’ official web site as well.

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