AOT #489: Carrie Vaughn Podcasts Kitty Saves the World

Boulder, Colorado writer Carrie Vaughn is the bestselling author of the Kitty Norville urban fantasy books, as well as the standalone novels After the Golden Age and Discord’s Apple, and the young adult books Voice of Dragons and Steel. Vaughn discusses Kitty Saves the World, the fourteenth and final novel in the series featuring everybody’s favorite werewolf DJ and out-of-the-closet supernatural creature, Kitty Norville.

($7.99) Tor ISBN # 9780765368706. You can visit Carrie Vaughn‘s official web site as well.

AOT #488: C.J. Box Podcasts Badlands

C.J. Box is the author of more than a dozen novels including the award-winning Joe Pickett series. He’s the winner of the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, the Barry Award, an Edgar Award and is an L.A. Times Book Prize finalist. Box reads from and discusses his new novel Badlands, a masterpiece of suspense set in a time and place that readers won’t soon forget.

($26.99) Minotaur ISBN # 9780312583217. You can visit C.J. Box‘s official web site as well.

AOT #487: Helen Thorpe Podcasts Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War

Award-winning, bestselling Colorado author Helen Thorpe, reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of her book Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War. This powerfully moving account of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, shows how their military service affected their friendship, their personal lives, and their families. Deeply reported and beautifully written, Soldier Girls is truly groundbreaking.

($17.00) Scribner ISBN # 9781451668117. You can visit Helen Thorpe‘s official web site as well.

AOT #486: Gary Hart Podcasts The Republic of Conscience

Senator Gary Hart represented Colorado in the U.S. Senate from 1975 to 1987. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Shield, The Cloak, and Restoration of the Republic. Hart has lectured at Yale, the University of California, and Oxford, where he earned a doctor of philosophy in politics. A lifelong Democratic reformer, he is currently a professor at the University of Colorado, a distinguished fellow at the New America Foundation, and chairman of the American Security Project. Hart discusses his new book, The Republic of Conscience, a meditation on the growing gap between the founding principles of the United States Constitution and our current political landscape.

($25.95) Blue Rider Press ISBN # 9780399175237. You can visit Gary Hart‘s official web site as well.

AOT #485: Charlie Burrell & Mitch Handelsman Podcast The Life of Charlie Burrell

A Denver jazz legend, Charlie Burrell joined the Denver Symphony in 1949 as the first person of color under contract with a major orchestra. In 1959 he moved to San Francisco to become the first person of color in the San Francisco Orchestra. In his more than 60 years as a professional musician, he played for conductors including Arthur Fiedler and Pierre Monteux, and worked with a who’s who of jazz greats – appearing on stage with the likes of Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, and Lionel Hampton.

Author Mitch Handelsman is currently professor of psychology and a CU President’s Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado Denver and a trumpet player who plays jazz and blues in the Denver area. Burrell and Handelsman read from and discuss and their new book The Life of Charlie Burrell: Breaking the Color Barrier in Classical Music.

($19.99) Createspace ISBN # 9781502896452.

AOT #484: Laura Lane McNeal Podcasts Dollbaby

Laura Lane McNeal reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of her debut novel Dollbaby, a big-hearted coming-of-age story set in civil rights-era New Orleans-a novel of Southern eccentricity and secrets. “A vivid portrayal of post-war New Orleans, lush and evocative in its descriptions, McNeal’s unique voice shines through surprising and pleasing the reader. Fans of Pat Conroy and Sue Monk Kidd will enjoy this new Southern talent.” — Library Journal (starred review)

($16.00) Penguin ISBN # 9780143127499. You can visit Laura Lane McNeal‘s official web site as well.

AOT #483: Dan Hampton Podcasts The Hunter Killers

Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Dan Hampton, the author of the national bestsellers Viper Pilot and Lords of the Sky, as well as a novel, The Mercenary, discusses his new book The Hunter Killers: The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions of the Vietnam War. Using first-hand accounts, declassified documents from both sides of the conflict, and featuring unpublished photographs, The Hunter Killers takes readers into the skies, and up close to the bloody duels that left half the Weasels dead or captured. At its center are the men who risked everything to fight the most dangerous anti-aircraft weapons the world had seen.

($27.99) William Morrow ISBN # 9780062375131.

AOT #482: Andrew Hartman Podcasts A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars

Andrew Hartman, associate professor of history at Illinois State University and the author of Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School, discusses his new book A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars. As an ever-more partisan, but also an ever-more diverse and accepting America continues to find its way in a changing world, A War for the Soul of America reminds us of how we got here, and what all the shouting has really been about.

($30.00) University of Chicago Press ISBN # 9780226254500.

AOT #481: Neal Stephenson Podcasts Seveneves

Neal Stephenson, the New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon, reads from and discusses his eagerly anticipated new book Seveneves, an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic — a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years. A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable.

($35.00) William Morrow ISBN # 9780062190376. You can visit Neal Stephenson‘s official web site as well.

AOT #480: Heidi Pitlor Podcasts The Daylight Marriage, Erika Krouse Podcasts Contenders

Editor and novelist Heidi Pitlor and Colorado author Erika Krouse talk about writing and discuss their new novels.

Heidi Pitlor, who as an editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt worked with Salman Rushdie, Alice Sebold, Richard Russo, Elizabeth Strout, and others presents her critically acclaimed novel The Daylight Marriage.

($24.95) Algonquin ISBN # 9781616203689. You can visit Heidi Pitlor‘s official web site as well.

Erika Krouse, who currently teaches at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, presents her extremely well-reviewed debut novel Contenders.

($15.95) Rare Bird Books ISBN # 9781940207636. You can visit Erika Krouse‘s official web site as well.

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