AOT #469: Cat Warren Podcasts What the Dog Knows: The Science and Wonder of Working Dogs

Cat Warren is a university professor and former journalist with an admittedly odd hobby: She and her German shepherd have spent the last seven years searching for the dead. Solo is a cadaver dog. What started as a way to harness Solo’s unruly energy and enthusiasm soon became a calling that introduced her to the hidden and fascinating universe of working dogs, their handlers, and their trainers. Warren reads from and discusses her fascinating new book What the Dog Knows: The Science and Wonder of Working Dogs.

($16.00) Touchstone Books ISBN # 9781451667325. You can visit Cat Warren‘s official web site as well.

AOT #468: Tim Johnston Podcasts Descent

Prize-winning, critically acclaimed author Tim Johnston reads from and discusses his debut novel Descent. Written with a precision that captures every emotion, every moment of fear, as each member of a family searches for answers after one goes missing, Descent is a perfectly crafted thriller that races like an avalanche toward its heart-pounding conclusion, and heralds the arrival of a master storyteller.

“Johnston has a poet’s eye for the majestic and forbidding nature of the Rockies, and a sociologist’s understanding of how people act under pressure. He also has a knack for creating characters that the reader will come to care about…Combining domestic drama with wilderness adventure, Johnston has created a hybrid novel that is as emotionally satisfying as it is viscerally exciting.” –Publishers Weekly, starred review

($25.95) Algonquin Books ISBN # 9781616203047. You can visit Tim Johnston‘s official web site as well.

AOT #467: Jennifer Chiaverini Podcasts Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule

Jennifer Chiaverini, the New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker and Mrs. Lincoln’s Rival, reads from and discusses her new historical novel Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule. In her new book, Chiaverini imagines the inner life of Julia Grant, beloved as a Civil War general’s wife and the First Lady, yet who grappled with a profound and complex relationship with the slave who was her namesake-until she forged a proud identity of her own.

($26.95) Dutton ISBN # 9780525954293. You can visit Jennifer Chiaverini‘s official web site as well.

AOT #466: Philip Connors Podcasts All the Wrong Places: A Life Lost and Found

Philip Connors, the prize-winning author of Fire Season, reads from and discusses his new memoir All the Wrong Places: A Life Lost and Found, the heartrending story of his troubled years before finding solace in the wilderness. In his debut Fire Season, Philip Connors recounted with lyricism, wisdom, and grace his decade as a fire lookout high above remote New Mexico. Now he tells the story of what made solitude on the mountain so attractive: the years he spent reeling in the wake of a family tragedy.

($25.95) W.W. Norton ISBN # 9780393088762. You can visit Philip Connors‘s official web site as well.

AOT #465: Kyle Boelte Podcasts The Beautiful Unseen

Kyle Boelte reads from and discusses his unique memoir The Beautiful Unseen: Variations on Fog and Forgetting. At age thirty, Boelte finds himself living in San Francisco, amidst an ever-changing sea of fog, and struggling to remember his brother Kris, who committed suicide in the family’s Denver home when Boelte was just thirteen. In this impressive debut, Boelte sets up a dual narrative: one investigates San Francisco’s climate to explain the science behind the omnipresent fog; another explores Boelte’s memory as well as letters, notes, newspaper articles, and other artifacts that tell the story of his brother’s short life and eventual suicide.

($15.95) Soft Skull Press ISBN # 9781619024588. You can visit Kyle Boelte‘s official web site as well.

AOT #464: Alexandra Fuller Podcasts Leaving Before the Rains Come

Alexandra Fuller, author of the critically-acclaimed bestseller Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, discusses her new book Leaving Before the Rains Come. A child of the Rhodesian wars and daughter of two deeply complicated parents, Alexandra Fuller is no stranger to pain. But the disintegration of Fuller’s own marriage leaves her shattered. Looking to pick up the pieces of her life, she finally confronts the tough questions about her past, about the American man she married, and about the family she left behind in Africa. A breathtaking achievement, Leaving Before the Rains Come is a memoir of such grace and intelligence, filled with such wit and courage, that it could only have been written by Alexandra Fuller.

($29.95) Penguin ISBN # 9781594205866. You can visit Alexandra Fuller‘s official web site as well.

AOT #463: Norman Doidge, M.D. Podcasts The Brain’s Way of Healing

Dr. Norman Doidge, the New York Times bestselling author of The Brain That Changes Itself, discusses his new book The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity. For centuries it was believed that the brain’s complexity prevented recovery from damage or disease. The Brain’s Way of Healing shows that this very sophistication is the source of a unique kind of healing. As he did so lucidly in The Brain That Changes Itself, Doidge uses stories to present cutting-edge science with practical real-world applications, and principles that everyone can apply to improve their brain’s performance and health.

($29.95) Viking ISBN # 9780670025503. You can visit Norman Doidge‘s official web site as well.

AOT #462: James Nestor Podcasts Deep

While on assignment in Greece, journalist James Nestor witnessed something that confounded him: a man diving 300 feet below the ocean’s surface on a single breath of air and returning four minutes later, unharmed and smiling. Nestor discusses his new book Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves, his illuminating look at the pioneers who are expanding our definition of what is possible in the natural world, and in ourselves.

($27.00) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN # 9780547985527. You can visit James Nestor‘s official web site as well.

AOT #461: Michael Shermer Podcasts The Moral Arc

Michael Shermer is the author of Why People Believe Weird Things, The Believing Brain, and eight other books on the evolution of human beliefs and behavior. He is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, the editor of Skeptic.com, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and an adjunct professor at Claremont Graduate University. Shermer discusses his new book The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom, which explains how scientific ways of thinking — abstract reasoning, rationality, empiricism, skepticism — have profoundly changed the way we perceive morality and, indeed, move us ever closer to a more just world.

($32.00) Henry Holt ISBN # 9780805096910. You can visit Michael Shermer‘s official web site as well.

AOT #460: Anne Randolph Podcasts Stories Gathered at the Kitchen Table: A Collection of Women’s Memoirs

After working as director of three companies and the Colorado Symphony, Anne Randolph now leads Kitchen Table Writing and Write Your Life Story Workshops in Denver, and around the country. She was the first Fulcrum Publishing Company Fellow and has an MA and MFA in Literature and Theatre. Randolph and several contributors discuss and read from the new book Stories Gathered at the Kitchen Table: A Collection of Women’s Memoirs.

($14.99) ISBN # 9780988894204. You can visit Anne Randolph‘s official web site as well.

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