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Abraham Verghese, the author of The Tennis Partner, a New York Times Notable Book, and My Own Country, a National Book Critics Circle finalist, discusses his first novel Cutting for Stone. This sweeping, emotionally riveting novel is an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. It takes readers on an unforgettable journey into one man s remarkable life, and offers an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others. ($26.95) Knopf ISBN #0-375-41449-5. You can visit Abraham Verghese s official web site as well. AOT Partner Offer: Download the Cutting For Stone audiobook from Audible.

Jamie Ford is an award-winning short-story writer, an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and a survivor of Orson Scott Card s Literary Boot Camp. Ford reads from and discusses his critically acclaimed debut novel Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. A tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost forever, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet gives us a glimpse of the damage that is caused by war not the sweeping damage of the battlefield, but the cold, cruel damage to the hearts and humanity of individual people. Especially relevant in today s world, this is a beautifully written book that will make you think. And, more importantly, it will make you feel. Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain ($24.00) Ballantine ISBN #0-345-50533-6. You can visit Jamie Ford s official web site as well. AOT Partner Offer:

New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear reads from and discusses Among the Mad, her thrilling new mystery in which Maisie Dobbs must catch a madman before he commits murder on an unimaginable scale. In Among the Mad, Winspear combines a heart-stopping story with a rich evocation of a fascinating period to create her most compelling and satisfying novel yet. ($25. 00) Henry Holt ISBN #0-8050-8216-6. You can visit Jacqueline Winspear s official web site as well. AOT Partner Offer:

Allegra Huston reads from and discusses her fascinating memoir Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found. When Allegra Huston was four years old, her mother was killed in a car crash. Soon after, she was introduced to her father, the legendary film director John Huston. Then, at the age of twelve, she was, once more, introduced to her father—her real one this time, the British aristocrat and historian John Julius Norwich. ($26.95) Simon and Schuster ISBN #978-1-41655-1577. You can visit Allegra Huston s official web site as well. AOT Partner Offer:

Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and journalist Dana Canedy reads from and discusses A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor. In 2005, Canedy s husband, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King, began to write a journal for his son in case he did not make it home from the war in Iraq. He was killed on October 14, 2006, when an improvised explosive device detonated under his Humvee on an isolated road near Baghdad. His son, Jordan, was seven months old. This book is Canedy s letter to her son-fierce in its honesty-about the father he lost before he could even speak. It is also a father s advice and prayers for the son he will never know. ($25.95) Crown ISBN #0-307-39579-0. AOT Partner Offer: Download an Audiobook for $7.49 and Save 50% for Your First 3 Months. Choose from over 60,000 titles.

Neuroscientist David Eagleman currently runs a research lab where he studies time perception, synesthesia, and how neuroscience will influence the legal system. At night he writes fiction. Eagleman reads from and discusses his new collection SUM: 40 Tales from the Afterlives, a dazzling exploration of funny and unexpected afterlives that have never been considered each presented as a vignette that offers us a stunning lens through which to see ourselves here and now. ($20.00) Random House ISBN # 0-307-37734-2. You can visit David Eagleman s official web site as well. AOT Partner Offer: Download and Listen to Self Development Audiobooks on Relationships, Weight Loss and Finance for only $7.49/month.

Political organizer and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist David Sirota s first book, Hostile Takeover, was a New York Times bestseller. Sirota blogs at credoaction.com/sirota, and his column runs weekly in the Denver Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and Seattle Times, as well as in other newspapers. He is a senior fellow at the Campaign for America s Future and the founder of the Progressive States Network-both nonpartisan research institutions. Sirota discusses his new book The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington. ($25.95) Crown Publishing Group ISBN #0-307-39563-4. You can visit David Sirota s official web site as well. author podcasts, books, podcasts, podcasting, book podcasts, literature, arts, The Uprising, David Sirota

Darin Strauss, the acclaimed author of Chang and Eng, discusses his new novel More Than It Hurts You. This literary showstopper is a beautifully realized novel that at its heart is the story of a woman who will risk everything to feel something; a doctor whose diagnosis brings her entire life into question; and a man who suddenly realizes that being a good husband and a good father can no longer comfortably coexist. Darin Strauss s latest is an eviscerating portrayal of contemporary American life, surgical and exact. At turns funny and disturbing, unsparing in its insights yet generous with understanding, More Than It Hurts You is a relentlessly rewarding piece of art. -Colson Whitehead, author of Apex Hides the Hurt ($24.95) Dutton ISBN #978-0-525-95070-7. You can visit Darin Strauss’s official web site as well. author podcasts, books, podcasts, podcasting, book podcasts, literature, arts, More Than It Hurts You, Darin Strauss

Andre Dubus III, the author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprah s Book Club selection House of Sand and Fog, reads from and discusses his new novel The Garden of Last Days. This big-hearted, painful, page-turning novel, set in the seamy underside of American life, juxtaposes lust for domination with hunger for connection, sexual violence with family love. It is filled with the same psychological tension, depth, and realism that characterized House of Sand and Fog-and an even greater sense of the dark and anguished places in the human heart ($24.95) W. W. Norton ISBN #0-393-04165-4. author podcasts, books, podcasts, podcasting, book podcasts, literature, arts, The Garden of Last Days, Andre Dubus III

David Guterson, the author of the best-selling Snow Falling on Cedars, reads from and discusses his long-awaited new novel The Other. Riveting and deeply humane, this dazzling new novel is about youth and idealism, adulthood and its compromises, and two powerfully different visions of what it means to live a good life. ($24.95) Random House ISBN #0-307-26315-0. author podcasts, books, podcasts, podcasting, book podcasts, literature, arts, The Other, David Guterson

David Sedaris is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and Public Radio International s This American Life, and is the bestselling author of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, and Barrel Fever. Sedaris reads from and discusses his new book When You Are Engulfed in Flames. Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, Sedaris s sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing from a writer worth treasuring (Seattle Times). ($25.99) Little, Brown ISBN #0-316-14347-2. Sponsored Link: Limited Time Offer - Get Your First 3 Months at Audible for $7.49/month!

New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara, America s premier author of military historical fiction, reads from and discusses his new book The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II, the centerpiece of his epic trilogy of the Second World War. Taking us from G.I. to general, this story carries the reader through the war s most crucial juncture-the invasion that altered the flow of the war, and, ultimately, changed history. To listen to Shaara podcasts The Rising Tide, please click here. ($28.00) Random House ISBN #0-345-46142-8. You can visit Jeff Shaara s official web site as well. author podcasts, books, podcasts, podcasting, book podcasts, literature, arts, The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II, Jeff Shaara

Colorado author David Wroblewski reads from and discusses his critically acclaimed debut novel The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Wroblewski is a master storyteller, and his breathtaking scenes create a riveting family saga, a brilliant exploration of the limits of language, and a compulsively readable modern classic. I flat-out loved The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Wonderful, mysterious, long and satisfying. I don t re-read many books, because life is too short. I will be re-reading this one. -Stephen King ($26.95) Ecco ISBN #978-0-06-137422-7. You can visit David Wroblewski s official web site as well. author podcasts, books, podcasts, podcasting, book podcasts, literature, arts, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski

Mark Bowden, the bestselling author of Black Hawk Down, discusses his new book The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL. Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the game, this remarkable story of the 1958 NFL Championship game between the Colts and the Giants-considered by many to be the greatest football game ever played-delivers a brilliant narrative on the game itself, the story behind the key players in that game, and the effect the contest had on the modern game of football and today s NFL. ($23.00) Atlantic Monthly Press ISBN #0-87113-988-x. author podcasts, books, podcasts, podcasting, book podcasts, literature, arts, The Best Game Ever, Mark Bowden

Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa, discusses his new book The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom. In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Winchester brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, long the world s most technologically advanced country. ($27.95) HarperCollins ISBN #978-0-06-088459-8. You can visit Simon Winchester s official web site as well. author podcasts, books, podcasts, podcasting, book podcasts, literature, arts, The Man Who Loved China, Simon Winchester

Leif Enger, the acclaimed, bestselling author of Peace Like a River, reads from and discusses his new novel So Brave, Young, and Handsome, a touching, nimble, and rugged story of an aging train robber on a quest, and the failed writer who goes with him. With its smooth mix of romanticism and gritty reality, Enger s novel often recalls the Old West s greatest cowboy stories. But it is also about an ordinary man s determination as he risks everything in order to understand what it s all worth, and follows an unlikely dream in the hope it will lead him back home. ($24.00) Atlantic Monthly Press ISBN #978-0-87113-985-6. You can visit Leif Enger s official web site as well. author podcasts, books, podcasts, podcasting, book podcasts, literature, arts, So Brave, Young, and Handsome, Leif Enger

Five years after publication of the #1 international blockbuster bestseller, The South Beach Diet, renowned cardiologist, Arthur Agatston, M.D. releases The South Beach Diet Supercharged: Faster Weight Loss and Better Health for Life. In the original South Beach Diet book, Dr. Agatston changed the way America eats, with his right carbs, right fats approach. Now his mission is to change the way America lives, not only by helping people lose weight and eat healthfully but also by becoming more fit. Listen to Dr. Agatston s previous Authors on Tour podcast. ($25.95) Rodale Press ISBN #978-1594864575. You can visit Arthur Agatston s official web site as well. author podcasts, books, podcasts, podcasting, book podcasts, literature, arts, The South Beach Diet Supercharged, Arthur Agatston

Elizabeth George, the New York Times bestselling author of fourteen novels of psychological suspense, reads from and discusses her new mystery Careless in Red. In this eagerly anticipated novel, George brings back Scotland Yard s Thomas Lynley to investigate a ruthless crime. ($26.95) HarperCollins ISBN #978-0-06-116087-5. You can visit Elizabeth George s official web site as well. author podcasts, books, podcasts, podcasting, book podcasts, literature, arts, Careless in Red, Elizabeth George

Mary Roach, the funniest science writer in the country (Burkhard Bilger of The New Yorker), is the author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. Her writing has appeared in such publications as Salon, GQ, Vogue, and the New York Times Magazine. Roach discusses her new book Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, in which she turns her outrageous curiosity and infectious wit on the most alluring scientific subject of all! ($24.95) W.W. Norton ISBN #0-393-06464-6. You can visit Mary Roach s official web site as well. author podcasts, books, podcasts, podcasting, book podcasts, literature, arts, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, Mary Roach

Frances Richey reads from and discusses The Warrior: A Mother s Story of a Son at War, her stunning, urgent, and heart-wrenching memoir, written in verse, about a mother who sees her son, a Green Beret and captain in the Army, go off for two tours of duty in Iraq. The Warrior centers around a mother s love for her son, a son from whom she feels distant both literally and metaphorically, for she is a liberal who is against the war, but who realizes that she needs to accept and support the choice her son has made, and to try to understand what has drawn him to the military life. The poems explore the agonizing process of a mother who is always saying goodbye to her son, missing her son, praying for her son, waiting for her son to come home. ($21.95) Viking ISBN #978-0-670-01961-8. You can visit Frances Richey s official web site as well. author podcasts, books, podcasts, podcasting, book podcasts, literature, arts, The Warrior: A Mother s Story of a Son at War, Frances Richey