Revealing answers from college students cover each school’s unique character and give you extensive insight into their classes, financial aid, social life, and everything in between. Students are the experts, after all, and they talked to 122,000 of them!

Random House / Princeton Review Books, $22.99, July 2009, ISBN#: 978-0-375-42938-5

Ralph Nader, consumer advocate and two-time candidate for President of the United States, is a relentless force for grassroots activism and democratic change in America. Nader discusses and reads from his new novel Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!, a vivid fictional account that answers the question “What if?” What if a cadre of super-rich individuals tried to become a driving force in America to organize and institutionalize the interests of the citizens of this troubled nation?

($27.50) Seven Stories ISBN #978-1-58322-903-3. You can visit Ralph Nader’s official website as well.

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The book is full of side-splittingly familiar stories that most dog owners can, unfortunately, relate to. The passage from Marley & Me that Grogan chose to read, though, recounts an experience few of us have had to endure: watching our dog disrupt a day of shooting on a movie set.

Many of us assume that animals appearing in film are specially trained to “act,” but as you’ll hear in this podcast, sometimes low-budget movies cast low-budget pets and are forced to live with the consequences!

This podcast was originally recorded on March 20, 2006. You can also listen to the uncut John Grogan: Marley & Me Podcast.

David Cross, known for roles on the small screen such as “never-nude” Tobias Funke on Arrested Development and the role of “David” in Mr. Show With Bob And David, as well as a hugely successful stand-up routine full of sharp-tongued rants and rages, reads from and discusses his first book I Drink for a Reason. With a mix of personal essays, satirical fiction posing as truth, advice for rich people, information from America’s least favorite Rabbi and a top-ten list of top-ten lists, Cross’ first book is as unique as the comedian himself.

($23.99) Grand Central ISBN #978-0-4465-7948-3. You can visit David Cross’s official web site as well.

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Diana Gabaldon’s brilliant storytelling has captivated millions of readers in her bestselling and award-winning Outlander saga. Gabaldon reads from and discusses An Echo in the Bone, the enormously anticipated seventh volume which continues the extraordinary story of the eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall.

($30.00) Delacorte ISBN #978-0-3853-4245-2 .

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The book outlines many of the ideas and strategies that Gary has utilized to great success in both his personal career and his consultations while maintaining the motivational and humorous tone that has made his keynotes such a success. Touching on, but delving beyond, platform-specific strategies, Crush It! will teach you why the increasingly social nature of the internet is so important and show you how to not only take advantage of the current landscape but how to succeed in the constantly changing internet economy.

HarperStudio, $19.99, October 2009, ISBN#: 978-0061914171

Helen Thorpe, wife of Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, is a freelance writer who has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, The New York Observer, and Texas Monthly, among other publications. Thorpe reads from and discusses Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America, a powerful and moving account of four young women from Mexico who have lived most of their lives in the United States and attend the same high school. Two of them have legal documentation and two do not. This brilliant, fast-paced work of narrative journalism is a vivid coming-of-age story about girlhood, friendship, and, most of all, identity. No matter what one’s opinions are about immigration, Just Like Us offers fascinating insight into one of our most complicated social issues today.

($27.99) Scribner ISBN #978-1-4165-3893-6. You can visit Helen Thorpe’s official web site as well.

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Bestselling author T. R. Reid is a longtime correspondent for the Washington Post and former chief of its Tokyo and London bureaus as well as a commentator for National Public Radio. Reid discusses his new book The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, which offers a whirlwind tour of successful health care systems worldwide, revealing possible paths toward U.S. reform. The Healing of America lays bare the moral question at the heart of our troubled system, dissecting the misleading rhetoric surrounding the health care debate. In the end, this is a good news book: It finds models around the world that Americans can borrow to guarantee health care for everybody who needs it.

($25.95) Penguin ISBN #978-1-59420-234-6.

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George S. McGovern–a Midwesterner, former U.S. senator, presidential candidate, veteran, and historian by training, discusses his new book Abraham Lincoln: The American Presidents Series: The 16th President, 1861-1865. “McGovern’s Lincoln is a finely wrought gem. In this small volume McGovern captures Lincoln’s character and leadership strength better than many weighty tomes. It is a worthy addition to the brilliant American Presidents Series.”–Doris Kearns Goodwin

($22.00) Henry Holt ISBN #978-0-8050-8345-6.

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When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock Nine,” as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an even longer and much more turbulent path, one that would challenge prevailing attitudes, break down barriers, and forever change the landscape of America. Carlotta Walls LaNier will discuss and sign her remarkable memoir A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School, which includes a forward by President Bill Clinton. Complete with compelling photographs of the time, A Mighty Long Way shines a light on this watershed moment in civil rights history and shows that determination, fortitude, and the ability to change the world are not exclusive to a few special people but are inherent within us all.

($26.00) Ballantine ISBN #978-0-345-51100-3.

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Lamb started this event, however, by reading a majority of his essay Braided Cords, a hilarious look back at his early life and career. Lamb starts by introducing us to his older sisters and girl cousins who forced young Wally to play such games as “Death Drums” and “Kingy Boy” (you’ll have to listen to understand!). He also takes us though his college years, his post-collegiate teaching career, and then describes the life-changing call he received from Oprah Winfrey, telling him that She’s Come Undone was chosen as an official selection for Oprah’s Book Club.

This reading of Braided Cords was a great way to start the evening that continued with a riveting reading from I Know This Much Is True.

This podcast was originally recorded on December 1, 2008. You can read the entirety of Wally Lamb’s Braided Cords essay by clicking here.

Please also listen to the uncut Wally Lamb Podcast.

Lev Grossman, the book critic for Time magazine, and author of the bestselling novel Codex, reads from and discusses his new novel The Magicians, a thrilling and original coming-of-age novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world. At once psychologically piercing and magnificently absorbing, The Magicians boldly moves into uncharted literary territory, imagining magic as practiced by real people, with their capricious desires and volatile emotions. Grossman creates an utterly original world in which good and evil aren’t black and white, love and sex aren’t simple or innocent, and power comes at a terrible price.

($25.95) Viking ISBN #978-0-670-02055-3. You can visit Lev Grossman’s official web site as well.

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Greg Schwipps reads from and discusses his debut novel What This River Keeps. “What This River Keeps bears comparison to the best work of Steinbeck–in this case we’re given the vivid portrayal of the common working men and women of rural Indiana juxtaposed against great forces, without pity or hope, but without true defeat, though they may well lose all in the end. Schwipps also gives us, in full measure, the ancient father and son story, reinvented and made new; the complications of family; the friendship between men; the long tested love between married people; the discovery of the responsibilities of love; the love and care of the land; the love of a river; the keen life of the outdoors; the close attention to the earth in its seasons and myriad variousness. This is a very fine first novel. I read it compelled and fascinated to the last word.” –Kent Haruf, author of Plainsong

($19.95) Ghost Road Press ISBN #978-0-9816525-5-9.

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Colorado author Stephen White–author of over a dozen New York Times bestsellers–reads from and discusses his new thriller, The Siege. White’s Alan Gregory novels are beloved by both fans and critics–the most recent, Dead Time, was a USA Today and Book Sense bestseller. In The Siege, Gregory’s longtime friend Sam Purdy takes center stage in a story that feels ripped from tomorrow’s headlines. From the first page on, readers need to be buckled in for a nonstop ride full of terror and pathos.

($25.95) Dutton ISBN #0-525-95122-9. You can visit Stephen White’s official web site as well.

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Internationally renowned poet Anne Waldman co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where she still teaches. Waldman reads from and discusses her new work Manatee/Humanity. This new investigative hybrid-poem explores the nuances of inter-species communication and compassion. It draws on animal lore, animal encounters (with grey wolf and manatee), dreams, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and Buddhist ritual to render a text of remarkable sympathy, reciprocity, and power.

($18.00) Penguin ISBN #978-0-14-311521-2.

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Jason Sheehan, the food writer for Denver’s Westword, won a James Beard Award in 2003. His essay “There’s No Such Thing as Too Much Barbecue” was reprinted in the book This I Believe, and his work has appeared in Best American Food Writing for the past five years. Sheehan reads from and discusses his new memoir Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen, his rollicking account of life “on the line” in the restaurants, far from culinary school, cable TV, and the Michelin Guide-where most of us eat out most of the time. It takes the kitchen memoir to a rough and reckless place.

($26.00) Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN #978-0-374-28921-8.

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Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later–the night before New Year’s Eve–the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma (she later dies).

This powerful book is Didion’s attempt to make sense of the “weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.”

This podcast features Didion reading an excerpt from The Year of Magical Thinking, a section of the book that details her thoughts and experiences in the day following her husband’s passing.

This podcast was originally recorded on November 7, 2005. The audio for this podcast was furnished courtesy of KGNU radio in Boulder which also broadcast the event. For more, please listen to the entire Joan Didion podcast, which includes an interview with author, friend and radio host, Sara Davidson.

Colorado author and former Tattered Cover staff member Carleen Brice was recently named 2008 “Breakout Author of the Year” by The African American Literary Awards Show for her debut novel Orange Mint and Honey, which was also a selection of the Essence Book Club. Brice reads from and discusses her second novel Children of the Waters. “I was exhausted and singing the blues the hour I began Carleen Brice’s new novel, Children of the Waters. Five hours later, I’d finished this fresh, free-rein novel about mothers’ secrets and children’s sorrows and was shouting ‘Hurray!’” - Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean

($14.00) Random House ISBN #0-345-49907-7. You can visit Carleen Brice’s official web site as well.

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James Rollins, the New York Times bestselling master of nail-biting suspense and historical mystery, discusses his new thriller The Doomsday Key. Combining cutting-edge biotechnology with a centuries-old secret, Rollins has created an apocalyptic story that reveals where humankind is truly headed.

($27.95) HarperCollins ISBN #0-06-123140-1. You can visit James Rollins’s official web site as well.

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Ali Sethi reads from and discusses his debut novel The Wish Maker, a sweeping story of love, friendship, and family ties that brings to life the turbulent world of modern Pakistan.

“The Wish Maker, in Ali Sethi’s mature and sure-handed prose, is an engaging family saga, an absorbing coming-of-age story, and an illuminating look at one of the world’s most turbulent regions. Ali Sethi steadfastly resists the usual clichés about both Islam and his native country. Instead, he offers a nuanced, often humorous, and always novel look at life in modern day Pakistan.”–Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

($25.95) Putnam ISBN #978-1-59448-875-7. You can visit Ali Sethi’s official web site as well.

McCourt became an unlikey star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary scene with Angela’s Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland. Teacher Man, his third book, recounted McCourt’s thirty-year teaching career in the New York public schools.

On behalf of everyone at Authors On Tour - Live, Frank McCourt will truly be missed, but his words and passion will live on forever.

This podcast was originally recorded on January 30, 2006. If you’d also like to hear Q&A from the Tattered Cover audience, you can listen to the entire Frank McCourt Podcast.

British author Monica Ali, whose novel Brick Lane was nominated for the Man Booker Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, reads from and discusses her follow-up novel In the Kitchen. Readers and reviewers have been stunned by the breadth of humanity in Monica Ali’s fiction. She is compared to Dickens and called one of three British novelists who are “the voice of a generation” by Time magazine. In the Kitchen is utterly contemporary, yet has all the drama and heartbreak of a great nineteenth-century novel

($27.00) Scribner ISBN #978-1-4165-7168-1.

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Al Franken has gone from entertaining us on Saturday Night Live to informing us as a liberal radio talk-show host. Now, after a eight-month legal battle, Franken is the junior Senator from the state of Minnesota.

Back in November of 2005, Franken spoke at the Tattered Cover book store in Denver. In his book The Truth (with Jokes), he hinted at a possible run for the Senate and spoke of what he would do if elected. This excerpt, however, shows Franken’s more sensitive side (although not quite in Stuart Smalley territory!).

Reading form the chapter “Al Franken Talks About God,” he looks back at the last days of his father. He prefaces the reading by admitting he cries at “sappy McDonald’s commercials,” and he certainly showed his emotions during this powerful reading.

This podcast was originally recorded on November 16, 2005. Listen to the entire Al Franken Podcast.

Multiple award-winning journalist and author Michael Connelly is the bestselling author of the Harry Bosch series of novels as well as The Poet, Blood Work, Void Moon, Chasing the Dime, and the New York Times bestseller The Lincoln Lawyer. Connelly reads from and discusses his new mystery featuring newspaperman Jack McEvoy, The Scarecrow, which includes the story of the closing of the Rocky Mountain News, where the fictional McEvoy once worked. As Jack follows the biggest story since The Poet made his career years ago, he tracks a killer who operates completely below police radar-and with perfect knowledge of any move against him.

($27.99) Little, Brown ISBN #978-0-316-16630-0. You can visit Michael Connelly’s official web site as well.

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Writer and filmmaker Reif Larsen reads from and discusses his first book The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, a brilliant, boundary-leaping debut novel tracing twelve-year-old genius mapmaker T.S. Spivet’s attempts to understand the ways of the world. When T.S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins. T.S.’s trip begins at his family’s ranch and ends in Washington, D.C., but his journey’s movement is far harder to track: How do you map the delicate lessons learned about family and self? How do you depict how it feels to first venture out on your own? Is there a definitive way to communicate the ebbs and tides of heartbreak, loss, loneliness, love? These are the questions that strike at the core of this very special debut.

($27.95) Penguin Press ISBN #978-1-59420-217-9. You can visit Reif Larsen’s official web site as well.

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Jennifer Chiaverini, celebrating the 10th anniversary of her beloved Elm Creek Quilts series, reads from and discusses her 14th series installment The Lost Quilter, which picks up the threads from The Runaway Quilt, to tell another tale of adventure, love, perseverance and, of course, quilting.

($24.00) Simon and Schuster ISBN #0-06-156714-0. You can visit Jennifer Chiaverini’s official web site as well.

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This story from the book, Crybaby, recounts Sedaris’s experience with a publicly mourning seatmate on a flight from New York City to Paris. Listen in as Sedaris electrifies the Tattered Cover crowd.

This podcast was originally recorded on June 22, 2008. Listen to the entire David Sedaris Podcast.

CRC Press, $29.95, May 2009, ISBN#: 9781439816141

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Speck Press, $25.00, November 2009, ISBN #: 9781933108315

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

B&H Publishing Group, $27.99, November 2009, ISBN#: 9780805447187

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

B&H Publishing Group, $26.99, July 2009, ISBN#: 9780805449570

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Andrews McMeel Publishing, $12.99, April 2009, ISBN#: 9780740776953

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Synergy Books, $14.95, May 2009, ISBN#: 9780981546285

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Andrews McMeel Publishing, $12.99, September 2008, ISBN#: 9780740777424

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Synergy Books, $17.95, March 2009, ISBN#: 9780981546209

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Enigma Books, $28.00, June 2009, ISBN#: 9781929631896

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

North Atlantic Books, $16.95, May 2009, ISBN#: 9781556437854

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Enigma Books, $19.00, June 2009, ISBN#: 9781929631858

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Mill City Press, $18.95, December 2008, ISBN#: 9781934937402

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Newmarket Press, $15.00, August 2009, ISBN#:9781557048356

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Bridgeway Books, $19.95, April 2009, ISBN#: 9781934454176

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Prometheus Books, $17.98, April 2009, ISBN#: 9781591027126

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

B&H Publishing Group, $14.99, May 2009, ISBN#: 9780805448535

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Synergy Books, $24.95, September 2009, ISBN#: 9780982160183

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Synergy Books, $21.95, May 2009, ISBN#: 9780982160138

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Synergy Books, $22.95, September 2009, ISBN: 9780982314036

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Carolrhoda Books, $17.95, November 2009, ISBN#: 9780822567646

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Synergy Books, $29.95, September 2009, ISBN#: 9780982160176

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Synergy Books, $15.95, August 2009, ISBN#: 9780982160114

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Ovation Books, $16.95, January 2009, ISBN#: 9780979027598

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Synergy Books, $13.95, May 2009, ISBN#: 9780981546261

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Bridgeway Books, $14.95, September 2008, ISBN#: 9781934454305

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Synergy Books, $13.95, August 2009, ISBN#: 9780982160190

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Ovation Books, $16.95, April 2009, ISBN#: 9780981453446

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Legwork Team Publishing, $24.95, April 2009, ISBN#: 9780578018652

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Synergy Books, $16.95, January 2010, ISBN#: 9780982314012

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Newmarket Press, $16.95, February 2009, ISBN#: 9781557048196

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Synergy Books, $16.95, January 2009, ISBN#: 9780981546216

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Legwork Team Publishing, June 2009, ISBN#: TBD

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

CyberAge Books, $29.95, April 2009, ISBN#: 9780910965828

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Carolrhoda Books, $16.95, September 2009, ISBN#: 9780822579830

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Bridgeway Books, $17.95, July 2007, ISBN#: 9781933538853

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Synergy Books, $16.95, October 2009, ISBN#: 9780981546292

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Snow Mountain Press, $17.95, September 2009, ISBN#: 9781932890051

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Synergy Books, $14.95, May 2009, ISBN#: 9780982160107

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Synergy Books, $19.95, November 2009, ISBN#:9780982314050

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

Colorado author Mario Acevedo is a former infantry and aviation officer, engineer, art teacher to incarcerated felons, and the bestselling author of The Nymphos of Rocky Flats, X-Rated Bloodsuckers, and The Undead Kama Sutra. Acevedo reads from and discusses his new novel Jailbait Zombie, which finds vampire detective Felix Gomez coming face-to-face with the worst sort of undead. To stop a ravenous army of zombies, Gomez must team up with a precocious teen with clairvoyant powers whose cooperation comes at a price: she won’t help unless Felix makes her a vampire-if the zombies don’t get her first.

($14.95) HarperCollins ISBN #0-06-156714-0. You can visit Mario Acevedo’s official web site as well.

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Standard Publishing, $14.99, June 2009, ISBN#: 9780784723142

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2009 in New York City.

William Morrow, $27.95, September 2008, ISBN#: 9780688163181

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2008 in Los Angeles.

HarperCollins, $23.95, May 2008, ISBN#: 9780061537936

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2008 in Los Angeles.

William Morrow, $26.95, June 2008, ISBN#: 9780061230943

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2008 in Los Angeles.

Real Deal Media, $29.95, March 2008, ISBN#: 978-0-9793418-7-8

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2008 in Los Angeles.

William Morrow, $29.95, September 2008, ISBN#: 978-0061474095

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2008 in Los Angeles.

William Morrow, $25.95, February 2009, ISBN#: 978-0-06-059031-4

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2008 in Los Angeles.

HarperCollins, $24.95, May 2008, ISBN#: 9780061215209

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2008 in Los Angeles.

HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95, May 1, 2007, ISBN#: 0060878800

This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2007 in New York City.

Bestselling author and translator Stephen Mitchell reads from and discusses his new book The Second Book of the Tao. The most widely translated book in world literature after the Bible, Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living. Following the phenomenal success of his own version of the Tao Te Ching, Mitchell has composed this innovative new book drawn from the work of Lao-tzu’s disciple Chuang-tzu and Confucius’s grandson Tzu-ssu. He has selected the freshest, clearest teachings from these two great students of the Tao and adapted them into versions that reveal the poetry, depth, and humor of the original texts with a thrilling new power.

($25.95) Penguin ISBN #1-59420-203-6. You can visit Stephen Mitchell’s official web site as well.

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Jeffrey Siger left his life as a lawyer in New York City to write about mystery and intrigue on his beloved Greek island paradise of Mykonos–as only a local could. Siger reads from and discusses his new mystery Murder in Mykonos. “Siger captures the rare beauty of the Greek islands in this series debut, the first serial killer thriller published by Poisoned Pen. His sense of place recalls Donna Leon’s Venetian series, but his portrayal of rape and murder is all his own.”–Library Journal

($24. 95) Poisoned Pen Press ISBN #1-59058-581-x. You can visit Jeffrey Siger’s official web site as well.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Christopher Moore, whose bitingly witty and fantastical tales include the bestsellers Lamb, A Dirty Job, and You Suck, reads from and discusses his hilarious and raunchy new novel Fool. Taking on no less than the legendary Bard himself (with the utmost humility and respect), Moore’s story is a twisted and insanely funny tale of a moronic monarch and his deceitful daughters. A rousing story of plots, subplots, counterplots, betrayals, war, revenge, bared bosoms, unbridled lust, and a ghost (there’s always a bloody ghost), as seen through the eyes of a man wearing a codpiece and bells on his head.

($26.99) William Morrow ISBN #978-0-06-059031-4. You can visit Christopher Moore’s official web site as well.

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This father and son event offers a unique look at one family’s struggle with drug addiction from two very different points of view. Author and journalist David Sheff discusses the new paperback edition of his bestselling book Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction, his fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond help. Nic Sheff discusses his memoir Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines, the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his drug addictions, getting sober, violent relapses and the road to recovery.

Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction
($14.95) Houghton Mifflin ISBN #0-547-20388-8.

Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
($9.99) Simon & Schuster ISBN #1-41697-219-6.

You can visit David Sheff’s official web site as well.

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Muhammad Yunus, a native of Bangladesh, was educated at Dhaka University and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at Vanderbilt University, and in 1972 he became head of the economics department at Chittagong University. He is the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, a pioneer of microcredit, an economic movement that has helped lift millions of families around the world out of poverty. Yunus and Grameen Bank are winners of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Yunus dicusses his book Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism, in which he outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world-and tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today.

($14.95) Public Affairs ISBN #1-58648-667-5. You can visit Muhammad Yunus’s official web site as well.

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Ann Brashares, author of the phenomenally bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, reads from and discusses her new novel for younger readers 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows. Meet the new sisterhood, Polly, Jo, and Ama, spending their summers growing in ways they never imagined!

($18.99) Delacorte ISBN #0-385-73676-2. You can visit Ann Brashares’s official web site as well.

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Merrill Markoe, the Emmy Award-winning writer and creator of Stupid Pet Tricks, reads from and discusses Nose Down, Eyes Up, her second fun-loving doggie novel, following Walking in Circles Before Lying Down. In this hilarious new story, Markoe offers uncanny insight into the bonds between hounds and humans, as well as their respective ideas of the way that love and family are supposed to work. Nose Down, Eyes Up is a revealing examination of the interspecies power of love, sex, family, and real estate and why everyone-on two legs or four-deserves to have his or her day.

($24.00) Ballantine ISBN #0-345-50020-2. You can visit Merrill Markoe’s official web site as well.

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