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Velocity of ContentKKR To Acquire Simon & Schuster for $1.62BThe Big Five will stay the Big Five for now.
2023-08-1118 minVelocity of ContentChallenging Racism in Scholarly PublishingThree years since the tumultuous summer of 2020, how have we changed? In publishing especially, what is different about our jobs, our professional relationships, and our attitudes?
2023-08-0624 minVelocity of ContentCourt Limits Arkansas “Harmful” Book LawIn Arkansas, freedom to read advocates have a court victory to celebrate.
2023-08-0416 minVelocity of ContentThe State of Scholarly MetadataWhen it comes to successful Open Access initiatives, a critical element is high-quality metadata.
2023-08-0326 minVelocity of ContentThe Challenges of AI-Generated ContentWhile AI isn't a new concept in copyright or technology, it's the top draw for the 2023 Copyright and Technology conference.
2023-07-3012 minVelocity of ContentFederal Lawsuit Aims At Texas Reader ActThe Texas “Reader Act” requires book vendors to review any book that could be sold into a school.
2023-07-2815 minVelocity of ContentA TikTok Challenge for PublishingMark Gottlieb with Trident Media Group explores what authors and publishers should know about TikTok’s move into publishing, and how they may want to respond.
2023-07-2311 minVelocity of ContentLayoffs, Closures Hit Big 5PRH CEO Nihar Malaviya said that any growth the industry has seen has been offset by increased costs.
2023-07-2119 minVelocity of ContentA Book Festival That Matters in KyivIt’s difficult to imagine more challenging circumstances for a book festival than to be held during war.
2023-07-1632 minVelocity of ContentAI Faces Multiple Creator LawsuitsCopyright infringement lawsuits from authors and artists against creators of Generative AI software are mounting.
2023-07-1413 minVelocity of ContentPlain Language Summaries "Go Beyond Language"Creating effective plain-language summaries requires looking beyond the language, says Dr. Catherine Richards Golini.
2023-07-0910 minVelocity of ContentLibraries, Publishers Together in ChicagoAccording to PW’s Andrew Albanese, the ALA conference highlighted an organized response from the library and publishing communities to politicized attacks on the freedom to read.
2023-07-0715 min
We Are UnstoppableEvan BatteyColorado Buffaloes starting center, Evan Battey, has been making a difference on the court and turning heads, even being noticed by the legendary Charles Barkley. You wouldn’t imagine that just a few years ago at the age of 19, this highly athletic and healthy young man was suddenly hospitalized–unable to speak or walk–after suffering a stroke.
While playing basketball with friends on the day after Christmas in 2017, Evan noticed that he couldn’t feel the ball while dribbling. Unable to speak or explain to his friends what he was experiencing, his friends called his mother, who sprung into action t...
2021-05-2632 minWe Are UnstoppableJoanne McCallieOne of the most accomplished basketball coaches in the last three decades had a secret. Joanne McCallie, the head women’s coach for the University of Maine, Michigan State and then Duke, was suffering from bipolar disorder.
In her 28 seasons as a head coach she amassed a phenomenal winning record of 628-243 (.721) and took her teams to the NCAA tournament 21 times. She coached Michigan St. into the NCAA championship game in the 2004-05 season, and was named coach of the year multiple times in three different conferences.
And yet, she couldn’t reveal her battles with mental illness for fear of r...
2021-04-0122 minWe Are UnstoppableThe Future of Sports with Bud Black, Kyle Shanahan and Dr. Dawn ComstockWhat does the future of sports look like in a post-pandemic world?
Bud Black, Manager of the Colorado Rockies and Kyle Shanahan, San Francisco 49ers Head Coach, reflect on the tough year in sports, the lessons learned amidst the virus and how sports may be forever changed. We also spoke with Dawn Comstock, Ph.D, Adjunct Professor at the Colorado School of Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, and an expert on preventing sports injury and public health issues related to sports.
This last year was challenging, as Bud Black managed the Rockies...
2021-03-1834 minWe Are UnstoppableJason BenettiWhat is it like to live the life of your dreams by beating a disability you cannot change?
Jason Benetti, play-by-play announcer for the Chicago White Sox and ESPN broadcaster did better than that.
Jason was born 10 weeks prematurely. During his three months in the hospital as a newborn, he suffered a respiratory illness that deprived his blood of oxygen and caused him to have Cerebral Palsy.
With disarming openness, Jason demystifies Cerebral Palsy, the most common neuromuscular disorder in the world.
Despite early childhood trauma and stigma related to his involuntary movements, Jason went on to become a lawyer...
2021-02-2439 minWe Are UnstoppableEd WerderHow do you tell your son-in-law that he won’t survive colon cancer? How do you help your daughter survive a cancerous brain tumor and your wife survive breast cancer?
Ed Werder, who for 40 years as an NFL reporter for ESPN, CNN, Sports Illustrated and major daily newspapers, has gotten the football story where others haven’t. Ed talks about how he was unstoppable in getting the story of a lifetime (hint: it involves the Dallas Cowboys) and the new difficulties of continuing to get scoops during the pandemic.
But the challenges of reporting on football pale compared to what it t...
2021-02-1131 minWe Are UnstoppableJohn TeshJohn Tesh, American pianist, pop music composer, TV personality and radio host, may have a few limitations but Tesh knows no limits.The host of the Intelligence for Your Life radio show (and podcast) credits his wife Connie Sellecca and his father’s indifference with the strength he found to push through a devastating prostate cancer diagnosis.
While battling cancer, Tesh has won six Emmys, has four gold albums, two Grammy nominations, plus an Associated Press award for investigative journalism. He has also sold more than eight million records and raised more than $7 million for PBS through his concerts. But wh...
2021-01-2136 minWe Are UnstoppableReality star and influencer, Jordan Wiseley, talks about what it’s like to succeed in sports and in life with four missing fingers, an uncommon congenital disease known as symbrachydactyly with an unknown cause. “The human body is the most sophisticated mReality star and influencer, Jordan Wiseley, talks about what it’s like to succeed in sports and in life with four missing fingers, an uncommon congenital disease known as symbrachydactyly with an unknown cause. “The human body is the most sophisticated machine on the planet,” Wiseley says with typical enthusiasm. “It can adapt to anything. I have never had fingers.” People often tell him, “Imagine how good you might have been with two hands.” Given the chance to have his left hand re-engineered so he can have two working hands, would Jordan Wiseley do it? His choice may surprise you.
He is joined i...
2021-01-0732 minWe Are UnstoppableMonte MorrisWhat's it like to grow up in the number one murder capital in the country?
Monte Morris, now in his fourth year as a Denver Nuggets’ point guard, tells us what it was like in Flint, Michigan, sleeping on a couch as a boy, hearing gun shots and turning to basketball to stay away from trouble while his mom worked two jobs to support him. Overcoming daily violence and getting to the NBA made him unstoppable. But what Monte counts as truly proving himself was being able to keep a promise he made to his mother when he was younger.
Wh...
2020-12-1831 minWe Are UnstoppableBrian GrieseBrian Griese, former quarterback and current color commentator for Monday Night Football on ESPN, lost his mother when he was twelve. He lives with her loss every single day.
Where is heaven? And what if a child wants to join his lost parent there? Grief is a complex emotion. When we don’t have the tools to cope with it, we may turn the loss inward. For Griese, his mother’s loss turned to anger. And later in life, to substance abuse. That is why he founded Judi’s House, a safe place that supports those struggling after the death of a love...
2020-12-0332 minWe Are UnstoppablePeter SchafferSports super-agent Peter Schaffer heard the words no parent ever wants to hear – your child has cancer. And then he heard it again.
Negotiating more than $1 billion in contracts for NFL Hall-of-Famers, athletes and coaches is worthless when your teen-aged children have been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system that afflicts nearly 9,000 Americans every year.
What are the chances of having both your children contract this non- hereditary disease? Perhaps one in a hundred million.
Peter’s daughter Lily knew something was wrong a few years ago when she started having uncontrollable and unbearable itching over her...
2020-11-2032 minWe Are UnstoppableEmily DanielsEmily Daniels arrived at the E.R. short of breath while pregnant with her second child to discover she had Stage IV lung cancer. She had never smoked a day in her life.
Emily’s diagnosis belongs to more than 50% of lung cancer cases without a definitive explainable cause. Did you know that lung cancer in non-smokers might be caused by exposure to radon, secondhand smoke, air pollution, and even wok smoke?
Had Emily been diagnosed 10 years ago, she would not be alive to tell us this story. In this episode, she is joined by her husband, Brian Daniels - form...
2020-11-0429 minWe Are UnstoppableBrad WilliamsCall him a dwarf, a little person or one of the funniest, most in-demand comedians working today, but never call him a midget. That’s Brad Williams. He was born with achondoproplasia, which stunts the arms and legs, but in Brad’s case grew his sense of humor. Bullied as a young child because of his dwarfism, Brad retaliated with a razor-sharp wit which at age 19, he turned into a booming career as a stand-up comedian.
In this hilarious episode, Brad tells how his dad taught him to be unstoppable by embracing his difference, not ignoring it. Which is why if y...
2020-10-2122 minWe Are UnstoppableLes Shapiro & Vic Lombardi – Health UpdateOur Unstoppable podcast hosts, Les Shapiro and Vic Lombardi, are fighting the cancer fight. Both of them. What are the chances? In this chillingly honest six-month checkup, they get intimate about the last thing they want from their loved ones and the things that drive them crazy about having to live inside bodies they no longer recognize.
What happens when your body is incompatible with your chemotherapy treatment? The side effects of fighting cancer aren’t what many of us think. As much as cancer affects you physically, it is the mind games that wear you down. “I’ve changed my die...
2020-10-0732 minWe Are UnstoppableJason ColeWhat does it take for John Elway to overcome deep personal tragedies to return to the sport he loves? Sports-writer Jason Cole found out.
Cole, who has written about the NFL for more than 35 years for the likes of Bleacher Report, the Miami Herald and Yahoo Sports, talks about what makes Elway unstoppable in his sixth book, “John Elway: A Relentless Life,” the unauthorized biography of the Hall of Fame quarterback, two-time Super Bowl Champion, and now President of Football Operations and General Manager of the Denver Broncos
Cole interviewed more than 200 people over several years, including Elway himself, in what...
2020-09-2324 minWe Are UnstoppableVerne LundquistWhat does it take to make some of the most famous calls in sports – all while suffering from chronic, almost crippling back pain? Veteran sportscaster Verne Lundquist reveals how he called Tiger Woods’ dramatic chip-in birdie at the 16h hole to win the Masters in 2005.
Verne has been broadcasting American sports for nearly 50 years and is known for being the voice for NFL Films, the Masters, several Olympics and one of the most watched sports events in history – the 1994 Winter Olympics – where he called the Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan skating debacle.
And, after four decades of covering American sports, whom do...
2020-09-1034 minWe Are UnstoppableJoe TheismannWhat makes you special? It isn’t what you think.
What happened to Joe Theismann is not what Joe Theismann will tell you happened to him. His take on the day that ended his career as an elite NFL quarterback has made a huge difference on how his life turned out.
Theismann’s football career ended on November 18, 1985 when he suffered a compound fracture of the tibia and fibula in his right leg while being sacked by linebackers Lawrence Taylor and Harry Carson of the New York Giants during Monday Night Football.
But a gruesome injury and the end of his...
2020-08-2621 minWe Are UnstoppableAmy Van Dyken“If I ever walk again . . .” she says.
The woman is tall, a fact easily overlooked because she is folded into a wheelchair. Her voice is loud and she laughs often. When she laughs, her black ponytail bounces when she jokes about movements her eyes can see but her body cannot feel.
The woman’s name is Amy Van Dyken, the six-time Olympic gold medalist known for her powerful freestyle stroke, and now more for her powerful personality. But that’s not what makes her special.
Van Dyken’s swimming career crashed when she was thrown from her ATV in Show Low, Arizo...
2020-08-1224 minWe Are UnstoppableMark SchlerethWhat price do you have to pay to do what you love? Anyone can show up when they are feeling great, but what qualities do you need to have to keep showing up after 29 surgeries?
Mark Schlereth played guard in the NFL for 12 seasons, most of them through agonizing pain. He later became a football analyst for Fox Sports and began a career in acting. A native of Anchorage, Alaska, Mark struggled with dyslexia as a child and did not learn to read until he was seven years old. He credits his father and his orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Martin Boublik...
2020-07-2936 minWe Are UnstoppableGeorge KarlWhat can you control in the battle against cancer and who are the cancer angels? Controversial former NBA coach, George Karl, joins our UNSTOPPABLE cast to talk about what it means to live on the edge of COVID-19 when you are a three-time cancer survivor.
He is joined by Doctor Antonio Jimeno, Professor of Medicine/Oncology and Otolaryngology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. Dr. Jimeno talks about the disturbing rise of head and neck cancers in the US, why these cancers are so unique and important, new treatments and the journey...
2020-07-1532 minWe Are UnstoppableTerrell DavisIn this electrifying episode, NFL Hall-of-Famer, Terrell Davis, shares the one thing that has made him unstoppable despite a life where he has had to overcome injury, the loss of his father in his early teens, systemic racism and blinding migraines since he was nine years old. He is joined by Doctor Marius Birlea, Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Jeffrey Rynek, Nurse Practitioner at CU Anschutz’s Headache Clinic, who tell us that not all headaches are created equally. What is a negative aura? And how did Terrell Davis conquer the second qu...
2020-07-0140 minWe Are UnstoppableSue BirdBasketball superstar Sue Bird will come out of retirement to fight for her fifth Olympic gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics despite COVID-19 uncertainty. What makes Sue Bird push her way through obstacles when others would have given up? Bird (who, has won 3 WNBA championships with the Seattle Storm, 4 Olympic gold medals, 2 NCAA Championships with UConn, and 4 FIBA World Cups) is one of 11 women to attain all four accolades. Here, she reveals the name of the greatest point guard in basketball’s history, talks about body image and posing nude on the cover of ESPN, the magazine, alongside girlfriend, Megan Ra...
2020-06-1724 minWe Are UnstoppableJason KipnisHow do you put on a smile when your heart is 95 percent broken? And what is it like to play against your friends and your all-time favorite team?
Jason Kipnis, All-Star second baseman for the Chicago Cubs, opens up about risks and past mistakes with his trademark intensity. When he was starting out, after two years at the University of Kentucky, Kipnis transferred to Arizona State University. This turned out to be a major life upheaval that led him to almost quit baseball. Kipnis credits a coach who gave him a second chance and what led him to look in...
2020-06-1019 minWe Are UnstoppableDick VitaleBullied as a child after losing his sight to a sharp pencil, Dick Vitale turned his boyhood’s turmoil into “a ball and a dream” and eventually became the voice of ESPN college basketball — a job he’s enjoyed for 41 years.
How did Vitale turn his lost sight into better prospects and overcome self-doubt after unsparing cruelty?
“Bullying was a way of life,” he says. “After school I used to go into my room, look at my drifting eye in the mirror, and cry. But there’s one thing my parents taught me that changed my life.”
Vitale is joined by Dr. Naresh Mandav...
2020-06-0329 minWe Are UnstoppableAnnabel BowlenMemories in the making getting lost and no way to stop your loved ones from forgetting who you are: This is Alzheimer’s.
Four years after former Denver Broncos’ owner, Pat Bowlen, went public with the disease that would later take his life, his wife Annabel, disclosed her own diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. The Bowlen family, just like the Broncos team they built, are made of grit. With unshakable strength, their daughter Annabel, talks about how we can choose to win or lose with dignity when faced with the worst odds life has dealt her family.
She opens up about the sh...
2020-05-2732 minWe Are UnstoppableClint HurdleClint Hurdle, former MLB outfielder and manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Colorado Rockies, talks about what happens when you are labeled at a young age. Tagged as a “phenom” by Sports Illustrated at the age of twenty changed Hurdle’s life in unexpected ways — few of them good.
On the 21-year road to sobriety, Hurdle has suffered multiple blows. “I’m a flawed man,” he says, talking openly about how to show up the day after losing a game — once the alcohol has worn off. Whom do you listen to, and what to do when after failing twice, you marry for the th...
2020-05-2029 minWe Are UnstoppableMatt Iseman“This is the first time in history when the whole world is focused on a single problem,” says Matt Iseman, the comedian who gave up being a doctor because he believes that being a doctor is more than a job. Find out what turned Iseman unstoppable after beating the death sentence that is kidney cancer, living with rheumatoid arthritis, and how he is surviving the pandemic’s uncertainty.
His talk of silver linings will delight you. His take on what courage is and isn’t will surprise you. Iseman speaks openly about how the pandemic has made him slow down, reevalua...
2020-05-1326 minWe Are UnstoppableAdam SchefterAfter experiencing the devastation of 9/11, ESPN sportscaster, writer and analyst Adam Schefter talks about coping with being at the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in New York City. With his characteristic humility, Schefter praises first responders, the medical community, and his wife, Sharri Maio whose first husband, Joe Maio, was killed in the World Trade Center in the 9/11 attacks. Schefter's book about Joe Maio, entitled The Man I Never Met, is a powerful true story of loss and hope by one of the biggest names in sports media. Wondering what might happen to the media and the NFL, Schefter’s ma...
2020-05-0622 minWe Are UnstoppableMissy FranklinWhat happens when you put on a game face and the effort leaves you depleted, depressed and desperate for answers? That’s what happened to Missy Franklin, the world’s sweetheart in the swimming pool with five Olympic gold medals to her name. Being unstoppable isn’t about winning all the time. In this emotional podcast, Franklin opens up about her early years as a competitive swimmer, her devastating shoulder injury prior to the 2016 Olympics and how she rose from the depths of depression to fight her way back to the surface. In her journey to push through her fear of not...
2020-05-0633 minWe Are UnstoppableLes Shapiro & Vic LombardiNo one is ready to hear the words: “It’s cancer.” In this candid, emotional and sometimes humorous episode, WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE hosts and sportscasters Les Shapiro and Vic Lombardi interview each other about how they discovered they had cancer — Les with stage four lung cancer and Vic with stage 3 prostate cancer. As they share the treatments they’ve been through, their fears, the ups and downs, they also reveal the unstoppable coping skills they’ve developed to keep battling a disease that may never leave you even after the treatment ends.
Les and Vic also speak openly with their doctors Ross...
2020-05-0643 minWe Are UnstoppableWelcome to We Are UnstoppableDo you have what it takes to become unstoppable? Welcome to the WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE podcast, sponsored by the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Twice a month, we’ll share inspirational stories from great athletes, celebrities, and the most brilliant minds in medicine on how to beat adversity to win in life. Hosted by sportscasters-turned-podcasters Les Shapiro and Vic Lombardi, each episode brings you one step closer to becoming your best unstoppable self.
2020-04-2401 min
Authors On Tour – Live!Best of AOT: Roger Stone on the “Underbelly of American Politics”
Unless you live under a rock, you know the name Roger Stone. But before his name was synonymous with Robert Mueller, WikiLeaks and Donald Trump, Stone was best known as a Washington, D.C. insider and political “dirty trickster.”
When Stone visited the Tattered Cover back in 2014, there was no mention of hacked emails or Hillary Clinton. On that day, his targets were John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and John Dean, the former White House Counsel for President Richard Nixon.
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2019-03-0431 minAuthors On Tour – Live!After Love Leaves by Michelle Alstead
When Brad Sorenson crossed paths with Zoe Oâ€Loughlin at a high school graduation party, the connection was undeniable. He noticed her when no one else did; she inspired him to want more out of life. But it would be years before theyâ€d meet again…and in the most unlikely of places.
Brad was looking for a good time online, not love. But Zoe was so sweet, so kind. Everything about her was perfect—until she fell in love with him. Zoe doesnâ€t know why Brad left her standing in an airport; he wonâ€t return her...
2017-03-2805 minAuthors On Tour – Live!AOT #539: Donald Ray Pollock Podcasts The Heavenly Table
Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, brings us a dark, gritty, and electrifying new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors. The Heavenly Table tells the story of two hardworking men, Pearl Jewett and Ellsworth Fiddler, whose paths collide on a surprising, unforgettable, and violent trajectory.
($26.95) Doubleday Books ISBN # 9780385541299. You can visit Donald Ray Pollock‘s official web site as well.
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2016-08-0139 minAuthors On Tour – Live!AOT #538: Bonnie Nadzam Podcasts Lions
Bonnie Nadzam is the author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning novel Lamb, and now she returns with Lions. Set on the high plains of Colorado, a young couple find their love and – and everything they know to be true – threatened by the arrival of an unwelcome stranger. A story of awakening, Lions is an exquisite novel that explores ambition and the responsibilities we have to ourselves and each other.
($16.00) Grove Press ISBN # 9780802124906.
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2016-07-2635 minAuthors On Tour – Live!AOT #537: Fernanda Santos Podcasts The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and One of the Deadliest Days in American Firefighting
Fernanda Santos covers Arizona and New Mexico as the Phoenix bureau chief for The New York Times. Santos reads from and discusses her book The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and One of the Deadliest Days in American Firefighting about one of the deadliest fires in American history and the twenty men of the Granite Mountain Hotshots who sprang into action to fight it. Impeccably researched, drawing upon more than a hundred hours of interviews, this is a riveting, pulse-pounding narrative of an unthinkable disaster and a remarkable group of men.
2016-07-2250 minAuthors On Tour – Live!AOT #536: Brad Thor Podcasts Foreign Agent
Brad Thor is the New York Times bestselling author of Full Black (one of Suspense Magazine‘s best political thrillers of 2011), Foreign Influence (one of Suspense Magazine‘s best political thrillers of 2010), The Last Patriot (nominated best thriller of the year by the International Thriller Writers Association), Blowback (recognized as one of the Top 100 Killer Thrillers of All Time by NPR), and many others. Thor reads from and discusses Foreign Agent, his brilliant new thriller as current as tomorrow’s headlines.
($27.99) Atria Books ISBN # 9781476789354. You can visit Brad Thor‘s official web site as well...
2016-07-1125 minAuthors On Tour – Live!AOT #535: Amy Haimerl Podcasts Detroit Hustle: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Home
Journalist Amy Haimerl and her husband were priced out of their Brooklyn neighborhood. Seeing this as a great opportunity to start over again, they decided to cash in their savings and buy an abandoned house for $35,000 in Detroit, the largest city in the United States to declare bankruptcy. Haimerl discusses Detroit Hustle: A Memoir of Love, Life & Home, a book that is both a meditation on what it takes to make a house a home, and a love letter to a much-derided city.
($24.00) Running Press ISBN # 9780762457359. You can visit Amy Haimerl‘s official we...
2016-07-051h 00Authors On Tour – Live!AOT #534: Elizabeth Church Podcasts The Atomic Weight of Love
Lawyer and debut author Elizabeth Church was born in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Her father, a research chemist, was drafted out of Carnegie Mellon University, and was sent to join other scientists working in secret on the Manhattan Project. Church’s mother, a biologist, eventually joined her husband in Los Alamos. Church discusses her sweeping, beautiful novel The Atomic Weight of Love, the story of many of the women who sacrificed their careers so that their husbands could pursue unique opportunities in scientific research. TaraShea Nesbit, author of The Wives of Los Alamos, joins Elizabeth in conversation ab...
2016-06-2754 minAuthors On Tour – Live!AOT #533: Matteson Perry Podcasts Available: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Hookups, Love and Brunch
Colorado native Matteson Perry is a screenwriter, performer, two-time winner of the Moth GrandSlam storytelling championship, and the host of the monthly Moth StorySlam in Los Angeles. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, McSweeney’s, College Humor, and other publications, and his work has been featured on NPR and Funny or Die. Perry discusses his hilarious new book Available: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Hookups, Love and Brunch, a real-life romantic comedy about an unexpected break-up, one self-imposed year of being single, and how a nice guy survived dating in the twenty-first century.
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2016-06-2025 minAuthors On Tour – Live!AOT #532: Gina Wohlsdorf Podcasts Security
Denver author Gina Wohlsdorf reads from and discusses her chilling, pulse-racing debut thriller Security. Riveting to the final sentence, Security is fierce, wry, and impossible to put down. With a deep bow to the literary tradition of Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, and Daphne du Maurier, Wohlsdorf’s razor-wire prose blitzes readers with quick twists, sharp turns, and gasp-inducing terror.
($25.95) Algonquin ISBN # 9781616205621. You can visit Gina Wohlsdorf‘s official web site as well.
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2016-06-1317 minAuthors On Tour – Live!AOT #531: Governor John Hickenlooper Podcasts The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics
John Hickenlooper was inaugurated as the governor of Colorado in 2011. The first professional geologist to become a governor in the history of the nation and the first brewer since Sam Adams in 1792, he previously served as mayor of Denver, an administration for which Time magazine named him one of the five top big-city mayors in America. He chairs the National Governor’s Association and was named one of Esquire‘s “Americans of the Year 2012.” Governor Hickenlooper reads from and discusses his new memoir The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer & Politics, his candid, and very funny story, f...
2016-06-0920 minAuthors On Tour – Live!AOT #530: J. Kael Weston Podcasts The Mirror Test: America at War in Iraq and Afghanistan
J. Kael Weston spent seven years on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan working for the U.S. State Department in some of the most dangerous frontline locations. Upon his return home, while traveling the country to pay respect to the dead and wounded, he began to ask himself many questions about the costs and legacies of the wars. Weston discusses The Mirror Test: America at War in Iraq and Afghanistan, his powerfully written firsthand account of the human costs of conflict.
($28.95) Knopf ISBN # 9780385351126. You can visit J. Kael Weston‘s official web si...
2016-05-3052 minAuthors On Tour – Live!AOT #529: Anna Newell Jones Podcasts The Spender’s Guide to Debt-Free Living
Anna Newell Jones, creator of the popular blog AndThenWeSaved.com, reads from and discusses her helpful, timely new guidebook The Spender’s Guide to Debt-Free Living: How a Spending Fast Helped Me Get from Broke to Badass in Record Time.
($16.99) Morrow ISBN # 9780062367181. You can visit Anna Newell Jones‘s official web site as well.
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2016-05-2745 minAuthors On Tour – Live!AOT #528: Ken Ilgunas Podcasts Trespassing Across America
Ken Ilgunas, author of the frank and witty memoir about living in a van to save costs while attending grad school Walden on Wheels, reads from and discusses his new personal adventure story Trespassing Across America: One Man’s Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland. Told with sincerity, humor, and wit, Trespassing Across America is both a fascinating account of one man’s remarkable journey along the Keystone XL pipeline and a meditation on climate change, the beauty of the natural world, and the extremes to which we can push ourselves both physically and...
2016-05-2053 minAuthors On Tour – Live!AOT #527: Douglas Brinkley Podcasts Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America
Multiple award-winning author Douglas Brinkley is a professor of history at Rice University, the CNN Presidential Historian, a member of the Society of American Historians and the Council on Foreign Relations, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Audubon. Brinkley discusses his critically acclaimed new history Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America. In his book The Wilderness Warrior, Brinkley celebrated Theodore Roosevelt’s spirit of outdoor exploration and bold vision to protect 234 million acres of wild America. Now, in Rightful Heritage, he turns his attention to another indefatigable environmental leader, Theodore’s dist...
2016-05-0952 minAuthors On Tour – Live!AOT #526: Paolo Bacigalupi Podcasts The Water Knife
Colorado author Paolo Bacigalupi, the New York Times bestselling author of The Windup Girl and a National Book Award finalist, reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of his critically acclaimed novel The Water Knife. “A fresh cautionary tale classic, depicting an America newly shaped by scarcity of our most vital resource. The pages practically turn themselves in a tense, taut plot of crosses and double-crosses, given added depth by riveting characters. This brutal near-future thriller seems so plausible in the world it depicts that you will want to stock up on bottled water.” — Library Journal, starre...
2016-05-021h 04Authors On Tour – Live!AOT #525: Governor Bill Ritter Podcasts Powering Forward: What Everyone Should Know about America’s Energy Revolution
Bill Ritter, Jr., the 41st governor of Colorado and one of America’s key thought leaders on sustainable energy, reads from and discusses his new book Powering Forward: What Everyone Should Know about America’s Energy Revolution, which is written in partnership with the Center for a New Energy Economy. A historic energy revolution is underway in the United States. Wind, sunlight, and other sustainable resources are now the fastest growing sources of energy in the U.S. and worldwide. Governor Ritter’s book discusses the forces behind the energy revolution, the new ways we must think about...
2016-04-2547 minAuthors On Tour – Live!AOT #524: David Schmader Podcasts Weed: The User’s Guide: A 21st Century Handbook for Enjoying Marijuana
From 1999-2014, David Schmader served as associate editor at Seattle’s Pulitzer-winning news weekly the Stranger, writing the column “Last Days: The Week in Review.” In 2015, Schmader became creative director of the award-winning nonprofit writing center the Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas, where he also serves as writer-in-residence. Schmader reads from and discusses his new book Weed: The User’s Guide: A 21st Century Handbook for Enjoying Marijuana.
“A hugely informative, completely hilarious, and desperately necessary guide to marijuana-written by one of the funniest guys I’ve ever known, who just so happens to be the perso...
2016-04-1921 minAuthors On Tour – Live!AOT #523: Joyce Maynard Podcasts Under the Influence
Joyce Maynard, the New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and After Her, reads from and discusses her new novel Under the Influence. This provocative, complex, and relentlessly gripping novel contains a story about emotional seduction and betrayal, asking: Where do the boundaries of friendship lie? And at what point does generosity become a form of deadly manipulation?
($25.99) William Morrow ISBN # 9780062257642. You can visit Joyce Maynard‘s official web site as well.
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2016-04-131h 04Authors On Tour – Live!AOT #522: Jeffery Deaver Podcasts The Steel Kiss
Jeffery Deaver, the international bestselling author of more than twenty-seven suspense novels, including The Bone Collector, which was made into a film starring Denzel Washington, discusses The Steel Kiss. In this new blockbuster thriller, forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme, and his colleague Amelia Sachs find themselves up against one of their most formidable opponents ever: a brilliant killer who turns common products into murder weapons. As the body count threatens to grow, Sachs and Rhyme must race against the clock to unmask his identity – and discover his mission.
($28.00) Grand Central ISBN # 9781455536344. You can visit Je...
2016-04-0450 minAuthors On Tour – Live!AOT #521: Len Vlahos Podcasts Scar Girl
Tattered Cover co-owner, former punk-rocker, and young adult author Len Vlahos performs and discusses his new novel Scar Girl, the sequel to his bestselling debut novel The Scar Boys. Love, music, and heartbreak take the stage in this critically-acclaimed second novel. Told as an interview with the band after they reach the pinnacle of success, readers will hear from Cheyenne, Harry, and Richie as they discover the ups and downs of being rock musicians, complete with meltdowns on stage and fights that test the limits of the band.
($17.95) Carolrhoda Books ISBN # 9781606846070. You can...
2016-03-2826 minAuthors On Tour – Live!AOT #520: Randy Henderson Podcasts Bigfootloose and Finn Fancy Free
Randy Henderson is a first-place winner of Writers of the Future, a Clarion West graduate, and a member of SFWA and Codex. His short fiction has appeared in places like Penumbra, Escape Pod, and Realms of Fantasy, as well as several anthologies. Henderson reads from and discusses his second novel Bigfootloose and Finn Fancy Free: A Darkly Funny Urban Fantasy. In this sequel to his acclaimed debut novel, Finn Fancy Necromancy, Finn Gramaraye is settling back into the real world after his twenty-five-year-long imprisonment in the otherworld of the Fey. But trouble always seems to follow Finn...
2016-03-2140 minAuthors On Tour – Live!AOT #519: Colten Moore Podcasts Catching the Sky
X-Games champion snowmobile racer Colten Moore reads from and discusses his memoir Catching the Sky, a transcendent story about risk and the pursuit of happiness, family, and the bond between brothers. In this vivid, page-turning narrative, Moore offers a profound and deeply moving perspective on his life and that of his brother, the late Caleb Moore. Catching the Sky is a clear-eyed look at extreme sports, what drives people to take wild chances, and how one man, Colten, couldn’t stop even after the worst possible outcome.
($26.00) Atria ISBN # 9781501117244. You can visit Colton Mo...
2016-03-1417 minAuthors On Tour – Live!AOT #518: Greg Jobin-Leeds Podcasts When We Fight, We Win
Longtime social activist Greg Jobin-Leeds discusses the new collection When We Fight, We Win: Twenty-First-Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World. Same-sex marriage, #BlackLivesMatter, the DREAM Act, the People’s Climate March, End the New Jim Crow, Occupy Wall Street, the fight for a $15 minimum wage – these are just a few of the remarkable movements that have blossomed in the past decade, a most fertile and productive era of activism. Now, in a visually rich and deeply inspiring book, the leaders and activists of these and other movements distill their wisdom, sharing lessons of w...
2016-03-0739 minAuthors On Tour – Live!AOT #517: Tom LaMarr Podcasts Geezer Dad
Colorado writer Tom LaMarr, author of the novels October Revolution and Hallelujah City, reads from and discusses his memoir Geezer Dad. The median age for starting a family has climbed, and Tom LaMarr is the reason. The Geezer Dad author was nearly 48 when he met his daughter, which makes him even older now. The story of one man’s transformation from career-minded guy who wasn’t completely sure he wanted children to age-impaired dad pulling out reading glasses in the supermarket’s baby aisle, Geezer Dad will resonate with older first-time parents and parents-to-be, as well as those...
2016-02-2930 minAuthors On Tour – Live!AOT #516: Stewart O’Nan Podcasts West of Sunset
Stewart O’Nan‘s award-winning fiction includes Snow Angels, A Prayer for the Dying, Last Night at the Lobster, Emily, Alone, and The Odds, which was hailed by The Boston Globe as a gorgeous fable, a stunning meditation and a hope-filled Valentine. O’Nan reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of his bestselling novel West of Sunset, his graceful, subtle, and and haunting novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last years in Hollywood.
($16.00) Penguin ISBN # 9780143128243. You can visit Stewart Oâ€Nan‘s official web site as well.
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2016-02-2241 minAuthors On Tour – Live!AOT #515: Amy Cuddy Podcasts Presence
Amy Cuddy is a professor and researcher at Harvard Business School who studies how nonverbal behavior and snap judgments affect people. Her research has been published in top academic journals and covered by NPR, New York Times, Wired, Fast Company, and more. Cuddy has been named a Game Changer by Time, one of 50 Women Who Are Changing the World by Business Insider, and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and her 2012 TED Talk is the second most-viewed talk in TED’s history. Cuddy discusses her bestselling new book Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Yo...
2016-02-171h 03Authors On Tour – Live!AOT #514: Juan Thompson Podcasts Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson
Denver author Juan Thompson, who grew up in Woody Creek, Colorado with his father, Hunter S. Thompson, reads from and discusses his new memoir Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson.
“A tender but tough tale of growing up as the son of the fearsome, charismatic and unrestrained writer, Hunter S. Thompson. At the peak of his career, Hunter was a terrifying and neglectful parent, wreaking all kinds of damage on his family, but as his talent waned he learned to be a dutiful father, and doting grandparent. All of this is ob...
2016-02-0857 minAuthors On Tour – Live!AOT #513: Chris Bohjalian Podcasts The Guest Room
Chris Bohjalian, the New York Times bestselling author whose books include Midwives (an Oprah Book Club pick), and The Sandcastle Girls, reads from and discusses his new novel The Guest Room. “A good man’s momentary moral lapse plunges his happy, prosperous life into a nightmare of murderous gangsters and remorseless sex traffickers. Bohjalian’s deftness as a storyteller is on full display here, as he couples the urgency of a compulsively readable crime thriller with a quiet meditation on the meaning of family and relationships; the painstaking, quotidian, essential business of how we win love, and how sw...
2016-02-021h 01Authors On Tour – Live!AOT #512: Adam Makos Podcasts Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
Adam Makos discusses his new book Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice, an unforgettable tale of courage from America’s forgotten war in Korea. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom Hudner passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country. An African American sharecropper’s son from Mississippi, Jesse Brown became the navy’s first black carrier pilot, defending a nation that wouldn’t even serve him in a bar. While much of America remained divided by segregation, Jesse and Tom joined forces as wingmen in Fighter Squadron 32, and when one of the d...
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Chef MarisolBudín de Pan con CarameloReceta de Budín de Pan con Caramelo de Chef Marisol — fácil, económico y delicioso.
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2015-08-1100 minChef MarisolBudín de Pan con CarameloReceta de Budín de Pan con Caramelo de Chef Marisol — fácil, económico y delicioso.
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2015-08-1100 minChef MarisolTortas de Maiz for the World Cup (El Mundial)Tortas de Maiz for the World Cup (el MUNDIAL) with Chef Marisol. The perfect snack for watching the games.
2014-06-2601 minChef MarisolTortas de Maiz for the World Cup (El Mundial)Tortas de Maiz for the World Cup (el MUNDIAL) with Chef Marisol. The perfect snack for watching the games.
2014-06-2601 minChef MarisolQueso Fundido en MolcajeteQueso Fundido en Molcajete with three cheeses and chorizo from Chef Marisol para El Mundial.
2014-06-1801 minChef MarisolQueso Fundido en MolcajeteQueso Fundido en Molcajete with three cheeses and chorizo from Chef Marisol para El Mundial.
2014-06-1801 minChef MarisolCroquetas con ChorizoCrispy on the outside, creamy on the inside, you’ll want to make these TAPAS now — Chef Marisol’s Croquetas con Chorizo.
2014-06-1400 minChef MarisolCroquetas con ChorizoCrispy on the outside, creamy on the inside, you’ll want to make these TAPAS now — Chef Marisol’s Croquetas con Chorizo.
2014-06-1400 minChef MarisolPapaya Fiesta Salad Chef Marisol teaches us how to make this delicious Papaya Fiesta Salad with a surprise rice paper flower. But first, you have to “listen” to your papaya.
2013-06-1705 minChef MarisolPapaya Fiesta Salad Chef Marisol teaches us how to make this delicious Papaya Fiesta Salad with a surprise rice paper flower. But first, you have to “listen” to your papaya.
2013-06-1705 minChef MarisolPica Pica Hot Pepper PasteHot, hot, hot! Chef Marisol makes her “Pica Pica Hot Pepper Paste” using some of the hottest peppers in the world, including the Jay’s Peach Ghost Scorpion, Trinidad 7 Pot Jonah and Trinidad Moruga Scorpion.
2013-06-1703 minChef MarisolPica Pica Hot Pepper PasteHot, hot, hot! Chef Marisol makes her “Pica Pica Hot Pepper Paste” using some of the hottest peppers in the world, including the Jay’s Peach Ghost Scorpion, Trinidad 7 Pot Jonah and Trinidad Moruga Scorpion.
2013-06-1703 min2013-06-1703 min2013-06-1703 minChef MarisolMarquesa de ChocolateChef Marisol nos enseña como hacer la famosa Marquesa Chocolate paso a paso.
2013-06-1706 minChef MarisolMarquesa de ChocolateChef Marisol nos enseña como hacer la famosa Marquesa Chocolate paso a paso.
2013-06-1706 minChef MarisolArepas with Grilled Avocados y Queso FrescoChef Marisol Murano hace arepas deliciosas con queso fresco and grilled avocados.
2013-06-1704 minChef MarisolArepas with Grilled Avocados y Queso FrescoChef Marisol Murano hace arepas deliciosas con queso fresco and grilled avocados.
2013-06-1704 minChef MarisolYuca Con MojoChef Marisol Murano nos da el secreto de la Yuca con Mojo al estilo gourmet.
2012-08-1903 minChef MarisolYuca Con MojoChef Marisol Murano nos da el secreto de la Yuca con Mojo al estilo gourmet.
2012-08-1903 minChef MarisolOlympic Torch CrostiniTo celebrate the Olympics, Chef Marisol Murano makes Olympic-torched crostini from three countries. Watch and vote for your favorite. See more crostini and other small plate recipes in Chef Marisol’s new e-cookbook, “Deliciously Doable Small Plates from Around the World,” now available on iTunes and the iBookstore. Click here to get it now.
2012-07-3003 minChef MarisolOlympic Torch CrostiniTo celebrate the Olympics, Chef Marisol Murano makes Olympic-torched crostini from three countries. Watch and vote for your favorite. See more crostini and other small plate recipes in Chef Marisol’s new e-cookbook, “Deliciously Doable Small Plates from Around the World,” now available on iTunes and the iBookstore. Click here to get it now.
2012-07-3003 minChef MarisolSabering Champagne with Authentic SwordsChef Marisol Murano sabers two bottles of champagne at Bella Bistro in Colorado — with two other women — using a Saladini Champagne Sabrage Sword. See more champagne sabering in Chef Marisol’s new e-cookbook, “Deliciously Doable Small Plates from Around the World,” now available on iTunes and the iBookstore. Click here to get it now.
2012-07-3001 minChef MarisolSabering Champagne with Authentic SwordsChef Marisol Murano sabers two bottles of champagne at Bella Bistro in Colorado — with two other women — using a Saladini Champagne Sabrage Sword. See more champagne sabering in Chef Marisol’s new e-cookbook, “Deliciously Doable Small Plates from Around the World,” now available on iTunes and the iBookstore. Click here to get it now.
2012-07-3001 minChef MarisolMy Favorite SangriaChef Marisol gives the secret to her favorite sangria recipe from her new e-cookbook, “Deliciously Doable Small Plates from Around the World,” now available on iTunes and the iBookstore. Click here to get it now.
2012-07-0100 minChef MarisolMy Favorite SangriaChef Marisol gives the secret to her favorite sangria recipe from her new e-cookbook, “Deliciously Doable Small Plates from Around the World,” now available on iTunes and the iBookstore. Click here to get it now.
2012-07-0100 minChef MarisolZa’atar Spice BlendZa’atar – versatile, healthy and fun. Sprinkle on anything from pita to salads.
2012-05-0100 minChef MarisolZa’atar Spice BlendZa’atar – versatile, healthy and fun. Sprinkle on anything from pita to salads.
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