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Return To The Beach House By Georgia Bockoven chats with Dr. Alvin

Georgia Bockoven Click Here To Listen Over the course of one year, in a charming cottage by the sea, eight people will discover love and remembrance, reconciliation and reunion, beginnings and endings in this unforgettable sequel to Georgia Bockoven's The Beach House and Another Summer Alison arrives at the beach house in June to spend a month with her restless grandson before he leaves for his first year of college. More than a decade earlier, Alison lost her beloved husband, and has faced life alone ever since. Now she discovers a new life and a possible new love. August brings together four college friends facing a milestone. During summer's final days, they share laughter, tears, [...]

By |May 12th, 2014|Fiction|Comments Off on Return To The Beach House By Georgia Bockoven chats with Dr. Alvin
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Derrick Brown Sports Report 05.12.14 on DrAlvin.Com: Michael Sams-Openly Gay Drafted

D Brown Sports 051214 Click Here To Listen Get the latest in sports, news and commentary. Michael Sams. NBA Playoffs. Wizards vs. Pacers. Clippers vs. OKC.

By |May 12th, 2014|Gay, Sports|Comments Off on Derrick Brown Sports Report 05.12.14 on DrAlvin.Com: Michael Sams-Openly Gay Drafted
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1,107 Baby Names That Stand The Test Of Time By Jennifer Griffin chats with Dr. Alvin

Jennifer Griffin Click Here To Listen There are tens of thousands of baby names out there—and books that dutifully list them. And then there is 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time—a curated, considered, opinionated, and richly informative guide that winnows down the world of baby names to help moms and dads make smart choices, sidestep the trendiness trap, and avoid the ranks of parents (more than 54%) who later regret the name they chose.

By |May 12th, 2014|Children, Family, Women|Comments Off on 1,107 Baby Names That Stand The Test Of Time By Jennifer Griffin chats with Dr. Alvin
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1954 By Bill Madden chats with Dr. Alvin

Bill Madden Click Here To Listen 1954: Perhaps no single baseball season has so profoundly changed the game forever. In that year—the same in which the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled, in the case of Brown vs. Board of Education, that segregation of the races be outlawed in America's public schools—Larry Doby's Indians won an American League record 111 games, dethroned the five-straight World Series champion Yankees, and went on to play Willie Mays's Giants in the first World Series that featured players of color on both teams. Seven years after Jackie Robinson had broken the baseball color line, 1954 was a triumphant watershed season for black players—and, in a larger sense, for baseball and [...]

By |May 12th, 2014|African Americans, Biography, Sports|Comments Off on 1954 By Bill Madden chats with Dr. Alvin
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How To Babysit Grandma By Jean Reagan chats with Dr. Alvin

Jean Reagan Click Here To Listen When you babysit a grandma, if you're lucky . . . it's a sleepover at her house! And with the useful tips found in this book, you're guaranteed to become an expert grandma-sitter in no time. (Be sure to check out the sections on: How to keep a grandma busy; Things to do at the park; Possible places to sleep, and what to do once you're both snugly tucked in for the night.) From the author-illustrator team behind the bestselling How to Babysit a Grandpa comes a funny and heartwarming celebration of grandmas and grandchildren.

By |May 10th, 2014|Children, Family, Fiction, Parenting, Relationships, Women|Comments Off on How To Babysit Grandma By Jean Reagan chats with Dr. Alvin
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Robert B. Parker: Cheap Shot By Ace Atkins chats with Dr. Alvin

Ace Atkins-Cheap Shot Click Here To Listen Kinjo Heywood is one of the New England Patriots’ marquee players—a hard-nosed linebacker who’s earned his reputation as one of the toughest guys in the league. When off-field violence repeatedly lands Heywood in the news, his slick agent hires Spenser to find the men who he says have been harassing his client. Heywood’s troubles seem to be tied to a nightclub shooting from two years earlier. But when Heywood’s nine-year-old son, Akira, is kidnapped, ransom demands are given, and a winding trail through Boston’s underworld begins, Spenser puts together his own all-star team of toughs. It will take both Hawk and Spenser’s protégé, Zebulon Sixkill, to watch Spenser’s [...]

By |May 10th, 2014|Fiction|Comments Off on Robert B. Parker: Cheap Shot By Ace Atkins chats with Dr. Alvin
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Starfire By Dale Brown chats with Dr. Alvin

Dale Brown-Starfire Click Here To Listen With the death of his heroic father, bomber and space warfare veteran Patrick McLanahan, Bradley McLanahan must now fly solo, leading a team of young engineers designing Starfire, the world's first orbiting solar power plant. Starfire will not only deliver unlimited and inexpensive electricity to anywhere on planet Earth, it can also transmit power to the moon, and even to spacecraft and asteroids. It's a crucial first step in the exploration of the solar system, and Bradley and his team are on the cutting edge. But U.S. president Kenneth Phoenix's plans to militarize and industrialize Earth's orbit sparks an arms race in space that eclipses the darkest and most [...]

By |May 10th, 2014|Fiction, Military, Technology, War|Comments Off on Starfire By Dale Brown chats with Dr. Alvin
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It Ain’t Over…Till It’s Over By Marlo Thomas chats with Dr. Alvin

Marlo Thomas Click Here To Listen But anyone who has ever tried to make a big life change knows it can be a bit more complicated— and frightening—than that. How do you get up the nerve and confidence to actually take the leap? No one knows better than the women profiled in this powerful book by actress, activist, and bestselling author Marlo Thomas. It Ain't Over ...Till It's Over inntroduces us to sixty amazing women who are proving that it’s never too late to live out a dream—to launch a business, travel the world, get a PhD, indulge a creative impulse, make a family recipe famous, escape danger, find love, or fill a void in [...]

By |May 9th, 2014|Biography, Self-Help|Comments Off on It Ain’t Over…Till It’s Over By Marlo Thomas chats with Dr. Alvin
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Derrick Brown Sports Report 05.09.14 chats Dr. Alvin: NFL Draft-Manziel-Clowney

D Brown Sports 050914 Get the latest in sports, news and commentary. NBA Playoffs. Nets vs. Heat. NFL Draft. Johnny Football. Jadeveon Clowney.

By |May 9th, 2014|Sports|Comments Off on Derrick Brown Sports Report 05.09.14 chats Dr. Alvin: NFL Draft-Manziel-Clowney
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The Crusade Of Cesar Chavez By Miriam Pawel chats with Dr. Alvin

Miriam Pawel Click Here To Listen Cesar Chavez founded a labor union, launched a movement, and inspired a generation. He rose from migrant worker to national icon, becoming one of the great charismatic leaders of the 20th century. Two decades after his death, Chavez remains the most significant Latino leader in US history. Yet his life story has been told only in hagiography—until now. In the first comprehensive biography of Chavez, Miriam Pawel offers a searching yet empathetic portrayal. Chavez emerges here as a visionary figure with tragic flaws; a brilliant strategist who sometimes stumbled; and a canny, streetwise organizer whose pragmatism was often at odds with his elusive, soaring dreams. He was an experimental [...]

By |May 9th, 2014|Biography, Hispanic, Labor|Comments Off on The Crusade Of Cesar Chavez By Miriam Pawel chats with Dr. Alvin
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