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My Conversation With Nora McInerney, Author Of No Happy Endings: A Memoir

Click Here To Listen Nora McInerny No Happy Endings The author of It’s Okay to Laugh and host of the popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking—interviews that are “a gift to be able to listen [to]” (New York Times)—returns with more hilarious meditations on her messy, wonderful, bittersweet, and unconventional life. Life has a million different ways to kick you right in the chops. We lose love, lose jobs, lose our sense of self. For Nora McInerny, it was losing her husband, her father, and her unborn second child in one catastrophic year. But in the wake of loss, we get to assemble something new from whatever is left behind. Some circles call finding happiness [...]

By |April 10th, 2019|Gospel, Humor, Leadership, Philosophy, Self-Help, Wisdom, Women|0 Comments
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My Conversation With Kate T. Parker, Author The Heart Of A Boy: Celebrating The Strength And Spirit Of Boyhood

Click Here To Listen Kate T Parker It’s time to celebrate boys. Against the backdrop of a growing national conversation about how to raise sons to become good people, Kate T. Parker is leading the way by turning her lens on boys. Author of the bestselling book about girls Strong Is the New Pretty, she now shows the true heart of a boy in 200 compelling photographs. Boys can be wild. But they can also be gentle. Bursting with confidence, but not afraid to be vulnerable. Ready to run fearlessly downfield—or reach out to a friend in need. In this empowering, deeply felt celebration of boys being—and believing in—themselves, see the unguarded joy of a [...]

By |April 9th, 2019|Children, Men, Photography, Women, Youth|0 Comments
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Real Talk With Dr. Valencia Campbell: What’s Happening With Some Key Bills In MD Legislature On DrAlvin.Com

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By |April 9th, 2019|African Americans, Government, Law, Politics, Women|0 Comments
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My Conversation With Dr. Adrienne Simone, Author Of The New Rules of Pregnancy: What To Eat, Do, Think About, And Let Go Of While Your Body Is Making A Baby

Click Here To Listen Adrienne Simone Finally, a calming pregnancy book that cuts through the noise to tell expectant mothers exactly what they need to know—and what they can stop obsessing about and over-researching. In The New Rules of Pregnancy, two leading OB-GYNs guide you, the modern pregnant woman, through all aspects of pregnant life in an easy-to-digest, compassionate, and motivating way. Instead of a detailed week-by-week look at your baby’s development, it’s all about you, and how to help your pregnancy go as smoothly as possible. It assumes an intelligent, busy reader (who, somewhere inside, is shouting, “Just tell me what to do!”). Every aspect of pregnant life is covered—from the practical details (how [...]

By |April 3rd, 2019|Women|0 Comments
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My Conversation With Mary Norris, NY Times Best-Selling Author Of Greek to Me: Adventures Of The Comma Queen

Click Here To Listen Mary Norris-Greek To Me The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea. In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in The New Yorker’s celebrated copy department. In Greek to Me, she delivers another wise and funny paean to the art of self-expression, this time filtered through her greatest passion: all things Greek. Greek to Me is a charming account of Norris’s lifelong love affair with words and her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo. Along the way, Norris explains how the alphabet originated in Greece, [...]

By |April 2nd, 2019|Literature, Uncategorized|0 Comments
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My Conversation With Austin Kleon, Author Of Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative In Good Times And Bad

Click Here To Listen Austin Kleon-Keep Going Keep Working. Keep Playing. Keep Creating. In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Times bestsellers, Austin Kleon gave readers the keys to unlock their creativity and showed them how to become known. Now he offers his most inspiring work yet, with ten simple rules for how to stay creative, focused, and true to yourself—for life. The creative life is not a linear journey to a finish line, it’s a loop—so find a daily routine, because today is the only day that matters. Disconnect from the world to connect with yourself—sometimes you just have to switch into airplane mode. Keep Going [...]

By |April 2nd, 2019|Fiction, Literature|0 Comments
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My Conversation With Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, Author Of They Were Her Property: White Women As Slave Owners In The American South

Click Here To Listen Stephanie E Jones Rogers A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave‑owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they [...]

By |March 28th, 2019|African Americans, History, Law, Women|0 Comments
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My Conversation With Robert P. Crease, Author The Workshop And the World: What Ten Thinkers Can Teach Us About Science And Authority

Click Here To Listen Robert Crease A fascinating look at key thinkers throughout history who have shaped public perception of science and the role of authority. When does a scientific discovery become accepted fact? Why have scientific facts become easy to deny? And what can we do about it? In The Workshop and the World, philosopher and science historian Robert P. Crease answers these questions by describing the origins of our scientific infrastructure―the “workshop”―and the role of ten of the world’s greatest thinkers in shaping it. At a time when the Catholic Church assumed total authority, Francis Bacon, Galileo Galilei, and René Descartes were the first to articulate the worldly authority of science, while writers [...]

By |March 25th, 2019|Science|0 Comments
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My Conversation With Dr. William Li, Author Of Eat To Beat Disease: The New Science Of How Your Body Can Heal Itself

Click Here To Listen Dr William Li Is your diet feeding or defeating disease? Forget everything you think you know about your body and food, and discover the new science of how the body heals itself. Learn how to identify the strategies and the dosages for using food to transform your resilience and health in EAT TO BEAT DISEASE. We have radically underestimated our body's power to transform and restore our health. Pioneering physician scientist, Dr. William Li, empowers readers by showing them the evidence behind over 200 health-boosting foods that can starve cancer, reduce your risk of dementia, and beat dozens of avoidable diseases. EAT TO BEAT DISEASE isn't about what foods to avoid, [...]

By |March 25th, 2019|Cooking / Food|0 Comments
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