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Little Mercies By Heather Gudenkauf chats with Dr. Alvin

Heather Gudenkauf Click Here To Listen In her latest ripped-from-the-headlines tour de force, New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf shows how one small mistake can have life-altering consequences… Veteran social worker Ellen Moore has seen the worst side of humanity—the vilest acts one person can commit against another. She is a fiercely dedicated children's advocate and a devoted mother and wife. But one blistering summer day, a simple moment of distraction will have repercussions that Ellen could never have imagined, threatening to shatter everything she holds dear, and trapping her between the gears of the system she works for. Meanwhile, ten-year-old Jenny Briard has been living with her well-meaning but irresponsible father since her [...]

By |July 2nd, 2014|Children, Fiction, Women|Comments Off on Little Mercies By Heather Gudenkauf chats with Dr. Alvin
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Quiet Dell By Jayne Anne Phillips chats with Dr. Alvin

Jayne Anne Phillips In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, a lonely mother of three, is desperate for money after the sudden death of her husband. She begins to receive seductive letters from a chivalrous, elegant man named Harry Powers, who promises to cherish and protect her, ultimately to marry her and to care for her and her children. Weeks later, Asta and her three children are dead. Emily Thornhill, one of the few women journalists in the Chicago press, wants to understand what happened to this beautiful family, particularly to the youngest child, Annabel, an enchanting girl with a precocious imagination and sense of magic. Determined, Emily travels to West Virginia to cover the murder [...]

By |July 1st, 2014|Crime, Fiction, Mystery, Pop Culture, Women|Comments Off on Quiet Dell By Jayne Anne Phillips chats with Dr. Alvin
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Breakwater Bay: The Perfect Summer Story Of Family Secrets, An Abandoned Baby And New Romance Set In Newport, Rhode Island By Shelley Noble chats with Dr. Alvin

Shelley Noble-Breakwater Bay Click Here To Listen Preservationist Meri Hollis loves her latest project, restoring one of Newport's forgotten Gilded Age mansions. And with summer approaching, she'll be able to spend more time with her grandmother on the Rhode Island shore. She has a great job, a loving family, and she's pretty sure her boyfriend is going to propose on her thirtieth birthday. But everything Meri believes about family, happiness, truth, and love is shattered when her family's darkest secret is exposed. Thirty years before, Meri's neighbor and friend, Alden Corrigan, took his father's dinghy out to fish. In a sudden storm, he rushed to help a woman stranded on the breakwater. She was just [...]

By |June 30th, 2014|Fiction, Mystery|Comments Off on Breakwater Bay: The Perfect Summer Story Of Family Secrets, An Abandoned Baby And New Romance Set In Newport, Rhode Island By Shelley Noble chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Quest By Nelson DeMille chats with Dr. Alvin

Nelson DeMille-Quest C Click Here To Listen An earlier, shorter version of The Quest was published in paperback in 1975. In 2013, I rewrote The Quest and doubled its length, making it, I hope, a far better story than the original, without deviating from the elements that made the story so powerful and compelling when I first wrote it. In other words, what made The Quest worth rewriting remains, and whatever is changed is for the better. I was happy and excited to have this opportunity to rewrite and republish what I consider my first "big" novel, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did when I first wrote it.  

By |June 26th, 2014|Fiction, Gospel|Comments Off on The Quest By Nelson DeMille chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Hurricane Sisters By Dorothea Benton Frank chats with Dr. Alvin

Dorothea Benton Frank Click Here To Listen Hurricane season begins early and rumbles all summer long, well into September. Often people's lives reflect the weather and The Hurricane Sisters is just such a story. Once again Dorothea Benton Frank takes us deep into the heart of her magical South Carolina Low country on a tumultuous journey filled with longings, disappointments, and, finally, a road toward happiness that is hard earned. There we meet three generations of women buried in secrets. The determined matriarch, Maisie Pringle, at eighty, is a force to be reckoned with because she will have the final word on everything, especially when she's dead wrong. Her daughter, Liz, is caught up in [...]

By |June 20th, 2014|Fiction, Mystery, Women|Comments Off on The Hurricane Sisters By Dorothea Benton Frank chats with Dr. Alvin
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Fourth Of July Creek By Smith Henderson chats with Dr. Alvin

Smith Henderson Click Here To Listen After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face-to-face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times. But as Pete's own family spins out of control, Pearl's activities spark the full-blown interest of the FBI, putting Pete at the center of a massive manhunt from which no one will emerge unscathed. In this shattering and iconic American novel, Smith Henderson explores the complexities of freedom, community, grace, suspicion, and [...]

By |June 17th, 2014|Fiction, Mystery|Comments Off on Fourth Of July Creek By Smith Henderson chats with Dr. Alvin
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Any Other Name By Craig Johnson chats with Dr. Alvin

Craig Johnson Click Here To Listen Sheriff Walt Longmire is sinking into a high-plains winter discontent when his former boss, Lucian Connally, asks him to take on a mercy case outside his jurisdiction. Detective Gerald Holman of neighboring Campbell County is dead, and Lucian wants to know what drove his old friend, a by-the-book lawman with a wife and daughter, to take his own life. With the clock ticking on the birth of Walt’s first grandchild in Philadelphia, he enlists the help of undersheriff Vic Moretti, Henry Standing Bear, and Gillette policeman Corbin Dougherty and, looking for answers, reopens Holman’s last case. Before his mysterious death, Detective Holman was elbow-deep in a cold case involving [...]

By |June 17th, 2014|Fiction, Mystery|Comments Off on Any Other Name By Craig Johnson chats with Dr. Alvin
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Miracle Man By William Leibowitz chats Dr. Alvin

Click Here To Listen REVERED REVILED REMARKABLE The victim of an unspeakable crime, an infant rises to become a new type of superhero. Unlike any that have come before him, he is not a fanciful creation of animators, he is real. So begins the saga of Robert James Austin, the greatest genius in human history. But where did his extraordinary intelligence come from? As agents of corporate greed vie with rabid anti-Western radicals to destroy him, an obsessive government leader launches a bizarre covert mission to exploit his intellect. Yet Austin's greatest fear is not of this world. Aided by two exceptional women, one of whom will become his unlikely lover, Austin struggles against abandonment [...]

By |June 15th, 2014|Fiction|Comments Off on Miracle Man By William Leibowitz chats Dr. Alvin
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A Deadly Business By Lis Wiehl chats with Dr. Alvin

Lis Wiehl-Deadly Click Here To Listen When a twenty-two-year-old convict walks into the courtroom, his eyes confirm what Mia Quinn already guesses: he blames her for his conviction. In seconds, he knocks her to the ground and holds a razor blade to her throat. While she manages to escape without injury, it's just one more reminder that Mia's job prosecuting Seattle's s most dangerous criminals is far from low risk. As a single mom, the last thing Mia wants is for her work to follow her home¬ – or discover that it already has. Now Detective Charlie Carlson is suggesting the very thing Mia doesn't want to believe—that her accountant husband’s deadly car accident was [...]

By |June 12th, 2014|Crime, Fiction, Women|Comments Off on A Deadly Business By Lis Wiehl chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Third Son By Julie Wu chats with Dr. Alvin

Julie Wu Click Here To Listen In the middle of a terrifying air raid in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, Saburo, the least-favored son of a Taiwanese politician, runs through a forest for cover. It’s there he stumbles on Yoshiko, whose descriptions of her loving family are to Saburo like a glimpse of paradise. Meeting her is a moment he will remember forever, and for years he will try to find her again. When he finally does, she is by the side of his oldest brother and greatest rival. In Saburo, author Julie Wu has created an extraordinary character, determined to fight for everything he needs and wants, from food to education to his first love. The Third [...]

By |June 11th, 2014|Fiction|Comments Off on The Third Son By Julie Wu chats with Dr. Alvin
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