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The Hollow Ground By Natalie S. Harnett chats with Dr. Alvin

Natalie Harnett Click Here To Listen We walk on fire or air, so Daddy liked to say. Basement floors too hot to touch. Steaming green lawns in the dead of winter. Sinkholes, quick and sudden, plunging open at your feet. The underground mine fires ravaging Pennsylvania coal country have forced eleven-year-old Brigid Howley and her family to seek refuge with her estranged grandparents, the formidable Gram and the black lung‒stricken Gramp. Tragedy is no stranger to the Howleys, a proud Irish-American clan who takes strange pleasure in the “curse” laid upon them generations earlier by a priest who ran afoul of the Molly Maguires. The weight of this legacy rests heavily on a new generation, [...]

By |May 27th, 2014|Environment, Fiction, History|Comments Off on The Hollow Ground By Natalie S. Harnett chats with Dr. Alvin
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A Season Of Change By Lynette Sowell chats with Dr. Alvin

Lynette Sowell Click Here To Listen Amish widower Jacob Miller believes it was a mistake to visit the Amish village of Pinecraft for winter vacation, especially after his daughter is struck by a car. Stranded in Sarasota until his daughter recovers, Jacob grows increasingly wary of events that unfold in his unfamiliar surroundings—including the strange curiosity of Englischer Natalie Bennett. Natalie never thought her circus career as an aerial silks artist would end with a blown-out knee at the age of 25. She also never knew her late mother had a secret—that she was once Amish. When Natalie meets the Millers at the Sarasota hospital, she is attracted to their warm hospitality and simple ways—and [...]

By |May 27th, 2014|Fiction, Gospel|Comments Off on A Season Of Change By Lynette Sowell chats with Dr. Alvin
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Motherless Child By Glen Hirshberg chats with Dr. Alvin

GlenHirshberg Click Here To Listen   In his powerful novel, Motherless Child, Bram Stoker Award–nominee Glen Hirshberg, author of the International Horror Guild Award–winning American Morons, exposes the fallacy of the Twilight-style romantic vampire while capturing the heart of every reader. It’s the thrill of a lifetime when Sophie and Natalie, single mothers living in a trailer park in North Carolina, meet their idol, the mysterious musician known only as “the Whistler.” Morning finds them covered with dried blood, their clothing shredded and their memories hazy. Things soon become horrifyingly clear: the Whistler is a vampire and Natalie and Sophie are his latest victims. The young women leave their babies with Natalie’s mother and hit [...]

By |May 26th, 2014|Fiction|Comments Off on Motherless Child By Glen Hirshberg chats with Dr. Alvin
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Suspicion By Joseph Finder chats with Dr. Alvin

Joseph Finder Click Here To Listen When single father Danny Goodman suddenly finds himself unable to afford the private school his teenage daughter adores, he has no one to turn to for financial support. In what seems like a stroke of brilliant luck, Danny meets Thomas Galvin, the father of his daughter’s new best friend, who also happens to be one of the wealthiest men in Boston. Galvin is aware of Danny’s situation and out of the blue offers a $50,000 loan to help Danny cover his daughter’s tuition. Uncomfortable but desperate, Danny takes the money, promising to pay Galvin back. What transpires is something Danny never imagined. The moment the money is wired into [...]

By |May 22nd, 2014|Crime, Fiction|Comments Off on Suspicion By Joseph Finder chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Skin Collector By Jeffery Deaver chats with Dr. Alvin

Jeffery Deaver-Skin Collector Click Here To Listen Live From Cincinnati, Ohio The killer's methods are terrifying. He stalks the basements and underground passageways of New York City. He tattoos his victims' flesh with cryptic messages, using a tattoo gun loaded with poison, resulting in an agonizing, painful death. When a connection is made to the Bone Collector-the serial killer who terrorized New York more than a decade ago-Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are immediately drawn into the case. Rhyme, Sachs, and the NYPD must race against time to answer the many questions the investigation uncovers: Whom will the killer attack next? What is the message behind the victims' tattoos? Does the killer's own inking--a fanged [...]

By |May 22nd, 2014|Crime, Fiction|Comments Off on The Skin Collector By Jeffery Deaver chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Devil’s Workshop By Alex Grecian chats with Dr. Alvin

Alex Grecian-Devil Click Here To Listen   London, 1890. Four vicious murderers have escaped from prison, part of a plan gone terribly wrong, and now it is up to Walter Day, Nevil Hammersmith, and the rest of Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad to hunt down the convicts before the men can resume their bloody spree. But they might already be too late. The killers have retribution in mind, and one of them is heading straight toward a member of the Murder Squad, and his family. And that isn’t even the worst of it. During the escape, the killers have stumbled upon the location of another notorious murderer, one thought gone for good but now prepared to [...]

By |May 21st, 2014|Crime, Fiction|Comments Off on The Devil’s Workshop By Alex Grecian chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Year She Left Us By Kathryn Ma chats with Dr. Alvin

Kathyrn Ma Click Here To Listen   The Kong women are in crisis. A disastrous trip to visit her "home" orphanage in China has plunged eighteen-year-old Ari into a self-destructive spiral. Her adoptive mother, Charlie, a lawyer with a great heart, is desperate to keep her daughter safe. Meanwhile, Charlie must endure the prickly scrutiny of her beautiful, Bryn Mawr–educated mother, Gran—who, as the daughter of a cultured Chinese doctor, came to America to survive Mao's Revolution—and her sister, Les, a brilliant judge with a penchant for ruling over everyone's lives. As they cope with Ari's journey of discovery and its aftermath, the Kong women will come face-to-face with the truths of their lives—four powerful, [...]

By |May 20th, 2014|Adoption, Fiction, Parenting, Women|Comments Off on The Year She Left Us By Kathryn Ma chats with Dr. Alvin
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Jack Of Spies By David Downing chats with Dr. Alvin

David Downing Click Here To Listen Live From The U.K. It is 1913, and those who follow the news closely can see the world is teetering on the brink of war. Jack McColl, a Scottish car salesman with an uncanny ear for languages, has always hoped to make a job for himself as a spy. As his sales calls take him from city to great city—Hong Kong to Shanghai to San Francisco to New York—he moonlights collecting intelligence for His Majesty's Navy, but British espionage is in its infancy and Jack has nothing but a shoestring budget and the very tenuous protection of a boss in far-away London. He knows, though, that a geopolitical catastrophe [...]

By |May 19th, 2014|Fiction, History, Military, War|Comments Off on Jack Of Spies By David Downing chats with Dr. Alvin
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American Woman By Robert Pobi chats with Dr. Alvin

Robert Pobi Click Here To Listen A stifling heat wave rolls into New York City, amplifying the already critical level of tension in the fragile concrete ecosystem. The air tastes of electricity—the negative charge of bad things to come—but everyone hopes it’s just the temperature. Then, on the morning homicide detective Alexandra “Hemi” Hemingway finds out she is pregnant, a twisted serial killer makes his debut. And the heat goes up.   Not for the faint of heart—American Woman is a relentless ride that takes you through the fractured world of a nascent killer. And you will never feel safe again.

By |May 19th, 2014|Fiction|Comments Off on American Woman By Robert Pobi chats with Dr. Alvin
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Astonish Me By Maggie Shipstead chats with Dr. Alvin

Maggie Shipstead Click Here To Listen   From the author of the widely acclaimed debut novel Seating Arrangements, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction: a gorgeously written, fiercely compelling glimpse into the demanding world of professional ballet and its magnetic hold over two generations. Astonish Me is the irresistible story of Joan, a young American dancer who helps a Soviet ballet star, the great Arslan Rusakov, defect in 1975. A flash of fame and a passionate love affair follow, but Joan knows that, onstage and off, she is destined to remain in the background. She will never possess Arslan, and she will never be a [...]

By |May 15th, 2014|Dance, Fiction, Performing Arts, Women|Comments Off on Astonish Me By Maggie Shipstead chats with Dr. Alvin
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