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The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice By Rebecca Musser chats with Dr. Alvin

Rebecca Musser-Witness Wore Red Click Here To Listen Rebecca Musser grew up in fear, concealing her family's polygamous lifestyle from the "dangerous" outside world. Covered head-to-toe in strict, modest clothing, she received a rigorous education at Alta Academy, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' school headed by Warren Jeffs. Always seeking to be an obedient Priesthood girl, in her teens she became the nineteenth wife of her people's prophet: 85-year-old Rulon Jeffs, Warren's father. Finally sickened by the abuse she suffered and saw around her, she pulled off a daring escape and sought to build a new life and family. <u1:p> The church, however, had a way of pulling her back [...]

By |June 17th, 2014|Biography, Crime, Gospel, Law, Spirituality, Women|Comments Off on The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice By Rebecca Musser chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Lost Art Of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish By Linda Przbyszewski chats with Dr. Alvin

Linda Przybyszewski Click Here To Listen As a glance down any street in America quickly reveals, American women have forgotten how to dress. We chase fads, choose inappropriate materials and unattractive cuts, and waste energy tottering in heels when we could be moving gracefully. Quite simply, we lack the fashion know-how we need to dress professionally and flatteringly. As historian and expert dressmaker Linda Przybyszewski reveals in The Lost Art of Dress, it wasn’t always like this. In the first half of the twentieth century, a remarkable group of women—the so-called Dress Doctors—taught American women how to stretch each yard of fabric and dress well on a budget. Knowledge not money, they insisted, is the [...]

By |June 15th, 2014|Fashion, History, Women|Comments Off on The Lost Art Of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish By Linda Przbyszewski chats with 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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Land Of Shadows By Rachel Howzell Hall chats with Dr. Alvin

Rachel Howzell Hall Click Here To Listen Along the ever-changing border of gentrifying Los Angeles, seventeen-year-old Monique Darson is found dead at a condominium construction site, hanging in the closet of an unfinished unit. Homicide detective Elouise “Lou” Norton’s new partner, Colin Taggert, fresh from the comparatively bucolic Colorado Springs police department, assumes it’s a teenage suicide. Lou isn’t buying the easy explanation. For one thing, the condo site is owned by Napoleon Crase, a self-made millionaire. . .and the man who may have murdered Lou's missing sister, Tori, thirty years ago. As Lou investigates the death of Monique Darson, she uncovers undeniable links between the two cases. But her department is skeptical. Lou is [...]

By |June 11th, 2014|African Americans, Crime, Fiction, Women|Comments Off on Land Of Shadows By Rachel Howzell Hall chats with Dr. Alvin
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Mimi Malloy, At Last! By Julia MacDonnell chats with Dr. Alvin

Julia MacDonnell Click Here To Listen   Meet Mimi Malloy: A daughter of the Great Depression, Mimi was born into an Irish-Catholic brood of seven, and she has done her best to raise six beautiful daughters of her own. Now they’re grown, and Mimi, a divorcée, is unexpectedly retired. But she takes solace in the comforts of her new life: her apartment in the heart of Quincy, the occasional True Blue cigarette, and evenings with Frank Sinatra on the stereo and a highball in her hand. Yet her phone is arguably the busiest in greater Boston—it rings “Day In, Day Out,” as Ol’ Blue Eyes would say. Her surviving sisters love to gab about their [...]

By |June 10th, 2014|Fiction, Women|Comments Off on Mimi Malloy, At Last! By Julia MacDonnell chats with Dr. Alvin
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A Long Time Gone By Karen White chats with Dr. Alvin

Karen White Click Here To Listen I want someone who will talk to me honestly about things. You're the only person who ever has. Maybe you don't know this, but when you're disabled almost no one tells you the truth. They feel too awkward because the truth seems too sad, I guess. You were very brave to walk up to the crippled girl and say, essentially, wipe that sunny expression off your face and look at reality. That's what I want you to do next year. Tell me the truth. That's all. Amy and Matthew didn't know each other, really. They weren't friends. Matthew remembered her, sure, but he remembered a lot of people from [...]

By |June 9th, 2014|Fiction, Women|Comments Off on A Long Time Gone By Karen White chats with Dr. Alvin
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Ruby: A Novel By Cynthia Bond chats with Dr. Alvin

Cynthia Bond Click Here To Listen Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby, “the kind of pretty it hurt to look at,” has suffered beyond imagining, so as soon as she can, she flees suffocating Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New York. Ruby quickly winds her way into the ripe center of the city--the darkened piano bars and hidden alleyways of the Village--all the while hoping for a glimpse of the red hair and green eyes of her mother. When a telegram from her cousin forces her to return home, thirty-year-old Ruby Bell finds [...]

By |June 6th, 2014|Fiction, Women|Comments Off on Ruby: A Novel By Cynthia Bond chats with Dr. Alvin
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Kosher Lust: Love Is Not The Answer By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach chats with Dr. Alvin

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Click Here To Listen Live From Germany Boy meets girl. Boy marries girl. Boy and girl enjoy the sparks in the early years, but eventually settle into a comfortable friendship, and all passion disappears from their marriage. That s just the way it goes, right? As many as one in three long-term marriages in America are sexless, and most people accept this as the inevitable course of a romantic relationship. In this groundbreaking book, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach explains why the prioritizing of love and companionship in marriage is all wrong, and why we should not go quietly into that dark night of celibate marriage. It is not love, Rabbi Shmuley shows, but [...]

By |June 6th, 2014|Jewish, Men, Relationships, Spirituality, Women|Comments Off on Kosher Lust: Love Is Not The Answer By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach chats with Dr. Alvin
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China Dolls By Lisa See chats with Dr. Alvin

  Click Here To Listen   The New York Times bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, and Shanghai Girls has garnered international acclaim for her great skill at rendering the intricate relationships of women and the complex meeting of history and fate. Now comes Lisa See’s highly anticipated new novel, China Dolls. It’s 1938 in San Francisco: a world’s fair is preparing to open on Treasure Island, a war is brewing overseas, and the city is alive with possibilities. Grace, Helen, and Ruby, three young women from very different backgrounds, meet by chance at the exclusive and glamorous Forbidden City nightclub. Grace Lee, an American-born Chinese girl, has fled [...]

By |June 4th, 2014|Asian American, History, Music, Women|Comments Off on China Dolls By Lisa See chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Pregnant Athlete: How To Stay In Your Best Shape Ever Before, During, And After Pregnancy by Brandi Dion chats with Dr. Alvin

Brandi Dion Click Here To Listen Whether you're a professional athlete or a dedicated weekend warrior, you're serious about your sport and your commitment to fitness. But now that you're pregnant, you may be getting conflicting health and exercise advice from your family, friends, and doctors. With all the concerns and misinformation, it's hard to know where to turn for accurate, supportive guidance so you can have a safe, healthy pregnancy and maintain a high level of fitness. Now, in The Pregnant Athlete, triathlete/trainer mom Brandi Dion, fitness professional Steven Dion, and OB/GYN Joel Heller have teamed up to offer: •Practical information on how your body changes each month, and how to gauge your own [...]

By |June 3rd, 2014|Fitness, Medical, Parenting, Women|Comments Off on The Pregnant Athlete: How To Stay In Your Best Shape Ever Before, During, And After Pregnancy by Brandi Dion chats with Dr. Alvin
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