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Small Plates: Short Fiction By Katherine Hall Page chats with Dr. Alvin

Katherine Hall Page-Small Plates Click Here To Listen Katherine Hall Page, author of the beloved Faith Fairchild series, invites you to enjoy her first-ever collection of short fiction. Readers will delight in the broad range of these mysteries—tales to suit every taste and mood. Page's tales will take readers from the skyscrapers of Manhattan to the dunes of Cape Cod and even "Across the Pond." Her characters include a man who longs for widowerhood, dreaming of the attention from the casserole brigade—good women lining up at his door offering food and perhaps themselves as well. A newlywed discovers her husband's ingenious hiding places for objects like spare keys. One spinster turns to friends for help [...]

By |May 29th, 2014|Fiction, Mystery|Comments Off on Small Plates: Short Fiction By Katherine Hall Page chats with Dr. Alvin
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Last Conversation With Dr. Maya Angelou: Thoughts On Electing Barack Obama with Dr. Alvin

Dr Maya Angelou Click Here To Listen Tribute. Prose, Words & Music in celebration of an American Treasure. My only and last conversation with Dr. Maya as she encourages us to elect Barack Obama for president of the United States. This chat is dedicated to my daughters Dr. Alisha Lola and Rev. Angela Jones.

By |May 29th, 2014|Biography, Poetry, Politics, Women|Comments Off on Last Conversation With Dr. Maya Angelou: Thoughts On Electing Barack Obama with Dr. Alvin
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Incredible And True Fishing Stories By Shaun Morey chats with Dr. Alvin

Shaun Morey Click Here To Listen Over 33 million people fish in this country. They went on over 455 million fishing trips and spent more than $41 billion on fishing expenses. And what’s almost as good as going fishing? Hearing, telling, and swapping great fish stories. Shaun Morey is a fisherman, a connoisseur of fish stories, and a journalist with a novelist’s eye (and vice versa) whose first collection, Incredible Fishing Stories, has 471,000 copies in print. In the years since that book’s publication, Morey has continued to reel in jaw-dropping tales, and the result is a new collection of over 100 even more incredible fishing stories. Here are Remarkable Catches—like the time Billy Sandifer [...]

By |May 28th, 2014|Animals, Sports|Comments Off on Incredible And True Fishing Stories By Shaun Morey chats with Dr. Alvin
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Numberlys By William Joyce chats with Dr. Alvin

William Joyce Click Here To Listen From the team who brought you The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore comes an alphabet tale extraordinaire! Once upon a time there was no alphabet, only numbers… Life was…fine. Orderly. Dull as gray paint. Very…numberly. But our five jaunty heroes weren’t willing to accept that this was all there could be. They knew there had to be more. So they broke out hard hats and welders, hammers and glue guns, and they started knocking some numbers together. Removing a piece here. Adding a piece there. At first, it was awful. But the five kept at it, and soon it was…artful! One letter after another emerged, until there [...]

By |May 28th, 2014|Fiction|Comments Off on Numberlys By William Joyce chats with Dr. Alvin
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Celebrity Chef Rocco DiSpirito of ABC-TV’s Extreme Weight Loss chats with Dr. Alvin

Rocco DiSpirito-Extreme Weight Loss Click Here To Listen   Rocco is an award winning chef and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pound A Day Diet. A cultural phenomenon, this book shows you how to lose up to a pound a day – without frustrating plateau’s – all while eating your favorite foods. Rocco has a VIP food delivery service and weight loss coaching program based on The Pound A Day Diet and has helped celebrity clients including Whoopi Goldberg, Diane Neal (Law and Order SVU), Joy Behar, Paul Stanley (Kiss) lose weight.  

By |May 28th, 2014|Cooking / Food, Diet, Fitness|Comments Off on Celebrity Chef Rocco DiSpirito of ABC-TV’s Extreme Weight Loss chats with Dr. Alvin
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Natchez Burning By Greg Iles chats with Dr. Alvin

Greg Iles Click Here To Listen An American writer at the height of his creative powers, #1 New York Times bestselling novelist Greg Iles returns with his most eagerly anticipated book yet, and his first in five years—Natchez Burning, the first installment in an epic trilogy that weaves crimes, lies, and secrets past and present into a mesmerizing thriller featuring southern mayor and former prosecutor Penn Cage. Raised in the historic southern splendor of Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned all he knows of honor and duty from his father, Dr. Tom Cage. But now the beloved family doctor and pillar of the community has been accused of murdering Viola Turner, the African-American nurse with whom [...]

By |May 28th, 2014|Fiction|Comments Off on Natchez Burning By Greg Iles chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Most Dangerous Animal Of All By Gary L. Stewart chats with Dr. Alvin

Gary Stewart Click Here To Listen Soon after his birth mother contacted him for the first time at the age of thirty-nine, adoptee Gary L. Stewart decided to search for his biological father. His quest would lead him to a horrifying truth and force him to reconsider everything he thought he knew about himself and his world. Written with award-winning author and journalist Susan Mustafa, The Most Dangerous Animal of All tells the story of Stewart's decade-long hunt. While combing through government records and news reports and tracking down relatives and friends, Stewart turns up a host of clues—including forensic evidence—that conclusively identify his father as the Zodiac Killer, one of the most notorious and [...]

By |May 28th, 2014|Biography, Crime|Comments Off on The Most Dangerous Animal Of All By Gary L. Stewart chats with Dr. Alvin
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New York Jackie By Bridget Watson Payne chats with Dr. Alvin

Bridget Watson Payne Click Here To Listen As familiar as we are with images of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the charming former first lady, fewer know the dynamic woman who called New York City home. Shortly after JFK's assassination in 1964, Jackie moved to Manhattan and lived there for the next three decades. This intimate collection of photographs celebrates her life in the city as a mother, book editor, style icon, and most of all, a New Yorker. Eating ice cream with her kids on Fifth Avenue, working with authors at Doubleday Books, riding her bike through Central Park—these images capture the real-life joy, creative passion, and effortless grace of New York Jackie.

By |May 28th, 2014|Biography, Fashion, Politics|Comments Off on New York Jackie By Bridget Watson Payne chats with Dr. Alvin
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Discovery Channel: Deadliest Catch’s Jake Anderson, author of Relapse chats with Dr. Alvin

Jake Anderson Click Here To Listen A fourth generation fisherman, Jake Anderson grew up in the rich fishing environment of Anacortes, Washington. At age seventeen, Jake began salmon fishing in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and by the age of twenty-five he was crab fishing in the heart of the Bering Sea. Soon after, Jake became a deckhand on the F/V Northwestern and joined the popular television series Deadliest Catch. As an integral part of the show, Jake is known for his hardworking nature that has allowed him to evolve from greenhorn to licensed captain. Aside from fishing, Jake has a harrowing story that has yet to be told. As an avid skateboarder, Jake aspired to become [...]

By |May 28th, 2014|Agriculture, Biography|Comments Off on Discovery Channel: Deadliest Catch’s Jake Anderson, author of Relapse chats with Dr. Alvin
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FOX TV: So You Think You Can Dance, Host Cat Deeley chats with Dr. Alvin

Cat Deeley Click Here To Listen   Birmingham, England native Cat Deeley is one of the foremost television presenters, both in the U.S. and the U.K. In 2005, Deeley broke into the world of male-dominated television hosts when she began hosting SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE, for which she recently earned her third Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Host for a Reality-Competition Program. Last summer, Deeley won the 2012 Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Reality Show Host. She was nominated in the same category again this year, and she also was nominated for a Teen Choice 2013 Award for her role as host on the series.   Deeley was the first ever Brit [...]

By |May 28th, 2014|Entertainment, Music, Television|Comments Off on FOX TV: So You Think You Can Dance, Host Cat Deeley chats with Dr. Alvin
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