Archive for July, 2009

September 2009 African-American Book Releases

By • Jul 31st, 2009 • Category: New Releases

SEPTEMBER 2009 1-900-A-N-Y-T-I-M-E by Tracy Price Thompson Aailyah by Victoria Christopher Murray Anna In-Between by Elizabeth Nunez Bedroom Bully by Trista Russell Captured by Beverly Jenkins A Change Had to Come by Gwynne Forster Cursed to Death by LA Banks Exorsistah X Returns by Claudia Mair Burney Feeling the Vibe by Candice Dow Flirt by [...]



Houston, We Have a Problema by Gwendolyn Zepeda

By • Jul 31st, 2009 • Category: Book Review 2009

Jessica Luna is your typical 26 year old: she has man trouble, mom trouble, and not a clue what to do with her life. After a lifetime of being babied by her family, Jess is incapable of trusting herself to make the right choices. So instead, she bases all of her life decisions on signs.



The Friday House by D. K. Gaston

By • Jul 30th, 2009 • Category: Book Review 2009

Without warning or explantion, prominent Americans are carrying out horrendous crimes. FBI Special Agent Jamaica Kurtz is assigned to profile these assassins. All the killers have one thing in common, the Friday House Orphanage. What secrets does this institution hold and will Kurtz find the truth in time to stop more attacks?



Satan in High Heels by Jewelene Banks

By • Jul 29th, 2009 • Category: Book Review 2009

Every fiction is somebody’s truth. Satan in High Heels is no different. This fictitious story is Lydia’s truth. She lived it, ate it, spoke it and breathed it until it became the very essence of her very being. Lydia’s naïveté allowed her to become vacuumed and sucked into a world she never knew existed.



Surviving Chadwick by Phillip Wilhite

By • Jul 28th, 2009 • Category: Book Review 2009

California, 1973. After being awarded a scholarship to attend an elite boarding school in Ojai, California, fifteen-year-old Isaiah Issacson is plucked from his inner-city Oakland neighborhood and thrust into a new-and frightening-atmosphere.



I Look to You by Whitney Houston

By • Jul 27th, 2009 • Category: Motivational Monday

She’s Back…Whitney Houston that is.  Snagged a copy of I Look to You from her latest album and posted the link below: I Look to You by Whitney Houston* *Arggh the link no longer works…Sony copyright infringement…they don’t want the song posted on You Tube before the album is released in September. Well…have you heard [...]



What’s Your Idea of a Romantic Evening? by Rambling Raven

By • Jul 27th, 2009 • Category: Rambling Raven

I was asked by a friend recently, what I thought was the ideal romantic evening. I surprised him with my answer. My romantic evening doesn’t require much money or a whole lot of effort. You see, I don’t think that there is anything more romantic than a walk on a warm summer night.



Worth a Thousand Words by Stacy Hawkins-Adams

By • Jul 27th, 2009 • Category: Book Review 2009

Life has always gone Indigo Burns’s way. She’s smart, pretty, and talented, and she knows exactly what she wants. A photography internship at her hometown’s local newspaper is the next step in her well-laid plans for her future. But her long-term goals are put to the test when her boyfriend Brian proposes–



Sins of the Father by Angela Benson

By • Jul 26th, 2009 • Category: Book Review 2009

Angela Benson’s Sins of the Father is a powerful story of a house bitterly divided—a rich, multilayered family saga of betrayal and redemption, rage and compassion, faith, forgiveness, and ultimately, of love.



The Friday House by D. K. Gaston

By • Jul 25th, 2009 • Category: BookClub Members

Without warning or explantion, prominent Americans are carrying out horrendous crimes. FBI Special Agent Jamaica Kurtz is assigned to profile these assassins. All the killers have one thing in common, the Friday House Orphanage. What secrets does this institution hold and will Kurtz find the truth in time to stop more attacks?