Archive for December, 2010

Peace from Broken Pieces by Iyanla Vanzant

By • Dec 24th, 2010 • Category: Book Review 2010

New York Times best-selling author Iyanla Vanzant recounts the last decade of her life and the spiritual lessons learned—from the price of success during her meteoric rise as a TV celebrity on Oprah, the Iyanla TV show (produced by Barbara Walters), to the dissolution of her marriage and her daughter’s 15 months of illness and death on Christmas day. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Iyanla shares why everything we need to learn is reflected in our relationships and the strength and wisdom she has gained by supporting others in their journeys to make sense out of the puzzle pieces of their lives.



Picture Perfect by Deatri King-Bey

By • Dec 24th, 2010 • Category: Book Review 2010

To the outside world, the Reynolds family is picture perfect. In the Reynolds’ home, Jacob Reynolds, CFO of a major corporation, is experiencing a midlife crisis; Anna Lee Reynolds, happy home maker who isn’t too happy with her life choices, is slipping into menopause; and Junior, the sixteen-year-old son, is proving the terrible twos have nothing on the terrible teens.



Return of the Cartier Cartel 2 by Nisa Santiago

By • Dec 24th, 2010 • Category: Book Review 2010

Brooklyn empress Cartier knows the streets of Brooklyn like nobody’s business. In fact, she successfully built her Cartier Cartel drug ring on the code of the streets, hustling and stacking paper. However, the life of crime is wearing her down, and she’s ready to quit the game when two of her Cartel soldiers are gunned down in the same streets that fattened her bankroll.



Straight From Your Gay Best Friend by Terrence Dean

By • Dec 24th, 2010 • Category: Book Review 2010

Terrance Dean offers direct and to-the-point insights on some of life’s most challenging issues—family, friends, career, love, sex, and intimate relationships of all kinds—mixed with a little sass, wit, humor, forwardness, and spirituality, as only a gay man can do.



Getting to Happy by Terry McMillan

By • Dec 24th, 2010 • Category: Book Review 2010

McMillan revisits Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin fifteen years later. Each is at her own midlife crossroads.



Home Again by Wanda B. Campbell and Friends

By • Dec 24th, 2010 • Category: Book Review 2010

Home Again is a compelling journey into the relationships that matter most: family, friends and self. Each story is founded on natural love, but will require the Father s love to heal the brokenness. Travel with husbands and wives, brothers, sisters, friends and families as they maneuver through life’s hurts and betrayals while leaning on a power greater than themselves.



LOVE HONOR AND BETRAYAL by Kimberla Lawson Roby

By • Dec 24th, 2010 • Category: Book Review 2010

The infamous Reverend Curtis Black’s sordid past is no secret, as his wife, Charlotte, is well aware. But when Curtis’ long-time mistress and mother of his illegitimate two-year-old, dies, he and Charlotte have no choice but to raise Curtina together. While the living, breathing reminder of her husband’s infidelity infuriates Charlotte, Curtis couldn’t be happier to finally have his whole family together.



Black Beauty by Elaine Flowers

By • Dec 24th, 2010 • Category: Book Review 2010

Naomi is a feisty no-holds bar type of woman. The one person who seems to be able to tame her a little is the very person she has to call for help. Before they will help her one last time, she has to undergo a major lesson of responsibility. Will she do what is required of her?



HELL’S DIVA by Anna J

By • Dec 24th, 2010 • Category: Book Review 2010

Tah shoots Mecca three times at point blank range. When Mecca feels herself slipping away, she sees a bright light and a man standing in a long white robe, who tells Mecca to call him Lou. Lou, in turn will show Mecca all the wrong she has done in her life and point out all the opportunites she had to change her life around.



When It’s Too Late to Tell by J. Evan Johnson

By • Dec 24th, 2010 • Category: Book Review 2010

To tell is to perceive. To tell is to inform. When it’s Too Late to Tell features four characters, Mark, Craig, Jade and Berta, all holding issues from the past that suffocate every lasting relationship they have. Mark, an elementary school teacher, and his wife Jade, a pharmacy technician, hold deep secrets from each other; secrets that cause a rift in their marriage.