Archive for July, 2011

On the ‘Net with Author Connie Briscoe

By • Jul 15th, 2011 • Category: Author of the Week

Connie Briscoe is the author of seven novels, one novella, and one nonfiction book published. Her first novel, Sisters and Lovers, sold more than 100,000 hardcover copies and about 500,000 copies in paperback. She still pinchs herself about that.



Book Review for Money Can’t Buy Love by Connie Briscoe

By • Jul 15th, 2011 • Category: Book Review 2011

What would you do if you won five million dollars in the lottery? Buy your dream house, favorite car, start a business? Is your list of needs and wants longer than the prize money can carry you? In Author Connie Briscoe’s Money Can’t Buy Love, Lenora Stone finds out that money can do a lot of things, especially since she did not always have a lot of it.



JULY 2011 AFRICAN AMERICAN BOOK RELEASES

By • Jul 5th, 2011 • Category: New Releases

JULY 2011 An African Affair by Nina Darnton Children of the Street by Kwei Quartey Conquistadora by Esmeralda Santiago The Eternal Engagement by Mary Morrisons The John Carlos Story by David Zinn The Kid by Sapphire Redeeming Waters by Vanessa Griggs Davis Red Summer:  The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America by [...]



June 2011 New African American Book Releases

By • Jul 5th, 2011 • Category: New Releases

JUNE 2011 The Deal, The Dance and the Devil by Victoria Christopher Murray A Good Excuse to Be Bad by Miranda Parker Howard Zinn on Race Money Can’t Buy Love by Connie Briscoe No One in the World by RM Johnson and E. Lynn Harris Off the Chain by Candice Dow Quiet as Its Kept [...]



The Devil, The Dance and The Deal by Victoria Christopher Murray

By • Jul 1st, 2011 • Category: Book Review 2011

What would you do for five million dollars? Adam and Evia Langston have lived in their own little garden of Eden since the two married at the age of seventeen. Working their way up from the humblest of beginnings…



Teen Girls Need L.O.V.E by S Dodson

By • Jul 1st, 2011 • Category: Book Review 2011

Teen Girls Need L.O.V.E. is suitable for the straight A student, the troubled teen, and the girl looking to be empowered. The goal is to transform our teens into successful women by giving them the tools needed to build their self confidence and self esteem.



Hollywood Swinging by Chicki Brown

By • Jul 1st, 2011 • Category: Book Review 2011

Newlywed author Shontae Nichols Burke is trying to adjust to her life in Hollywood as the wife of actor Devon Burke, one of the film industry’s brightest upcoming stars. She’s left her home and her friends and moved to Los Angeles.



The Last Confession by Solomon Jones

By • Jul 1st, 2011 • Category: Book Review 2011

Having come of age on the mob-controlled streets of 1960’s South Philly, Detective Mike Coletti learned early to walk the fine line between cops and criminals. That skill served him well during his thirty-one years in homicide. But it never stopped the nightmares.



The Promise by D.K. Gaston

By • Jul 1st, 2011 • Category: Book Review 2011

Detroit Police Homicide Detective, Sergeant Roman Stefan has one of the best arrest records on the force-he’s also a dirty cop. Roman promises his ailing father that he will clean up his life and go straight. The problem is, Roman likes being dirty.



Dancing Her Dreams Away by Alretha Thomas

By • Jul 1st, 2011 • Category: Book Review 2011

Shelia King, a fun-loving grandma’s girl, needs to keep her days open for auditions in the hope of landing a role that will catapult her to stardom. With the threat of eviction looming, she scrambles to find a night job and convinces the owner of a hostess club to hire her. Now she’s a dance-partner-for-hire by night and struggling thespian by day.