Author Archive

Piecing the Puzzle Together by Brian Ganges

By • May 20th, 2010 • Category: Book Review 2010

Only when we properly discern our world, through the eyes of truth, can we come to the right conclusions to map out our lives, according to God’s master plan. Don’t just seek answers, but seek the truth.



Caught Up in the Drama by ReShonda Tate Billingsley

By • May 8th, 2010 • Category: Book Review 2010

The Good Girlz have always known their girlfriend Camille is a gifted dancer. But when she wins the Search for a Star talent competition, it’s her incredible singing voice that blows them away—why didn’t she tell them she could sing like Beyoncé and Ciara rolled into one?



God Ain’t Through Yet by Mary Monroe

By • Apr 29th, 2010 • Category: Book Review 2010

Annette Davis has lost over a hundred pounds and her husband, Pee-Wee, has forgiven her for having a blatant affair with a younger man. It seems that things could not be better. Their love life has heated up and Pee-Wee rarely mentions the affair. Annette is convinced that Pee-Wee would never cheat on her, he even told her as much.



Split Ends by Jacquelin Thomas

By • Apr 8th, 2010 • Category: Book Review 2010

Tired of moving, currently homeless, Kylie Sanderson has learned to depend on herself, not her hard-partying and irresponsible mother, which is why she’s quit school and is desperate to work.



Sex, Lies and Secret Lives by Thea Divine

By • Apr 1st, 2010 • Category: Book Review 2010

Searching for clues to her sister’s disappearance, Justine masquerades as Jillian, plunging into a world of paid carnal extravagance and unleashing a side of herself she never knew existed.



Glorious by Bernice L. McFadden

By • Mar 30th, 2010 • Category: Book Review 2010

Glorious is the story of Easter Venetta Bartlett, a fictional Harlem Renaissance writer whose tumultuous path to success, ruin, and revival offers a candid portrait of the American experience in all its beauty and cruelty.



Fierce Angels by Sheri Park

By • Mar 29th, 2010 • Category: Book Review 2010

Fierce Angels explores and explodes the idea of the “strong black woman” as never before. Authoritative yet deeply personal and daringly confessional, Sheri Parks’s bold new study of the black female’s role as communal savior and martyr will challenge and change anyone who reads it.



Message From a Mistress by Niobia Bryant

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

Through good times and bad, longtime friends Jaime, Renee, Aria, and Jessa have shared just about everything. But all hell breaks loose when Jessa texts them a shocking revelation: she’s been sharing her bed-with one of their husbands.



FOXY: My Life in Three Acts by Pam Grier

By • Mar 22nd, 2010 • Category: Book Review 2010

Some may know her as hot, gutsy, gun-totin’ Foxy Brown, Friday Foster, Coffy, and Jackie Brown. Others may know her from her role as Kit Porter on The L Word. But that only defines one part of the legend that is Pam Grier.



In My Father’s House by E Lynn Harris

By • Mar 18th, 2010 • Category: Book Review 2010

Reading In My Father’s House by E Lynn Harris was reminiscent of the book that introduced me to his work, Just As I Am. It was 1993, and I recall walking into the book store in Millilani, Hawaii, looking for a good book to read.