When Asha Bandele, a young poet, fell in love with a prisoner serving a twenty-to-life sentence and became pregnant with his daughter, she had reason to hope they would live together as a family. Rashid was a model prisoner, and expected to be paroled soon. But soon after Nisa was born, Asha’s dreams were shattered. Rashid was denied parole, and told he’d be deported to his native Guyana once released. Asha became a statistic: a single, black mother in New York City.

From stationmaster s daughter to wife of one of Jamaica s most charismatic prime ministers Beverley Manley s life has been an odyssey. As a young girl, she was starved of her mother’s love because she was darker than her siblings.

For the most part, this class of Cubans do not want their children to date Americans while the Americans do not want their children intermingling with Cubans– but it happens anyway, and not only the children. The province is a replica of Peyton Place with undercover affairs and alcoholism.

Covering the Middle East War in 2003, correspondent Helene Cooper had memories of another war; the war that tore her away from the place of her birth, Liberia. In The House on Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood Cooper wrote a gripping memoir that is not only a family history, but a [...]

Diahann Carroll shares her life story with an admirable candidness of someone who has seen and done it all. With wisdom that only aging gracefully can bestow, she talks frankly about her four marriages as well as the other significant relationships in her life.

Product Description
Bonnie St. John profiles some of today’s most prominent women and how prayer has impacted their lives.

About the Author
Bonnie is a 1984 Paralympics silver medal winner in ski racing. Her education includes a degree with honors from Harvard, a Rhodes scholarship, and an M.Litt in Economics from Oxford.

Her career includes positions as an award-winning sales rep for IBM and a Clinton White House member of staff. She now is a much-in-demand speaker, who makes nearly 100 speeches each year to corporations and civic groups. You can visit her on the Web at www.bonniestjohn.com.

Sometimes life is a cakewalk…or is it? Ask the nameless narrator of Cake by D.

Sometimes when you have high objectives and expectations and desire a quality product, you have to walk away in order to do it right and your way. That’s exactly what Kenji Jasper did so that he could give readers the best possible urban fiction tales that he could craft without worrying about whether or not his publisher would like his works.

It appears that Sweetsmoke by David Fuller is a big hit for APOOO members who have read it. Although it sounds like other books, such as Song Yet Sung by James McBride and Stand the Storm by Breena Clarke, might also be worthy of the accolades and recognition that Sweetsmoke is receiving.

This is a worthy read, well-written and well researched of Jasper County’s geographical, economical and social/racial history. I recommend for those who enjoy memoirs that delve into the intricacies of familial relationship, especially fathers and daughters.