Author Archive

Gathering of Waters by Bernice L. McFadden

By • Nov 12th, 2012 • Category: Book Review 2012

Gathering of Waters is a deeply engrossing tale narrated by the town of Money, Mississippi–a site both significant and infamous in our collective story as a nation. Money is personified in this haunting story, which chronicles its troubled history following the arrival of the Hilson and Bryant families.



Son of a Preacherman by Marlene Banks

By • Nov 12th, 2012 • Category: Book Review 2012

A historical romance novel set in the 1920s in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Son of a Preacherman depicts the highly segregated life of African Americans in the Greenwood District, in Northern Tulsa and the tensions leading up to the Tulsa Race Riots.



An Angry-Ass Black Woman by Karen Quinones Miller

By • Nov 12th, 2012 • Category: Book Review 2012

Have you ever wondered why some women just seem to be angry all the time for apparently no reason at all? Author Karen E. Quinones-Miller takes readers through the journey of her life as she explains how one becomes an angry woman in her autobiographical novel, An Angry-Ass Black Woman.



Falling Into Grace by Michelle Stimpson

By • Jul 9th, 2012 • Category: Book Review 2012

Camille Robertson had her fifteen minutes of fame in the late ’90s with the sexy R&B girl group Sweet Treats. Now she works as a telemarketer and longs for the past. With her thirtieth birthday around the corner, Camille is determined to break back into the music industry. But her new agent says her only chance is to reinvent herself–as a gospel singer.



One Way or Another by Rhonda Bowen

By • Jul 9th, 2012 • Category: Book Review 2012

Atlanta reporter Toni Shields will do whatever it takes to get a good story. So when she’s arrested for sneaking around the mayor’s house, she’s prepared. What she’s not prepared for is getting demoted–or her run-in with stubborn Adam Bayne, director of the local young men’s rehab center. . .



Forever Soul Ties by Vanessa Davis Griggs

By • Jul 9th, 2012 • Category: Book Review 2012

It started innocently: a coincidental meeting between old high school friends–first loves–at Butterfly’s business, The Painted Lady Flower Shop. Then came lunch, then confessions of unhappy marriages, loneliness. It went on that way for years between Butterfly and Ethan. That’s how they built the soul tie–the bond that, despite their devotion to God, has now led to adultery. And as with all things done in secret, they’ve been found out. Well, Butterfly has.



Count It All Joy by Ashea S. Goldson

By • Jul 9th, 2012 • Category: Book Review 2012

After a long, complex engagement, Alex and Joshua Benning feel like “happily ever after” is finally theirs. But the marriage may sour as soon-to-be minister Joshua starts pressuring Alex to start a family. Years ago, Alex suffered a botched abortion, and she still struggles from it. Joshua has his own issues.



Monday Morning Motivation by Monica Marie Jones

By • Jul 9th, 2012 • Category: Book Review 2012

MONICA MARIE JONES is an author, motivator and entrepreneur. Her published works include The Ups and Downs of Being Round (Fiction/Self-help), Taste My Soul (Poetry), Floss (Urban Fiction), Swag (Fiction) and Sweet Soliloquy (Poetry).



Consensual by Djuanna Brockington

By • Jul 9th, 2012 • Category: Book Review 2012

Robert’s an attractive doctor who knows what he’s working with. Alison is charming and shy and just looking to have a good time with someone who can string a couple of sentences together. Elle is the girlfriend who finds out that some things are just too good to be true. One sexy man, a hidden video camera, and two women determined to make things right intersect in a big way. When what you expect and what you get are not the same, was it ever consensual?



Coming Home by Stacy Hawkins Adams

By • Jul 7th, 2012 • Category: Book Review 2012

f forgiving your ex-husband was easy, everybody would do it. Brent had cheated on Dayna and coldly said goodbye to her seven long years ago—dashing her hopes of having children or growing old with the love of her life.