Carleen Brice, an author of such nonfiction titles as Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number makes her fiction debut with Orange Mint and Honey. Shay Dixon is a nervous breakdown in the making. She is a twenty-five year old grad student who has hit rock bottom; laid off from her job, about to be evicted and carrying baggage that would break the back of the strongest of women.

If she hadn’t snooped into Karis’s diary, she would never have found out that Karis went to a boy’s house without permission. Now Karis is grounded, which means no modem, no iPod…and no cell phone.

in observance of World AIDS Day, today’s books deal with that topic. Two books are showcased, but you, the reader, can decide which book you would like to win. Just leave a note in the comment section.

In honor of Black Friday, APOOO is giving away not one but two books today. DRUMROLL please…the books are: Midnight by Sister Souljah and Sin No More by Kimberla Lawson Roby.

Ten years ago, Jesse Law was a twenty-year-old with the world at his feet. After surviving a painful, often lonely childhood as the youngest child in a music dynasty, he forged a high-profile career, blazing a path on the charts later followed by the likes of Usher and Justin Timberlake.

Womanizer, Antoine Moore believed that women were only good for one thing…lying on their backs. However, the professional bachelor s wild exotic journeys are brought to a halt, when one of his former flings, leaves their daughter, Angel on his door step.

Even though Sewing Annie Coats and her son, Gabriel, have managed to buy their freedom, their lives are still marked by constant struggle and sacrifice. Washington’s Georgetown neighborhood, where the Coatses operate a tailor’s shop and laundry, is supposed to be a “promised land” for former slaves but is effectively a frontier town, gritty and dangerous, with no laws protecting black people.

APOOO is proud to announce the winners for the first week of the Thank God for a Book Giveaway.  Winners should email me  (apooo4u at yahoo dot com) no later than Monday, December 1 to claim their prize.  If I don’t hear from you by then, you will forfeit your prize and the book will [...]

Pearl Cleage was on the scene before she was discovered by Oprah. But, it was Oprah who put her on the map and introduced her to a wider audience, for her first novel, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day.

Filled with rich history-much of the story is drawn from historical events-and told in McBride’s signature lyrical storytelling style, Song Yet Sung brings into full view a world long misunderstood in American fiction: how slavery worked, and the haunting, moral choices that lived beneath the surface, pressing both whites and blacks to search for relief in a world where both seemed to lose their moral compass. This is a story of tragic triumph, violent decisions, and unexpected kindness.