Archives for the ‘Book Review 2010’ Category

The Other Realm by Deatri King-Bey

By • Jan 22nd, 2011 • Category: Book Review 2010

Tahlan is a warrior and warriors can’t fall in love. No matter how much he desires to make love to Aurora, no matter how much his heart tells him she’s the one, he can’t allow anyone to learn of his feelings for her. His love for her could lead to her death, and that’s the one pain he could not bear.



Trapped in Paradise by Deatri King-Bey

By • Jan 22nd, 2011 • Category: Book Review 2010

After escaping an abusive marriage, Saundra Write swore never to allow anyone to trap her again. Then comes along Jeremy King, the kind of man any woman would beg to be trapped in paradise with.



Delilah by Shelia Goss

By • Jan 22nd, 2011 • Category: Book Review 2010

“Many stories that include preachers are over-the-top, but the author’s creative nature blends this topic along with deceit and betrayal into the story, making it just right.” ~ Review by Teresa Beasley-APOOO Book Club



Game, Set, Match, Champion by Arthur Ashe

By • Jan 22nd, 2011 • Category: Book Review 2010

From the start, Arthur Ashe was an unlikely tennis player. As a young boy in the 1940s, he was small and skinny – and barred from most tennis courts because he was black. Still, Arthur was drawn to the game and began to play wherever he could.



Keeper of My Soul by Keisha Dawn

By • Jan 22nd, 2011 • Category: Book Review 2010

Stoney Hart is a young woman trying to rid herself of experiences, while fighting to find the mother she never knew. Her goals, festered by unhealthy habits, just might destroy everything she has ever wanted. After starting her investigation to find her long-lost mother, Stoney will find that her emotions and expectations of her future will be more than she could have hoped for.



After Midnight by Joyce Oscar

By • Jan 22nd, 2011 • Category: Book Review 2010

After Midnight is filled with poems we can all relate to in some way. It is a lyrical journey that explores different issues and aspects of love.



Prescriptions Of A Poet: Remedies of the Heart by L.C. Arrington

By • Jan 22nd, 2011 • Category: Book Review 2010

Prescriptions Of A Poet: Remedies of the Heart by L.C. Arrington is a book of poetry uniquely arranged. The collection is a journey through love, heartbreak, and finding one’s self. Broken up into sections called case studies, Ms. Arrington begins each section with possible symptoms and ends them with a prescription of what to do to feel better.



Peace from Broken Pieces by Iyanla Vanzant

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

New York Times best-selling author Iyanla Vanzant recounts the last decade of her life and the spiritual lessons learned—from the price of success during her meteoric rise as a TV celebrity on Oprah, the Iyanla TV show (produced by Barbara Walters), to the dissolution of her marriage and her daughter’s 15 months of illness and death on Christmas day. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Iyanla shares why everything we need to learn is reflected in our relationships and the strength and wisdom she has gained by supporting others in their journeys to make sense out of the puzzle pieces of their lives.



Picture Perfect by Deatri King-Bey

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

To the outside world, the Reynolds family is picture perfect. In the Reynolds’ home, Jacob Reynolds, CFO of a major corporation, is experiencing a midlife crisis; Anna Lee Reynolds, happy home maker who isn’t too happy with her life choices, is slipping into menopause; and Junior, the sixteen-year-old son, is proving the terrible twos have nothing on the terrible teens.



Return of the Cartier Cartel 2 by Nisa Santiago

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

Brooklyn empress Cartier knows the streets of Brooklyn like nobody’s business. In fact, she successfully built her Cartier Cartel drug ring on the code of the streets, hustling and stacking paper. However, the life of crime is wearing her down, and she’s ready to quit the game when two of her Cartel soldiers are gunned down in the same streets that fattened her bankroll.