Start Off Summer on the Good Foot With a Couple of Good Books
By APOOO • Jun 19th, 2010 • Category: The Warmest Wednesday •
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Looking for a few good books to read…well look no further than this book giveaway compliments of Hachette Books.
Check out the synopses and then be the first on your block to own copies of not one but two books.
Queen Pin by Jemeker Thompson-Hairston
Jemeker Thompson-Hairston paid a heavy price for her involvement in the drug game. Learning from her sources of a federal investigation, Jemeker went on the run. It was love for her young son that brought her back to Los Angeles, even though she knew she would be arrested. A subsequent 15-year sentence would cost her not only her legitimate business and the fortune she’d amassed through the drug trade, but the most precious thing of all: time with her child. But not all was lost. Fortunately, while Thompson-Hairston was serving out the fifteen-year sentence, one pivotal moment helped her turn her life around, setting her on a path to help and inspire others like her. Now, in QUEEN PIN, written with New York Times bestselling author David Ritz, she reveals in gripping detail her journey of redemption that readers won’t soon forget.
More Church Folks by Michelle Andrea BowensIt is now 1986, and the preachers of the Gospel United Church are preparing for their much-anticipated Triennial General Conference. The last time readers encountered the good Rev. Theophilus Simmons, he was a newlywed and the pastor of a modest-sized congregation in Memphis. Now he’s the father of three and running a congregation in St. Louis. His best friend, Rev. Eddie Tate, is now with a fast growing church in Chicago, but he is getting real frustrated with the way things are run in the Gospel United Church. Marcel Brown and his father, Ernest, along with Sonny Washington and Bishop Larsen Giles have had two decades to perfect their slimy methods of “tapping” church funds and other misdeeds. Now they’ve found a secret weapon that will allow them to make fast money and accomplish what they failed to do 20 years ago–buy off enough power to dominate the entire denomination, put their cronies in key spots, and ransack the church like it is the spoils of war. It won’t be long before the two opposing sides face off…”church-folk” style.
So, how do you win a copy of Queen Pin and More Church Folks?–It’s simple to enter to win you need only leave a comment below.
Contest will run from June 19th – 25th, 2010. THREE lucky winners will be announced on Saturday, June 26th, 2010.
Note that books will be mailed directly to winners by publishers. So please no PO Boxes and you must reside in the US or Canada to participate.
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I want to read all these books so badly.
These sound like good summer reads.
Oh Im in. I would love to read both of these. The first one really sounds compelling. Thanks
Queen Pin sounds like a very interesting memoir. I’d love to check that one out. More Chuch Folks I know will be hilarious.
I’d love to read both books as well. Since I love Memoirs, Queen Pin seems very interesting.
I am very intrigued by Queen Pin. Sounds like it will be an interesting story to read.
Reading is my hobby for the summer and I would love to win these books.
I would love to read Queen Pen it sounds very interesting.
If it is anything like the original Church Folk, I am in.
I have read and enjoyed books by Michelle Andrea Bowen and would love to win a book from her.
I have read Church Folk and I enjoyed it thoroughly. I would love to read More Church Folk and Queen Pin. I am the President of a book club and these will be books that will definitely be introduced and read.
I would love to read both of these books! These sypnoses have definitely peaked my interest and I hope to add them to my list of summer reads!
I would really like to be considered for this contest these books sound great!
I read Church Folks and loved it. Thanks for the opportunity!
I love the Church Folks series. Queen Pin looks very interesting too.
Both sound like great reads
Church Folks was an excellent book and would like to read More Church Folks. Queen Pin sounds interesting too.
absolutely loved Church Folk…can’t wait to read the next one…
a great opportunity to get two good reads/both authors are new to me.
yourstrulee(at)sasktel(dot)net
These books sound great! Thanks for the chance.
nancyecdavis AT bellsouth DOT net