Posts Tagged ‘Angelia Menchan’

Begonia Brown by Julia Press Simmons

By • Dec 27th, 2009 • Category: Book Review 2009

We were named for the flowers in Grandma’s Garden. Begonias, Violets and Daisies, and much like those flowers, we were showered with a love that rivaled sun-rays. We knew nothing of pain, or sorrow, or just how cruel the world could be until the day God saw fit to call Grandma on home.



Who You Wit? by Paula Chase

By • Dec 14th, 2009 • Category: Book Review 2009

Mina Mooney has a new worst enemy — her best friend…Summer is just around the corner, but things are already too hot to handle in Del Rio Bay.



A Whisper to a Scream by Elissa Gabrielle

By • Dec 11th, 2009 • Category: Book Review 2009

From the very first words of A Whisper to a Scream by Elissa Gabrielle, I was unable to stop reading. The violence of the opening scene caught my attention and made my skin prickle. However, I wanted to know what was going to happen.



The Divas: Aaliyah by Victoria Christopher Murray

By • Oct 22nd, 2009 • Category: Book Review 2009

When Diamond first thought up the Divine Divas, Aaliyah wasn’t sure this was her thing. She loves singing, and everyone says her voice is pretty fine, but since Aaliyah is planning on Harvard and a degree in nuclear physics, winning a recording contract could actually put a crimp in her dreams.



Sassy by Gloria Mallette

By • Oct 21st, 2009 • Category: Book Review 2009

A successful romance novelist, Sassy is a woman looking to fulfill her own fantasy. When the man of her dreams step right out of the pages of her latest novel, Butterfly, Sassy falls madly in love with him. But what evil lies behind Norris Yoshito’s beautiful eyes and sexy smile?



Feelin’ the Vibe by Candice Dow

By • Oct 16th, 2009 • Category: Book Review 2009

A decade ago, Clark Winston nearly had a nervous breakdown after the man of her dreams, Devin Patterson, left her to marry another woman. Now 10 years later, the past is behind her and she has a perfect career and family at hand. But then, in the blink of an eye, Devin reappears and a tumultuous affair ensues. Clark will now have to make the most important decision of her life-choose the man who broke her heart or the one who fixed it.



A Natural Woman by Lori Johnson

By • Oct 14th, 2009 • Category: Book Review

Aliesha is a dark-skinned beauty who seemingly has it all — a prestigious academic job, a respected role at church and an adoring boyfriend. All she thinks she needs when she lands in Dante’s barber’s chair is someone capable of handling her natural, unchemically-treated hair.



Paper Thin by Shelia M. Goss

By • Oct 11th, 2009 • Category: Book Review 2009

Ms. Goss does a wonderful job with this book of showing young women as they really are. She allows them to be selfish and loving, impatient and supportive and mostly, realistic.



The Ideal Wife by Jacquelin Thomas

By • Oct 7th, 2009 • Category: Book Review 2009

Beautiful and vivacious, with a stunning body, Jana knows men like Lawrence don’t come along every day, and she vows to be a perfect companion — the ideal wife — to this sexy, powerful man. But at what price?



Mama Dearest by E. Lynn Harris

By • Oct 7th, 2009 • Category: Book Review 2009

There are, however, two women fierce enough to derail Yancey’s plans with ambitions of their own: Madison B., a hot new bombshell taking the music industry by storm, and Ava Middlebrooks, who happens to be Yancey’s own mama dearest.