After joining the military and trying to escape from humble beginnings, Mercedes decide to take night classes to while in the military overseas in Nea Makri Greece. Her intentions were to do her two year tour of duty and take as many classes as she could. But things changed when she met a charming but dysfunctional Airforce Sargeant. Fred, the Airforce Sargeant has more issues and drama than Mercedes as was aware of. But it was too late, she had fallen in love with the Sargeat. Mercedes eventually got her degree, but only after much drama and heartache. Mercedes moves on with her life and along the way she meet the most colorful, but loyal friends that help get through 11 months of hell. This book touches on several social issues of today, such as addiction, alternative life styles and promiscuous behavior, just to name a few.

By the Grace of God by Keshia Dawn
APOOO Rating:  4
Amazon Rating: 4
Through Thick and Thin
In By the Grace of God, author Keshia Dawn introduces readers to Gracie Gregory, who just knew she had met her life mate in Dillian McNab.  That was, until he unexplainably walks out of Gracie’s life.  This is the one event [...]

No Evil Deed is Ever Hidden

One year has passed since the move and Marcus Clayton is not regretting even one decision he made since relocating from Charlotte to Atlanta. This all changes when he receives a phone call one night during dinner. To his surprise, Marcus’s ex-lover has resurfaced and she has news that will change his entire life. How will Marcus accept this news? Better yet, how will his wife accept it? Why now has his ex returned and can she be trusted? More than this, Marcus’s wife has her own set of secrets that threatens to destroy her marriage – again. Oh What A Foretaste

The first installation of the Lost and Found Series, What’s Done In the Dark explores the lives of a group of individuals from the same North Carolina city as their paths cross and they interact with one another in an effort to find balance and realign their lives with their true purpose. Meet each of the characters and join them as they embark on their journey toward discovery.

Nookie by Anieshea Dansby
Amazon: 4
APOOO: 4
Love 101
Nookie by Anieshea Dansby is an account of a misunderstood teenager, who is looking for love in all the wrong places. Living through abandonment, abuse and devastation; what is a girl to do to turn her life around?
Joy has a picture to those on the outside looking in, but [...]

Love Prevails
                                                             Vegas Bites: Three of a Kind by  Natalie Dunbar, Monique Lamont, J.M. Jeffries, and Seressia Glass, is the third installment into the French Quarter and the lives of The Temples, a powerful Were pack; an interspecies and magical beings family. With Malcolm, now happily married and the new leader of the pack, everything [...]

Title: When Will I Truly Find Love? 
Girl…Love Just Ain’t For Me by P. Renee, has very fluid and likeable characters.  Kendal, Jazel and Miracle overcome one obstacle after the other. Trouble trusting and believing in the person you are intimate with can cause a person to not want to ever love anyone. 
Kendal may be a [...]

 Spin Cycle
 We all at one time or another want to find the perfect mate, but is there such a person?  The Perfect Man by ASTARR makes you wonder if one will ever truly know the person they fall in love with and want to call the “perfect” match for you.
 Shalove “Shay” seems to have a [...]

Ghetto to Godly Is your heart heavy? Do you feel burdened by some of the things in your past that embarrass you? Did you know that you can be released from everything and everyone who hurt you? This is a true story of one girls’ battle with promiscuity, drug addiction, and other adversities that controlled her life. As she recalls all accounts of her life she is reminded that each time turmoil strikes she finds comfort in the Word of God, but her faith is continuously tested because the bad things in her life seem to out weigh the good. The author of this autobiography is not an ordained minister and she did not attend any school of divinity, but her credibility as a living witness of the power of God gives her possession of something that can never be discredited, her testimony. This book will change somebody’s life and destiny. I know it changed mine. My name is Tracy Moody–Williams and this is my story.

APOOO Family and Friends, how are you feeling this last Friday in August, this Friday before a long weekend, this Friday after the DNC, this Friday after Barack Obama’s HOMERUN speech last night. Last night I spent 45 minutes with Barack Obama, as did many of you. This man reaffirmed everything that I felt 18 months ago [...]

Trading Dreams at Midnight by Dianne McKinney Whetstone is APOOO’s August BOM.  Discussion will start on Sunday, so I’m fervishly reading to finish the book.  I’m about halfway finished, still enjoying this read, although thus far their has been mixed reactions among APOOO readers.  Provided below is bits from an earlier e-mail conversation about TDatM.  [...]