Posts Tagged ‘APOOO’

Shot Glass Diva by Jacki Simmons

By • Jan 18th, 2009 • Category: Book Review 2009

What happens when you combine one part fast-talker, one part hustler and one part taste for danger? You get Honey Davis; a twenty one year old Harlemite who knows what she wants and knows exactly how to get it. When her parents cut her off from her trust fund after a bout of irresponsibility, the spoiled Honey knows she’s going to have to work to get back on her feet. But growing up an overpriveleged child hasn’t left her with the skills needed to survive in the corporate world. So Honey takes matters into her own hands.



Eva II First Lady of Sin by Storm

By • Jan 17th, 2009 • Category: Book Review 2009

EVA Dazed, confused and standing at the altar, Eva’s finally through with the love of her life, Brand, and his sexual drama. Or is she? She’s done her share of dirt over the years- but so has he. Can she get past his lies, deceit and the secrets they share?



Belle by Beverly Jenkins

By • Jan 15th, 2009 • Category: Book Review 2009

Belle means beautiful in French that is exactly what Beverly Jenkins created when she wrote Belle, a wonderfully written, historical young adult romance. We often take certain things for granted, including our freedom. But, at a time when being born black in the South guaranteed you a lifetime conviction, freedom becomes luxury and a privilege. [...]



That Was Then, This is Now by Paulette Harper

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

That Was Then, This is Now by Paulette Harper is a story about a woman’s struggle to overcome what she considered to be the greatest obstacles and disappointments in her life. Paulette shares her life with us, the readers, of how she overcame a broken marriage and was able to strive for bigger and better things.



The Someday List by Stacy Hawkins Adams

By • Jan 13th, 2009 • Category: Book Review

Rachelle believes her husband is cheating and her marriage is in danger of being over. Even though she is in her thirties, she is still trying to please her control-freak mom. She is estranged from her extended family, because her husband is jealous and insecure and does not want her to have contact with them or her first husband. (Yes, she was married previously, and unbeknownst to her, her ex-husband has moved back to Jubilant, TX.)



Risk the Heart by Jasmine Alexander

By • Jan 12th, 2009 • Category: Book Review 2009

More than she wanted… To sexy CEO Marcus Cortland, Sabryna Givens is the epitome of a challenge. She’s beautiful, intelligent, and from their first meeting makes it clear she wants nothing to do with him. Sabryna isn’t one to focus on her personal life, choosing to hide her yearning for love and family behind her work. She has no intentions of getting caught up with a man like Marcus who only wants one thing…no matter how strong the temptation. More than he expected…



His First Wife by Grace Octavia

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

Kerry Jackson has it all! She grew up on the right side of town, has the right name, and is surrounded by the right people. Well that is what society says. But she has all of that and no one to share it with. When she meets Jamison Taylor, at a Spelman College dance, her whole life changes.



The Hood Rats by E. R. McNair

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

Experience life in the hood through the eyes of four friends, known around the way as The Hood Rats. As the girls go through the ups and downs of friendship and life on the streets, you ll be taken on a roller coaster ride of love, heartache and pain.



Jaded by Monica McKayhan

By • Jan 10th, 2009 • Category: Book Review 2009

What Jade Morgan wants: for her parents to get back together. Instead her dad proposes to his new girlfriend, who has the nerve to ask Jade to be a bridesmaid. Like that’ll ever happen. Her new boyfriend, Terrence, thinks she should give her future stepmom a chance, try to get to know her.



The Shack by WM. Paul Young

By • Jan 8th, 2009 • Category: Book Review

Mackenzie Allen Philips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.