Welcome to another week!  I’m looking forward to a good one…what about you? This week’s Salon will feature a recap of several memes (that I missed) from last week.  So…here we go…without further ado…I’m just going to jump right in. The Printed Page asks what came into your mailbox last week. Last week was somewhat [...]

Helene Cooper is “Congo,” a descendant of two Liberian dynasties — traced back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York in 1820 to found Monrovia. Helene grew up at Sugar Beach, a twenty-two-room mansion by the sea. Her childhood was filled with servants, flashy cars, a villa in Spain, and a farmhouse up-country.

APOOOs book recommendations for this week.

APOOO’s book recommendations for this week.

APOOO Tales–I just found out that APOOO’s Book-of-the-month (BOM) for the month of October will be featured at Starbuck stores nationwide during the month of September.  The name of the book is The House at Sugar Beach by Helena Cooper, and it is the author’s memoir about her childhood in Liberia during the country’s civil [...]

APOOO’s book recommendations for this week.