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AUGUST 2009 Alternate BOM Selection Mare’s War by Tanita S. Davis Knopf Books for Young Readers, June 2009 Hardcover, 352 pages, $16.99 ISBN-10: 0375857141 ISBN-13: 978-0375857140 BUY A COPY Book Description Meet Mare, a grandmother with flair and a fascinating past. Octavia and Tali are dreading the road trip their parents are forcing them to [...]
AUGUST 2009 BOM Selection WHAT THEY FOUND: Love on 145th St by Walter Dean Myers Wendy Lamb Books, February 2009 243 Pages, Paperback, $8.99 ISBN-10: 0375845453 ISBN-13: 978-0375845451 BUY A COPY Book Description WALTER DEAN MYERS returns to the world of 145th Street: Short Stories to show how love can be found, and thrive, in [...]
JULY 2009 Alternate BOM Selection Mass Market Paperback Kimani, July 2009 ISBN-10: 0373861206 ISBN-13: 978-0373861200 Product Description When a man finds a beautiful woman asleep in his bed… …he has only one choice. To seduce her with a night of lovemaking she’ll never forget. Trouble is, Donovan Steele’s sultry new housekeeper is just as determined [...]
JULY 2009 BOM Selection MANEATER by Mary B. Morrison and Noire Dafina, June 2009 308 Pages, Hardcover, $24.00 ISBN-10: 0758213204 ISBN-13: 978-0758213204 BUY A COPY New York Times bestselling author Mary B. Morrison pairs with Queen of Urban Erotica Noire to deliver two tantalizing novellas about sex, revenge?and getting what you deserve? Character of a [...]
JUNE 2009 BOM (Alternate) “See that picture? I bet you’re probably looking at it, shaking your head and thinking we look like a couple of gang-bangers, but that’s not entirely true. Well, not for me anyway. My name is Isaiah, but my friends call me Zay, and the guy behind me is Justin. We call [...]
JUNE 2009 BOM From the nationally bestselling and Hurston/Wright award-winning author Tracy Price-Thompson comes a heartbreaking story of loyalty and love that goes beyond the ultimate sacrifice. Coming of age in the heart of crime-ridden Brooklyn, Shyne Blackwood is one in a set of triplets born into poverty and great tragedy. While his brothers are [...]
Single and satisfied? Not Michelle, Angela and Lisa. These saved but sexy, successful black women think they’re getting too old to keep waiting on God to send their soulmates. Under the protective eye of their more spiritual sistergirlfriend, Vanessa, and the scrutiny of newly saved manhater, Nicole, the ladies go on a hilarious adventure to [...]
If you have a book which fits in one with one of our themes below, feel free to submit information, so it can be sent to our members for the nomination/voting process. Â January – It’s All True (memoir)Â February – My Life, My Health (health/fitness)Â March – Strong Black Couples (romance, love stories, or [...]
