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December 2009 Book of the Month DOWN HOME WITH THE NEELYS: A Southern Family Cookbook by Patrick and Gina Neely Knopf, May 2009 288 Pages, Hardcover, $27.95 ISBN-10: 0307269949 ISBN-13: 9780307269942 Buy it via Amazon.com BOOK DESCRIPTION Meet the Neelys: Pat and Gina, husband-and-wife team, hosts of their own television show, and proprietors of the [...]
December Alternate BOM DELILAH’S EVERYDAY SOUL: Southern Cooking With Style by Delilah Winder Running Press, November 2006 288 Pages, Hardcover, $29.95 ISBN-10: 0762426012 ISBN-13: 9780762426010 Buy It: Via Amazon.com BOOK DESCRIPTION Tradition meets the 21st century in this hip and colorful cookbook that shows that Soul Food doesn’t have to be “country food.” In Delilah’s [...]
If you remember, we had a book chat with Carleen Brice earlier in the year to discuss her first book, Orange Mint & Honey and we’re back for a book discussion of our October Alternate BOM, Children of the Waters. Feel free to post your questions or comments and Carleen will be in throughout the [...]
Welcome to another Black Book Chat as we discuss our October Book of the Month, MAMA DEAREST, by the late E. Lynn Harris. Readers everywhere mourned the death of E. Lynn Harris, but ran out to pick up a copy of MAMA DEAREST in hopes of seeing it hit #1 on the NYT Bestsellers List. [...]
November 2009 Book of the Month PUSH by Sapphire Vintage, April 1997 192 Pages, Paperback, $13.00 ISBN-10: 0679766759 ISBN-13: 9780679766759 BOOK DESCRIPTION An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl’s horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 [...]
November 2009 – Alternate Book of the Month THE WEDDING by Dorothy West Anchor, January 1996 265 Pages, Paperback, $13.95 ISBN-10: 0385471440 ISBN-13: 9780385471442 Book Description On the island of Martha’s Vineyard in the 1950s there exists a proud, insular, nearly unassailable community known as the Oval, made up of the best and brightest of [...]
October Alternate Book of the Month CHILDREN OF THE WATERS by Carleen Brice One World/Ballantine, June 2009 336 Pages, Paperback, $14.00 ISBN-10: 0345499077 ISBN-13: 978-0345499073 BUY IT NOW! Book Description Still reeling from divorce and feeling estranged from her teenage son, Trish Taylor is in the midst of salvaging the remnants of her life when [...]
Sisters & Husbands was our September 2009 main Book of the Month (BOM) and it’s great to have Connie Briscoe here throughout the day to chat with us. So, feel free to jump in and get your discussion on!! SHORT BIO Connie Briscoe has been a full-time published author for more than 15 years, with [...]
OCTOBER 2009 BOM Selection MAMA DEAREST by E. Lynn Harris Karen Hunter, September 2009 400 Pages, Hardcover, $25.99 ISBN-10: 1439158908 ISBN-13: 978-1439158906 Buy it Now Book Description New York City, you’ve been warned: Yancey Harrington Braxton is back. The ambitious singer and actress is fired up to move past her recent professional and personal setbacks [...]
SEPTEMBER 2009 BOM Selection SISTERS AND HUSBANDS by Connie Briscoe Grand Central Publishing, June 2009 288 Pages, Hardcover, $24.99 ISBN-10: 0446534897 ISBN-13: 978-0446534895 BUY A COPY BOOK DESCRIPTION Ten years have passed since Sisters and Lovers, and Beverly, now 39, is engaged to Julian, a man her family and friends agree is the epitome of [...]
