I can’t open my laptop and visit my normal bookish websites without hearing about the ever so near decimation of Borders. The facts aren’t a secret: they have amassed serious debt, a few publishers have stopped shipping books to them, and they hav…
Black Book Chat with Carleen Brice
November 10, 2009 By
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 [...]
Pamela Samuels Young releases Buying Time (Author Showcase)
November 5, 2009 By
Pamela Samuels Young is the Essence bestselling author of the legal thrillers: Murder on the Down Low, In Firm Pursuit, Every Reasonable Doubt and the newly released Buying Time.
Push by Sapphire (November BOM)
November 1, 2009 By
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 [...]
The Wedding by Dorothy West (Nov 2009 Alternate BOM)
November 1, 2009 By
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 [...]
Deep Deception by Tina McKinney
November 1, 2009 By
ABOUT THE BOOK Death has a way of exposing secrets better left untold, and no one knows this better than sisters Veronica and Victoria Mendoza. They’re about to find out that things aren’t always as they appear to be. Veronica takes a bite of forbidden fruit when she becomes romantically involved with her boss. The [...]
Millionaire Mistress 3 by Tiphani
October 22, 2009 By
A bad chick never dies and neither will Chloe’s deceitful ways. Ride with author, Tiphani in her third installment of the Mistress Series as she tells a riveting tale about money, lust, and revenge. Between sexin’ any man who can help her achieve her over-the-top goals, and on a crazed path of revenge, Chloe shocks [...]
Children of the Waters by Carleen Brice
October 6, 2009 By
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 [...]
Mama Dearest by E. Lynn Harris
October 1, 2009 By
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 [...]
Mrs. Black by Angelia Vernon Menchan
September 16, 2009 By
Will Malcolm Black finally get the woman of his dreams or will he tire of waiting and find someone else to be Mrs. Black. Will William Brown finally get his comeuppance and have to pay the piper or will Cinnamon Brown find it in her heart to forgive and look the other way one more [...]
