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Saturday, June 30, 2007
The Forthcoming: Various Authors - Around The Way Girls 4
Friday, June 29, 2007
The Forthcoming: Sherri L. Lewis - My Soul Cries Out
Sherri L. Lewis
My Soul Cries Out
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Monica Harris-Day’s perfect world begins a downward spiral the afternoon she comes home to find her husband in bed...with another man. After confronting Kevin, her husband of two years, Monica discovers he’s had a lifelong struggle with homosexuality that began at the age of ten after he was molested by a deacon in the church. For years, Kevin has sought deliverance, crying out to God to make him straight. He explains his deceit by saying that he thought he had truly been delivered when he married Monica, but was afraid to share his past with her for fear she wouldn’t marry him. Kevin begs Monica’s forgiveness and wants to save their marriage. He is convinced that God has indeed delivered him from the spirit of homosexuality and that the one time mistake was just his past coming back to haunt him. Their pastor, Bishop Walker, offers them marital counseling, but Monica suspects he’s really concerned about maintaining his mega-ministry – the church has grown to 10,000 members since Kevin became the minister of music. When the pastor swears them to secrecy about their situation and urges Monica to stay in the marriage, she thinks Bishop Walker isn’t willing to risk the potential scandal and church split that would be caused if the truth is leaked to the congregation.
My Soul Cries Out is a compassionate look at the issue of Christians struggling with homosexuality and the redemptive power of God to bring deliverance.
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Thursday, June 28, 2007
The Forthcoming: Nikki Turner Presents - Street Chronicles: Girls In The Game
–LaJill Hunt, author of Drama Queen and No More Drama
–KaShamba Williams, author of Mind Games
“She’s baaaaaaaack! Nikki Turner has returned, bringing with her the new divas of urban fiction. These ladies raise the bar as they chronicle the streets like never before. Get ready for a literary treat.”
–Tracy Brown, author of White Lines
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
The Forthcoming: Treasure E. Blue - A Street Girl Named Desire
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Desire was born on the streets of Harlem–literally. Her mom, a crack-addicted prostitute, delivered her on a bitter winter’s night after turning a trick and being brutally beaten by the john. Taken from her mother by the state, Desire grows up unwelcoming foster homes, until a local Good Samaritan takes her in. With Miss Hattie Mae’s love and Christian guidance, Desire gains confidence, joins the church choir, and discovers that she’s got a set of pipes–which soon attract the attention of hip-hop’s biggest exec.
But the road to superstardom is paved with dangers and temptations: drugged-out, violent rappers, untrustworthy pro athletes promising romance, and vicious drugs. Despite her phenomenal success and Miss Hattie Mae’s kindness, Desire seems destined for a fall from the top that will slam her back onto the pavement where her mama left her–until an unexpected angel picks her back up...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
The Forthcoming: Tracy Gray - Thug's Passion
Tracy Gray
Thug's Passion
June 30, 2007
Monday, June 25, 2007
The Forthcoming: Alastair J. Hatter - The Baddest Chick
While searching for her brother's killer, Deondra "Dee Dee" Davis, out of jail on bail, must deal with a ruthless drug lord, the mob-connected Robinson brothers, a hired assassin, and unexpected love, while eluding Detectives Gary and Perkins who want nothing more than to see her behind bars.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
The Forthcoming: Mable John with David Ritz - Stay Out Of The Kitchen!
Mable John with David Ritz
June 26, 2007
After Albertina’s dear friend Mr. Mario, the owner of Mr. Mario’s Downhome Café, has a heart attack and then loses his wife to diabetes, he decides that his lifetime love of soul food is over for good. Mr. Mario vows to go healthy, both personally and professionally, and tries to get Albertina on board, but it quickly becomes clear that he may be looking for more than pastoral support. And while he is undeniably romantic, Mr. Mario believes in the power of man…not God.
The only heat isn’t in the kitchen, though. Clifford Bloom, a white DJ who has been a fan of Albertina’s since her days as a blues singer, is now a member of her church and he always seems to be there just when Albertina needs him. Could this blossoming friendship be leading somewhere romantic?
Caught between two very different men, Pastor Merci also has to battle to save her little church in the heart of Los Angeles as mega-church pastor Bishop Gold wants not only the land where her church sits, but her nephew Patrick’s loyalty, as well.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
The Forthcoming: Geneva Holliday - Heat
Heat
June 26, 2007
It’s spring in New York City, but in the lives of these four friends there’s already plenty of HEAT
Geneva Holliday got your Groove on, gave you Fever, and now she turns up the Heat, in her wildest novel yet. Between their bedroom antics and their busy lives, Crystal, Geneva, Chevy, and Noah are all faced with situations that are way too hot to handle . . .
Crystal’s finding it hard to concentrate at work, and no wonder—she’s got a stud in Antigua who’s beginning to mean more to her than just steamy sex.
While things are red-hot with Geneva and her sexy young man, Deeka, her new diet pills stir up more trouble than her collection of slinky lingerie ever did.
Chevy’s out-of-control spending has finally caught up with her; when her paycheck is almost entirely garnished, she is forced to resort to sex with an ex to keep a roof over her head.
Noah and his partner can’t come to an agreement about adopting children, but one thing’s for sure: A blast from his little-known past with a woman is about to rock his world.
Friday, June 22, 2007
The Forthcoming: TN Baker - Dice
T. N. Baker
Dice
June 26, 2007
In this new novel, T.N. Baker takes the term "sheisty" to a whole new level.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
The Forthcoming: Angela Winters - Never Enough
June 26, 2006
National bestselling author Angela Winters tells the intriguing drama of the Chase family—a powerful African-American family who seem to have it all….
Exiled to Europe after a high-profile scandal, twenty-three-year-old Haley Chase has returned home to cause new trouble. This time it involves a dangerously sadistic new beau…
Driven to desperation by a family out of control, Janet may be her own worst enemy in a world where no indulgence, addiction, or desire is out of reach.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
The Forthcoming: Var. Authors / Edited by Brandon Massey - Whispers In The Night (Dark Dreams III)
Whispers In The Night (Dark Dreams 3)
Table of Contents
Summer by Tananarive Due....................5
Scab by Wrath James White....................27
And Death Rode with Him by Anthony Beal....................41
Are You My Daddy? by Lexi Davis....................63
To Get Bread and Butter by Randy Walker....................85
Dream Girl by Dameon Edwards....................93
My Sister's Keeper by Chesya Burke....................113
The Wasp by Robert Fleming....................123
Hell Is for Children by Rickey Windell George....................137
Flight by Lawana James-Holland....................147
Hadley Shimmerhorn: American Icon by Michael Boatman....................157
Nurse's Requiem by Maurice Broaddus....................173
WET PAIN by Terence Taylor....................189
The Taken by Tenea Johnson....................215
Mr. Bones by Christopher Chambers....................227
Rip Crew by B. Gordon Doyle....................237
Power and Purpose by L.R. Giles....................255
The Love of a Zombie Is Everlasting by Tish Jackson....................281
Ghostwriter by Brandon Massey....................295
About the Contributors....................309
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Victoria Christopher Murray - The Ex Files - Out Now!
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The Forthcoming: Michelle McGriff - Deadly Tease
Michelle McGriff
Deadly Tease
June 26, 2007
Monday, June 18, 2007
The Forthcoming: Blair Underwood with Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes - Casanegra
Blair Underwood with Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes
Casanegra: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel
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Sunday, June 17, 2007
The Forthcoming: Fiona Zedde - Every Dark Desire
Fiona Zedde
Every Dark Desire
June 26th, 2007
Desire without rules…
Love without mercy…
Saturday, June 16, 2007
The Forthcoming: A. C. Arthur - Heart Of The Phoenix
A.C. Arthur
Heart of the Phoenix
June 26, 2007
A.C. Arthur’s compelling romance takes readers into a world where heroes are more than human…and totally irresistible!
From the ashes he was born and in the thunderous flames he will soon die. But not before branding her heart. Tayla Hampton thought she had escaped her past. She was wrong. It’s caught up with her. Luckily she has a guardian angel…or something like that.
Thaddeus Delos is not you’re ordinary protector. His mythical DNA is proof of that. Still he hungers like a hot-blooded man, loves fiercely and will protect Tayla with his life. Only that life isn’t promised to him for much longer.
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The Forthcoming: J. J. Michael - It's Not Over Yet
J.J. Michael
It's Not Over Yet
June 26, 2007
The second in JJ Michael’s richly layered and intriguing paranormal
trilogy follows the lives and loves of a group of characters linked by
their secrets and passions.
Dr. Lindy Lee, a pediatrician and intuitive healer, thinks all is safe and secure in her
world, until Nick Lewis, the man who betrayed her love ten years ago, reappears. With
the help of a mysterious Elder Healer, she begins to accept her psychic healing gift, as
she and Nick face their enemies, and their long-buried hurts.
• This the second in a paranormal trilogy that began with Life is Never as it Seems.
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Thursday, June 14, 2007
The Forthcoming: Celya Bowers - Do Over
Celya Bowers
Do Over
June 26, 2007
In this stirring and suspenseful novel, a couple tested by harrowing circumstances
must decide whether to give their love one more chance.
Brad Killarney made a huge mistake when he accused his wife, Michelle, of having
an affair with his boss. Before he can win her back, his boss is murdered, and Brad
sustains a head injury that erases his memory. Can love survive against the threat of a
killer who may want to finish what he started?
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007
The Forthcoming: Helen Oyeyemi - The Opposite House
The Opposite House
June 19th, 2007
In a dazzling follow-up to The Icarus Girl, Helen Oyeyemi explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women and their search for the truth about faith and identity.
Maja was five years old when her black Cuban family emigrated from the Caribbean to London. Now, almost twenty years later, Maja is a singer, in love with Aaron, pregnant, and haunted by what she calls “her Cuba.” Growing up in London, she has struggled to negotiate her history and the sense that speaking Spanish or English made her less of a black girl. But she is unable to find herself in the Ewe, Igbo, or Akum of her roots. It seems all that’s left is silence.
Meanwhile distance from Cuba has only deepened Maja’s mother faith in Santeria —the fusion of Catholicism and Western African Yoruba religion—but it also divides the family as her father rails against his wife’s superstitions and the lost dreams of the Castro revolution.
On the other side of the reality wall, Yemaya Saramagua, a Santeria emissary, lives in a somewherehouse with two doors: one opening to London, the other to Lagos. Yemaya is troubled by the ease with which her fellow emissaries have disguised themselves behind the personas of saints and by her inability to recognize them.
Lyrical and intensely moving, The Opposite House is about the disquiet that follows us across places and languages, a feeling passed down from mother and father to son and daughter.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
The Forthcoming: Victoria Christopher Murray - The Ex Files
Victoria Christopher Murray
The Ex Files
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There are four ways a woman can handle heartbreak. She can fall apart, seek revenge, turn cold, or move on. The Ex Files is the story of these four women:
When an NBA superstar tells his mistress, Asia Ingrum, that he's decided to honor his marriage vows, her shock quickly gives way to revenge...but her decision may come back to haunt their five-year-old daughter.
Every night Vanessa Martin wonders why her husband committed suicide. Even worse, she contemplates joining him in eternity. Will Vanessa be able to gather the strength to live again?
Sheridan Hart is finally finding her way after a lie destroyed her seventeen-year marriage. Her new love is ready to get married, but will she commit to this younger man or is her ex-husband taking up too much space in her heart?
When their pastor asks Kendall, Asia, Vanessa, and Sheridan to meet weekly for prayer, they can't imagine they will have anything in common. But then a devastating tragedy strikes and these strangers are forced to reexamine their choices. Will they find true friendship, or will prayer -- and their union -- fail them?
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Monday, June 11, 2007
The Forthcoming: Gloria Mallette - Living, Breathing Lies
Gloria Mallette
Living, Breathing Lies
June 15, 2007
Breathe a lie, live a lie. That's what Nadirah Lewis learns when she uncovers the stunning lie she was forced to live for seventeen years. Nadirah was twelve years old when she was blamed for crippling her Aunt Stephanie. Guilt and her trust fund kept Nadirah a prisoner in Stephanie's home and the object of Stephanie's cruel tongue, but it took another vicious lie and a threat to Nadirah's career as a teacher to infuse her with the energy to fight back. Nadirah's fight, however, is not just for herself. It is also for one of her young students, Bree Morrison. When Bree is hospitalized after drinking a near fatal dose of poison, Nadirah petitions the Administration for Child Services for guardianship. Bree's mother has inexplicably disappeared, and what Bree won't say is what Nadirah needs to hear before Bree's aunt Erma, a she-devil on wheels, wins the custody battle.
Erma, the soon-to-be ex-wife of Austin Gray, Nadirah's handsome new landlord, and close friend of Lynn, Nadirah's cousin, lets Nadirah know in no uncertain terms that she will never get Bree or her husband. But what unforgivable lie does Erma live that could stop her cold yet devastate all around her? And Lynn, as well put together and as orderly as her life is, what shameful lie lurks behind her picturesque suburban doors? While the revelation of many of the lies give Nadirah the courage to find herself, she must accept the fact that those same lies may well destroy the lives of those closest to her. Unveil the shocking, real life truths of Living, Breathing Lies.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
The Forthcoming: Deja King - B!tch Reloaded
Deja King
B!tch Reloaded
June 20th, 2007
The femme fatale of the streets is back and she s deadlier than ever. Precious miraculously survives her brush with death, but the celebration is cut short when tragedy strikes. Convinced that Nico Carter is responsible for ripping her world apart, Precious' sole purpose for living is to make him pay in blood. The street life that she left behind calls her name as Precious wreaks havoc on anyone who stands in her way of getting revenge. While on her path of destruction, new enemies arise and old friends resurface, complicating Precious plans to bring Nico down. But soon she realizes that everything isn't what it seems. Will the dark road Precious travels finally lead to her own demise once and for all?
Saturday, June 09, 2007
The Forthcoming: Eleanor Taylor Bland - Suddenly A Stranger
Friday, June 08, 2007
The Forthcoming: T.T. Henderson - Too Much Hennessey
T. T. Henderson
Too Much Hennessey
June 2007
He dreamed her into life...
Hennessy James Walker lives his life for his music, but must break from his Jazz tour unexpectedly to head to New Orleans and bury his father. In the midst of his misery appears the woman of his dreams...literally.
She wanted him under her spell...
Deja Devine, a renowned New Orleans psychic, knew she wanted Hennessy before she ever knew his name. And now, she'd stumbled across him at his father's funeral looking more magnificent than she remembered. Deja didn't know if she could get a man like Hennessy to stay in one place. All she knew was she was willing to do everything in her considerable powers to try.
Thursday, June 07, 2007
The Forthcoming: Various Authors - Never Knew Love Like This Before
Maxine Thompson, Michelle McGriff, and Denise Campbell
Never Knew Love Like This Before
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Katrina Blues by Maxine Thompson: Sparks fly when Deni Richards, a Los Angeles Attorney meets Coleman Blue, a gorgeous displaced New Orleans jazz saxophonist meet in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. At first glance they’re complete opposites, but tragedy brings these two opposites together to find common ground in love.
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
The Forthcoming: Candice Poarch - The Tempest
Candice Poarch
The Tempest
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007
The Forthcoming: Elaine Overton - Daring Devotion
Monday, June 04, 2007
Urban-Reviews.com - June 2007 Newsletter
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