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{Review} Places in My Heart (The Grays of Los Angeles) by:Sheryl Lister

It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to focus and enjoy a book. I started this book two … More

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{BPT Recommends} Do What You Gotta Do by:Christine Young-Robinson

Christine Young-Robinson is back and she is taking no prisoners with an explosive follow-up to her debut novel We Didn’t … More

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{BPT Recommends} The Forbidden Man by: Elle Wright

Elle Wright has done her homework and created the ultimate debut novel with ‘The Forbidden Man’ the first book in … More

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{BPT Recommends} Wouldn’t Change A Thing by: Stacy Campbell

Stacy you have written a masterpiece and in the famous words of Oprah “you my dear are a writer.” Never … More

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{BPT Recommends} For Your Love: A Blessings Novel by:Beverly Jenkins

Synopsis Mayor Trent July and his wife Lily are enjoying life as newlyweds and embracing the challenges and joys that … More

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{Fiction Review} The Other Side Of The Pillow by: Zane

The Other Side Of The Pillow by: Zane Atria Books ISBN 978-0-7404-9931-6 Rating: 4 stars Move over Dr. Phil; Iyanla, … More

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Get the Book: https://amzn.to/2WQo5yd (Kindle) https://amzn.to/2Uq76RR (Paperback) Twenty-years is a long time to wait before going home again. Tragedy scoops up Ruth Johnson and drops her back down in her hometown, decades after she survived a vicious attack at the hands of her ex-husband, Eric Ashton. Ruth spent those years healing, rebuilding, becoming brand new and sharing her story of survival and victory with the world in her memoir that made her an international bestselling author. For years, she’s been on top of the food chain in the literary world, but the murder of her assistant, and the attempted murder of Ruth, has caused her world to come crashing down around her, forcing her back to the one place she thought she’d never live again, Jacksonville, Florida. There was a time when they were closer than sisters, May, Bernie, Clara rallied around Ruth in at the lowest point in her life and helped uplift her into the woman she was always meant to be. But somewhere on Ruth’s road to success, she’d left her friends behind. Success is one hell of a drug and near death experiences have a way of humbling a person. Among her friends again, Ruth is forced to face the ramifications of turning her back on them and another kind of rebuilding has to take place if she hopes to salvage these precious relationships. Adrian Carter is still fine, and, due to unexpected recent events, still single. A long time ago, he broke her heart. Ruth believed that she was finally over him. Seeing him again, she has to admit to herself and to him, that she still loves him as much now as she ever did. Adrian is determined to get it right this time. Ruth is his destiny, and he more convinced of that now than ever. However, Isaac Bronson, is convinced that there’s another kind of destiny waiting for Ruth, if she’d just get out of her own way, open her eyes, and see it. Release: 3/11/20 #WithoutASongToSing #JDMason #Love #BlackLove #Ficton #Romance #Sequel #ReadWithUs #newrelease

Get the Book: https://amzn.to/3bK0XWH (Kindle) https://amzn.to/2WRI7II (Paperback) We all want something. Are you willing to do whatever it takes to get it? Ms. Merci Miller is. And after surviving her worst nightmare, finally, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. She sees something she isn't supposed to see; a crime. But she finds a way to use pain to her advantage this time.Her intentions are pure. And just a little bit twisted. And for a while, things are just as sweet as forehead kisses. And then, suddenly, Merci is reminded of her past, and forced to face her biggest fear. "He's back, Merci. Your worst nightmare is here."But the man who hurt her is supposed to be dead. Or is it all in Merci's head? Release: 3/26/20 #BMHardin #TwistedIntentions #AfricanAmericanMystery #Thriller #Suspense #Urban #mysterybooks #mystery #readwithus #blackgirlmagic

https://amzn.to/2vVyfme (Kindle) Professor Starr Night is a woman with a cause. Her goal is to make sure there’s a crowd at the Afro-Caribbean Carnivale she’s helped bring to Chicago. Meeting an ambitious community activist may be just what she needs to spread the word. Except, their first meeting doesn’t exactly go as planned. Christopher Combs has always strived to educate his community. For him, that also means getting as many people on board as he can to help him fight the greatest black exodus Chicago has ever experienced. To reach his goal, he feels he needs a bigger platform. Insert beautiful Starr - the woman in his spotlight. With Starr and Christopher determined to make a difference in their own way, how will they handle one another when their love for their city and people manifest itself in different ways? Release: 3/26/20 #ConcreteIsland #CarnivaleChronicles #AnitaDavis #RoseGoldPress #Love #BlackLove #BlackRomance #Romance #ReadWithUs #romancenovels #romance #readmorebooks #readromance #blackgirlmagic #readwithus

Get the Book: https://amzn.to/39spZYu (Kindle) https://amzn.to/3dLYaOu (Paperback) Kickstart Dance Studio owner Tatiana Anderson is excited about her squad's upcoming competition at the Afro Caribbean Carnivale. Practicing day and night has her team in tip-top shape, and she's confident they will take home the win. That is, until she discovers the rival dance studio across the street is who they'll be facing off against. And not only will they compete for the victory, but getting to know the leader, Messiah West, has Tatiana wondering if they're battling for something a little more. Determined to ward off any sentiments of desire, Tatiana's guard remains elevated. But Messiah's perseverance is just as strong in his ambition to break down her walls. Release: 3/26/20 #MoveYourBody #CarnivaleChronicles #StephanieNicoleNorris #Love #BlackLove #romancenovels #romance #readmorebooks #readromance #blackgirlmagic #readwithus

https://amzn.to/2Jp0htn (Kindle) https://amzn.to/2WRRzfa (Mass Market Paperback) Sparks in the boardroom and the bedroom… She can’t let anything derail her passion project, Not even a second chance with the sexiest man alive… The deal that could bring Quinn Bazemore’s career back from the brink has one catch: she must partner up with her ex-lover Max Abbott. Quinn can’t forget the pleasure-filled summer they shared. But now she’s butting heads over business strategy with the mouthwatering marketing VP, even as their reawakened desire threatens to expose her deepest secrets… Release: 7/7/20 #AReunionofRivals #ReeseRyan #HarlequinDesire #Love #Romance #Fiction #BlackLove #blackgirlmagic #black #readwithme

https://amzn.to/2wyQVbX (Kindle) https://amzn.to/2wAFHnm (Audiobook) https://amzn.to/2UITKir (Paperback) The LaCroixs are four beautiful Haitian American women bound by blood. On the surface The LaCroix Group is a venture capitalist company, but peel back the layers and one will see that it’s much more. The four sisters run long cons, targeting wealthy, prominent business figures. They have a system. They find a mark, create the problem, then present the solution. For a cost… Sutton “Sutty” LaCroix, the eldest LaCroix sister and an accomplished business maven, sits on the family throne as the CEO of the LaCroix Group. She is the head PR person and is a magician at press conferences. She has an innate ability to handle press and be the face of reason for their clients. She is well respected and considered the best in her field. However, the devil is always in the details. When Sutton meets Austin, a young, black oil tycoon, she breaks all the rules. She falls in love with his good looks, charm, and old money. He represents a life that she and her sisters vowed to never live. The LaCroix sisters have a pact—to never leave roots in one place. They find a new city and establish a new target every three years, so falling in love and settling down is not in the rule book. But Sutton can’t help herself, which means that Austin poses a problem. When he inducts her into a high society of opulence, power, and generational wealth, Sutton must decide between her family and her heart. Release: 8/18/20 #MoneyDevils1 #ACartelNovel #TheCartelBook8 #Ashley #JaQuavis #JaQuavisColeman #AshleyAntoinette #cartel #murder #money #readwithus

https://amzn.to/3bu5g84 (Kindle) https://amzn.to/3as1Wug (Paperback) From hard times to getting it all, one woman must fight to keep her fortune, her family, and her life, in this intense, unpredictable follow-up to Games Women Play . . . By leveraging savvy and basic instincts, Tuesday Knight rose up from running an elite gentleman’s club to becoming the mega-wealthy Beverly Hills wife and business partner of reformed drug kingpin Marcus King. Along with their respectable, law-abiding new life came new names, and a new family. But now the country’s most feared drug lord wants to use Marcus’s legit empire to push her product—and the fallout threatens to be treacherous . . . Soon Tuesday finds herself on the run with her two daughters—and under pressure from a devious FBI agent to help take down the drug lord for good. But to clear the board of enemies and regain her position, and her life, she’ll have to face unexpected betrayals—and play out a shattering endgame . . . Release: 8/25/20 #TheGameNeverEnds #ZaireCrown #Dafina #urbanfiction #Fiction #AfricanAmerican #Urban #readwithus

https://amzn.to/3asC9C2 (Kindle) https://amzn.to/3dBP1rs (Hardcover) National bestselling author Kiki Swinson always ups the ante with shocking twists, relentless characters, and a hard-edged portrait of Southern living—and dying. Now all bets are off as a newbie journalist desperate for the spotlight plunges into a killer story… Anything for the fame As an off-air TV news journalist, Khloé Mercer covers the tough Norfolk, Virginia, neighborhood she grew up in. But between a hostile boss and stiff competition, she has to break a major exclusive to save her job—and lock down the coveted anchor desk slot she feels she deserves . . . Anything for the lies When a murder takes place on her home turf, Khloé has easy access to the dirty truth behind it. But she’ll have to decide whether to exploit every angle and leverage any favor to make her career explode big-time—or keep quiet and keep herself, and her family, safe. Until the choice is out of her hands . . . Anything to stay alive Once the ruthless power brokers behind the hit put Khloé in their sights, they start brutally cleaning up loose ends. Now with an inescapable target on her back and odds racking up against her, she’ll find nowhere is safe, and ambition may be her most dangerous enemy . . . Release: 8/25/20 #TheDeadline #KikiSwinson #Fiction #AfricanAmerican #Urban #urbanfiction #readwithus #murdermystery #murder

Get the Book: https://amzn.to/3arzlVH (Kindle) https://amzn.to/2QSFwdT (Paperback) In this page-turning follow-up to Dangerous Consequences, a serial killer wants revenge—but two surprising people stand in her way . . . Abandoned by her mother as a kid, Payton Jones wants no reminders of her past and no commitments. She’s beautiful, educated, rich, and gets what she wants—even if her favorite friends-with-benefits, Tony Barnes, is a hot complication. But her life of shopping, spa appointments, and mindless sex is interrupted when the most wanted woman in the Bay area starts hunting for Payton’s estranged mother. Curiosity leads Payton into unfamiliar—and risky—territory. Psychologist and local radio show host Donathan “Sex Doctor” James almost became a victim of the killer, who bared her every twisted thought to him. He knows she won’t stop until she commits the most personal murder of all. But when his wife’s best friend, Payton Jones—who Donathan isn’t quite sure he can trust—uncovers a shattering connection to the killer, they team up to find her. Now, surviving the chase puts Donathan’s marriage, career, and life on the line while Payton comes face to face with everything she’s been running from for years . . . Release: 7/28/20 #SurvivingtheChase #LisaReneeJohnson #Fiction #AfricanAmerican #Dafina #ContemporaryWomen #readwithus

https://amzn.to/3axlH3K (Kindle) https://amzn.to/2WPQMeN (Mass Market Paperback) Their make-believe romance feels way too real! His proposal is a deal she can’t refuse… Cruelly rejected by the Stewarts after revealing herself to her birth family, Morgan Young turns to Jared Robinson for comfort. The reformed bad boy proposes they pretend to be a couple to show his own family he’s settling down. And before long, they aren’t pretending! Yet just as Morgan begins to feel accepted, secrets and all, a vicious rumor about Jared’s past threatens them both… Release: 5/5/20 #SecretsofaFakeFiancée #YahrahStJohn #HARLEQUIN #HarlequinDesire #Love #Romance #readwithus

https://amzn.to/3bqIQ7U (Kindle) https://amzn.to/2Jl8QWb (Audiobook) https://amzn.to/2WSrbSG (Hardcover) Part of the four-book Queens of the Resistance series, saluting some of the most beloved boss ladies in Congress: a celebration of Representative Maxine Waters, who reclaimed her time and led the first calls for impeachment Maxine Waters is an icon for a generation of women powerbrokers in politics. She is an “unbought and unbossed” acolyte of all the legendary firebrands, like Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Tupac, and Malcolm X. The daughter of a single mom from St. Louis, she’s smart, sassy, and an outright firecracker. She is the first woman of color, and the first person of color, to regulate the boyz at the big banks as the powerful chair of the House Financial Services Committee. Auntie Maxine called out the crimes and corruption of this Oval Office with precision before anyone else dared to take a stand. Make no mistake, she is coming for the “king,” and whenever she aims, Maxine Waters doesn’t miss. With illustrations, deep research, and writing as endlessly quotable as she is, Queens of the Resistance pays tribute to this phenomenal woman. About the series: Each book of the Queens of the Resistance series will be a celebration of the rebellion against the oppression of women and an embracement of the new in the United States government. The series is adorned with sass, discernment, and the badassery of the present and future leadership. The Doomsday Clock is at a minute to midnight, and the patriarchal power grid that lights “the shining city on a Hill” is about to black out. It’s time to yield to the alternative—the power of women. Release: 6/30/20 #QueensoftheResistance #MaxineWaters #BrendaJones #KrishanTrotman #Biography #Autobiography #Women #readwithus

https://amzn.to/3dwkbRf (Kindle) https://amzn.to/2UoIjNW (Audiobook) https://amzn.to/2QNrLgz (Hardcover) https://amzn.to/2Jp7BW5 (Paperback) World-renowned hip-hop artist Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité’s vivid and intimate journey through his own and his family’s history—from South Carolina slavery to twenty-first-century Sweden. Born to interracial American parents in Sweden, Jason Diakité grew up between worlds—part Swedish, American, black, white, Cherokee, Slovak, and German, riding a delicate cultural and racial divide. It was a no-man’s-land that left him in constant search of self. Even after his hip-hop career took off, Jason fought to unify a complex system of family roots that branched across continents, ethnicities, classes, colors, and eras to find a sense of belonging. In A Drop of Midnight, Jason draws on conversations with his parents, personal experiences, long-lost letters, and pilgrimages to South Carolina and New York to paint a vivid picture of race, discrimination, family, and ambition. His ancestors’ origins as slaves in the antebellum South, his parents’ struggles as an interracial couple, and his own world-expanding connection to hip-hop helped him fashion a strong black identity in Sweden. What unfolds in Jason’s remarkable voyage of discovery is a complex and unflinching look at not only his own history but also that of generations affected by the trauma of the African diaspora, then and now. Release: 3/1/20 #JasonDiakité #ADropofMidnight #AmazonCrossing #Biography #Autobiography #PersonalMemoirs #readwithus

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