Coffee Breaks & Bookmarks

Looking for a gripping and powerful read that will keep you on the edge of your seat? Look no further than Jane Doe Black by Nia Forrester. This stunning novel blends elements of suspense, romance, and legal drama to deliver a story that is both thrilling and deeply human. The book follows Assistant District Attorney Lainey Abbott, who is devastated when her younger sister Stephanie goes…

🎅🏼 On the first day of Christmas…🎅🏼

📚 Five Golden Rings by K.L. Brady 📚  TITLE: Five Golden Rings AUTHOR: K.L. Brady PUBLISHER: LadyLit Press SERIES: NO RATING: ☕️☕️☕️☕️ BUY THE BOOK: http://amzn.to/2gGlVJn

  Girl trips over Boy…and Boy falls for Girl. Kristy fell out of love with Christmas in D.C. when her father died three years ago. But this Christmas is different now that she’s engaged to Zach. She’s ready to embrace the spirit…

💎 What would you sacrifice in the pursuit of power? ⚪

📚 Diamonds and Pearl by K’wan 📚 TITLE: Diamonds and Pearl AUTHOR: K’wan PUBLISHER: St. Martin’s Griffin  SERIES: YES RATING: ☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️  BUY THE BOOK: http://amzn.to/2edHqlB

  From # 1 Essence best-selling Crime Novelist K’Wan comes a tale of forbidden love, high stakes murder and the robbery gone bad that set it all in motion, Diamonds and Pearl.

They say that good girls like bad boys, and this…

Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile

What we’re reading this week!  Buy the Book: http://amzn.to/2bh5KD3

“Smart and heartfelt and highly recommended.” —Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club The inspiration for the highly anticipated 13-part TV series produced by Oprah Winfrey, directed by Ava DuVernay (Selma), and starring Rutina Wesley (True Blood) and Greg Vaughan, premiering September 6th on OWN.

Readers,…

More Womanish by Angelia V. Menchan

What we’re reading this week! 

More Womanish: She Survivesis more stories of women, real women with real ish that they are always in the struggle to survive. Review for Womanish: WomanIsh. Yes…it’s all that the title enamored and more. Angelia Vernon Menchan once again has stepped outside of the usual and fully embraces real life stigmas many won’t address. Menchan takes the reader on a…

Sister Surrogate by Lachelle Weaver

Three sisters and a baby equal family drama…

Bridgette, Ivy and Savannah have always been close…but their sisterhood hasn’t been without its challenges. Yet these sisters always manage to come together in times of need.

When Savannah, the youngest sister, is faced with a life-altering illness, which threatens her lifelong desire to have children, one of her sisters offers to give her the ultimate…

📚 The journey of self discovery. 📚

📚 Black Lotus: A Woman’s Search for Racial Identity by Sil Lai Abrams 📚 TITLE: Black Lotus: A Woman’s Search for Racial Identity AUTHOR: Sil Lai Abrams PUBLISHER: Gallery Books/Karen Hunter Publishing SERIES: NO  RATING: ☕️☕️☕️☕️ Intriguing memoir 

“Like a slow, steady bass line, Sil Lai viscerally draws you into her aching journey to find her place in the world.”

—NILE RODGERS, Grammy…

🔬 The cells that have lived longer than the woman! Say her name, Henrietta Lacks. 🏥

📚 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 📚 TITLE: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks AUTHOR: Rebecca Skoot PUBLISHER: Broadway Books SERIES: No  RATING: ☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️ Captivating, Fascinating and Completely Engrossing BUY THE BOOK: http://amzn.to/2aEp9MP

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in…

🚬 There are things known, things unknown and in between is the truth. ⚖

📚 Rose Gold by Walter Mosley 📚 TITLE: Rose Gold AUTHOR: Walter Mosley PUBLISHER: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard SERIES: Yes RATING: ☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️ Incredible Storytelling 

Rose Gold is two colors, one woman, and a big headache.

In this new mystery set in the Patty Hearst era of radical black nationalism and political abductions, a black ex-boxer self-named Uhuru Nolica, the leader of a revolutionary…

Black Girl Magic Lit Mag!

📚 The clear expression of mixed feelings 📚

🎭 Harlem Nights and Footstep Blues 🎭 TITLE: Harlem Nights and Footstep Blues AUTHOR:  Julius Jamaal McLean PUBLISHER: Julius McLean Books SERIES: No RATING: ☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️ 🔥Symbolic versification  BUY THE BOOK: http://amzn.to/29vBcKb

Harlem Nights and Footstep Blues is a poetry collection consisting of 65 poems. The poems are separated into 11 distinct sections that tell their own story while still…

🏈 Touchdown…when love leaves the friend zone and lands in the end zone❣️

📚  Her Perfect Catch 📚 TITLE: Her Perfect Catch  AUTHOR: K.L. Brady PUBLISHER: Lady Lit Press SERIES: Yes (The Playmaker Series)  RATING: ☕️☕️☕️☕️ Adorable Romance  BUY THE BOOK: http://amzn.to/29GfcyS

  A CATCH MADE IN HEAVEN

Sometimes love is in your grasp and all you need to do is hold on…

Nerdy, struggling sports writer Melanie Vincent needs a miracle when her dream of running a nationally…

👀 For nothing is a secret that will not be revealed…💑

📚 I love him…Anyway 2 📚 TITLE: Jeremy and Melinda: I love him…Anyway II AUTHOR: Angelia Vernon Menchan PUBLISHER: Honorable Menchan Media SERIES: Yes RATING: ☕️☕️☕️☕️  Concealed secrets BUY THE BOOK: http://amzn.to/29FZp2W

  Tears coursed down Melinda’s face as the doctor’s words resonated inside her. Jeremy stood beside the hospital bed holding her hand is if someone shot him. “I am so sorry Mr.…