In The Spotlight with The GRITS Online Reading Club http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight Who's In The Spotlight at The GRITS Online Reading Club this month? Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:44:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Seduction Summer 2008! http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InTheSpotlight/~3/324808357/ http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=45#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:40:01 +0000 admin http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=45 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Seduction Summer 2008!", url: "http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=45" });]]> Join Geneva Holliday and The GRITS Online Reading Club as we turn up the heat this month with her new sexy release, Seduction! So listen to the author’s message if you didn’t hear it playing when you arrived to this page, watch the Seduction Book Trailer, then, TAKE ACTION by entering our Seduction Summer Give-a-Way for a chance to win this sizzling sexy read for this summer!

Seduction
Geneva Holliday
Broadway Books, June 2008
$12.95 US; ISBN: 076792746X

Listen to the Geneva’s message if you missed it!

Watch the ‘Seduction Book Trailer’ for the answer to our contest question!

 

Answer our contest question to win your FREE copy of Seduction!

Visit Geneva Holliday online to learn more about Seduction and other novels in her GROOVE series!



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]]> http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?feed=rss2&p=45 http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=45 In The Spotlight | Heavenly Places by Kimberly Cash Tate http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InTheSpotlight/~3/301844022/ http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=43#comments Tue, 27 May 2008 07:42:25 +0000 admin http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=43 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "In The Spotlight | Heavenly Places by Kimberly Cash Tate", url: "http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=43" });]]> Heavenly Places by Kimberly Cash Tate

Heavenly Places
Kimberly Cash Tate
Walk Worthy Press, March 2008
$13.99; ISBN: 1577948572

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Meet Treva Langston – a beautiful and intelligent woman who is married to a God-fearing man who loves her, and mother to three wonderful daughters who adore her. So why doesn’t her family bring her joy? Well, Treva has been plagued with self-doubt her entire life. Everything she has ever tried to accomplish has always been viewed through the lens of ‘color’ thanks to her mother. For a while, Treva was able to escape her feelings of inadequacy and find her worth in a very successful career in the Midwest. Now she’s jobless and returning to her hometown filled with painful memories and a mother who hasn’t changed a bit. It will be her sister’s gentle nudging to join a women’s home Bible Study group she facilitates that literally changes her life. The transformative power of God’s word and the “heavenly places” He promises in her studies, helps her to forgive, value friends and family, and discover once and for all that those promised ‘heavenly places’ have been right there with her all along.

To every woman who has ever doubted she is fearfully and wonderfully made, Heavenly Places by Kimberly Cash Tate is a novel for you!

Purchase your copy of Heavenly Places by Kimberly Cash Tate today!

Author Website: http://www.kimberlycashtate.com
Author MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/kimberlycashtate
Blog: http://www.kimberlycashtate.blogspot.com

 

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]]> http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?feed=rss2&p=43 http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=43http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/audio/kimberly-cash-tate-promo.mp3 In The Spotlight | The Straight-Up Truth About The Down-Low by Joy Marie http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InTheSpotlight/~3/281343821/ http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=39#comments Thu, 01 May 2008 05:00:39 +0000 admin http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=39 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "In The Spotlight | The Straight-Up Truth About The Down-Low by Joy Marie", url: "http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=39" });]]> The Straight-Up Truth About the Down-Low by Joy MarieThe Straight-UpTruth About The Down-Low: Women Share Their Stories of Betrayal, Pain and Survival
Joy Marie
Creative Wisdom Books; March 2008
$16.95 US; ISBN: 0981544328
 

 

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Book Description

Imagine . . . You have finally met Mr. Right. He’s handsome, sexy, charming, intelligent, articulate, and financially successful. He even portrays the role of an excellent father. He does not smoke, drink or use drugs and he has a decent credit history. You marry him and buy your dream house in the suburbs. Your children attend the best schools and you live in a wonderful neighborhood. You’re finally living the American dream, but one day you wake up and realize Your Prince Charming is really a lying Queen. You discover your husband is secretly sleeping with men. He is part of the secretive subculture known as the ‘down-low.’

The purpose of this book is to provide support and resources for the wives, lovers and families that have been victimized by homosexual men masquerading as straight.

This is not a book full of statistics, articles or scientific data. It was written by two women who have experienced the anguish and misery of being married to men on the down-low. They will share from the depths of their hearts, souls and minds as they tell their stories and the stories of other women who have lived through this experience. Contrary to the beliefs of some authors, there are telltale signs when a man is on the down-low. We will address those signs and answer many of your questions that have been ignored by other books written on the subject.

Purchase your copy of The Straight-Up Truth About The Down-Low by Joy Marie today!

Author Website: http://www.straightuptruth.com
Author MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/joymarie08
Blog: http://blog.myspace.com/joymarie08

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]]> http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?feed=rss2&p=39 http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=39http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/podcast/2008/joy-marie.mp3 National Poetry Month: Tony Medina http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InTheSpotlight/~3/279724869/ http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=42#comments Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:05:33 +0000 admin http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=42 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "National Poetry Month: Tony Medina", url: "http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=42" });]]> Our celebration of National Poetry Month would not be complete if we did not include poetry — rhythms and rhymes – enjoyed by our youth! On Friday, March 7, 2008, “Behind the Book” held an all-day series of author visits with various classrooms at PS 274, in Brooklyn, NY.

So check out this delightful video with Tony Medina reading a poem about jazz from his book, Love to Langston, with 3rd graders!

Spotlight Book . . .

Love to Langston by Tony MedinaLove to Langston
Tony Medina
Lee & Low Books, February 2002
$17.95 US; IBSN: 1584300418

Book Descripion

From one Harlem poet to another, Love to Langston is a tribute to one of America’s most talented and beloved poets, Langston Hughes. Written in the art form Hughes cherished most, this biography in verse captures glimpses of the poet’s world through his voice as author-poet Tony Medina imagines it.

 

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]]> http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?feed=rss2&p=42 http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=42 National Poetry Month: Ishmael Reed http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InTheSpotlight/~3/279711113/ http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=41#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:31:25 +0000 admin http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=41 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "National Poetry Month: Ishmael Reed", url: "http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=41" });]]> Our celebration of National Poetry Month continues with us focusing on Ishmael Reed’s excellent poetry reading at LitQuake 2007 October 6 - 13!

Spotlight Book . . .

New and Collected Poems 1964-2007 by Ishmael ReedNew and Collected Poems 1964-2006
Ishmael Reed
Da Capo Press, July 2007
$17.95 US; ISBN: 1568583419

Book Description

First poetry collection in nearly twenty years. In language that is pointed, innovative and profoundly optimistic, Reed weaves politics and war with Nigerian poetry and jazz all in the service of his continual redefinition of American culture.

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]]> http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?feed=rss2&p=41 http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=41 National Poetry Month: Nikki Giovanni http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InTheSpotlight/~3/269800832/ http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=38#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:00:34 +0000 admin http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=38 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "National Poetry Month: Nikki Giovanni", url: "http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=38" });]]> This week’s In The Spotlight is about the - Princess of Black Poetry — Nikki Giovanni who recites her poem, “Tennesean by Birth,” for the Cumberland University’s June & Bill Heydel Fine Arts Center in Lebanon, Tennessee. Enjoy!

Spotlight Book . . .

Acolytes: Poems by Nikkig GiovanniAcolytes: Poems
by Nikki Giovanni
William Morrow
1580176712
$16.96 US; Hardcover

Acolytes presents 80 poems that embody the main element that propelled Giovanni’s emergence as a powerful voice during the Black Arts Movement: the drive to keep slavery, injustice, and the struggle for civil rights alive in America’s consciousness. For this, Giovanni has become an important cultural figure.

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]]> http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?feed=rss2&p=38 http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=38 National Poetry Month: Sonia Sanchez http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InTheSpotlight/~3/265841462/ http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=37#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:15:19 +0000 admin http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=37 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "National Poetry Month: Sonia Sanchez", url: "http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=37" });]]> Our month long celebration of National Poetry Month continues! This week’s In The Spotlight is on Poet/Activist, Dr. Sonia Sanchez as she reads, “Our Vision Is Our Voice,” during Def Poetry Jam’s 5th season. Enjoy!

Spotlight Book . . .

Homegirls and Handgrenades by Sonia SanchezHomegirls and Handgrenades
by Sonia Sanchez
White Pine Press
1893996808
$14.00 US; paperback

This new edition of Homegirls and Handgrenades draws together all Sanchez’s poems of the 1980’s including the original collections of Homegirls and Handgrenades and Under A Soprano Sky, containing some of her seminal work.

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]]> http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?feed=rss2&p=37 http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=37 National Poetry Month: Rita Dove http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InTheSpotlight/~3/265841463/ http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=36#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:35:39 +0000 admin http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=36 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "National Poetry Month: Rita Dove", url: "http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=36" });]]> National Poetry MonthThis month publishers, booksellers, libraries, literary organizations, schools and poets from around the country will come together to celebrate poetry and its vital role in American society. Without a doubt, poetry is an important form of literary expression in which words are used in a concentrated blend of sound and imagery to evoke emotions and responses from those who experience them. The freedom and creative expression poetry brings is very powerful and is one of the reasons why this particular literary form is so popular among RAP and hip-hop song writers today.

Each week this month we pay homage to poets past and present.

This week we feature Former U.S. Poet Laureate & Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove as she reads her prose poem, “Prose in a Small Space,” at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, March 2007. Enjoy!

Spotlight Book . . .

American Smooth: Poems by Rita DoveAmerican Smooth: Poems
by Rita Dove
W. W. Norton
0393327442
$13.95, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize winner and poet laureate Rita Dove is a formidable writer, so one expects if not a brilliant, at least a compelling twelfth poetry collection, and she does not disappoint. American Smooth is aptly titled since the book is infused with dance rhythms, and swings between historical and personal portraits of various Americans, from the “Great War’s negro soldiers” to jazz musicians and a young girl from Harlem.

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]]> http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?feed=rss2&p=36 http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=36 In The Spotlight | From Dusk to Dawn by Niambi Davis http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InTheSpotlight/~3/261781395/ http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=34#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:00:44 +0000 admin http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=34 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "In The Spotlight | From Dusk to Dawn by Niambi Davis", url: "http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=34" });]]>  From Dusk to Dawn by Niambi Davis

From Dusk to Dawn
Niambi Brown Davis
Parker Publishing, April 1, 2008
$10.95 US; ISBN: 1600430368

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Book Description

Successful body products CEO, Ayo Montgomery, has her life on track. Her son is away at Annapolis, her business is flourishing and she is comfortable in her own skin despite the untimely death of her husband. She doesn’t know she’s missing something in her life until on a hot, August day she meets a younger man, Bilal Abdul-Salaam. Bilal Abdul-Salaam has been waiting for the right woman all his life, a woman he can love, cherish, have children with and grow old with. On a hot, August day he finds her, but she’s everything he didn’t expect. Ayo and Bilal are worlds apart. She’s Christian and he’s Muslim. She is ten years older than him and already had her family, and he is just wanting to start his. But both are overwhelmed by a smoldering attraction that refuses to acknowledge their differences. As they work their way through the obstacles of family and friends, they discover their love is strong enough, passionate enough and deep enough to make every sacrifice worth-while.

From Dusk to Dawn Book Trailer 

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Author’s Website - http://www.niambibrowndavis.com
Author’s Blog - http://niambibrowndavis.blogspot.com
Author’s MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/niambibrowndavis

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]]> http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?feed=rss2&p=34 http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=34http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/podcast/2008/niambi-davis.mp3 New Books for March 2008 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InTheSpotlight/~3/261698099/ http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=32#comments Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:59:52 +0000 admin http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=32 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "New Books for March 2008", url: "http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/spotlight/?p=32" });]]> Incognegro by Matt Johnson

Incognegro
Matt Johnson
Vertigo, February 2008
$19.99 US; ISBN: 140121097X

Designed for Passion by Francine Craft

Designed for Passion
Francine Craft
Kimani Romance, March 2008
$5.99 US; ISBN: 0373860579
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Sweet Georgia Brown by Cheryl Robinson

Sweet Georgia Brown
Cheryl Robinson
NAL, January 2008
$13.95 US; ISBN: 0451222288
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Song Yet Sung by James McBride

Song Yet Sung
James McBride
Scribner, January 2008
$25.00 US; ISBN: 0743298829
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Running from Mercy by Terra Little

Running from Mercy
Terra Little
Q-Boro Books, January 2008
$14.95 US; ISBN: 1933967374
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Conception by Kalisha Buckhanon

Conception
Kalisha Buckhanon
St. Martin’s Press, February 2008
$21.95 US; ISBN: 031233270X
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