PAULINE EDIE
Tina Turner – My Love Story
Bob Woodard – Fear…trump in the White House And you know what I say to people who ask, “What to do when all the odds are against you?” I say, “You keep going, you just don’t stop. No matter if there is one slap to the face, turn the other cheek. And the hurt you are feeling? You can’t think about what’s being done to you now, or what has been done to you in the past. You just have to keep going.” — Tina Turner Who doesn’t love Tina Turner — the long reigning queen of rock ‘n’ roll and living legend! We are all familiar with her story and the many songs that she has performed. But in My Love Story she sets the record straight about her illustrious career and complicated personal life in this eye-opening and compelling memoir. It traces her life from her early years in Nutbush, Tennessee, to her rise to fame alongside Ike Turner, to her extraordinary success in the 1980s to now. She also writes about meeting the love of her life, Erwin Bach unexpectedly in 1986 and marrying 27 years later. It was the fist line that got me and I knew I would love this book… “Tina, will you marry me?” This was my first proposal from Erwin Bach, the love-at-first-sight love of my life, the man who made me feel dizzy the first time I saw him.” The publication of Fear drew much media scrutiny; the contents of which were denied by White House personnel. It is arguably one of the most intimate portraits of a sitting president ever published during a president’s first term and year in office. With the use of hundreds of hours of interviews with first-hand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents, Fear focuses on the explosive debates and decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the residence in the White House. It also tracks key foreign policy issues from Afghanistan to Russia and all the other countries in between. It reports in depth on Trump’s key domestic issues, particularly trade and tariff disputes, immigration, tax legislation, etc., and of course, vivid details of the negotiations between Trump’s attorney and Robert Mueller, the special counsel in the Russia investigation.
Brit Bennett — The Mothers
“We didn’t believe when we first heard because you know how church folk can gossip.” The mid-teenage years of Nadia Turner started with a secret. She was 17 years old and in the last season of high school life. Grief-stricken and rebellious, as she had recently lost her mother, she engaged in a relationship with the local pastor’s son, Luke, who is 21 years old. She became pregnant, and this secret was covered up and had a lasting impact that went beyond their youth. Nadia hides the truth from everyone, including her best friend Aubrey. The story reveals the extent to which a community would protect those they care for and love, ambition, love and friendship, and living up to expectations in contemporary black America. Intimate and epic in scope, and still followed by the choices they made in their youth, the constant nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt.
Holly Bourne – How Do You Like Me Now?
I think everyone reaching a birthdate milestone, whether 20s, 30s or 40s, can relate to this book. In this case the main character, Tori Bailey, is turning 30; and as she aptly puts it, “Turning thirty is like playing musical chairs. The music stops, and everyone just marries whoever they happen to be sitting on.” Laugh-out-loud funny, brutally honest and a moving exploration of love, friendship and navigating the emotional rollercoaster of her thirties; Tori, a best-selling author, who has inspired millions of women around the world with her self-help memoir and the perfect relationship, finds herself in a quandary. Everyone around her is getting married and having babies, including her best friend Dee (her plus one ride or die) and Tori’s long-term boyfriend won’t even talk about getting engaged. Influenced by social media and the world at large, Tori realises that when the world tells you to be one thing and turning 30 brings with it a loud ticking clock, it takes courage to walk your own path. The question is, will she be brave enough to so do and practice what she preaches?