So, What Are You Reading?

In this episode, Stephanie and Alycia interview Author Heidi McCann! She’s an amazing author who has written a book about her experience as a young adult with a husband who was dying from ALS. We discuss her journey to writing the book she says “is to help others heal”. 

Whatever the Future Holds - Kindle edition by McCann, Heidi. Religion & Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

Request her book at your local bookstore or library! 

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Heidi’s Favorite Authors:

Anita Shreve

• The Weight of Water
• The Pilot’s Wife

Heidi’s Book Recommendations:

• Ulysses by James Joyce
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Choose Steph’s next book!:

They Call Them Grifters: The True Story of Sante and Kenneth Kimes by Alice McQuillan

Or

The New American by Micheline Aharonian Marcom

Alycia’s Murder Mystery book:

Mahalia Watkins Soul Food Mysteries by A.L. Herbert

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In this episode, Alycia and Stephanie discuss the books they are currently reading and they also give you a brief history of the incomparable Phillis Wheatley. A Revolutionary Poet and the first African American Woman to have her work published in the American Colony.

Alycia's Currently Reading:

• The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber

Stephanie’s Currently Reading:

• The Family Lawyer by James Patterson and Robert Rotstein
• The Night Sniper by James Patterson and Christopher Charles

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In this episode, Stephanie and Alycia interview Relisha Monay! She’s the Founder of Moms Who Grind,  a business where she is the  Business Coach teaching moms how to start and run their own businesses. She has been an entrepreneur for almost 12 years with experience in management,  public relations and public speaking. And she  currently has a podcast called The Moms Who Grind Show which airs every week on 92.6 The spot app!

• Heretic: Hellmage Chronicles by Jennifer deBie
• Spookshow: Spiritualist and Medium  Book 11 by Tim McGregor
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 
• The Family Lawyer by James Patterson

Relisha’s Book Recommendations

• The Power of Broke by Daymond John
• Powershift by Daymond John
• Becoming by Michelle Obama

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In this episode, Stephanie and Alycia do deep dives into the books they are currently reading. Then they talk about the fabulous life of Ms. Zora Neale Hurston! From her historical beginnings in the first Incorporated African American town in Florida to her tremendous impact on the Harlem Renaissance!

Books by Zora Neal Hurston:

Novels

• Jonah’s Gourd Vine 
• Their Eyes Were Watching God 
• Moses, Man of the Mountain 
• Seraph on the Suwanee 
• Barracoon 

Short Stories

• The Gilded Six-Bits
• Sweat

Short Story Collections

• Mules and Men
• I Love Myself When I am Laughing…And Then Again
• Hurston Reader
• The Sanctified Church
• Spunk!
• The Complete Stories

Novels and Stories

• Zora Neale Hurston: Stories
• Zora Neale Hurston: Plays
• Go Gator and Muddy the Water
• Mother Through the Eyes of Women Writers
• Every Tongue Got to Confess
• In Search of Our Sister’s Garden
• What’s the Hurry Fox?
• The Skull Talks Back
• Lies and Other Tall Tales
• Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
• Bookmarks in the Pages of Life

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In this episode, Alycia and Stephanie interview Author Laura Holt! She’s a Georgia Peach with a thing for history and mythology. She has written several award-winning books and was a blast to talk to!

Steph's New Read: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Laura’s Favorite Authors

• Stephen King
• Richelle Mead
• Madeline Miller
• Adrian Young

Lauras’s Book Recommendations

• Spells for Lost Things by Jenna Evans Welch
• Spells for Forgetting by Adrian Young
• Cat Call by Kristen J. Sollee
• Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
• The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King

Laura’s Books

• Amazon.com: Village of Salt and Sorrow eBook : Holt, Laura: Kindle Store
• Amazon.com: Fathoms Below eBook : Holt, Laura: Kindle Store
• Amazon.com: Fathoms Above (Star-Crossed Book 2) eBook : Holt, Laura: Books
• Amazon.com: Fathoms Between (Star-Crossed Book 3) eBook : Holt, Laura: Kindle Store
• Amazon.com: Fathoms Across (Star-Crossed Book 4) eBook : Holt, Laura: Kindle Store

TBD- Fathomless

Laura’s social media- @authorlauraholt on all platforms

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In this episode,  Stephanie and Alycia discuss the Harlem Renaissance and the History of Langston Hughes! A primary contributor to the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes was one of the first to use jazz rhythms in his works, becoming an early innovator of the literary art form jazz poetry.

Books by Langston Hughes:

• The Crisis
• The Weary Blues
• The Big Sea 
• I Wonder as I Wander 
• The Ways of White Folks
• Not Without Laughter
• The Dream Keeper

Poetryfoundation.org for all of Langston’s Poetry

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In this episode Stephanie and Alycia interview Lazarus Belle from New Jersey! He has a Ph.D. and is the author of 2 amazing books!

• Insidious- Insidious: Belle, Lazarus: 9798842182718: Amazon.com: Books
• A Beautiful World-A Beautiful World - Kindle edition by Belle, Lazarus. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

Lazarus’ Recommendations:

• The Human Stain by Philip Roth
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth
• The Bible
• The Scarlett Letter
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

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Lazarus’ Social Media:

• Lazarus Belle on Facebook
• @bellelazarus on Twitter
• @LazarusBelle on Instagram

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In this episode, Alycia and Stephanie interview Diane (@bookyeah_ and @dianedougherty) She’s a dog Mom, avid book lover, and Future Podcaster! 

Alycia Recommends 

• Everything She Ever Wanted by Ann Rule
• The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan

Stephanie’s Recommends 

• The Spookshow: Midwinter by Tim Mcgregor
• Diary: a novel by Chuck Palahniuk

Diane’s Recommendations

• Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
• Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
• The Huntress by Kate Quinn
• The Zodiac Academy by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti
• The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen

Check out Island Dog Rescue (usislanddog.org) if you are looking to adopt a pet!

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In this episode, Stephanie and Alycia discuss a little history of African-American Author James Arthur Baldwin! Baldwin was a  novelist, playwright, poet, and essayist who wrote eloquently and angrily about racial injustice and the black experience in 20th-century America.

Steph’s new read: The Spookshow: Midwinter by Tim McGregor

Books by James Baldwin

• The Fire Next Time
• Go Tell it to the Mountain
• Sonny’s Blues 
• Notes of a Native Son
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• Giovanni’s Room
• Another Country
• Going to Meet the Man
• I Am Not Your Negro
• Just Above My Head

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In this episode, Alycia and Stephanie interview Tiffani (@bookstagramandread on Instagram)! Tiffani is a Registered Nurse and Author. She discusses her love for reading and her new book!

Along the way, we find out that Alycia and Stephanie are really slow readers (like you didn’t know that already lol) 

Read James Baldwin! He will be our next History episode topic!

Books by James Baldwin:

• The Fire Next Time
• Go Tell it on the Mountian
• Giovanni’s Room
• Sonny’s Blues
• Notes of a Native Son
• The Devil Finds Work
• Go Meet the Man
• Another Country
• Nothing Personal

Tiffani Recommendation

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

Tiffani’s Book: My NICU Story: Written with Love

#1 International Best Seller!

My NICU Story: Written with Love - Kindle edition by Freckleton, Tiffani Jean. Health, Fitness & Dieting Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

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