Spectacular Magazine Radio Show 7-1-2014 MP3 Click Here To Listen Spectacular Magazine Radio Show with Host Phyllis Coley and Co-Host Gary N. Jones is a high energy one hour weekly offering a unique blend of news, interviews, commentary and music.
Edward Klein-Blood Feud Click Here To Listen They are allies by circumstance, rivals in fact, and enemies by personal animosity. New York Times bestselling author Edward Klein pulls back the veil on the most unreported story in Washington—the jealousy and antipathy that divides the two most powerful Democratic families in the country. With unparalleled reporting and access to the most sensitive sources close to the principals, Klein gives an insider's, behind the scenes view of the mutual loathing between the Democratic standard-bearers. In Blood Feud, you'll learn: Why Michelle Obama’s political ambitions could rival Hillary Clinton's About the “deal”: why Bill Clinton supported Barack Obama for reelection—and why he feels betrayed Benghazi: how Barack Obama [...]
Spectacular Magazine Radio Show 6-14-2014 Click Here To Listen Spectacular Magazine Radio Show with Host Phyllis Coley and Co-Host Gary N. Jones is a high energy one hour weekly offering a unique blend of news, interviews, commentary and music.
Spectacular Magazine Radio Show 6-07-2014 Click Here To Listen Spectacular Magazine Radio Show with Host Phyllis Coley and Co-Host Gary N. Jones is a high energy one hour weekly offering a unique blend of news, interviews, commentary and music.
Victoria Christopher Murray-Forever An Ex Click Here To Listen Three Los Angeles women who’ve helped each other overcome heartbreak are reunited eight years later when their troublesome exes come back into the picture in this follow up to Victoria Christopher Murray’s bestselling novel The Ex Files.
Caroline Clarke Click Here To Listen Award-winning journalist Caroline Clarke was born in an era when adoptions were shameful and secret and sealed. Her story begins with a happy childhood in the Bronx, as the only child of educators, both with strong ties to their large West Indian families. She never had any desire to know her birth parents until her thirties when some health questions led her to contact Spence-Chapin Family Services. The adoption agency's response sparked a series of stunning discoveries. Caroline knew her biological family and had so for more than twenty years. Her birth mother, nicknamed "Cookie," was the eldest sister of one of her dearest college friends; thus, Caroline's girlfriend [...]
Brad Meltzer-I Am Rosa Parks Click Here To Listen “Kids always search for heroes, so we might as well have a say in it,” Brad Meltzer realized, and so he envisioned this friendly, fun approach to biography for his own kids, and for yours. Each book tells the story of one of America’s icons in a vivacious, conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfiction readers, those who aren’t quite ready for the Who Was biography series. Each book focuses on a particular character trait that made that role model heroic. For example, Rosa Parks dared to stand up for herself and other African Americans by staying seated, and as a result [...]
John Hope Bryant Click Here To Listen John Hope Bryant, successful self-made businessman and founder of the nonprofit Operation HOPE, says business and political leaders are ignoring the one force that could truly re-energize the stalled American economy: the poor. If we give poor communities the right tools, policies, and inspiration, he argues, they will be able to lift themselves up into the middle class and become a new generation of customers and entrepreneurs. Raised in poverty-stricken, gang-infested South Central Los Angeles, Bryant saw firsthand how our institutions have abandoned the poor. He details how business loans, home loans, and financial investments have vanished from their communities. After decades of deprivation, the poor lack [...]
Rachel Howzell Hall Click Here To Listen Along the ever-changing border of gentrifying Los Angeles, seventeen-year-old Monique Darson is found dead at a condominium construction site, hanging in the closet of an unfinished unit. Homicide detective Elouise “Lou” Norton’s new partner, Colin Taggert, fresh from the comparatively bucolic Colorado Springs police department, assumes it’s a teenage suicide. Lou isn’t buying the easy explanation. For one thing, the condo site is owned by Napoleon Crase, a self-made millionaire. . .and the man who may have murdered Lou's missing sister, Tori, thirty years ago. As Lou investigates the death of Monique Darson, she uncovers undeniable links between the two cases. But her department is skeptical. Lou is [...]
