Today we're excited to share bestselling author Beverly Jenkins' Top 10 Favorite Historical Novels of all time!
This guest spot is a feature of our stop on the blog tour for her latest novel, FOR YOUR LOVE, hosted by Tasty Book Tours + a giveaway below!
For YourLove
Blessings # 6
Blessings # 6
By: Beverly Jenkins
Released: April 28, 2015
Publisher: William Morrow
Blurb:
NAACP
nominee and bestselling author Beverly Jenkins returns to Henry Adams,
Kansas-an unforgettable place that anyone would want to call home-with a story
of family, friends, and the powerful forces from our past that can irrevocably
shape our future.
Mayor Trent July and his wife Lily are
enjoying life as newlyweds and embracing the challenges and joys that come with
being adoptive parents to two wonderful boys. But being a father has inevitably
forced him to think about his own birth mother. Raised by his grandmother
Tamar—and in many ways the good people of Henry Adams—Trent was blessed with a
childhood full of love.
But now he can’t help wondering what
happened to the scared teenage girl who gave birth to him. And questions that
he’s never voiced are now begging to be answered: Who was she? Is she still
alive? Why didn’t she want him?
Trent has always believed no good comes from
dwelling on the past, especially when you have a loving family, a strong
community, and folks who depend on him. But when the past comes to Henry Adams,
Trent has no choice but to face it—and the woman who left him behind. The truth
will shake his very being and everything he thought he knew about life, love,
and the bonds that hold families together…yet can also tear them apart.
Beverly Jenkins' Top Ten
Favorite Historical Fiction Books!
(Not necessarily in order) J1. Dune — Frank Herbert
2. Cold Days – Jim Butcher
3. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms – N K Jemison
4. Ghostman —Roger Hobbs
5. Sandman Slim – Richard Kadrey
6. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
7. Douglass’s Women – Jewell Parker Rhodes
8. The Lies of Locke Lamorra — Scott Lynch
9. Magic Bites – Ilona Andrews
10. Theft of Swords – Michael J. Sullivan
Author
Info
Ms. Jenkins is the nation's premier writer
of African American historical romance fiction and specializes in 19th century
African American life. She has over thirty published novels to date.
She has received numerous awards, including:
five Waldenbooks/Borders Group Best Sellers Awards; two Career Achievement
Awards and a Pioneer Award from Romantic Times Magazine; a Golden Pen Award
from the Black Writer's Guild, and in 1999 was named one of the Top Fifty
Favorite African-American writers of the 20th Century by AABLC, the nation's
largest on-line African-American book club.
She has also been featured in many national
publications, including the Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, Dallas
Morning News and Vibe Magazine. She has lectured and given talks at such
prestigious universities as Oberlin University, the University of Illinois, and
Princeton. She speaks widely on both romance and 19th century African-American
history and was the 2014 featured speaker for the W.W. Law Lecture Series
sponsored by the Savannah Black Heritage Festival.
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