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Winfrey Tweet Says New Book Pick Coming Next Month

Check your Twitter: Oprah Winfrey has some news.
The talk show host tweeted Monday that her first new book club pick in a year will be announced Friday, Sept. 18. In her announcement, Winfrey stated she had “never made a selection like `this.’”
The week of Sept. 14 could be a record-breaker for the publishing industry. It [...]

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TV Mom Claims Will Smith Was No Prince

Actress Janet Hubert is probably best known as Aunt Vivian on the Will Smith sitcom, ‘Fresh Prince of Bel Air.’
The 53-year-old actress was fired from the show in 1993 and replaced by actress Daphne Maxwell Reid.
Now the twice-married, mother of one has penned a memoir, ‘Perfection Is Not A Sitcom Mom’ that is slated to [...]

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Un(Authorized) Bio On Bobby Brown Out Today

Nine months after controversial quotes were leaked to the media, the much-anticipated book, Bobby Brown: The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing But…, is out today. It was supposed to be an autobiography but turned into a bio after the singer stopped working with the author, who wonders if ex-wife Whitney Houston was behind Bobby’s decision [...]

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Prince to Publish Coffee Table Book

Prince will release his first book, “21 Nights,” in October. The lush coffee table book of photographs depicts Prince during his 21 night-stand at London’s O2 Arena in 2007. Included with the book is a new CD of his music.
The photographs, which show Prince doing things such as lounging on a bed in his [...]

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Pam Grier: Ready To Tell All With New Memoir

One of the sexiest women to ever grace the screen is about to tell all.
Well, that’s the plan.
BlackVoices.com has learned that Pam Grier has inked a deal with Grand Central Publishing to release an as-yet-untitled tell-all memoir.
Currently scheduled for a spring 2010 release, the book will be released via the company’s Springboard Press imprint.
“Pam Grier [...]

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Hill Harper: Something for the ‘Sisters’

Time to give props where props are due.
Hill Harper handles his business in a way that uplifts and inspires.
Be it playing Dr. Sheldon Hawkes on the hit CBS series ‘CSI:NY,’ campaigning for presumptive presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama, or managing his two New Orleans boutique hotels, the Iowa City native is a man on a [...]

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