18 Books Published by Genesis Press on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

David Thornton lands his dream job as executive director of a faith-based community empowerment center established by his paladin, Congressman Roosevelt Franklin. This honest, hard-working true believer must unite a staff divided by the scandal of the previous director’s departure, while trying to convince the girl of his dreams to trust him.

Kitty Franklin is the outspoken, jaded daughter of the politically savvy and slick Congressman Roosevelt Franklin. As her father’s personal attorney, Kitty’s intimate knowledge of her father’s dealings have caused her to lose all faith in God, government, and men. And now a viral internet scandal has erupted that threatens to destroy the Congressman’s re-election campaign.

The scandal shakes Kitty’s fragile faith and may prevent her from ever believing in anything or anyone ever again.

The Rev. Dr. Finus Gideon Gates is the charismatic, intelligent, wealthy and decidedly single favorite son of his denomination, the Baptist Methodist Assembly, where it is a "truth universally acknowledged" by the senior choir that he needs a wife. He thinks his reasons for not dating are a closely held secret. But every single woman in the Assembly
and her mother know why he’s not dating, and they are working overtime to get him to change his mind.

When Dr. Cassandra Brownley, a shy, sensible high school principal, accepts a consulting project with the BMA, she is caught between two opinions regarding the project’s leader. The Rev. Dr. Gates is pompous and condescending from the pulpit and she can’t stand him. Away from church he’s witty, warm and wonderful. Can she love him-except on Sunday?

Ashalon is a professor of Egyptology at Cairo University. He is none too happy to learn that another American is coming to his country to dig among the ruins of his ancestors. He vows to make it difficult things difficult for this foreigner, who has been given permission by the Council of Antiquities…at least until he meets the American upstart, Corina Camden. Professor Camden is searching for mummified remains from the Twenty-first and Twenty-second dynasties, and she quickly captivates Ashalon. Nights Over Egypt is a story of archeological digs, rich culture and buried passion.

A Dead Man Speaks is a supernatural murder mystery where the main character, Clive January, a successful African American investment banker has it all, money, power, a beautiful wife and an even more beautiful mistress. And then he’s killed, shot from behind by an unknown assailant. Through dreams and visions, his ghost works with the white detective assigned to his case, who is psychic, to solve the crime. Ultimately the book is about the redemptive power of love and forgiveness because Clive learns that unless he’s able to love and forgive his murderer, he will have no peace.

Book by Keaton, Barbara

When she learns that her mother lied and her father is still alive, sarcastic, witty, eighteen-year-old Maxine sets off with her best friend on a cross-country quest to meet him.

Shari Thomas, the optimistic voice of reasoning and love in "All I Ask," is back. Yet, after ending a long-term relationship, Shari isn’t so sure she’s ever been truly in love — as experienced by her two closest friends. As Shari resigns herself to examine her heart and her dream of owning her own design company, a dark angel appears in the form of Hamilton Edmunds, Jr. and threatens to show Shari what true love — true passion — is all about. By Design is a story of being true to your heart and yourself.

This romantic comedy that plunges Melanie and Winston together and neither is prepared for the tidal wave of pleasure that pulls them together and threatens to wash away their past hurt, enabling them both to realize that dreams do come true.

Book by Wanda Y. Thomas, Barbara Keaton, Giselle Carmichael

Jolie loves her job as a zoo keeper. But her serene life is turned upside down when she runs into the man that chose his career over her years ago.

She’s a successful attorney who can’t ignore the rumors of the fireman’s red-hot reputation. Despite all his efforts, he can’t seem to get around the wall of ice that Eve has built up around herself.

Parker, a successful entrepreneur, is his own man and in charge of all that surrounds him. Chinzea is the vexing physician taking care of his ailing mother. Passion ignites when their two personalities clash and their egos spar.

A broken heart, unhealed pain, and closed emotions-all these have become an ingrained part of Deborah Anderson. She adopts a new philosophy: Never to get hurt again, by never loving again. Then comes Darrin Wilson with his irresistibly sensuous charm that attempts to take her pain away.

Can love overcome greed in the cut-throat world of corporate politics? Find out as Patricia Ryan fights to save her community center for at-risk kids, only to find herself drawn to the attorney representing the corporation trying to shut it down.

“…an underground classic of such legendary stature that New York’s black cognoscenti have transformed the work into an urban myth.” —Darius James

Annette, the heroine of Steve Cannon’s underground classic Groove, Bang, and Jive Around, is a Black New Orleans teenager with serious family troubles and a recently acquired appetite for sex.

In Cannon’s hands her story becomes a satire on every aspect of American culture: race politics, religion, and sexual freedom. In its opening chapters Groove is almost a conventional erotic novel, with the more frenzied sexual activity set against a backdrop of jazz and voodoo; but halfway through, Cannon takes his heroine to the Oz-like Oo-bla-dee, an idyllic country – supposedly founded by Dizzy Gillespie – where “people ran their own lives.” There, after witnessing much revelry and payback, Annette meets her real mother, who reveals to her the true circumstances of her birth.

Although Groove, Bang, and Jive Around sold more than 150,000 copies when it first appeared, it was not available for twenty years, and copies of the 1997 printing have rarely stayed in one place long. —Lending Library

Can Della Murray overcome her childhood fears of poverty and adversity in order to find love? The fast-paced world at the United Nations sets the stage for this exciting love story.