While @ our National Convention, I had the pleasure and opportunity to meet the authors of and read 2 great new books.
Just Like Your Daddy by d. E. Rogers: Interesting read about how in our attempts to not be anything like our parents, we end up being just like them or very similar. I met the author and told him how I liked it. It also has an HIV and teen pregnancy story line.
Staying Pure by
SOROR Stephanie Perry Moore: This is the first of a series with teen spiritual fiction. I was searching for a book for one of my former students and @ convention a soror from Denver Alumnae (the president) who is also a teacher recommended this book to me. Soror Stephanie autographed it for my student but I read it first. Shhhhhh don't tell her. Anyway it deals with the struggles of a popular pretty high school girl whose mom is a SOROR

who has decided not to have sex before marriage. That decision causes her to lose her first love. It also deals with her friendships with her 3 best friends and a new relationship on the horizon. I recommend for people who work with teens in any capacity, teens, and parents. Soror Stephanie told me that she comes and works with the Charlotte Alumnae Chapter

when they have the sleepover with their debutantes.
Last one:
Granddaddy's Dirt by
Brian Egeston, member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. I had the pleasure of meeting Brian in Charlotte @ their conclave with
his wonderful wife, a SOROR of DST. . . I finished this book the other day and it was intense. It shows how the sins of the father or in this case grandfather can effect other generations for years and years to come until that sin is confessed and made right. It is set in the state of Georgia during the 70s and 90s.
I am currently reading Now You Know Better by Tina McElroy Ansa. . . much better so far than THE HAND YOU FAN WITH from years ago.
Do I sound like a book critic?