Joe Yolanda, Author, Yolanda Joe, Author Longmeadow Press $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-681-41396-2
Melodrama mixes with murder in this banal first novel about Yalies on the rise in Manhattan. Kayo, Connor, Michelle and Elizabeth become best friends as undergraduates. Two of them are black: smart, ambitious Kayo, from Chicago's inner city, aims...
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Yolanda Joe, Author . Dutton $23.95 (229p) ISBN 978-0-525-94716-5
Readers who know that success isn't measured by material wealth will root for beautiful Terri Mills, a powerful attorney for the city of Chicago, who comes to understand that false values could destroy her life. Despite having grown up without...
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Yolanda Joe, Author . Dutton $23.95 (221p) ISBN 978-0-525-94808-7
Bestseller Joe's latest gives a nod to My Fair Lady
—and, like the musical, it's predictable but plenty of fun. Imani Holland has a voice like "velvet on fire," and she raps the lyrics her boyfriend, Taz, writes; together they&#
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Yolanda Joe, Author Doubleday Books $21.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-48507-4
The expectations set by the lively opening chapters of Joe's (Falling Leaves of Ivy) second novel are not fully realized in this candid but predictable story of four black singles searching for love in the '90s. Sandy Atkins, a sales supervisor at a
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Yolanda Joe, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7432-5038-2
Action fans who don't require much to suspend their disbelief should enjoy Joe's third Georgia Barnett mystery (after 2002's Hit Time). The attractive African-American Chicago TV journalist finds herself in the center of a big news story when she...
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Yolanda Joe, Author Doubleday Books $22.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-49255-3
Joe follows the commercial success of He Say, She Say with an exuberant if unambitious tale of love discovered in the nick of time by two lonely, 40-something African Americans living in Chicago. While attending graduation ceremonies at a local...
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Yolanda Joe, Author Doubleday Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-49256-0
Gender issues and racial politics inflect a Chicago TV newsroom in Joe's (Bebe's By Golly Wow) fast-paced but didactic novel, a derivative Broadcast News or Murphy Brown with African-American protagonists. Poor morale and low ratings haunt WKBA's...
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