A Second Helping, Beverly Jenkins
A Second Helping, Beverly Jenkins
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A Second Helping

Author: Beverly Jenkins

Narrator: Myra Lucretia Taylor

Unabridged: 10 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/22/2017

Categories: Fiction, Women


Synopsis

Author Beverly Jenkins was named one of the top 50 African-American writers of the 20th century and has earned numerous awards for her powerful fiction. After divorcing her faithless husband, Bernadine Brown put her newfound millions to good use reviving the small Kansas town of Henry Adams. Now a local diner named the Dog and Cow could use a facelift, but Bernadine has plenty of other distractions to worry about. Chief among these, her former husband has rolled into town looking for a second chance.

About Beverly Jenkins

Beverly Jenkins is the recipient of the 2017 Romance Writers of America Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as the 2016 Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for historical romance. She has been nominated for the NAACP Image Award in Literature and was featured in the documentary Love between the Covers and on CBS Sunday Morning. Since the publication of Night Song in 1994, she has been leading the charge for multicultural romance and has been a constant darling of reviewers, fans, and her peers alike, garnering accolades for her work from the Wall Street Journal, People magazine, and NPR.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathryn on October 06, 2017

Such a good fun read. A little beyond the real, but so full of warm hearted characters in a small town who support each other, and where they weed out those there to cause trouble. Why? I fell in love with the small town in the first book in the series Blessings by Beverly Jenkins. Plot The book takes......more

Goodreads review by Dosha (Bluestocking7) on July 31, 2016

I am very happy to review this second book in the blessings series. If you choose to read this series, you will find that this is a very pleasant, easy reading, good feeling series. Nothing too deep, but just complicated enough to make you wonder what will happen next. Of course in some scenarios, t......more

Goodreads review by Megan on May 16, 2020

Can I just live in this fictional town? I’ll just walk into the pages and be quite happy. Love it! 4 stars......more

Goodreads review by Bea on April 01, 2020

Too many characters to keep track of for easy listening; this might have been better for me as an ebook. That said, the narrator did a fantastic job especially making the characters sound different. There just were so many of them. The story was sugar sweet and heartwarming, a little over the top at......more

Goodreads review by Lois on November 02, 2023

3.75 Stars See, I knew this series would grow on me despite the parts I don't like quite so much. Ms. Jenkins has a way of creating compelling characters that I wish to check up on and spend time with. I can see the appeal given this series has so many installments. While I love these novels, they are a......more