Michele Andrea Bowen was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Growing up, she was always active in the AME church, and in church choirs. It was natural that her first novel, CHURCH FOLK, would center around a church and its community.
Since its publication in 2001, she has published four additional novels. The most recent, MORE CHURCH FOLK, is a sequel to her first work.
She's currently working on a novel to be set in Chapel Hill. We can't wait to see it.
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Published: Grand Central Publishing, 7/2010
It is now 1986, and the preachers of the Gospel United Church are
preparing for their much-anticipated Triennial General Conference. The
last time readers encountered the good Rev. Theophilus Simmons, he was a
newlywed and the pastor of a modest-sized congregation in Memphis. Now
he's the father of three and running a congregation in St. Louis. His
best friend, Rev. Eddie Tate, is now with a fast growing church in
Chicago, but he is getting real frustrated with the way things are run
in the Gospel United Church. Marcel Brown and his father, Ernest, along
with Sonny Washington and Bishop Larsen Giles have had two decades to
perfect their slimy methods of "tapping" church funds and other
misdeeds. Now they've found a secret weapon that will allow them to make
fast money and accomplish what they failed to do 20 years ago--buy off
enough power to dominate the entire denomination, put their cronies in
key spots, and ransack the church like it is the spoils of war. It won't
be long before the two opposing sides face off..."church-folk" style.
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Theresa Elaine Hopson, 46, owner of Miss Thang's Holy Ghost Corner and Church Women's Boutique is puzzled. She can't, for the life of her, figure out why even Baby Doll Henderson, despite her false teeth and her navy-blue-socks-with-yellow-jelly-sandals-wearing self, can find a man and she, Theresa, can't.
Theresa's been looking all of her life, and it seems like the only thing she finds are things that need to say lost. Like, for example, her on and off "friend" and sometime escort, the sneaky businessman, Reverend Parvell Sikes.
So, when church mother Queen-Esther Green reacquaints Theresa with the older woman's backslidden player nephew, Lamont Green, it seems like the same old story.
But this time, Theresa decides to listen to God and what she hears soon brings a smile to her face with the realization that the Holy Ghost has been in her love corner all along.
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Yvonne Fountain Copeland is shattered when her husband of 15 years
decides to leave her because their marriage was getting "boring."
Disheartened and confused, Yvonne returns to her hometown of Durham,
North Carolina, convinced that a change of scenery will help her draw
closer to God and find inner peace. What she doesn't know is that her
journey to peace will lead her straight to sexy, single, and childless
basketball coach Curtis Parker. But Yvonne and Curtis soon discover that
you can't find true peace and joy without God's help. What begins as a
series of "why me's" soon evolves into an extraordinary journey of
victory, faith, joy, and love.
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Published: Grand Central Publishing, 5/2005
St. Louis, 1975. Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church's pastor has gone
on to see the King. Still, many people are wondering why he couldn't
have just waited until after the Second Sunday in June-a day that's
supposed to commemorate the church's 100th anniversary! It's praying
time, but is anyone going to show up at the altar? Gethsemane's wealthy,
conniving Deacon Cleavon Johnson is determined to have one of his own
elected to the pulpit, and the rest of the deacons are at each other's
throats. It's up to the women of Gethsemane to do something before time
runs out. Their secret weapon? Sheba Cochran-a single mother, former
disco party girl, and backslidden church member. Her assignment is to
expose every slick-talking candidate endorsed by the church's
power-hungry deacon. Then she meets Rev. George Wilson, a true man of
God as fiery in love as he is strong in faith. As Deacon Johnson steps
up his game to a lower level, Sheba, George, and the congregation must
do some heaven-inspired maneuvering to save the future of...
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Mississippi, 1963. Essie Lee Lane is a small-town girl from a humble
background who doesn't take "stuff" from nobody. Yet even she isn't
ready for the Reverend Theophilus Simmons, one of the South's most
fiery, respected young preachers during an era of vast social change.
Down-to-earth, caring, and oh-so-fine, he's everything Essie never
thought she'd find in a man, and he realizes she is everything a pastor
needs in a wife-a First Lady to share the joys and challenges of his
ministry. But Essie and Theophilus soon discover that dealing with the
contentious members of Theophilus's church will be no honeymoon. With
their parishioners in turmoil and their denomination facing a major
scandal, Essie and Theophilus must put their faith and love to the
ultimate test as they struggle to lead their congregation to God's
sweetest rewards.
Michele Andrea Bowen was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Growing up, she was always active in the AME church, and in church choirs. It was natural that her first novel, CHURCH FOLK, would center around a church and its community.
