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#21 The Future Has a Past: Stories Click to order via Amazon by J. California Cooper Format: Hardcover, 288pp. ISBN: 038549680X Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Incorporated Pub. Date: November 2000 Edition Description: 1 ED Read an AALBC.com Review "Maisha, the narrator of "A Shooting Star," chronicles the much-gossiped-about affairs of her friend Lorene and laments her inability to differentiate between sex and love. In "The Eagle Flies," Vinnie, a single mother, devotes herself to her selfish children, letting opportunities for her own happiness slip by until it is almost too late. In "A Filet of Soul," Louella, raised to believe she is ugly and undesirable, falls for a fast-talking con man and loses her small inheritance and her dignity; but his betrayal turns out to mark the beginning of a love affair - and a life - Louella had never imagined she would find. In the final story of this collection, "The Lost and the Found," Lorene waits and waits for the philanderer she loves to marry her, almost letting the love of a good man pass her by." |
#21 Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, Vols. 1-4 Click to order via Amazon Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu Paperback: 200 pages Publisher: African American Images (April 1, 2004) Language: English ISBN-10: 0913543969 ISBN-13: 978-0913543962 Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches Advice for parents, educators, community, and church members is provided in this guide for ensuring that African American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible African American men. This book answers such questions as Why are there more black boys in remedial and special education classes than girls? Why are more girls on the honour roll? When do African American boys see a positive black male role model? Is the future of black boys in the hands of their mothers and white female teachers? and When does a boy become a man? The significance of rite of passage activities, including mentoring, male bonding, and spirituality, are all described. |
#22 Covenant Click to order via Amazon by Brandon Massey Covenant Click to order via Amazon Paperback: 364 pages Publisher: Dark Corner Publishing (November 16, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0970807554 ISBN-13: 978-0970807557 Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 inches From the award-winning author of Dark Corner and The Other Brother comes an unforgettable thriller of family secrets, toxic faith, and high-tech suspense. On a golden summer morning, fifteen-year-old Anthony Thorne is on a fishing boat with his father, rods cast into the lake, when the crack of a rifle shatters the silence. His father slumps forward, blood leaking from his chest. Horrified, Anthony spins in the direction of the gunfire, and sees a shadowy figure race away from the shore and vanish in the cover of the trees--a vision that will haunt him for years to come . . . Anthony pulls his dad into his arms, but he is beyond help. He dies in Anthony's embrace, Anthony's scream of anguish echoing across the still waters. Fifteen years later, a happily married Marine veteran and author of a best-selling series of crime novels, Anthony has achieved a measure of success. But the past still haunts him--in spite of his eyewitness testimony, his father's murder was declared a hunting accident, and no one was ever brought to justice. On the anniversary of his father's death, a mysterious message arrives from an unknown sender that promises to lead Anthony to the truth. But is Anthony's helper the angel he'd been waiting for--or a devil in disguise? Determined to find answers, Anthony and his wife soon find themselves hunted by a team of assassins dispatched by a powerful organization with frightening technological resources. The killers pursuing them are as fanatical in their beliefs as they are well-equipped--loyal followers of a charismatic leader who might be the most dangerous man in America . . . Lightning-paced and gripping from the first sentence to the explosive finale, Covenant marks Brandon Massey's entry into the arena of high-stakes action thrillers--a story exploring today's issues that will resonate with readers long after they've turned the last page. |
#22 Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism Click to order via Amazon by Dr. John Henrik Clarke ISBN: 1886433186 Format: Paperback, 128pp Pub. Date: August 2002 Publisher: A & B Distributors |
#23 Breath, Eyes, Memory (Oprah's Book Club) Click to order via Amazon by Edwidge Danticat Paperback: 234 pages Publisher: Vintage (May 18, 1998) Language: English ISBN-10: 037570504X ISBN-13: 978-0375705045 Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.6 x 8 inches At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti--and the enduring strength of Haiti's women--with a vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people's suffering and courage. At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti--to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence, in a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people. |
#23 Game Over: The Rise and Transformation of a Harlem Hustler Click to order via Amazon by Azie Faison & Agyei Tyehimba Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Atria (August 7, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 0743282310 Read an Excerpt from Game Over Agyei Tyehimba has co-written a book entitled Game Over: The Rise and Redemption of a Former Harlem Hustler which was released on August 7, 2007. Published by Simon & Schuster, Game Over chronicles the life of former Harlem hustler Azie Faison. Faison told his story through a major motion picture (Paid in Full) and a street documentary (Game Over). The story of Azie, Rich Porter, and Alberto "Alpo" Martinez, has also been told in FEDS Magazine, The Source, The Village Voice, and a number of other periodicals. Much like the classic autobiographies Manchild in a Promised Land, Down These Mean Streets, and Makes Me Wanna Holler, this book tells the story of a young man's struggle for meaning and identity in the 'hood, how the streets seduced him, and his remarkable transformation from drug dealer to writer and youth advocate. This book explores the New York City drug game during the Ronald Reagan years, the forces that led so many urban youth to enter the drug game, the lavish lifestyles of Azie and his partners, and the personal tragedies that confronted them all. Readers will learn about the massive corruption of law enforcement and their complicity in urban drug trafficking. Readers will also learn about how Azie turned his life around, creating a documentary and motion picture about his life to steer youth away from his former path. This is a must read for high school students, parents, college students, social critics, Hip Hop enthusiasts and professionals in all walks of life. Agyei Tyehimba recently appeared at the 2007 Harlem Book Fair on a panel discussing his book. |
#24 Children of the Street: An Inspector Darko Dawson Mystery Click to order via Amazon by Kwei Quartey Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks; Original edition (July 12, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0812981677 ISBN-13: 978-0812981674 Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.9 inches In the slums of Accra, Ghana’s fast-moving, cosmopolitan capital, teenagers are turning up dead. Inspector Darko Dawson has seen many crimes, but this latest string of murders—in which all the young victims bear a chilling signature—is the most unsettling of his career. Are these heinous acts a form of ritual killing or the work of a lone, cold-blooded monster? With time running out, Dawson embarks on a harrowing journey through the city’s underbelly and confronts the brutal world of the urban poor, where street children are forced to fight for their very survival and a cunning killer seems just out of reach. |
#24 Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America; Sixth Revised Edition Click to order via Amazon by Lerone Bennett Jr. ISBN: 0140178228 Format: Paperback, 736pp Pub. Date: May 1984 Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) "...will introduce parents to some "real" history so that they may teach their children." 'Akil Bomani Before the Mayflower traces black history from its origins in western Africa, through the transatlantic journey that ended in slavery, the Reconstruction period, the Jim Crow era, and the civil rights upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, culminating in an exploration of the complex realities of African-American life in the 1990s. Here is the most recent scholarship on the geographic, social, ethnic, economic, and cultural journey of "the other Americans," together with vital portraits of black pioneers and seminal figures in the struggle for freedom, as well as additional material on historical developments in the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years. |
#25 I Dreamt I Was in Heaven - The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang Click to order via Amazon By Leonce Gaiter Paperback: 290 pages Publisher: Legba Books (September 1, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0615490107 ISBN-13: 978-0615490106 Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches Read an AALBC.com Review "Hanging Judge" Isaac C. Parker; Notorious half-black, half-Indian outlaw Cherokee Bill; one-quarter Cherokee "gentlemen bandit" Henry Starr, relative of the notorious Belle Starr; and the worst of them all-half black, half Creek Indian Rufus Buck. These real-life historical figures collided during the fateful summer of 1895. In lawless Indian Territory the end of an era approached. The U.S. government continued to co-opt Indian land for settlement. Judge Isaac C. Parker's judicial tyranny over the entire 74,000 square mile Indian Territory was coming to an end. Against this background, the multi-racial, teenaged Rufus Buck Gang--the last and most notorious of the Indian Territory badmen--embarked on their vicious, childish, and deadly 13-day rampage that shocked even this lawless land. In I Dreamt I Was in Heaven, famous, historical figures dance with fictional characters to create a turn-of-the-century tapestry of violence and innocence, butchery and grace--mirroring and chafing against the backdrop of a burgeoning United States, and a disappearing American West. |
#25 Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (The Toni Morrison Lecture Series) Click to order via Amazon by Edwidge Danticat Hardcover: 208 pages Publisher: Princeton University Press (September 19, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0691140189 ISBN-13: 978-0691140186 Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches Read an AALBC.com Book Review "Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them."--Create Dangerously In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile, examining what it means to be an immigrant artist from a country in crisis. Inspired by Albert Camus' lecture, "Create Dangerously," and combining memoir and essay, Danticat tells the stories of artists, including herself, who create despite, or because of, the horrors that drove them from their homelands and that continue to haunt them. Danticat eulogizes an aunt who guarded her family's homestead in the Haitian countryside, a cousin who died of AIDS while living in Miami as an undocumented alien, and a renowned Haitian radio journalist whose political assassination shocked the world. Danticat writes about the Haitian novelists she first read as a girl at the Brooklyn Public Library, a woman mutilated in a machete attack who became a public witness against torture, and the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat and other artists of Haitian descent. Danticat also suggests that the aftermaths of natural disasters in Haiti and the United States reveal that the countries are not as different as many Americans might like to believe. Create Dangerously is an eloquent and moving expression of Danticat's belief that immigrant artists are obliged to bear witness when their countries of origin are suffering from violence, oppression, poverty, and tragedy. |
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