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#21 - Thug Matrimony Click to order via Amazon by Wahida Clark Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Dafina (April 1, 2007) The #15 Best-Selling eBook on AALBC.com for 2012! Book Description: In Wahida Clark phenomenal, gritty new novel Angel is getting ready to marry the man of her dreams - but his past isn't about to let go... Angel, Jaz, Tasha and Kyra are four girlfriends pulling themselves out of the ghetto-and trying to bring their hearts up to higher ground with them. Now Angel has started her own law practice and new life with Kaylin. But when an unwamted guest crashes their wedding, all the rage and bloodlust from the hood comes bustin' out - and Angel's gonna need every prayer in heaven to make it to the altar alive... |
#21 - Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny Click to order via Amazon by Hill Harper Format: Hardcover, 192pp Pub. Date: April 2006 Most people associate Hill Harper with Hollywood, as he's appeared in dozens of films and television shows. But he is just as comfortable in a school auditorium, rousing groups of students with his unique style of real-life wisdom. Having addressed thousands of high-school and middle- school students over the years, Hill is ready to take his message to an even wider audience. Letters to a Young Brother is drawn from the humbling life lessons he learned on the road to his Ivy League education and beyond. Inspired by the countless letters and e-mails he has received from teens, Hill Harper set out to write a series of letters to young people that would catch the attention of even the most reluctant readers. The result is a motivational but approachable book full of encouragement on a wide array of hot topics, particularly among young African-American and Hispanic men. From the challenges of getting a good education and making it through college to the media's destructive emphasis on material wealth, Letters to a Young Brother delivers eye-opening answers. Reminiscent of Marian Wright Edelman's New York Times bestseller, The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours, Hill Harper's words will resonate for years to come. |
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The Secret She Kept Click to order via Amazon by ReShonda Tate Billingsley Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Gallery Books; Original edition (July 3, 2012) Her novel Say Amen, Again won the NAACP Image Award, proving that ReShonda Tate Billingsley’s storytelling “scores a direct hit” (Publishers Weekly), delighting and inspiring with powerful, soul-searching situations and unforgettable characters. How far will you go to save someone you love and trust when they’ve kept a dangerous secret for years? That’s the question facing Lance Kingston, a successful Houston magazine executive whose recent marriage to beautiful, high-powered attorney Tia Jiles seemed to promise a bright future for both of them. But under the surface, a fierce and frightening storm was brewing. That’s because Tia never revealed to Lance what she and her family have known since Tia was seventeen—she has an illness that takes over her mind, transforming her into a raging, violent woman hell-bent on destruction. Bipolar disorder. Schizophrenia. Or crazy, as Lance’s grandmother continually reminds him. “Crazy leaves clues,” she told him point-blank, and perhaps Lance should have listened. Tia’s mother tries to pray the problem away . . . and Tia’s doctors can’t help her if she won’t do what they advise. Now there’s more than their marriage and Tia’s survival at stake: Tia is pregnant, and Lance will stop at nothing to keep his troubled wife and unborn daughter safe. But at what price? |
#22 - The Mis-Education of the Negro Click to order via Amazon by Carter Godwin Woodson Hardcover: 108 pages Publisher: Wilder Publications (January 21, 2008) The Mis-Education of the Negro is one of the most important books on education ever written. Carter G. Woodson shows us the weakness of Euro-centric based curriculums that fail to include African American history and culture. This system mis-educates the African American student, failing to prepare them for success and to give them an adequate sense of who they are within the system that they must live. Woodson provides many strong solutions to the problems he identifies. A must-read for anyone working in the education field. |
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- When Sunday Comes Again Click to order via Amazon by Terry E. Hill Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Kensington; 1 edition (June 26, 2012) “When Sunday Comes Again” is the second installment in the Sunday Morning Trilogy. In the first, “Come Sunday Morning,” the beautiful, yet scheming, Samantha Cleaveland arranges the assassination of her husband Pastor Hezekiah T. Cleaveland in the pulpit of the church they founded together. After his death Samantha is installed as interim pastor of New Testament Cathedral and the head of the international television ministry in Los Angeles, California. |
#23 - Satan, I'm Taking Back My Health! Click to order via Amazon by Jawanza Kunjufu Format: Paperback, 200pp Pub. Date: March 2000 Publisher: African American Images This unique look at health care interprets scriptures of the Bible and adapts and applies the wisdom found there to modern ways of life. These scriptures teach that the prevention of diseases is not in the hands of doctors, but rather in what individuals eat and how they live. Health-minded Americans will learn how to avoid the disease-causing preservatives, growth hormones, and pesticides of the meat and dairy industries that pollute the once-fresh foods that the public consumes. Also included is an in-depth discussion of Satan’s influence on the advertising industry and how it is linked to drug, cigarette, and alcohol addictions among the American people. |
#24 - Boundaries Click to order via Amazon by Elizabeth Nunez Hardcover: 275 pages Publisher: Akashic Books; First Edition edition (September 27, 2011) "Elizabeth Nunez continues to add to her impressive body of work with her new novel, Boundaries, the moving and spirited story of Caribbean-born Anna Sinclair's efforts to find love and foster a successful career as a book editor, all the while caring for her aging parents. Ms. Nunez has always had the power to get to the essence of what makes human beings take right and wrong turns. With Boundaries, a reader will find that she, again, does not disappoint." --Edward P. Jones, author of The Known World "Boundaries is told in spare and trascendent prose. [...] As always, Nunez delivers a unique and riveting perspective on Carribean life as well as immigrant life in general." --The New York Amsterdam News |
#24 - Afrikan-Centered Consciousness Versus the New World Order: Garveyism
in the Age of Globalism Click to order via Amazon by Amos N. Wilson Paperback: 141 pages Publisher: Afrikan World InfoSystems; 1st edition (1999) Though the preparation of a book is a highly social process, it takes place in considerable isolation. Throughout its gestation, the unfurling of life's chances and challenges stop not for a moment. This effort squarely fits into that mold. The closing of 1998 and the opening months of 1999 were fraught with heart-wrenching agony and shock. Just as we celebrated the punblishing of Blueprint for Black Power, the ancestors called HOME freedom fighters John Henrik Clarke, Roy Canton, Kwame Ture and Samori Marksman. Personal old friend Paul "Bucky" Buckmire and our family childhood friend, a young Elvin Roach, both died suddenly. Bucky would often sit aftrernoons and have grand conversations of further endeavors in Pan-Afrikan service. Vin, a true friend, little known except in the immediate circle of Arima, was like the other distinguished warriors, everpresent in all manner of need.. Indeed, they graced us with meritiorious service. May they RISE LIKE RA! We mourned, venerated their life expresiions, and then, it was time to reassume revolution's challenges. And this this long-mused publication was elevated to the fore. We rallied veterans and new recruits alike to blast into being--in record--these most compelling of Dr. Wilson's discoursess. Embrace this the fruit of the vineyard. |
#25 - Can I Be Me? Click to order via Amazon by Esther Armah Paperback: 98 pages Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (March 16, 2006) Esther Armah is a black British journalist, with a troubled soul and a questioning mind. She’s an addict. Addicted to the need for approval, the desire for applause, bright lights and struggle. She’s also on a quest. Hungry for a place of belonging, a place of comfort and acceptance of her identity; black, British, Ghanaian and Afrocentric. That need becomes intertwined with her chosen profession – the media. Can she find a place of refuge in her travels and her profession? Esther decides to fight her fix and come clean. Getting clean means spilling the beans. So starting with her family all the way into the sometimes murky world of the British media, Esther spills with abandon. Brutally honest, blackly humorous, emotionally revealing and at times painful; CAN I BE ME? is a universal story. Who would you be without your daily addictions? How did you get addicted to your drug of choice? Who would you be if there were no applause, disappointment, injustice, discrimination or rejection? Esther Armah is a black British journalist, with a troubled soul and a questioning mind. She’s an addict. Addicted to the need for approval, the desire for applause, bright lights and struggle. She’s also on a quest. Hungry for a place of belonging, a place of comfort and acceptance of her identity; black, British, Ghanaian and Afrocentric. That need becomes intertwined with her chosen profession – the media. Can she find a place of refuge in her travels and her profession? Esther decides to fight her fix and come clean. Getting clean means spilling the beans. So starting with her family all the way into the sometimes murky world of the British media, Esther spills with abandon. Brutally honest, blackly humorous, emotionally revealing and at times painful; CAN I BE ME? is a universal story. Who would you be without your daily addictions? How did you get addicted to your drug of choice? Who would you be if there were no applause, disappointment, injustice, discrimination or rejection? |
#25 - By Any Means Necessary Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented Click to order via Amazon by Herb Boyd, Ron Daniels (Editor), Maulana Karenga (Editor), Haki R. Madhubuti (Editor) Paperback: 280 pages Publisher: Third World Press (January 1, 2012) Compiled as a response to Manning Marable’s controversial new biography of Malcolm X, more than 30 noted scholars from the African American community offer their opinions on Marable’s portrayal of the man whose short life still inspires speculation of what might have been. Contributors include: Imam Al-Hajj Talib Abdur-Rashid, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Abdul Alkalimat, Molefi Kete Asante, Rick Ayers, Bryonn Bain, Amiri Baraka, Aslaku Berhanu, Amir Bey, Todd Steven Burroughs, Ta-Nehisi Coates, William Jelani Cobb, Karl Evanzz, Iyaluua and Herman Ferguson, Bill Flectcher, Jr., Glen Ford, Rhone Fraser, Wil Haygood, Kelly Harris, Errol A. Henderson, Fred Hord, Peter James Hudson, Ezra Hyland, Regina Jennings, Peniel E. Joseph, Clyde Ledbetter Jr., Fred Logan, Kevin McGruder, Starla Muhammad, Nell Irvin Painter, Imani Perry, Gregory J. Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Diane D. Turner, Ilyasah Shabazz |
2012 Best-Selling Books by 2
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Jan/Feb 2012
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2012 | May/Jun 2012 |
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eBooks All 2012 |
All 2011
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