Where Evil Sleeps (A Tamara Hayle Mystery)

Author:  Valerie Wilson Wesley
Publisher:  Avon Books
Date Published:  May 1997
Format:  Mass Market Paperbound

"Welcome Private Invesigator Tamara Hayle! A contemporary sister with bills to pay, a son to raise, a life to lead, and a heinous crime to solve." ~Jill Nelson

Tamara Hayle is after some much-needed R&R down in sunny Kingston, Jamaica, when she is befriended by a chatty fellow tourist from Jersey. Against her better judgment, Tamara joins her new friend, Lilah Love and Lilah's two male traveling companions for a night on the town; the result is murder. Tamara suspects Lilah, although that lead eventually turns very cold. More murder, mayhem, and a tryst with a man from her past all put Tamara in the path of a killer, until she finally finds the spot where evil sleeps.

#2

Silent Conspiracy: A Lincoln Keller Mystery

Format: Hardcover, 273pp.
Publisher: Proctor Publications
Pub. Date: April  1997

Lincoln Keller makes his living being in places most people know nothing about. As a former professional football player for the Oakland Raiders and as a police officer for the same California city, Lincoln Keller has seen and done things few people have. And now, as a private investigator in his hometown of Detroit, Michigan, he applies his unique expertise in human behavior in service to an eclectic list of clients. He's used to intrigue, deception, malice, action, beautiful women and strange requests.

And when one of those beautiful women hires him to track down five men who all disappeared at the same time forty years ago, the case sounds interesting. But dangerous? Wouldn't seem like it. Together, the five young men in question formed a pre-Motown singing group called appropriately enough, The Sentiments. At one time in the mid Fifties, their incredible talent was setting the standards for the coming era of Detroit's blossoming music industry. The Sentiments were unquestionably on their way to the top.

But what happened on a warm, late summer night in 1955 that would cause The Sentiments to disappear? Individually... as a group...suddenly gone. Why?

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#3

 Starlight Passage

Author:  Anita Richmond Bunkley
Publisher:  Macmillan Library Reference
Date Published:  January 1997
Format:  Trade Cloth

When Kiana Sheridan begins investigating her family's roots as part of her doctoral dissertation, she is motivated as much by a personal desire to reclaim a family legacy that has long been denied. Kiana believes her great-great-grandfather was an artisan working in decorative glass on a Tennessee plantation. With his wife he fled slavery via the Underground Railroad just before the outbreak of the Civil War - but there the trail goes cold. If only Kiana can piece together the missing link, she'll understand what happened to the glass and complete the research her mother had started before her death. But Kiana's plans cause turmoil in her family. They are furious and deny the plantation ever existed. Her ambitious step-sister does everything to sabotage Kiana's agenda. Nevertheless, Kiana is aided by Rex Tandy, a handsome photojournalist, and together they set off on an adventure that retraces the route to freedom Kiana's ancestors took - and leads finally to an isolated mountain village where the secret of her family is still jealously guarded. There, deep in the remote hollows of the Smoky Mountains, Kiana and Rex discover their roots and the longings of their own hearts. Yet quite suddenly danger is all around them - danger to their very lives. For this is the place where passion and ideals once met a violent end...and now the shocking confrontation that has waited over a century is about to begin.

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#4

Eargasms: Urban Hip Hop, Vol. 1

Format: CD
Release Date: Feb 1 2000
Label: OZONE [CAROLINE]

CD includes the work of Jessica Care Moore and Saul Williams

Track List

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#5

Title:  She
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Author: Saul Stacey Williams
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Publisher:  Simon and Schuster Inc.
Date Published:  June 1999
Format:  Paperback And CD - $9.60 (plus shipping and tax)

"Who says poetry does not sell?" -- Troy Johnson AALBC.com

She is a fascinating and unique collection of interconnected poems by this multi-talented star -- and marks the beginning of an incredible and totally original artistic career.

She is a fascinating and unique collection of interconnected poems by this multi-talented star -- and marks the beginning of an incredible and totally original artistic career.

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#6

Not a Day Goes By

Author:  E. Lynn Harris
Publisher:  Doubleday & Company, Incorporated
Date Published:  June 2000
Format:  Trade Cloth

Welcome to the irresistible world of E. Lynn Harris--

He is a devilish and handsome ex-football player, now a rising sports agent at one of the hottest firms in the country. Irrepressible and dangerously alluring, John "Basil" Henderson has a history with women (and a few men). He's a commitment-phobe gadfly who's known for a double-edged magnetism that has the ability to thrill-- and wound.

She is the uncompromising Yancey Harrington Braxton, an up-and-coming Broadway star who oozes charm and bleeds ambition. Young, beautiful and dangerously crafty, Yancey is prepared to do whatever she must to get what she wants. A femme fatale who has left more than a few broken--hearted men in her wake, Yancey is intrigued by Basil. Both believe that in each other they've finally met their match.

A lavish wedding is planned, and the ultimate power couple plans to spend their lives in holy matrimony. But just before the nuptials, fate, and a little comeuppance from the past threaten the happy couple's future.

Masterful storyteller E. Lynn Harris takes listeners on a delicious little ride into the mischievous lives of two very unforgettable characters in this fun and satisfying cautionary tale.

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#7

Title: Words Don't Fit In My Mouth
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Author:  Jessica C. Moore
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Format: Trade Paper, 125 pages
Published April 1997, Moore Black Press

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#8

Title:  The Seventh Octave: The Early Writings of Saul Stacey Williams
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ALL TIME AALBC BEST SELLING BOOK for 1998 & 1999
(out of almost 1,000 different titles sold)!

Author:  Saul Stacey Williams, Jessica C. Moore (Editor)
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Publisher:  Moore Black Press
Date Published:  February 1998
Format:  Trade Paper

Hailed as "a dreadlocked dervish of words...the Bob Marley of American poets" (Esquire), Saul Williams is a gifted young poet who is opening up this literary art form to a new generation of readers. Like his writing -- a fearless mix of connecting rhythms and vibrant images -- Saul Williams is unstoppable. He received raves for his performance as an imprisoned street poet in the Trimark Pictures release Slam, winner of the Camera d'Or at Cannes and the Grand Jury prize at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. The consummate spoken-word performance artist, Williams has also been signed by producer Rick Rubin to record a CD of his poetry.

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#9

Cheaters

Author:  Eric Jerome Dickey
Publisher:  N A L
Date Published:  June 1999
Format:  Trade Cloth

Cheaters, Eric Jerome Dickey's latest exploration of affairs of the heart, begins in familiar territory yet ultimately develops into an unusual, sharp, and nuanced portrait of love lost and found. A large cast of upwardly mobile 20-something African Americans populates the novel. For them, airy southern California is a land of obvious pleasures: fancy cars, beautiful condos, and sleek hangouts. Regrettably, such pleasures are temporary, for theirs is also a world marred by duplicitous love affairs and betrayed

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#10

Title:  Passing

The beautiful, elegant, and ambitious Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. A light-skinned African American married to a white man unaware of her racial heritage, Clare has severed all ties to her past to become part of white, middle-class society. Clare's childhood friend, Irene Redfield, as light-skinned as Clare, has chosen to remain within the African-American community. Married to a successful doctor and the mother of two boys, Irene refuses to acknowledge the racism she grew up with and that continues to set limits on her family's happiness. A chance encounter forces both women to confront the lies they have told others and the secret fears they have buried within themselves.

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