AALBC.com's Best Selling Books
November & December 2003
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#1
ISBN:
0375411550 The Bluest Eye is the first novel by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. A work of profound insight into the nature of desire and the hunger we harbor to escape our own histories, this novel -- about a black girl from the author's home town of Loraine, Ohio, who wished her eyes would turn blue -- announced the arrival of a literary genius on the American scene. One would be hard pressed to say which of Morrison's books is her best, but undoubtedly The Bluest Eye is among them. The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni
Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the story of
eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove - a black girl in an America whose love for its
blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others - who prays for her eyes to
turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so
that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the
heart of her yearning and the tragedy of its fulfillment. |
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#2
ISBN: 0062734768
At last, a book on parliamentary procedure that everyone can understand! |
#3 Think and Grow Rich
Click to order via Amazon ISBN: 0449214923 This book has sold over twenty million copies worldwide. The classic of classics on the subject of personal achievement, it has helped literally millions of people to lead richer, fuller lives, to attain career advancement, to improve personal relationships, to define true joy in life, and frequently to build substantial monetary wealth as well.
Best of all, you will learn that there are no prerequisites for achieving
unlimited success. The principles can be applied by any individual in any
occupation, at any age, regardless of your economic circumstance. Think
and Grow Rich is so powerful that you will appreciate its message the
moment you begin to apply its principles. |
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#4
by Guy Johnson Format: Hardcover, 584pp. Read an AALBC.com review by Thumper Guy Johnson, the author of the critically acclaimed debut Standing at the Scratch Line, continues the Tremain family saga. Jackson St. Clair Tremain hasn�t spoken to his grandfather King in nearly twenty years. Disgusted by the violence and bloodlust that seemed to be his grandfather’s way of life, Jackson chose to distance himself from King and live a simpler life. But now King is gravely ill, and his impending death places Jackson’s life�as well as those of his family and friends�in jeopardy. Reluctantly, Jackson travels to Mexico to see King. But after a brief reconciliation, his grandfather is assassinated, and Jackson suspects that his grandmother Serena may have had a hand in it. Jackson takes control of King’s organization, and as he does, he reflects on the summers he spent in Mexico as a child and the lessons he learned there at the knee of his strong-willed, complex grandfather. In Echoes of a Distant
Summer, Guy Johnson introduces us to a new hero, Jackson St. Clair
Tremain, who learns that, like his grandfather, he must be willing to
protect those he loves�at all costs. |
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#5
by Guy Johnson ISBN: 0375756671 The story opens in 1916 in the steamy bayous of Louisiana. Young LeRoi
"King" Tremain and his uncle Jake attempt a raid on a rival family's
compound. In doing so, Jake dies, but not before LeRoi kills two corrupt
white deputies. Forced by his family to leave everything he knows until
the heat dies down, LeRoi embarks on a vivid adventure that first takes
him to France during World War I, where he finds it is just as easy to
kill vicious, bigoted U.S. soldiers as it is to kill Germans. Dubbed "le
Roi du Mort" -- the king of death -- by the French because of his
coldhearted, machinistic killing on the battlefield, King returns to
America an ambitious man. Driven to create a family dynasty much like the
one he was forced to leave, he battles the Mob in Jazz Age Harlem, fights
the Ku Klux Klan in Louisiana, and outwits crooked politicians trying to
control a black township in Oklahoma. Those who cross him are left
bloodied, bruised, or dead. Along the way, he marries Serena Baddeaux, a
woman strong enough to stand by King's side, and who matches his
determination, courage, and grit. Though more concerned with skin color
and social standing than with the truth, she nonetheless knows no
boundaries when it comes to protecting her family. |
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#6 by Eoin Colfer ISBN:
0786819146 Artemis Fowl is going straight�as soon as he pulls off the most brilliant criminal feat of his career... After being held prisoner for five years, Artemis Fowl's father has finally come home. He's a new man�an honest man, much to Artemis's horror. He makes his son promise to give up his life of crime, and Artemis has to go along with it. But not until he has completed one last scheme. Artemis has constructed a super-computer from stolen fairy technology. Called the "C Cube," it will render all existing human technology obsolete. He arranges a meeting with a powerful Chicago businessman, Jon Spiro, to broker a deal for the C Cube. But Spiro springs a trap�he steals the C Cube and mortally injures Butler. Artemis knows his only hope of saving his loyal bodyguard is to employ fairy magic; so once again he must contact his old rival, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police. It is going to take a miracle to save Butler, and Artemis's luck may have just run out...
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#7
by Mitch Albom
ISBN: 0786868716 From the author of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie, a novel that explores the unexpected connections of our lives, and the idea that heaven is more than a place; it's an answer. Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his
mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement
park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to
save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife,
where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where
your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew,
others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to
soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him
on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and
revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I
here?" |
#8 Rockin'
Around That Christmas Tree: A Holiday NovelClick to order via Amazon by Donna Hill and Francis Ray ISBN: 0312321953 Tis the season to be merry and the Morrison family are about to have their lives turned upside down. Denise has always been the faithful wife and dutiful mother. As a
matter of fact, it seems that is all she has been in the twenty-plus years
she and her husband, Edward have been married. But the kids are grown and
out of the house and now she's ready to live a few dreams of her own.
Edward, however, would like to keep things just the way they are and
Denise realizes that if she doesn't do something drastic, then all she
will ever be is a mother and a wife. So when she drops the bomb at
Thanksgiving dinner that she is leaving their father and selling the
house, everyone is stunned to say the least. And her announcement opens
the door to Morrison Family Dysfunction 101. Edward is now living with his
crazy aunt Etta and uncle Eddie, who's sex life is more active than his
own; their daughter, Christine has moved back home because she suspects
her husband is cheating on her; and their son, Anthony is simply dazed and
confused. And in the midst of it all, Edward hatches a plan to get his
wife back--no matter what. Not only does he plan to be back in their home
and back in their bed, but come Christmas he and Denise will be Rockin'
Around that Christmas Tree. |
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#9
ISBN: 0525947760 Making a list? Checking it twice? Eric Jerome Dickey knows who's
naughty or nice. |
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#10
by: Alicia Terry Henderson, Jennifer C. Kindert ISBN: 0971949018 It has been proven that individuals who are comfortable with their racial selves and accepting and understanding of those who are of a different race have healthy self-esteem levels. This story not only addresses the issues of racial identity, but it also addresses the issues of racial awareness and difference. In essence, Call Me Black Call Me Beautiful is a necessary tool for healthy self-esteem development in children.
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The Bluest
Eye
Robert's Rules in Plain
English
Echoes
of a Distant Summer 
Standing
at the Scratch Line
The
Eternity Code (Artemis Fowl, Book 3)
The Five People You Meet in
Heaven
Naughty
or Nice
Call Me Black Call Me Beautiful
