AALBC Top Ten Sellers for February 1999
(click title to order book, click author's name for additional author
information)
#1
 Title: Robert's
Rules in Plain EnglishAuthor: Doris P. Zimmerman, Henry M. Scott Robert Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, Incorporated Date Published: August 1997 Format: Trade Paper At last, a book on parliamentary procedure that everyone can understand! If you've ever had to run a meeting according to parliamentary procedures, you know just how difficult it is to keep track of all the rules, much less follow them. Figuring out what to say and how to say it seems an impossible task. Robert's Rules in Plain English is the solution to that problem. Not only does it provide you with essential, basic rules in simple, straightforward English, it also includes sample dialogues so you can see exactly how those rules work in practice. Using summaries, outlines, charts and forms, Robert's Rules in Plain English provides you with all you need to know to run a meeting successfully and to keep it on track.. |
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 Title:
Words
Don't Fit In My MouthAuthor: Jessica C. Moore Publisher: Moore Black Press Date Published: April 1997 Format: Trade Paper (5 time AALBC bestseller!) |
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Seventh
Octave: The Early Writings of Saul Stacey Williams(Click Title to Order) Second time on the AALBC's Best Seller list and second book published by Moore Black Press on the list this month Author: Saul Stacey Williams, Jessica C. Moore (Editor) Publisher: Moore Black Press Date Published: February 1998 Format: Trade Paper |
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 (First software title and second month in a row on the AALBC's best sellers list) "The disks -- crammed with 2.5 million words and more than 2,500 pictures, maps, graphs, sounds and video clips on practically all things of African descent -- reverberate with their subject. A mouse click can send users, even those with modestly powered personal computers, on a cinematic voyage along the Swahili coast, or permit them to retrace centuries of slave routes between the "dark continenet" and the New World, or simply watch, in stunningly stark video clips, haunting scenes of civil rights marchers being attacked with fire hoses and police dogs. "...a groundbreaking marriage of content and technology "" -- The New York Times |
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360� - A Revolution of Black Poets(For sale directly by the AALBC and all time best selling poetry book!) Author: Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam & Kwame Alexander Publisher: BlackWords Date Published: September 1998 Format: Trade Paper Grand divas Sonia Sanchez, author of Wounded in the House of a Friend and Does Your House Have Lions, and Mari Evans, author of the classic I Am a Black Woman, are displayed side by side with the youthful albeit sophisticated musings of Apollo Showtime winner Jessica Care Moore and Pulitzer prize nominee Ruth Forman. Haki Madhubuti, who has sold over 3 million books, and poetry slam World Heavyweight Champ Quincy Troupe mix it up with performance poet D-Knowledge (featured in Poetic Justice and Higher Learning) and Dark Room Collective founder Thomas Sayers Ellis. |
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 Title: Some
Love, Some Pain, Some Time: StoriesAuthor: J. California Cooper Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Incorporated Date Published: September 1996 Format: Trade Paper The author of In Search of
Satisfaction employs her characteristic themes of romance, heartbreak, struggle and faith
in Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime. Her characters offer inspiration, laughter, instruction
and pure enjoyment. |
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 Title: Like
the Singing Coming off the Drums : Love Poems(First appreance on the AALBC's best sellers list) Author: Sonia Sanchez, Deborah Chasman (Editor) Publisher: Beacon Press Date Published: December 1998 Format: Trade Paper A collection of sensual love poems from one of the most prominent African-American poets and a leader of the Black Arts Movement. |
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 Title: What
Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary DayAuthor: Pearl Cleage Publisher: Avon Books Date Published: September 1998 Format: Trade Paper This highly praised debut
novel by a renowned African-American playwright/essayist is a gritty yet warm and
inspiring story of hope, love, and homecoming. |
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 `Title: ParadiseAuthor: Toni Morrison Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated Date Published: December 1997 (Last appearance on the AALBC best seller list in November 1998) "They
shoot the white girl first. With the others they can take their time." Toni
Morrison's first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature opens with a
horrifying scene of mob violence then chronicles its genesis in a small all-black town in
rural Oklahoma. Founded by descendants of free slaves as intent on isolating themselves
from the outside world as it once was on rejecting them, the patriarchal community of Ruby
is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away,
another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these
women in flight from death and despair that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their
pain, their terror, and their murderous rage..." |
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 Title: The
Complete Collected Poems of Maya AngelouAuthor: Maya Angelou Publisher: Random House, Incorporated Date Published: August 1994 Format: Trade Cloth Sales of Maya Angelou's Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings surged dramatically after her soul-stirring reading at President Clinton's inauguration. Now, for the first time, the complete collection of her published poems is offered--in a handsome hardcover edition. |
