Title:  Robert's Rules in Plain English
Author:  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: 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: Stories
Author:  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:  What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
Author:  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:  Paradise
Author:  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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