AALBC Top Ten Sellers for February 2000
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 Title: She(Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author:
Saul Stacey Williams Publisher: Simon and Schuster Inc. "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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 Title: The
Seventh Octave: The Early Writings of Saul Stacey Williams(Click title to Purchase Online and Learn more about this Book and Poet) ALL TIME AALBC
BEST SELLING BOOK for 1998 & 1999 Author: Saul Stacey Williams, Jessica C. Moore (Editor) Publisher: Moore Black Press 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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 (Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: Jessica C. Moore Format: Trade Paper, 125 pages
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Doll(Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: Karen E. Quinones Miller -- Kimberla Lawson Roby, (Author of best-selling novel "Behind Closed Doors" and "Casting the First Stone"
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Poems(Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author:
Nikki Giovanni In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America's most celebrated and controversial writers. Now, she presents a stunning collection of love poems that includes more than twenty new works. From the revolutionary "Seduction" to the tender
new poem, "Just a Simple Declaration of Love," from the whimsical "I Wrote
a Good Omelet" to the elegiac "All Eyes on U," written for Tupac Shakur, these poems embody the fearless passion and spirited
wit for which Nikki Giovanni is beloved and revered. |
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First Passage: Blacks in the Americas, 1502-1617(Click to buy on-line) Author: Colin A. Palmer, Designed by Sandy Kaufman Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated Date Published: January 1995 Format: Trade Cloth 'The First Passage' examines the first century of the recorded black presence in the Americas. The ordeal of the Atlantic crossing gave way to isolation and humiliation of slavery and the loss of friends and family. Some slaves attempted rebellion and escape. Others maintained as many religious and cultural traditions as possible and, as the African-American population grew, forged new traditions and new ties of kinship. This history remains at the core of black life in the Americas. Colin Palmer tells a story of extraordinary suffering. But the book is also a timeless lesson in endurance and survival.
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Way from Home(Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: Connie Briscoe Briscoe's new work had a startling genesis: as a child, she
wondered about the photographs of white-looking women on the mantel and was surprised to
find that they were her forebears. Briscoe is a descendant of slaves on James Madisons
plantation, the setting of this saga about three generations of house slaves. |
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 The Brethren(Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: John Grisham Trumble, a minimum security federal prison, home to the
usual assortment of criminals--drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax
evaders, two Wall Street crooks, one doctor, at least four lawyers. |
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Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man(Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: James Weldon Johnson, Philip Smith (Editor) One of the most prominent African-Americans of his time,
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was a successful lawyer, educator, social reformer,
songwriter and critic. But it was as a poet and novelist that he achieved lasting fame. |
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Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey(Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author:
Toi Derricotte This book began as sketchy journal entries over twenty years ago when the author moved into an all-white neighborhood near New York City. "I believed that my unconsciousness of my blackness, my 'forgetting,' was symptomatic of some deep refusal of 'self,' a kind of death wish. . . . I wanted to capture the language of self-hate, the pain of re-emerging thought and buried memory and consciousness." Here the author describes encounters with family, neighbors, friends, and colleagues where she is forced to question what it means to be a black woman living in a racially divided world. The result is a brilliant and painful document, a meditation about the complexity of race in this country. It is also a book about uncovering the denied and shameful aspects of the self, and the author's journey toward self-acceptance.
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