AALBC Top Ten Sellers for January 1999
(click title to order book, click author's name for additional author
information)
#1
 Title: One
Day My Soul Just Opened Up: 40 Days and 40 Nights Towards Spiritual Strength and Personal
Growth(The all-time best selling book on the AALBC web site!) Author: Iyanla Vanzant Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade Date Published: December 1997 Format: Trade Paper Both an inspiring guide and a hands-on measurement tool that
enables readers to chart their spiritual growth as it unfolds, One Day My Soul Just Opened
Up encourages readers to use journal-writing as a self-awareness process. Vanzant
introduces 40 principles to follow and embrace in daily living as guideposts on the path
toward spiritual strength and understanding. |
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 Title: In
The Meantime: Finding Yourself and The Love You WantAuthor: Iyanla Vanzant (The 2nd all-time best selling book on the AALBC web site!) Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade Date Published: January 1998 The best-selling author of "Acts of
Faith" and "The Value in the Valley"--whose books have empowered countless
women--now reaches out to anyone who yearns for love, in a book about relationships that
can help them reach new levels of awareness, spiritual growth, and fulfillment. |
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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: The
Lady, Her Lover, and Her LordAuthor: T. D. Jakes (First appreance on the AALBC's best sellers list) Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group, The Date Published: June 1998 Format: Trade Cloth In this accessible, sensitive, and practical book, the best-selling author of Woman, Thou Art Loosed! and Loose That Man and Let Him Go! provides inspired and clear advice to women -- and to the men who love them -- who desire to transform past pain into fuel for future achievement. |
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 (First software title 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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 Title: Civil
Rights: Rhetoric or Reality(First appreance on the AALBC's best sellers list) Author: Thomas Sowell Publisher: William Morrow & Company, Incorporated Date Published: November 1985 Format: Trade Paper A landmark work on the state of civil rights three decades after Brown v. Board of Education. |
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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
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 Title: Faith
in the Valley: Lessons for Women on the Journey to Peace(The 4th all-time best selling book on the AALBC web site!) Author: Iyanla Vanzant Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade Date Published: April 1996 Format: Trade Paper A beautifully rendered meditation book to help and support women through the rough valley experiences of life--now reissued in a special keepsake edition that makes a wonderful Mother's Day gift. |
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 Title: Men
Cry in the Dark(First appreance on the AALBC's best sellers list) Author: Michael Baisden, Stanley Rabinowitz (Editor) Publisher: Legacy Pub Date Published: June 1997 Format: Trade ClothThe bad boy of literature is back! Michael is taking the book world by storm once again with a provocative new book that is sure to stir controversy.Men Cry in the Dark is an entertaining and relaistic novel about relationships, fatherhood, and interracial dating from the man's perspective. Michael has courageously stepped outside the boundaries to prove once and for all that men do love their children, cherish their women, and yes, even cry. |
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 Title: Dark
Eros(First appreance on the AALBC's best sellers list) Author: Reginald Martin, Ishmael Reed, Lenard Moore Publisher: St. Martin's Press, Inc. Date Published: December 1998 Format: Trade Paper The overwhelming power of the erotic imagination is brought to full flower in this masterful collection of African-American writings. With pieces from more than seventy writers, Dark Eros explores the erotic possibilities as imagined and reported by authors both well-known and emerging. Using the literary to trace the range of the erotic impulse, this collection of writers and writings--poetry, fiction, and essays--covers the length and breadth of styles and emotions in contemporary African-American writing. As editor Reginald Martin notes, "The pieces collected in this volume throb with the tempo and tenor of writers who have defined the erotic verve of our urban times. Los Angeles, New York City, Miami, New Orleans--every place there is a bus line or dance club has produced African-American eroticism...." The result is a volume that is both compelling and necessary-an exploration of the African-American through the erotic.
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