#1
Addicted 

by Zane

Format: Paperback, 336pp.
ISBN: 0743442849
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pub. Date: October  2001

Addicted is the story of Zoe, an African-American female arts dealer. It traces her life from the time she first meets her husband, Jason, in the fifth grade, falls in love with him over a game of Twister in the eighth grade, loses her virginity to him in high school and eventually marries him. Everything seems perfect in Zoe’s life to her friends and family as she secretly deals with serious problems in her marriage.

After failing to get Jason to open up to her sexually, Zoe becomes involved in not one, not two but three extramarital affairs. By the time she seeks the aid of a prominent female African-American therapist, the walls of her picture perfect life have already started to crumble.

The book shifts into high gear as Zoe finds out that everyone from her lovers to her husband to her own mother are hiding secrets of their own. Her best friend, Brina, is physically abused by her alcoholic boyfriend, Dempsey. Zoe discovers under hypnosis that her fascination with sex stems from two incidents in her early childhood she had buried deeply into the crevices of her mind. She is stalked and attacked. The book comes to a head on a cold, dark mountain following a trail of murders and the true murderer is anyone’s guess. Addicted does for women what Fatal Attraction did for men. It will make a woman think twice before risking it all.

#2
Sugar  

by Bernice L. McFadden

Format: Paperback, 240pp.
ISBN: 0452282209
Publisher: Dutton/Plume
Pub. Date: December  2000
Edition Desc: REISSUE

In a debut novel that blends the rich, earthy atmosphere of the deep South and a voice imbued with spiritual grace, Bernice L. McFadden tells the story of two women: a modest, churchgoing wife and mother, and the young prostitute she befriends.. "When Sugar arrives in 1950s Bigelow - waltzing down the main square of the sweltering tiny Arkansas town as if she has every right to be there - no one tosses out the welcome mat or invites her in for a Coke. The Bigelow women hate her from the minute they lay eyes on her - on the bouncing blond wig and red-painted lips that tell them she has never known a hard day's work. All they know is they want her gone, out of their town, and away from their men.. "But Sugar has traveled too far and survived too much to back down now. She parks herself in the house at #10 Grove Street, even though she feels there is something about Bigelow that is calling up the past she prayed she'd left behind.. "Deep in her soul, Pearl Taylor knows what it is that Sugar feels, because it happened to her. It was the day her world shut down, the day the devil himself murdered her young daughter, Jude. It wasn't that Pearl stopped believing in God, exactly; she just couldn't trust him the way she used to. Then Sugar moves in next door, and Pearl's life irrevocably changes. Over sweet potato pie, an unlikely friendship begins, transforming the lives of two women - and an entire community.

#3
Johnny Buffalo  

by Dan Smith

Format: Paperback, 183pp.
ISBN: 1563152037
Publisher: SterlingHouse Publishers
Pub. Date: August  1999

After being shot and left for dead, Johnny Buffalo, a soldier in the United States Army, watches in horror as a lynch mob viciously murders his best friend and mentor. Bitter and disillusioned by the army's justice system. Johnny takes the law into his own hands and vows to bring the Texans who killed Iris friend to justice.

#4
The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth 
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by Zane

Format: Paperback, 2nd ed., 304pp.
ISBN: 0967460182
Publisher: Strebor Books International, LLC
Pub. Date: February  2001
Edition Desc: 2 ED

After more than two years of entertaining tens of thousands of loyal readers on the Internet with her vivid imagination, a large collection of Zane's erotica is finally available in a published format. Zane has captivated the minds of both sexes and all races. She has completely shattered the myth that men are more sexual in nature than women and that African-American women in particular are inhibited compared to their female counterparts of other races.

The erotica collection is divided into three sections: Wild, Wilder and Off Da Damn Hook. Her characters run the gamut from the sensual housewife that wants her husband to experiment more to the secret underground sorority of women that let it all hang out literally.

#5
The Return of Simple 
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by Langston Hughes, Akiba Sullivan Harper (Editor), Donna sullivan Harper, Arnold Rampersad (Introduction) 

Format: Paperback, 218pp.
ISBN: 080901582X
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Incorporated
Pub. Date: July  1995

Jesse B. Simple, Simple to his fans, made weekly appearances beginning in 1943 in Langston Hughes's column in the Chicago Defender. This collection contains 62 of Hughes's magnificent Simple stories, many never before published in book form. "A lively collection . . . funny-but-wise."--Robert O'Meally, New York Newsday.

#6
Threesome: Where Seduction, Power and Basketball Collide 
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by Brenda L. Thomas 

Format: Paperback, 144pp.
ISBN: 0970380313
Publisher: Writers & Poets.com
Pub. Date: December  2001

Sasha is caught in the middle of the exciting, sexually charged underbelly of professional basketball, the sadness of suicide and constant self-destructive behavior. Follow along as the threads of love, happiness and self-worth are woven together to create the fabric of Threesome

#7
Bright Eyes, Brown Skin (A Feeling Good Book) 
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by Cheryl Willis Hudson, Bernette G. Ford (Contributor), George Cephas Ford (Illustrator)

Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 24pp.
ISBN: 0940975238
Publisher: Just Us Books
Pub. Date: November  1990
Edition Desc: 1 ED
Recommend Age Range: 4 to 6

"This first volume in the Feeling Good series is designed to heighten the self-esteem of African American children by providing positive images in {rhyming} text and illustration." (Booklist) "Kindergarten to grade one." (SLJ)

The African Presence in Early Asia 

by Ivan Van Sertima (Editor) 

Format: Paperback, 168pp.
ISBN: 0887386377
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Pub. Date: March  1997
Edition Desc: 10TH ANNOTATED

The story of the African presence in early Asia is as fascinating as it is obscure. It covers a period of more than 500,000 years beginning with the first Homo erectus migrations out of Africa. Both Peking and Java Man were only regional varieties of these early Africoid hominids. The story continues with the first modern human populations (Homo sapiens sapiens), Diminutive Blacks, who traveled and so-journed from one corner of Asia to the other, beginning perhaps 90,000 years ago. The Diminutive Blacks were followed by others of slightly larger bodily proportions and further distinguished by straight to wavy hair textures. Variously called Austrics, Austro-Asiatics, Mons, Mundas, Kolarians, and Veddas, these people were probably at their zenith 25,000 years ago, and are still prevalent in large numbers throughout Asia. Blacks were also the first in the development of Asia's early civilizations. The hard factual evidence has borne this out in case after case. Although the story of the black presence in early Asia is obscure, its documentation is by no means new, and the works of Drusilla D. Houston, Joel A. Rogers, and most recently, John G. Jackson, can be singled out for broadening our awareness of the subject and providing a solid foundation from which we can move forward. 
- Runoko Rashidi

#9
The African American Writers Handbook : How to Get in Print and Stay in Print 
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by Robert Fleming 

Format: Paperback, 352pp.
ISBN: 0345423275
Publisher: Ballantine Books, Inc.
Pub. Date: March  2000
Edition Desc: 1 ED

- A complete, step-by-step guide to every aspect of the publishing process, from the germination of a winning idea to the nuts and bolts of book production
- Tips on submitting proposals, query letters, and preparing manuscripts for submission
- Advice on negotiating contracts that extend careers
- How to use on-line resources for research and profit
- Interviews with top editors, agents, publishing executives, and bookstore owners
- Updated information on copyrights, subsidiary rights, sales and marketing
- The trials and triumphs of self-publishing
- The art of promoting your work and yourself to a wider audience
- An insider's look at the economic realities of the book business
- And much more!

#10
Destruction of Black Civilization : Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C to 2000 A.D. 

by Chancellor Williams 

Format: Paperback, 3rd ed., 384pp.
ISBN: 0883780305
Publisher: Third World Press
Pub. Date: May  1975
Edition Desc: REVISED

From Sacred Fire  
The Destruction of Black Civilization took Chancellor Williams sixteen years of research and field study to compile. The book, which was to serve as a reinterpretation of the history of the African race, was intended to be "a general rebellion against the subtle message from even the most 'liberal' white authors (and their Negro disciples): 'You belong to a race of nobodies. You have no worthwhile history to point to with pride.'" The book was written at a time when many black students, educators, and scholars were starting to piece together the connection between the way their history was taught and the way they were perceived by others and by themselves. They began to question assumptions made about their history and took it upon themselves to create a new body of historical research. The book is premised on the question: "If the Blacks were among the very first builders of civilization and their land the birthplace of civilization, what has happened to them that has left them since then, at the bottom of world society, precisely what happened? The Caucasian answer is simple and well-known: The Blacks have always been at the bottom." Williams instead contends that many elements—nature, imperialism, and stolen legacies— have aided in the destruction of the black civilization. The Destruction of Black Civilization is revelatory and revolutionary because it offers a new approach to the research, teaching, and study of African history by shifting the main focus from the history of Arabs and Europeans in Africa to the Africans themselves, offering instead "a history of blacks that is a history of blacks. Because only from history can we learn what our strengths were and, especially, in what particular aspect we are weak and vulnerable. Our history can then become at once the foundation and guiding light for united efforts in serious[ly] planning what we should be about now." It was part of the evolution of the black revolution that took place in the 1970s, as the focus shifted from politics to matters of the mind.