AALBC.com's Best Selling Books
July & August 2003
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#1
by Cornelius Stetter ISBN: 0867152656 History of medicine in ancient Egypt. Translation of the 1990 German edition. Color photographs.
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#2
by Lionel C. Bascom ISBN: 0380799022 More than fifty "lost" essays by Dorothy West, Ralph Ellison, and others portray Harlem during the Great Depression, the finest period of self-discovery in African-American history between the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's. Written for the WPA writer's project and the stored unseen in the Library of Congress, these forgotten writings capture the voices of war veterans, Pullman porters, prostitutes, preachers, and even the black trail blazer who became the first American to reach the North Pole. From the "rent party" described by Frank Byrd, where paying guests "partook freely of fried chicken, pork chops, pigs feet, and potato salad, not to mention homemade "crawn liquor" to Dorothy West's portrayal of Amateur Night at the Apollo, A Renaissance in Harlem � a work filled with humor, compassion, hope and outrage � is an essential historical record of the African-American experience.
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by Glenville Lovell ISBN: 039915048X Set in New York City, Too Beautiful to Die introduces Blades Overstreet, a black ex-cop at odds with the NYPD over the incident that prompted his resignation - a buy-and-bust operation gone bad, when a white cop "accidentally" shot and nearly killed him. Now the man who saved Blades's life prevails on him to help a beautiful soap-opera star named Precious find her father. That assignment quickly turns sour when Blades stumbles on the murdered body of an FBI agent and becomes the target of an FBI/NYPD manhunt." Pursued by the FBI, a pariah to his former "brothers" in the NYPD, Blades sets out to find the killer before he himself has to take the rap - or worse. He winds his way through New York's Caribbean community looking for answers - and solace for his tortured soul.
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#4
ISBN: 0971702101 Life, Love & Loneliness, the debut novel from Crystal Lacey Winslow, takes its reader on a tumultuous journey through the life of its main character, Lyric Devaney. Lyric is an aspiring actress who knows exactly what she wants out of life, and who possesses the uncanny ability to manipulate others in order to achieve her goals. She has no qualms about stepping on the toes of those friends, lovers, family and acquaintances who stand between her and her desires. Her latest scheming lands her a six-figure movie deal and the film’s starring role -- which she manages to steal from a friend! Lyric has nearly fulfilled her dreams. But she’s missing one thing -- the Mayor of New York! Their long-time affair has reached a turning point. And Lyric, infatuated with his political status, ambition, and of course, wealth, makes a life-altering decision at the pinnacle of her career. Then, tragedy strikes � Life, Love & Loneliness is told through the words of Lyric Devaney and several of her best friends, each of whom face their own life challenges. By writing in the first-person, Ms. Winslow allows the reader to experience each situation first hand. In addition, the novel’s cinematically-written style allows each chapter to be easily envisioned. This fast-paced drama quickly evolves into a mystery with an ending so shocking that it leaves the reader begging for a
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#5
by Nikki Turner ISBN:
0970247257 Sweet innocent Yarni, from a well-to do family, by chance, meets Richmond's notorious drug kingpin, Des. Immediately they develop an astronomical love, which separates her from her family and friends. But when Des, is sentenced to life in prison, she will learn, being a hustler's wife isn't as easy, with her sole provider behind bars. Travel with Yarni, as she survives when the script if flipped. At times she plays the game, and at other times...the game plays her. Her journey is filled with laughter, tears, failures, triumphs and perseverance. Nikki's debut novel is a smorgasbord of manipulation, street-life, greed, betrayal, envy, money, power and revenge. |
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#6
ISBN: 1400048575 Here’s the first big book of The Boondocks, more than four years and
800 strips of one of the most influential, controversial, and scathingly
funny comics ever to run in a daily newspaper.
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#7
ISBN: 0060188839 A trio of great single women is being driven to distraction; they have
one thing in common -- Randall Hollis, a successful art dealer at the top
of his game. Randall is rich, handsome, and charming -- the true-to-life
dream lover of these smart, independent women who all find themselves
passionately involved with him during the same seven-month period.
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Format: Paperback, 144pp. 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 "The suspenseful opening of Threesome is told through the voice of several different characters and lays the foundation for the rest of the story. Eventually the narrative trickles into one voice, that of the main character, Sasha, a lost soul who perpetually finds herself as the third party in a series of dysfunctional relationships".
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#9
Format: Paperback, 336pp. Named
"among the most important works of fiction of the decade" by the New
York Times Book Review when first published in 1972, Captain
Blackman is the first book to be published in the Coffee House
Press's Black Arts Movement reprint series. True to
form, John A. Williams is exhaustive and accurate in his historical
research of the significant role played by African Americans in the
military. Captain Blackman is a U.S. soldier in Vietnam who becomes
seriously wounded. As he drifts in and out of consciousness he
hallucinates back in time as a soldier in each of America's wars from
1775 to 1975.
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#10
by Cheryl Dooley-Ponton It isn't only that Cheryl Dooley-Ponton has a talent for Bid Whist humor, but an ear for unadulterated vernacular associated with the game ― and with life. Her interest in her characters is reflected especially in Coco, the character upon whom Cheryl based Po' Man's Poker. Although the novel is fictional, Coco is real to Cheryl because she is the mother. As Cheryl says: "there would be no Po' Man's Poker if there were no woman named Beverly Dooley playing Bid Whist in her real life." Cheryl lives in a south suburb of Chicago with her husband and son where she spends her spare time reading and writing. Po' Man's Poker is her first published novel
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Secret Medicine of the Pharaohs: Ancient Egyptian Healing
A Renaissance in Harlem : Lost
Essays of the WPA, by Ralph Ellison, Dorothy West, and Other Voices of a
Generation
Too
Beautiful To Die
Life,
Love & Loneliness
A
A
Right to Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury
Always True to You in My Fashion: A Novel
Threesome:
Where Seduction, Power and Basketball Collide
Captain
Blackman
Po'
Man's Poker: No Guts No Glory...Bid Your Hand and Tell Story!
