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AALBC Top Ten Sellers for July 1998

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CaneCane (AALBC's "The Coffee Will Make You Black" Reading Group selection for July 1998)
Author:  Jean Toomer, Darwin T. Turner
Publisher:  W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Date Published:  July 1992
Format:  Trade Paper

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The Complete StoriesTitle:  The Complete Short Stories
Author:  Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher:  HarperCollins Publishers, Incorporated
Date Published:  January 1996
Format:  Trade Paper

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PushISBN:  0679446265
Title:  Push
Author:  Sapphire
Publisher:  Random House, Incorporated
Date Published:  June 1996
Format:  Trade Cloth

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racialIn Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990
Author:  Quintard Taylor
Publisher:  W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Date Published:  January 1998
Format:  Trade Cloth

The American West has come to be known as a region with few African Americans and virtually no black history. "In Search of the Racial Frontier" challenges that view in a rich, complex chronicle of western African Americans that takes readers from the arrival in Texas in 1528 of Spanish explorer Esteban and hundreds of Spanish-speaking blacks to the thriving African-American popular that exists in the West today. 60 photos. 12 maps. 508 pp. 10,000 print

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Silent ConspiracySilent Conspiracy: A Lincoln Keller Mystery
Author:  Lee E. Meadows
Date Published:  April 1997
Format:  Trade Cloth

Three Time AALBC Best Seller!

(AALBC's "The Coffee Will Make You Black" Reading Group selection for October 1998.  Author Lee E Meadows will be participating in an AALBC's On line chat November 4th 1998 (Click here for more information)

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The Blacker The BerryTitle:  The Blacker the Berry
Author:  Wallace Thurman
Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Trade
Date Published:  January 1996

Format:  Trade Paper

This widely read, controversial work from the Harlem Renaissance was the first novel to openly explore prejudice within the black community. A young woman, whose dark complexion is a source of sorrow and humiliation not only to herself but to her lighter-skinned family and friends, travels from Boise, Idaho, to New York's Harlem, hoping to find a safe haven in the Black Mecca of the 1920s.

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B-Boy BluesTitle:  B-Boy Blues: A Seriously Sexy, Fiercely Funny, Black-on-Black Love Story
Author:  James Earl Hardy
Publisher:  Alyson Pub
Date Published:  November 1994
Format:  Trade Paper

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The Devils HatbandTitle:  The Devil's Hatband
Author:  Robert O. Greer
Publisher:  Warner Books, Incorporated
Date Published:  January 1997
Format:  Mass Market Paperbound

When a well-connected judge asks small-time bail bondsman CJ Floyd to look for his missing daughter, CJ thinks he's hit the big time. CJ quickly tracks her to Steamboat Springs, Colorado and the environmental group the girl is involved with, Planet First. But he soon discovers that the radical group will do anything to achieve its goals--and that this career-making case could be his last. HC: Mysterious Press.

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Somebody Else's ChildTitle:  Somebody Else's Child
Author:  Terris McMahan Grimes
Publisher:  NAL/Dutton
Date Published:  February 1996
Format:  Mass Market Paperbound

Theresa is a career woman, a mother and a wife. When her mother calls to say there's trouble at her elderly neighbor's house and she's going over to investigate, Theresa has no choice but to get involved. Before the night is over, Theresa finds herself caught up in the harsh brutality of the streets, with a drive-by shooting, a mysterious kidnapping, and more.

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