July 1998

Book Title (click title to order, click author's name for author info)
Cane (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 [back to top]
Title: The Complete Short Stories Author: Zora Neale Hurston Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, Incorporated Date Published: January 1996 Format: Trade Paper [back to top]
ISBN: 0679446265 Title: Push Author: Sapphire Publisher: Random House, Incorporated Date Published: June 1996 Format: Trade Cloth [back to top]
In 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 [back to top]
Silent 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) [back to top]
Title: 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. [back to top]
Title: 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 [back to top]
Title: 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. [back to top]
Title: 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. [back to top]