AALBC Top Ten Sellers for June 1999
(click title to order book, click author's name for additional author
information)
#1
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Sasha's Way Author: Scott D. Haskins "[Haskins] has created a modern day "Coffy", in his new book Sashas Way: A Novel of Payback and Justice. (It is intended for adult reading audiences only). Something comes alive in Dr. Sasha Timms when she walks in on her husband and his lover in their buppie paradise. Once they are dealt with, Sashas Way, she becomes a one-woman crusade, waging an all out war against male brutes. With sassy, divaesque style, this Womans Therapist delights in righting the wrongs that have been committed against her victimized patients. This unconventional novel is a fast-paced and tragically comic read. Imagine a "Waiting To Exhale" meets "Death Wish," Sashas Way is a thriller you wont want to put down. http://aalbc.com/SashasWay.htm |
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Title: Svhe Author: Saul Williams Publisher: Simon and Schuster Inc. Date Published: June 1999 Format: Paperback And Cd She is a fascinating and unique collection of interconnected poems by this multi-talented star -- and marks the beginning of an incredible and totally original artistic career.
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Encarta Africana (CD-ROM) "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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Seventh Octave: The Early Writings of Saul Stacey Williams Author: Saul Stacey Williams, Jessica C. Moore (Editor) Publisher: Moore Black Press Date Published: February 1998 Format: Trade Paper Hailed as "a dreadlocked dervish of words...the Bob Marley of American poets" (Esquire), Saul Williams is a gifted young poet who is opening up this literary art form to a new generation of readers. Like his writing -- a fearless mix of connecting rhythms and vibrant images -- Saul Williams is unstoppable. He received raves for his performance as an imprisoned street poet in the Trimark Pictures release Slam, winner of the Camera d'Or at Cannes and the Grand Jury prize at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. The consummate spoken-word performance artist, Williams has also been signed by producer Rick Rubin to record a CD of his poetry. She is a fascinating and unique collection of interconnected poems by this multi-talented star -- and marks the beginning of an incredible and totally original artistic career. |
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Title: Quicksand
and Passing Author: Nella Larsen, Deborah E. McDowell (Editor) Publisher: Rutgers University Press Date Published: September 1990 Format: Trade Paper Novels of the black middle class, written in the 1920s. "Quicksand and Passing are novels that I will never forget. They open up a whole world of experience that seemed to me, when I first read them years ago, absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable. They do that still"-- Alice Walker
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Tough
Love: Cultural Criticism and Familial Observations on the Life and Death of Tupac Shakur (click to order via the AALBC) edited by Kwame Alexander & Michael Datcher Tough Love Excerpt - Dream Hampton |
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Title: They
Came before Columbus Author: Ivan Van Sertima Publisher: Random House, Incorporated Date Published: August 1976 Format: Trade Cloth This book makes it possible for us to see clearly the unmistakable face and handprint of Black Africans in Pre-Columbian America, and their overwhelming impact on the civilization they found here. |
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Title: Flyy
Girl Author: Omar Tyree, Designed by Deirdre C. Amthor Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade Date Published: October 1997 Format: Trade Paper |
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Title: Passing Author: Nella Larsen, Thadious Davis (Introduction) Publisher: Penguin USA Date Published: June 1997 Format: Trade PaperThe beautiful, elegant, and ambitious Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. A light-skinned African American married to a white man unaware of her racial heritage, Clare has severed all ties to her past to become part of white, middle-class society. Clare's childhood friend, Irene Redfield, as light-skinned as Clare, has chosen to remain within the African-American community. Married to a successful doctor and the mother of two boys, Irene refuses to acknowledge the racism she grew up with and that continues to set limits on her family's happiness. A chance encounter forces both women to confront the lies they have told others and the secret fears they have buried within themselves. |
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Title: Move
over Girl Author: Brian Peterson Publisher: ChanceTwenty Two Publishing Date Published: December 1998 Format: Trade Paper Move Over Girl is the story of college junior, Tony Norris, a self-admitted borderline "player" still aching from deciding to walk away from his first love, basketball. Journey through Tony's world as he attempts to come into his own concerning the various relationship issues in his midst, as well as the unsuspecting drama that campus life and personal responsibilities can bring. Along the way, meet Tony's crew and the women in his life, painted so well through rich dialogues and reflections that you'd swear you knew them (or someone just like them!) |