AALBC Top Ten Sellers for June 2000
#1
 Not a
Day Goes By(Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: E. Lynn Harris Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Incorporated Welcome to the irresistible world of E. Lynn Harris--
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 Title: She(Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author:
Saul Stacey Williams ALL TIME AALBC BEST SELLING BOOK since December 1997 when we sold our first book (out of almost over 1,000 different titles sold)! There are indications the publisher is out of stock of this book Publisher: Simon and Schuster Inc. "Who says poetry does not sell?" -- Troy Johnson AALBC.com AALBC top 10 bestseller every month this year! 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. 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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 Safari
West: Poemsby John A. Williams $15.00 - Directly
from AALBC.com With the publication of Safari West, John A. Williams turns to poetry, his first love, while never straying from his exploration of the African-American experience and the issues he's examined since writing The Angry Ones in 1960. The poems range in time from 1953's "The Cool Ones" and "The Age of Bop" through 1997, reminiscent at times of Langston Hughes or Robert Hayden, but always John A. Williams: the observant, telling detail; the visceral image that plays off the measured meter and structured rhymes; the consistent and insistent voice that cries 'I am.' Many of the poems included in Safari West appear here in print for the first time, including four, "Many Thousand Gone: Version 95," "John Brown," "Nat Turner's Profession" and "Moremi," from the libretto of Williams' opera, Vanqui. Safari West is a powerful collection of poetry, one of resonance, one of importance, from one of the great voices in African-American letters.
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 Cheaters(Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: Eric
Jerome Dickey Cheaters, Eric Jerome Dickey's latest exploration of affairs of the heart, begins in familiar territory yet ultimately develops into an unusual, sharp, and nuanced portrait of love lost and found. A large cast of upwardly mobile 20-something African Americans populates the novel. For them, airy southern California is a land of obvious pleasures: fancy cars, beautiful condos, and sleek hangouts. Regrettably, such pleasures are temporary, for theirs is also a world marred by duplicitous love affairs and betrayed
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Author: Saul Stacey Williams, Jessica C. Moore
(Editor) Publisher: Moore Black Press 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.
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 Flashbacksby John A. Williams $20.00, 440 page paperback - Directly from AALBC.com Original 1974 autographed copy Availability/Total
Cost Flashbacks: A Twenty-Year Diary of Article Writing:
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 Ida
Mae by Delores Thornton with Forward by (Click title or book to order online) Publisher: Marguerite Press Ida Mae is a story about rape, racism, transracial adoption, and the love of country music. Set in the 1950's in a small rural community of Georgia, this is a tale of a young woman of color who is adopted by a white family after her parents are deceased. Before she reaches adolescence, her adoptive mother, Dixie Lee Belcher, dies in a train wreck. At this time the local Colored Folks decide that this is not the right place for her to be, and wage an unsuccessful campaign to have her removed from the home. After she is raped at age 17, her adoptive father, Theodore Belcher must devise a plan for revenge. He kills the perpetrators, but he is killed in the process. Ida Mae then has to go to Vermont to live with her adoptive brother Wilbert, who isn't thrilled with the idea of having a colored sister under foot.
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 Rosie's
Curl and Weave(Click title or book to learn more about author and purchase on-line) Author: Rochelle
Alers Whether you want a cut, weave or braid; a facial, manicure, or massage; there's always a helping hand-and a sympathetic ear-at Rosie's Curl and Weave on 125th Street in Harlem. And sometimes, when you least expect it, love walks in the door. So sit back, relax, put your feet up, and enjoy, as four talented writers render four magical stories about the love of beauty and the beauty of love.
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 Casting
the First Stone(Click title or book to buy on-line) Author: Kimberla
Lawson Roby Publisher: Kensington Publishing
Corporation Blackboard best-selling author Kimberla Lawson Roby takes on one of the most controversial issues in America: corruption and temptation within church leadership. An electrifying read, CASTING THE FIRST STONE goes behind the scenes of a fictional Chicago church and its struggle to keep faith and commitment alive in the face of ambition. This is the third novel of this author whose previous books have won her dedicated fans and a connection to readers coast-to-coast. Her works bring to life Black women whose lives are complex with jobs, children, spouses and lovers - in short the kind of lives her readers themselves live. Giving voice to the women who share their concerns with her has always been Roby's aim in each novel she has written.
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Behind
Closed Doors(Click Title to order on-line) Author: Kimberla
Lawson Roby Publisher: Black
Classic Press
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