Jun 2000

Not a Day Goes By
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Author: E. Lynn Harris
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Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Incorporated
Date Published: June 2000
Format: Trade Cloth

Welcome to the irresistible world of E. Lynn Harris--

He is a devilish and handsome ex-football player, now a rising sports agent at one of the hottest firms in the country. Irrepressible and dangerously alluring, John "Basil" Henderson has a history with women (and a few men). He's a commitment-phobe gadfly who's known for a double-edged magnetism that has the ability to thrill-- and wound.

She is the uncompromising Yancey Harrington Braxton, an up-and-coming Broadway star who oozes charm and bleeds ambition. Young, beautiful and dangerously crafty, Yancey is prepared to do whatever she must to get what she wants. A femme fatale who has left more than a few broken--hearted men in her wake, Yancey is intrigued by Basil. Both believe that in each other they've finally met their match.

A lavish wedding is planned, and the ultimate power couple plans to spend their lives in holy matrimony. But just before the nuptials, fate, and a little comeuppance from the past threaten the happy couple's future.

Masterful storyteller E. Lynn Harris takes listeners on a delicious little ride into the mischievous lives of two very unforgettable characters in this fun and satisfying cautionary tale.

Title: She
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Author: Saul Stacey Williams
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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.
Date Published: June 1999
Format: Paperback And CD - $9.60 (plus shipping and tax)

"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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#3

Safari West: Poems
by John A. Williams

$15.00 - Directly from AALBC.com
78 pages paperback
Winner 1998 American Book Award autographed copy

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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#4

Cheaters
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Author: Eric Jerome Dickey
Publisher: N A L
Date Published: June 1999
Format: Trade Cloth

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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#5

Title: The Seventh Octave: The Early Writings of Saul Stacey Williams
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Author: Saul Stacey Williams, Jessica C. Moore (Editor)
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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.

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#6

Flashbacks
by John A. Williams
$20.00, 440 page paperback - Directly from AALBC.com
Original 1974 autographed copy

Availability/Total Cost
List - $3.95 (1974 list price)
Amazon - Don't even think about it
B&N - Don't even think about it

Flashbacks: A Twenty-Year Diary of Article Writing:

Topicalities
The New York State Fair, 1953
Sex in Black and White
This is my Country Too
Three Negro Families
The Strongest Negro Institution
The Great White Whore
An Afro-American Looks to South Africa
Israel

Personalities
Subject: Charlie Parker
Dick Gregory: Desegregated Comic
Smalls Paradise
Marcus Garvey-Never Before or Since
Malcolm X
Jack Johnson and The Great White Hope
Romare Bearden
Chester Himes-My Man Himes

Personals
We Regret to Inform You
Black Man in Europe
A Pessimistic Postscript
Career by Accident
Time and Tide: The Roots of Black Awareness
Grenada: Their Country Too
Shepard and a Negro

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#7

Ida Mae
by Delores Thornton with Forward by Maxine Thompson
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Publisher: Marguerite Press
Date Published: May 2000
Format: Trade Paper

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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#8

Rosie's Curl and Weave
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Author: Rochelle Alers
Donna Hill and Felicia Mason
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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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#9

Casting the First Stone
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Author: Kimberla Lawson Roby
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Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
Date Published: December 1999

Format: Trade Cloth

Blackboard bestselling 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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#10

Title: Behind Closed Doors
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Author: Kimberla Lawson Roby
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Publisher: Black Classic Press
Date Published: October 1997
Format: Trade Paper

Best friends since childhood, Regina Moore and Karen Jackson have everything two "just-turned-30" women could possibly want--beautiful homes in an upper-echelon Chicago suburb, loving husbands, and financial security. But are their lives really as wonderful as they seem?

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