Mar 1999

Title: Abide with Me
Author: E. Lynn Harris
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Incorporated
Date Published: March 1999
Format: Trade Cloth

The bestselling author of Invisible Life and Just As I Am returns with the popular protagonists from those two books, including Raymond Tyler, Jr., who experiences a setback in his successful legal career, and Nicole Springer, whose relocation to New York forces her to reevaluate her life and marriage. Through it all, Harris's masterful storytelling, wit, and sensitivity permeate this enormously satisfying novel.

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#2

Title: Words Don't Fit In My Mouth
Author: Jessica C. Moore
Publisher: Moore Black Press
Date Published: April 1997
Format: Trade Paper
(6 time AALBC bestseller!)

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#3

Title: Seventh Octave: The Early Writings of Saul Stacey Williams
(Click Title to Order)
Second book published by Moore Black Press on the list this month

Author: Saul Stacey Williams, Jessica C. Moore (Editor)
Publisher: Moore Black Press
Date Published: February 1998
Format: Trade Paper

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#4

Encarta Africana (CD-ROM)
(First software title and third month in a row on the AALBC's best sellers list)
"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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#5

Title: Something's Wrong with Your Scale!: A Romantic Comedy
Author: Van Whitfield
(Whitfield is Sheduled to participate in an AALBC Chat session on August 4th 1999)
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Incorporated
Date Published: January 1999
Format: Trade Cloth

The author of "Beeperless Remote" exercises his comedic flair in a universal tale of two people who meet and fall in love at a weight-loss center.

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#6

Title: In the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Want
Author: Iyanla Vanzant
(Vanzant is the AALBC's all-time best selling author)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
Date Published: January 1998
Format: Trade Cloth

The bestselling author of Acts of Faith and The Value in the Valley -- whose books have empowered countless women -- now reaches out to anyone who yearns for love, in a book about relationships that can help them reach new levels of awareness, spiritual growth, and fulfillment.

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#7

Title: The Black Books Galore!: Guide to Great African American Children's Books
Author: Donna Rand, Sheila Foster, Toni Trent Parker
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: September 1998
Format: Trade Paper

A landmark reference highlights the best and brightest in an increasingly rich and popular genre.[With so many children's books to choose from, parents are looking for help in finding the most positive, best written, and most acclaimed titles available. This book fills the information gap with the first fully annotated guide to focus exclusively on African American books. It includes easy-to-use indexes by title, subject, author, and illustrator, boxed features about renowned writers and illustrators, and listings of award winners and Reading Rainbow Books.[Black Books Galore! is the nation's leading company organizing book fairs and festivals of African American children's books. Winner of the Parenting magazine's 1998 Parenting Leaders Award, BBG was founded by three African American mothers: Donna Rand (Stamford, CT), Toni Trent Parker (Stamford, CT), and Sheila Foster (Greenwich, CT).

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#8

Title: Egypt Revisited: Journal of African Civilizations
Author: Ivan Van Sertima (Editor)
Date Published: December 1990
0887387993
Format: Trade Paper

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#9

Title: Baby of the Family
Author: Tina McElroy Ansa
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company
Date Published: May 1991
Format: Trade Paper

The New York Times Book Review's Notable Book of the Yearhild at the moment of her birth, with the power to see ghosts and predict the future. But only one nurse knows the spells to ensure that Lena will see good ghosts, not evil ones.

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#10

Title: The Souls of Black Folk: With a New Introduction by Randall Kenan
Author: W.E.B. DuBois, Randall Kenan (Introduction)
Publisher: NAL/Dutton
Date Published: April 1995
Format: Trade Paper

First published in 1903, this extraordinary work not only recorded and explained history, it helped to alter its course. Written after Du Bois had earned his Ph.D. from Harvard and studied in Berlin, these 14 essays contain both the academic language of sociology and the rich lyrics of African spirituals, which Du Bois called "sorrow songs." New introduction by Randall Kenan. Major school adoption title.

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