AALBC Top Ten Sellers for March 2000
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Title: The
Seventh Octave: The Early Writings of Saul Stacey Williams (Click title to Purchase Online and Learn more about this Book and Poet) ALL TIME AALBC BEST SELLING BOOK for
1998 & 1999 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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Title: She (Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author:
Saul Stacey Williams Publisher: Simon and Schuster Inc. "Who says poetry does not sell?" -- Troy Johnson AALBC.com 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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Satin Doll (Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: Karen E. Quinones Miller ". . . a real page turner! You won't want to put it down. . . .
It's about wanting more, getting it, and finding sometimes that the brass ring is just
that - brass. A great book club choice."Jenice M. Armstrong, Philadelphia Daily
News"Satin Doll moves, grooves, fights and delights. It's wonderfully entertaining
and a must read."Jamal Joseph, Screenwriter, director and producer"Filled with
sassy, humorous, and thought-provoking dialogue, Satin Doll is a wonderful, page-turning
debut." |
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Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: James Weldon Johnson, Philip
Smith (Editor) One of the most prominent African-Americans of his time, James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was a successful lawyer, educator, social reformer, songwriter and critic. But it was as a poet and novelist that he achieved lasting fame.
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Fragments That Remain (Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: Steven Corbin Skylar Whyte, a critically-acclaimed actor, must come to
terms with his dysfunctional African-American family, while at the same time confronting
racism both from his white lover and the gay community. |
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A Thirst for Rain (Click title or book to read more about this title) Author: Roslyn Carrington Set in the bone-dry northern foothills of Trinidad, this debut evokes the vibrant rhythms of the Caribbean and captures the island unseen by tourists, as men and women struggle side by side in a cramped hillside neighborhood, thirsting for love, wholeness, and a better future
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Title: Words
Don't Fit In My Mouth (Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: Jessica
C. Moore Format: Trade Paper, 125 pages |
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Behind Closed Doors (Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author:
Kimberla Lawson Roby 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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Cutter Click title or book to read more about this title) Author: Sterling Anthony
For the Shaw family, the nightmare begins in a small, ranch-style house outside a dusty Alabama town. A black man in his late twenties. A white woman in her teens. And an unborn baby, about to emerge into a scene of horrific, fear-driven violence.
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Slapboxing with Jesus (Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: Victor D. La Valle "Twelve original and interconnected stories, Victor D. LaValle's astonishing, violent, and funny debut offers harrowing glimpses at the vulnerable lives of young people who struggle not only to come of age, but to survive the city streets." "In "ancient history," two best friends graduating from high school fight to be the one to leave first for a better world; each one wants to be the fortunate son. In "pops," an African-American boy meets his father, a white cop from Connecticut, and tries not to care. And in "kids on colden street" a boy is momentarily uplifted by the arrival of a younger sister only to discover that brutality leads only to brutality in the natural order of things." |
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