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AALBC Top Ten Sellers for May 1999
(click title to order book, click author's name for additional author information)

#1

PassingTitle:  Passing
Author:  Nella Larsen, Thadious Davis (Introduction)
Publisher:  Penguin USA
Date Published:  June 1997
Format:  Trade Paper

The 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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#2
To Color AmericaTitle:  To Color America
Author:  Winold Reiss, Sheila Schwartz (Editor), Foreword by Alan Fern
Publisher:  Smithsonian Institution Press
Date Published:  April 1992
Format:  Trade Cloth

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#3

Tough LoveTough 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
 "Sideliners will suggest, on radio shows, and Entertainment Tonight, he "had it coming" or chose that lifestyle." On the streets of New York, some will even tell you they are glad he's gone. I believe, that for Pac, living intensely was never an option. We were born the same year and poor and came of age in the most violent era our people have known. Pac didn't have a death wish so much as an understanding (and with it came an eerie peace) that life would be short. (Hence his funeral instructions on "Life Goes On.") In 25 years, he made four albums, and as many films. His mercurial mind was rapid and restless, and in a single sentence he could be utterly profound or stunningly inane. There are those who will live long, smug, mediocre lives and matter only to their house pets. They will never understand Pac, who made every moment matter.

- Dream Hampton

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#4
When All Hell...When All Hell Breaks Loose
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Author: Camika Spencer

THE BOOK: Article Written by Tammy LaFall of the Dallas Examiner (Excerpt)
Camika Spencer uses the streets of Dallas to set off her new fiction novel, When All Hell Breaks Loose. This hometown author takes the complicated relationships between men and women to an all time high. The story is set around Greg Alston, an ambitious sales executive whose on top of the world. He has the respect of his father, a talented mother, a devoted sister and a beautiful spirited fianc�e. He has it all that is, until all hell breaks loose...

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#5
The Words Don't FitTitle:  Words Don't Fit In My Mouth
Author: Jessica C. Moore
Publisher:  Moore Black Press
Date Published:  April 1997
Format:  Trade Paper
(8 time AALBC bestseller!)

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#6
Chocolate Burnout:Title:  Chocolate Burnout: A Lighthearted Novel Dealing with Some Humorous Aspects of Interracial Relationships
Author:  Judy Vorfeld (Editor), Robin Watson (Photographer)
Publisher:  Hubbard Small Press Publications
Date Published:  August 1998
Format:  Trade Paper

Chocolate Burnout, is a witty, novelette, that can be read in one sitting! Find out what happens when this heroine takes the advice of her psychiatrist, in order to help heal her dating woes.This book will leave you wanting more!

Vicki L. Hubbard lives in the Phoenix, Arizona area with her husband and daughter. This is her first book. She is presently working on her next novel, Black Butterflies and is now working on the sequel to Chocolate Burnout entitled Chocolate Burnout, The Road to Freedom.

 

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#7
columbus.bmp (15978 bytes)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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#8
Something'sTitle:  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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#9
Click to Order NowEncarta 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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#10
Getting to the Good PartTitle:  Getting to the Good Part
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Author:  Lolita Files
Format: Hardcover, 335pp.
Publisher: Warner Books, Incorporated
Pub. Date: January 1999

I do know that if you have read Scenes From A Sistah, reading will give you a more complete picture of the friendship of Reesy and Misty. If you haven't read Scenes From A Sistah, read it first BEFORE you read Getting To The Good Part. Getting To The Good Part makes a number of reference to events that happened in Scenes From A Sistah, and you'll have a better understanding. For instance, Misty runs into Roman again...with his wife Sandy! IT WAS HILARIOUS!!!  Pick it up, I recommend this one.  - Thumper

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