Format: Paperback, 256pp. ISBN: 0684863073 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: October 2000
Twenty years ago, Kirbyjon H. Caldwell was a fast-track bond broker
with an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of
Business. But he turned away from a six-figure income to answer the call
of his Divine purpose. With the explosive power that comes from combining
prayer with action, Caldwell transformed a struggling twenty-five-member
congregation into a lean, mean Kingdom-building machine. The Windsor
Village United Methodist Church now has more than 11,000 members and 120
ministries for everything from job placement and financial planning to
weight loss and alcohol rehabilitation.
The transformation of Windsor began with a simple truth: God wants
His children to have good success! Not just the traditional concept of
spiritual blessings, but redemption in every aspect of our existence: our
emotions, career, finances, relationships, health, parenting skills,
academic career, and more.
In The Gospel of Good Success, Caldwell shares with you the six
steps that transformed his life and Windsor Village. In his own
inimitable, energetic style he will show you how to:
* Find Your Calling
* Stage a Comeback
* Take the Faith Walk
* Whup the Devil
* Create Wealth God's Way
* Develop God-Blessed Relationships
There is a road to good success. God does not always offer instant
gratification, however. Only if you are willing to make the sacrifices of
the journey will you enter the place where all the pieces of your life --
your spiritual, financial, physical, professional, emotional, and
relational pieces -- will be in sync, not as pieces of some convoluted
puzzle but as pieces fitting harmoniously together as a whole: the place
that PastorCaldwell calls Holistic Salvation.
Let this book be your road map to Holistic Salvation. God has given you
the promise of an absolutely successful life. Stand up. Claim it. Attain
it. Be Whole.
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The
Sisters of APF: The Indoctrination of Soror Ride Dick
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by Zane
ISBN: 0743466985
Format: Hardcover, 304pp
Pub. Date: April 2003
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
The Sisters of APF is Zane's
first book based on one of her most popular short story subjects, the sexy
escapades of a sorority like no other.
APF stands for Alpha Phi Fuckem,
a sorority dedicated to sexual freedom and the fulfillment of its members.
Zane's APF stories have appeared in her earlier collections, including The
Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth, and are favorites among her readers.
Many readers have written to
Zane and asked to join the sorority or to launch a new chapter in their
region. APF is fantasy, but the enthusiasm of Zane's fans is real. So now,
with The Sisters of APF, she's offering readers what they want, a
book-length story chronicling the adventures -- and recruitment process --
of the fearlessly sexy women of APF.
Mary Ann is the daughter of a
chicken farmer from South Dakota. She has never been more than fifty miles
from home and has led a sheltered life. By the time she goes off to
college in Washington, D.C., she has been intimate with only one man --
her high school sweetheart. The resident manager of Mary Ann's dormitory,
Patricia, befriends the country bumpkin. She finds Mary Ann amusing, but
also senses something intriguing about her, hidden under the surface.
After Mary Ann becomes smitten with Trevor, the campus playboy, Patricia
is determined to show Mary Ann how not to be a victim, but rather how to
outdo the players and heartbreakers. She indoctrinates Mary Ann into the
ranks of the sexiest secret society ever: the sisters of APF.
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Everything
but the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture Click to order via
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White kids from the �burbs are throwing up gang signs. The 2001 Grammy
winner for best rap artist was as white as rice. And blond-haired sorority
sisters are sporting FUBU gear. What is going on in American culture
that’s giving our nation a racial-identity crisis?
Following the trail blazed by Norman Mailer’s controversial essay �The
White Negro,� Everything but the Burden brings together voices from
music, popular culture, the literary world, and the media speaking about
how from Brooklyn to the Badlands white people are co-opting black styles
of music, dance, dress, and slang. In this collection, the essayists
examine how whites seem to be taking on, as editor Greg Tate’s mother used
to tell him, �everything but the burden��from fetishizing black athletes
to spinning the ghetto lifestyle into a glamorous commodity. Is this a way
of shaking off the fear of the unknown? A flattering indicator of
appreciation? Or is it a more complicated cultural exchange? The pieces in
Everything but the Burden explore the line between hero-worship and
paternalism.
Among the book’s twelve essays are Vernon Reid’s ’steely Dan Understood
as the Apotheosis of �The White Negro,�� Carl Hancock Rux’s �The Beats:
America’s First �Wiggas,�� and Greg Tate’s own introductory essay �Nigs �R
Us.� Other contributors include: Hilton Als, Beth Coleman, Tony Green,
Robin Kelley, Arthur Jafa, Gary Dauphin, Michaela Angela Davis, dream
hampton, and Manthia diAwara.
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Harry
Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Click to order via Amazon
J. K.
Rowling, Mary Grandpre (Illustrator)
ISBN: 043935806X Format: Hardcover, 870pp Pub. Date: June 2003 Publisher: Scholastic, Inc. Age Range: 9 to 12 Series: Harry Potter Series, #5
There is a Door at the end of a silent corridor. And it's haunting Harry
Potter's dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night,
screaming in terror? Here are just a few things on Harry's mind: A Defense
Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey. A
venomous, disgruntled house-elf. Ron as keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
The looming terror of the end-of-term Ordinary Wizarding Level exams ... and of
course, the growing threat of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. In the richest
installment yet of J. K. Rowling's seven-part story, Harry Potter is faced with
the unreliability of the very government of the magical world and the impotence
of the authorities at Hogwarts. Despite this (or perhaps because of it), he
finds depth and strength in his friends, beyond what even he knew; boundless
loyalty; and unbearable sacrifice. Though thick runs the plot (as well as the
spine), readers will race through these pages and leave Hogwarts, like Harry,
wishing only for the next train back.
#5
The
Seventh Octave: The Early Writings of Saul Stacey Williams
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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.
Best-Selling author E. Lynn Harris is back with another new tale that
embraces his signature themes.
Zola Denise Norwood is a young hot editor in chief of Bling Bling, (the
magazine �for people who want everything!) who’s at the top of her game,
ruling the roost in business as well as the bedroom. Having discovered
�the power of three� (not tying herself down to just one guy) Zola
surrounds herself with a coterie of men : her best male friend, the gay
Hayden; her Monday night man, Jabar, and enjoys stolen nights with
married Bling Bling owner and media mogul Davis Vincent McClinton, a man
who chases power at all costs’still, Zola dreams of finding true love.
Raymond Tyler, Jr., a favorite and classic Harris character has suffered
a personal loss and picks up and moves to New York to re-build his life.
As CEO of Bling Bling,Raymond struggles to enjoy his newfound success in
business as he searches for love and meaning in his personal life. John
Basil Henderson returns with a new lady in his life, and Raymond and
Basil renew a friendship that is fraught with sexual tension. As Raymond
examines his life and strains to move forward, tragedy strikes, and
Raymond faces his biggest challenge ever.
As Zola and Raymond search for a love of their own, several characters
from the past make cameo appearances and round out another E. Lynn
Harris classic tale. A LOVE OF MY OWN is filled with all the marvelous
ingredients the author’s fans the globe over have come to love. Sit back
and get ready as E. Lynn Harris takes you on another satisfying and
rip-roaring ride.
When Odessa Blackburn is three years old, she sees her grandmother
for the last time, and so begins her story as the fifth born of eight
children in a troubled family. Molested by her father, Odessa is also
the sole witness to a murder he commits. Her mother guards both secrets
and joins her husband in ostracizing their fifth born from the rest of
her siblings.
As Odessa grows, so do her troubles. She ultimately separates herself
from her parents and siblings into a new reality that prompts memory and
revelation. Her choices for survival provoke an outcome that will
forever alter the carefully maintained lies of her childhood.
Zelda Lockhart's Fifth Born is lyrically written, poignant and
powerful in its exploration of how secrets can tear families apart and
unravel people's lives. Set in rural Mississippi and St. Louis,
Missouri, Fifth Born is a story of loss and redemption, as Odessa
walks away from those who she believes to be her kin to discover the
meaning of family.
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Freedom's
Daughters : A Juneteenth Story Click to order via Amazon
Freedom's Daughters includes portraits of more than sixty women -- many until
now forgotten and some never before written about -- from the key figures (Ida
B. Wells, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ella Baker, and Septima Clark, among others) to
some of the smaller players who represent the hundreds of women who each came
forth to do her own small part and who together ultimately formed the mass
movements that made the difference. Freedom's Daughters puts a human face on the
civil rights struggle -- and shows that that face was often female.
#9
Lay
This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves
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by Gregory A. Freeman
ISBN: 1556523572 Format: Hardcover, 195pp Pub. Date: August 1999 Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
The John Williams plantation in Georgia was operated largely with the
labor of slaves-56 years after the end of the Civil War. Williams was
not alone in using "peons," poor blacks bailed out of local jails, but
his reaction to a federal investigation was almost unbelievable. He
decided to destroy the evidence, to kill 11 black men who could testify
to the situation. Williams enlisted the aid of his farm boss,
27-year-old Clyde Manning, forcing him to methodically kill his friends.
Men were chained together, two-by-two, weighted down with rocks, and
thrown over bridges, alive and terrified; others were bludgeoned with an
axe, summarily shot, or ordered to dig their own graves. The surprises
continued in the aftermath, as even a bigoted rural community found that
it could not overlook such a heinous crime. A sensational trial ensued,
gripping the state, galvanizing national attention, and marking a
turning point in the treatment of black Americans. Clyde Manning and his
fellow peons can truly be said to be the last American slaves. This
riveting book is based largely on the immensely detailed court
testimony, the FBI investigations, and other records. A vivid, haunting
story of a long-forgotten incident, it helps to illuminate the long
journey of African Americans from slavery to freedom
#10
Wrapped
In Rainbows:
The Life of Zora Neale Hurston Click
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A woman of enormous talent, remarkable drive, and rare intellectual
prowess, Zora Neale Hurston published four novels, two books of folklore,
an autobiography, many short stories, and several articles and plays over
a career that spanned more than thirty years. Although she enjoyed some
popularity during her lifetime, her greatest acclaim has come
posthumously. All of her books were out of print when she died in poverty
in 1960, but today nearly every black woman writer of significance --
including Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker -- acknowledges
Hurston as a literary foremother. And her masterpiece, Their Eyes Were
Watching God, has become a crucial part of the American literary canon.
Yet, despite the recent renewed interest in Hurston's work, she remains,
as a friend and contemporary described her, "a woman half in shadow."
Wrapped in Rainbows -- the first biography of Zora Neale Hurston in
twenty-five years -- illuminates the complexities of an extraordinary
life. Born in Alabama in 1891, Hurston moved with her family to
Eatonville, Florida, when she was still a toddler. In this close-knit
community -- the first incorporated all-black town in America -- she spent
a pleasant childhood, happily imbibing the rich language and folk culture
of the rural black South. When Hurston was still a girl, her mother died,
and her father's swift remarriage led to the family's dispersal. Hurston
spent the next decade wandering in search of parental figures, working
menial jobs, and charting her own course into adulthood. Reinventing
herself at the age of twenty-six, she entered high school in Baltimore by
claiming to be ten years younger -- a fiction she would maintain
throughout her life. Hurston went on to attend Howard University and
Barnard College, and during this time launched her writing career in the
midst of the blossoming Harlem Renaissance. In New York, she developed
relationships with luminaries such as Langston Hughes, Ethel Waters,
Fannie Hurst, and Carl Van
Vechten. Hurston periodically left New York to travel the country (and
the world) collecting black music, poetry, and literature -- becoming one
of the most important folklore collectors of her time, as well as one of
the most enduring writers of her century.
Wrapped in Rainbows presents a full picture of Hurston as both a writer
and a woman, shedding new light on her public and private lives. Drawing
on meticulous research and a wealth of crucial information that has
emerged over the past twenty years, Valerie Boyd delves into Hurston's
thirst for the limelight, her sexuality and short-lived marriages, her
mysterious relationship with Vodou, and her occasionally controversial
political views. With the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Depression, and
World War II as historical backdrops, Wrapped in Rainbows not only
positions Hurston's work in her time but offers implications for our own.
Featuring more than thirty-five black-and-white photographs --
including some that have never been published -- Wrapped in Rainbows is an
eloquent profile of one of the most intriguing cultural figures of the
twentieth century.
The
Sisters of APF: The Indoctrination of Soror Ride Dick
Everything
but the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture
Harry
Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
A
Love of My Own 
Fifth
Born
Freedom's
Daughters : A Juneteenth Story
Lay
This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves
Wrapped
In Rainbows:
The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
