Nov 1998

Title: Faith in the Valley: Lessons for Women on the Journey to Peace
Author: Iyanla Vanzant
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
Date Published: April 1996
Format: Trade Paper
A beautifully rendered meditation book to help and support women through the rough valley experiences of life--now reissued in a special keepsake edition that makes a wonderful Mother's Day gift.

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#2

Title: One Day My Soul Just Opened Up: 40 Days and 40 Nights Towards Spiritual Strength and Personal Growth
(The all-time best selling book on the AALBC web site! #1 book last month)
Author: Iyanla Vanzant
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
Date Published: December 1997
Format: Trade Paper

Both an inspiring guide and a hands-on measurement tool that enables readers to chart their spiritual growth as it unfolds, One Day My Soul Just Opened Up encourages readers to use journal-writing as a self-awareness process. Vanzant introduces 40 principles to follow and embrace in daily living as guideposts on the path toward spiritual strength and understanding.

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#3

Title: In The Meantime: Finding Yourself and The Love You Want
Author: Iyanla Vanzant
(The 2# all-time best selling book on the AALBC web site! #2 in October)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
Date Published: January 1998

The best-selling 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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#4

Title: Words Don't Fit In My Mouth
Author: Jessica C. Moore
Publisher: Moore Black Press
Date Published: April 1997
Format: Trade Paper
Up from the #5 position in October

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#5

Title: 360° - A Revolution of Black Poets
(For sale directly by the AALBC, 3nd consecutive month on the AALBC best seller list and all time best selling poetry book!)
Author: Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam & Kwame Alexander
Publisher: BlackWords
Date Published: September 1998
Format: Trade Paper

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#6

Title: Seventh Octave: The Early Writings of Saul Stacey Williams
(Click Title to Order)
First time on the AALBC's Best Seller list and 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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#7

A Do Right Man
Omar Tyree

(First Time on the AALBC Best Seller's List)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: November 1997

From Kirkus:
Tyree (Flyy Girl, 1996) returns, this time, fortunately, focusing less on Afrocentric theorizing and more on character- -resulting in a good deal more engaging read.

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#8

Title: Homemade Love
(Click title to order)
J. California Cooper
Ms. Cooper has been voted as one of the AALBC's favorite authors of the 20th century
Publisher: Saint Martin's Press, Incorporated
Date Published: April 1988
Format: Trade Paper
Awed, bedevilled, and bemused, all Cooper's characters are borne up by the sheer power of life itself in these wise and exhilarating stories from Cooper's newest book.

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#9

`Title: Paradise
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated
Date Published: December 1997
(Last appearance on the AALBC best seller list in August 1998)

Brief Book Excerpt:

"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time. No need to hurry out here. They are seventeen miles from a town which has ninety miles between it and any other. Hiding places will be plentiful in the Convent, but there is time and the day has just begun.

"They are nine, over twice the number of women they are obliged to stampede or kill and they have the paraphernalia for either requirement: rope, a palm leaf cross, handcuffs, Mace and sunglasses, along with clean, handsome guns."

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#10

They Came before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
Dr. Ivan Van Sertima
(First Time on the AALBC's best Seller's List)
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 288pp.
Original Publication Date: August 1976 (now in 16th printing)
Edition Description: 1st ed. Edition Number: 1

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