AALBC Top Ten Sellers for November 1999
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Billy(Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: Albert French Publisher: Viking Penguin Albert French's harrowing debut novel of 10-year-old Billy Lee Turner, convicted and executed for murdering a white girl in Baines, Mississippi, in 1937, is an unsentimental and ultimately heartrending vision of racial injustice. "A work of art . . . Billy never lets up, not for one minute. . . . magnificent."--New York Daily News.
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 Title: The
Original African Heritage Study Bible; Bonded Leather(Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: Ah1bg-I Bible, Manufactured by World Bible Publishing
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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) 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. 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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River,
Cross My Heart(Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: Breena Clarke Publisher: Little, Brown & Company "A remarkable new writer makes her debut - with a
novel of tragedy and triumph in the life of an African American family in Georgetown,
circa 1925. Six-year-old Clara Bynum is dead, drowned in the Potomoc River in the shadow
of an apparently haunted rock outcropping known locally as the Three Sisters. In scenes
alive with emotional truth, River, Cross My Heart weighs the effect of Clara's
absence on the people she has left behind: her parents, Alice and Willie Bynum, torn
between the old world of their rural North Carolina home and the new world of the city, to
which they have moved in search of a better life for themselves and their children; the
friends and relatives of the Bynum family in the Georgetown neighborhood they now call
home; and, most especially, Clara's sister, twelve-year-old Johnnie Mae, who must come to
terms with the powerful and confused emotions sparked by her sister's death as she
struggles to decide and discover the kind of woman she will become." -- the Publisher |
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 Title: She(Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: Saul
Stacey Williams Publisher: Simon and Schuster Inc. "...the all time best selling book of poetry on AALBC.com. 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.
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 (Click title or book to purchase on-line) Format: Trade Paper, 125 pages Author: Jessica C. Moore One of the all time best selling books on AALBC.com!
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In
the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Want(Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: Iyanla Vanzant Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks You know where you want to be, but you have no clue how to get there. You know exactly what you want in life, but what you want is nowhere in sight. Perhaps your vision is unclear, your purpose still undefined. On top of it all, your relationships, particularly your romantic relationships, are failing. If these scenarios feel familiar way down in the deepest part of your gut, then you, my dear, are smack dab in the middle of the meantime. 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. Your mother, bless her heart, and your father, with all of
his good intentions, did not prepare you for the meantime. They did not because they could
not. No one can prepare you or help you find what you are looking for. What you need is
love, not romance. Love, not more money. Love, not a new car. Love is the only thing that
can make the meantime worthwhile. Once you find love, true self-love, and unconditional
love for everyone all the time, things will look, feel, and be a lot better. The question
is: What do you do in the meantime? We must mop and sweep away the stuff that trips us up,
keeps us confused, and makes the meantime miserable. In this book, Iyanla Vanzant tells us
how we can do this thorough mental housekeeping. If we do a good job of it, the light will
come through. Once that happens, our spirits will shine, bringing in the light of true
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Two
Cities(Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: John Edgar Wideman Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company "Two Cities is a compelling culmination of the theme
of contemporary balack urban male double consciousness develped in Wideman's thirteen
previous critically acclaimed books. It interweaves a legendary political tragedy of
Philadelphia with a blues love story of Pittsburgh. It is a novel that thematically and
stylistically explores the boundaries and bridges that paradoxically separate and connect
fact and fiction, past and present, places and poeple, black and white, men and women,
young and old. It is an experimental novel that linguistically celebrates the
resourcefulness and resiliency of the African American blues voice." -- Bernard W.
Bell - American Book Review |
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 Title: Tar
Baby(Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: Toni Morrison Publisher: Dutton Signet "Tar baby audacious and hypnotic, is masterful in its mingling
of tones--of longing and alarm, of urbanity and a primal, mythic force in which the
landscape itself becomes animate, alive with a wild, dark complicity in the fates of the
people whose drama unfolds. It is a novel suffused with a tense and passionate inquiry,
revealing a whole spectrum of emotions underlying the relationships between black men and
women, white men and women, and black and white people." -- The Publisher |
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Uncle
Tom's Children(Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: Richard A. Wright Publisher: HarperTrade This collection by the renowned author of Native Son brings to life post-slavery characters in their full psychological and emotional depth. "Taking for its characters Negro men and women at bay in the oppressive Southern environment, the book represents one of the few instances in which an American Negro writer has successfully delineated the universals embodied in Negro experience." —Ralph Ellison |
