AALBC Top Ten Sellers for November 2000
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Format: Hardcover, 470pp. Edited by Kevin Powell The best work of hip-hop generation writers captured in a single volume "Kevin Powell is pushing to bring the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, the fears, and the fearlessness."�Nikki Giovanni From fiction writers, poets, journalists, and commentators, this absorbing anthology captures, for the first time, the new school of black writing, including established and award-winning authors like Junot Diaz, Edwidge Danticat, Danyel Smith, and Paul Beatty, as well as emerging voices from around the world. In addition to showing today's literary flowering, Step Into A World provides a window into the crucial issues of contemporary black life, including racial and sexual identity, post-civil rights politics, and hip-hop culture. Compiled by critically acclaimed poet, journalist, and essayist Kevin Powell, this groundbreaking book is a revelation.
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Author:
Saul Stacey Williams ALL TIME AALBC BEST SELLING BOOK since December 1997 (out of over 1,000 different titles sold)! Publisher: Simon and Schuster Inc. "Who says poetry does not sell?" -- Troy Johnson AALBC.com AALBC top 10 bestseller every month this year! 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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Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 32pp. "When Christmas arrives in the slaves' quarters of a Carolina plantation, Irene Jennie cannot feel the spirit because her daddy, 'a fine fiddlin' man,' and her mama have been 'rented out' to a neighboring plantation. She's filled with sadness--until the Koners come along. The Koners are members of theJohnkankus troupe, which marches through the quarters on Christmas Day spreading cheer and singing and dancing in brightly colored costumes. By the end ofthe day, Irene's mother and father return, making her day complete. . . . Kindergarten to grade four." (SLJ)
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by Lou Paget Format: Hardcover, 235pp. Acclaimed sex expert Lou Paget draws on the real-life experience of the hundreds of men and women who have attended her workshops, and she presents their secrets and tricks in an elegant, no-nonsense style. Lou has found that in the bedroom (or closet, or kitchen) knowledge equals confidence, and confidence will make you feel empowered, heighten the intimacy of your relationship, and enable you and your partner to enjoy yourselves in a variety of intense, new ways. Whether you are starting a new relationship, have run out of creative ideas, or want to light his fire all over again, How to Be a Great Lover has enough spicy tips and surprises to excite both of you and leave him begging for more.
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 Title:
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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.
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 For
Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
when the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem(Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: Ntozake Shange Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 64pp. From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the twentieth century. Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.
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by Juanita Bynum
Format: Hardcover, 223pp. There has hever been a more needed message to reach people who have suffered with their ability to maintain virtuous relationships. Many sincere, well-meaning Christians secretly wrestle with their sexuality and lust. This personal issue has trapped many of us, but God longs to heal what we've been afraid to reveal. Juanita Bynum pulls the covers off this powerful struggle. This message is your breakthrough to wholeness and holiness. ~The Publisher
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 The Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspapers (Click title or book to purchase on-line)
Format: Paperback, 128pp. The Boondocks information Excerpted from
an interview of Aaron McGruder by Keith Phipps for The Onion Set in the suburbs, The Boondocks follows the lives of several children, primarily two brothers transplanted from South Chicago to live with their grandfather. One, Huey Freeman, is a deeply opinionated Afrocentrist; the other, Riley "Escobar" Freeman, is a posturing would-be gangsta.
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 (Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: Jessica C. Moore (Click name to learn more about author) Format: Trade Paper, 125 pages
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Author: Karen E. Quinones Set in Harlem and Philadelphia, Satin Doll tells the story of a woman living in two worlds, and feeling comfortable in neither. The lovely Regina sips cocktails in Greenwich Village with the literary elite one night, and goes barhopping with her Harlem homegirls the next. There’s Yvonne, who discovers the lawyer she is dating is married, but decides to steal him away from his wife. Tamika, who finds out the prison inmate she’s been loyal to for three years has married a white woman while behind bars. And Puddin�, a cocaine sniffing good-time girl who will snatch off her wig to fight at the drop of a hat. |
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Satin
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