AALBC.com's Best Selling Books
November & December 2002
#1![]() Click to order via Amazon, Barnes and Noble or AALBC.com Format:
Paperback, 5th ed., 176pp.,
ISBN: 0971201927 Kola's powerful and shocking collection of short stories, "LONG TRAIN TO THE REDEEMING SIN" is developing a growing fan base and Kola Boof's strong feminist viewpoint is finally getting a look-see. Issues such as colorism, female genital mutilation, authentic love and the "sexual longing" of Black Women are what make Kola's work so daring. Her famous poetry can be downright chilling
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#2
Format: Paperback, 128pp.,
ISBN: 0740713957 Since its debut in April 1999, The Boondocks has found a home in more than 250 newspapers, making its launch the strongest since Calvin And Hobbes and For Better Or For Worse. The rich, multilayered comic strip offers a frank yet often funny look at race in America. It starts with a simple premise: Two young boys, Riley and Huey, move from inner-city Chicago to live with their grandfather. The tension increases, however, because the two boys are African-Americans now compelled to adapt to a white suburban world. They must take all they've learned in the 'hood and apply it to life in the 'burbs. Aaron McGruder has created a strip unlike any other. Superbly illustrated, The Boondocks has stirred controversy, attracted widespread media coverage, and won readers who've applauded McGruder's unapologetic and humorous approach to race. This second collection includes some of the year's most compelling story lines. The Boondocks is a groundbreaking strip of enormous proportions. It's certain to only increase in popularity.
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#3
by Judge Greg Mathis and Blair S. Walker
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#4
by Hannah Crafts, Henry Louis, Jr. Gates (Editor) Format: Hardcover, 336pp. An unprecedented historical and literary event, this tale written in the 1850s is the only known novel by a female African American slave, and quite possibly the first novel written by a black woman anywhere. A work recently uncovered by renowned scholar Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., it is a stirring, page-turning story of "passing" and the adventures of a young slave as she makes her way to freedom. When Professor Gates saw that modest listing in an auction catalogue for African American artifacts, he immediately knew he could be on the verge of a major discovery. After exhaustively researching the hand-written manuscript's authenticity, he found that his instincts were right. He had purchased a genuine autobiographical novel by a female slave who called herself -- and her story's main character � Hannah Crafts.
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#5
Format:
Paperback, 144pp.,
ISBN: 0970380313 Sasha is caught in the middle of the exciting, sexually charged underbelly of professional basketball, the sadness of suicide and constant self-destructive behavior. Follow along as the threads of love, happiness and self-worth are woven together to create the fabric of Threesome
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#6
Donna Hill Format:
Hardcover, 320pp. Asha and Lisa have been
best friends since grade school and they have always shared everything.
A beautiful and accomplished photographer, Asha never seems to lack
excitement or a man to share it with. Yet, for a woman who appears to
have it all there is always "that something" she needs to make her feel
whole . . . worthy. "...a powerful novel of
two friends and the forces that rip them apart...Alternately tough and
tender, and consistently insightful..."
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#7
by Whitney Leblanc Format: Hardcover, 256pp. "Whitney LeBlanc makes his literary debut with an impressive,
multidimensional, highly entertaining family drama, written in the glory
of the blues. I threw open my arms and embraced Blues in the Wind like a
beloved long lost relative. Finally, a family drama with some bite has
arrived. Blues In The Wind is one of the best books I have read this
year. A triumph."
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#8
Keith Knight Format:
Paperback, 128pp. Keith Knight's comics are simultaneously lighthearted, wild, and clever, and his great strength is the deftness with which he blends political insight, whacked-out surrealism, neurotic humor, and personal honesty. His comic strip, K Chronicles, runs in the San Francisco Examiner, on Salon.com, and in dozens of alternative newsweeklies across the country. Reminiscent of Calvin and Hobbes, Knight's drawing style is fluid and dynamic.
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#9
Nana Banchie Darkwah Format:
Paperback This book contains the most
fascinating revelations ever made about the Bible and the people of the
Bible in the past two thousand years. What about God of the people in
Exodus, Adonai. Should it actually be pronounced Adona? What about the
Kametic Khakheperre-sonbe could it be Kwaku Pra Sebe the author of the
Ancient Egyptian Lamentations found in the Papyrus Chester Beatty IV?
Could the word Ankh be a corruption of the Akan word Nkwa? Did you know
that Jews originated from black African tribes? Did you know that Jesus
and the people of the Bible were black people? Did you know that the
names of authors of the Old Testament are African tribal names? Did you
know that modern Jews still carry tribal names. Could the boy king named
Tutankhamun be actually pronounced in its original tongue Tutu Ankoma
such as it is in the Akan language? Did you know that in the West Africa
there is an Abre Ham (Abraham) and the descendants are still practicing
rituals very closely similar to the present Jewish Passover? Did you
know that the word Israel is an African word? These are some of the
ancient secrets this book reveals to readers.
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#10
by Mary Monroe Format: Hardcover, 288pp. Mary Monroe's Gonna Lay Down My Burdens opens with a bang, when Carmen Taylor intervenes in a violent lovers' quarrel between her friends Chester and Desiree, and Chester winds up dead. Most of the novel is told in flashback, following Carmen and Chester's ill-fated attraction to one another, which began when they were teenagers. It traces the friendship between Carmen and troubled Desiree, as well as Carmen's relationship with Burl, a boy she tried to use to make Chester jealous, with disastrous and long-lasting results. Monroe (God Don't Like Ugly) will surely return to the Blackboard bestseller list with this title, a standout among similar offerings.
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