AALBC Top Ten Sellers for October 1998
(click title to order book, click author's name for
additional author information)
 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!) Author: Iyanla Vanzant (First author with three titles on the best seller's list concurrently!) 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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In
The Meantime: Finding Yourself and The Love You WantAuthor: Iyanla Vanzant (The 2# all-time best selling book on the AALBC web site!) 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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 Title:
The
Wake of the WindAuthor: J. California Cooper Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Incorporated Date Published: September 1998 Format: Trade Cloth From the beloved and highly successful author of "Family" and "In Search of Satisfaction" comes a dramatic and thought-provoking new novel of one African-American family's triumph in the face of the hardships and challenges of the post-Civil War South. |
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 Title: Somebody
Else's Child(Fourth consecutive as best-seller on the AALBC web site, and the #3 all-time best selling book on the AALBC web site! Author: Terris McMahan Grimes Publisher: NAL/Dutton Date Published: February 1996 Format: Mass Market Paperbound Theresa is a career woman, a mother and a wife. When her mother calls to say there's trouble at her elderly neighbor's house and she's going over to investigate, Theresa has no choice but to get involved. Before the night is over, Theresa finds herself caught up in the harsh brutality of the streets, with a drive-by shooting, a mysterious kidnapping, and more. |
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 Title: Words
Don't Fit In My MouthAuthor: Jessica C. Moore Publisher: Moore Black Press Date Published: April 1997 Format: Trade Paper |
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 Title:
Faith
in the Valley: Lessons for Women on the Journey to PeaceAuthor: 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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 Title: The
Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White MotherAuthor: James McBride Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Date Published: February 1997 Format: Trade Paper Around the narrative of Ruth McBride Jordan, a.k.a. Rachel Deborah Shilsky, the daughter of an angry, failed Orthodox Jewish rabbi in the South, her son James writes of the inner confusions he felt as a black child of a white mother and of the love and faith with which his mother surrounded their large family. The result is a powerful portrait of growing up, a meditation on race and identity, and a poignant, beautifully crafted hymn from a son to his mother. |
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 Title: 360� - A Revolution of Black Poets(For sale directly by the AALBC, 2nd consecutive month on the AALBC best seller list) Author: Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam & Kwame Alexander Publisher: BlackWords Date Published: September 1998 Format: Trade Paper |
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 Title: Fertile Ground(For sale directly by the AALBC, 2nd consecutive month on the AALBC best seller list) Author: Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam & Kysha N. Brown Publisher: Runagate Press Date Published: June 1996 Format: Trade Paper |
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Title: In
the Life: A Black Gay Anthology |
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