AALBC Top Ten Sellers for October 2000
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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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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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Format: Paperback, 352pp.
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 Not
a Day Goes By(Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: E.
Lynn Harris Publisher: Doubleday & Company,
Incorporated Welcome to the irresistible world of E.
Lynn Harris--
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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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 (Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: Jessica
C. Moore Format: Trade Paper, 125 pages
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"In Sasha’s Way the heroine comes home unexpectedly and finds her husband in a compromising position. She loses her head, goes for the hunting rifle… subsequently her husband and his lover both lose their heads. After that Sasha has a taste for blood and becomes a self-appointed vigilante, seeking justice for the evil that men do." ~Mercedes Allen
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Format: Paperback, 752pp. The classic trilogy complete in one volume: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago The acclaimed trilogy that comprises Lilith's Brood is multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winner Octavia E. Butler at her best. Presenting three complete novels in one volume, Lilith's Brood is a profoundly evocative, sensual--and disturbing--epic of human transformation. Lilith Iyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when
war destroys Earth. Centuries later, she is resurrected--by miraculously
powerful unearthly beings, the Oankali. Driven by an irresistible need to
heal others, the Oankali are rescuing our dying planet by merging
genetically with mankind. But Lilith and all humanity must now share the
world with uncanny, unimaginably alien creatures: their own children.
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 Psalm
Twenty-Threeby Tim Ladwig (Click title to buy this book online now) Format: Hardcover
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Satin
Doll
