Oct 2000

Title: She
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Author: Saul Stacey Williams
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ALL TIME AALBC BEST SELLING BOOK since December 1997 (out of over 1,000 different titles sold)!

Publisher: Simon and Schuster Inc.
Date Published: June 1999
Format: Paperback And CD - $9.60 (plus shipping and tax)

"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.

Blues Dancing: A Novel
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by Diane McKinney-Whetstone

Format: Hardcover, 320pp.
ISBN: 0688149952
Publisher: Morrow,William & Co
Pub. Date: November 1999
Edition Desc: 1 ED

About this Book
In the early seventies, Verdi, a pampered, cloistered daughter of a southern preacher, heads to Philadelphia to enroll at the university. There she meets Johnson, a city boy. Their differences draw them together—he loves her gentility, she is seduced by his charisma. Their relationship is pure sweetness until Johnson teaches her the one thing that will change her life irrevocably—how to love heroin.

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#3

Title: The Seventh Octave: The Early Writings of Saul Stacey Williams
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Author: Saul Stacey Williams, Jessica C. Moore (Editor)
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Publisher: Moore Black Press
Date Published: February 1998
Format: Trade Paper

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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#4

The African American Writers Handbook: How to Get in Print and Stay in Print:
by Robert Fleming
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Format: Paperback, 352pp.
ISBN: 0345423275
Publisher: Ballantine Books, Inc.
Pub. Date: March 2000

A complete, step-by-step guide to every aspect of the publishing process, from the germination of a winning idea to the nuts and bolts of book production
Tips on submitting proposals, query letters, and preparing manuscripts for submission
Advice on negotiating contracts that extend careers
How to use on-line resources for research and profit
Interviews with top editors, agents, publishing executives, and bookstore owners
Updated information on copyrights, subsidiary rights, sales and marketing
The trials and triumphs of self-publishing
The art of promoting your work and yourself to a wider audience
An insider's look at the economic realities of the book business

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#5

Not a Day Goes By
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Author: E. Lynn Harris
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Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Incorporated
Date Published: June 2000
Format: Trade Cloth

Welcome to the irresistible world of E. Lynn Harris--

He is a devilish and handsome ex-football player, now a rising sports agent at one of the hottest firms in the country. Irrepressible and dangerously alluring, John "Basil" Henderson has a history with women (and a few men). He's a commitment-phobe gadfly who's known for a double-edged magnetism that has the ability to thrill-- and wound.

She is the uncompromising Yancey Harrington Braxton, an up-and-coming Broadway star who oozes charm and bleeds ambition. Young, beautiful and dangerously crafty, Yancey is prepared to do whatever she must to get what she wants. A femme fatale who has left more than a few broken--hearted men in her wake, Yancey is intrigued by Basil. Both believe that in each other they've finally met their match.

A lavish wedding is planned, and the ultimate power couple plans to spend their lives in holy matrimony. But just before the nuptials, fate, and a little comeuppance from the past threaten the happy couple's future.

Masterful storyteller E. Lynn Harris takes listeners on a delicious little ride into the mischievous lives of two very unforgettable characters in this fun and satisfying cautionary tale.

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#6

Satin Doll
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Author: Karen E. Quinones
Format: Paperback, 279pp.
Publisher: Oshun Publishing Company Inc.
Pub. Date: November 1999

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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#7

Title: Words Don't Fit In My Mouth
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Author: Jessica C. Moore
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Format: Trade Paper, 125 pages
Published April 1997, Moore Black Press

Excerpt from the title Poem
The Words Don't Fit in My Mouth

Poetry will remain universal language
Without clout
Bout to sprinkle antonyms and cinnamon
On brown french toast
Boast when we find creative ways to fix and fit
Poison cherry-flavored popsicle stick shaped
Words in our mouths
Melting into metaphors
Mutating into talkative tongue-tied tourists
Mumbling about ivory coast memories

That remain unfound
And if they still don't understand what
We're talking about
Tell them their words don't fit in our mouths
Exclamation point
!
Period

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#8

Sasha's Way: A Novel of Payback-- and Justice
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by Scott Haskins

"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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#9

Lilith's Brood
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by Octavia E Butler

Format: Paperback, 752pp.
ISBN: 0446676101
Publisher: Warner Books, Incorporated
Pub. Date: June 2000

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.
This is their story...

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#10

Psalm Twenty-Three
by Tim Ladwig
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 0802851606
Publisher: Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Pub. Date: January 1997
Recommend Age Range: 5 to 8

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