Fiction

1 - The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth by Zane
2 - Getting Buck Wild: Sex Chronicles 2, Vol. 2 - Zane (Editor)
3 - Afterburn by Zane
4 - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
5 - Chocolate Flava: The Eroticanoir.com Anthology - Zane (Editor)

1 - Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
2 - The African American Writers Handbook : How to Get in Print and Stay in Print by Robert Fleming
3 - 100 Amazing Facts about the Negro with Complete Proof by Joel Augustus Rogers
4 - A Chronology of the Bible : Challenge to the Standard Version by Yosef Ben-Jochannan
5 - Sisters You Don't Have To Settle! by Alexis Smith-Byron

Sheree Thomas Dark Mater Video
http://authors.aalbc.com/sheree.htm#Matter

The critically acclaimed, award-winning anthology Dark Matter was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Washington Post Book World "Rave" Book of the Year. An innovative and landmark collection, it presented some of the most profound, moving, and entertaining speculative fiction from the African Diaspora. Now editor Sheree R. Thomas delves further into this inspirational wellspring with a new volume of great stories that illuminate our world...

As incredible as it may seem, I�m a tad bit in shock. I recently finished reading and actually LOVING a novel published by BET under its Sepia imprint; Playing with Destiny, the debut novel by Phillip Thomas Duck. I know some of you may be wondering if I have something against BET publishing company; not really, but more on that a little later. Right now, I would like to focus on Playing with Destiny. I loved Playing with Destiny! A novel which centers on two brother�s lives and how their secrets have destroyed them; Playing with Destiny is a well crafted tale that captured my imagination and held it in a vise-like grip. The novel is a wonderful introduction to a fine new talent. Read the rest of this review.

The Apostles: A Novel by Y. Blak Moore - Book Review by Thumper
http://www.aalbc.com/reviews/the_apostles.htm

Y Blak Moore�s second novel, The Apostles, started with bang and finished with the finesse of a water balloon kissing a concrete sidewalk. The novel about gangs in Chicago showed the whole spectrum of my love/hate relationship with Moore�s writing. The storyline was nice, the characters were adequate, but the downsides were Moore killed time on characters and events that were inconsequential, the story�s pacing was off, and the ending sucked! I have read better, and I certainly had hoped that Moore would have written better than The Apostle. Read the rest of this review.

What's Really Holding You Back?: Closing the Gap Between Where You Are and Where You Want to Be By Valorie Burton - Book Review by Kam Williams
http://www.aalbc.com/reviews/whatsreallyholding.htm

Separation of Church and State notwithstanding, God seems to be enjoying a much more prominent role in our everyday life. For the Red State/Blue State cultural wars are currently being played out in plenty of places previously secular in nature. For instance, judging by its jacket, What's Really Holding You Back? Closing the Gap Between Where You Are and Where You Want to Be appears to a run-of-the-mill, self-help book. Superficially, the most remarkable thing about it, appears to be the attractive black woman on the cover, it's author Valorie Burton.  Read the rest of this review.

Who Does She Think She Is? by Benilde Little - Book Review by Thumper
http://reviews.aalbc.com/whodoesshe.htm

Demons and condemned souls must be having snowball fights in Hell because I not only read another Benilde Little book; I actually liked it. I know, I know, it is strange but true. Who Does She Think She Is? will not set the world on fire, but the novel, based on the lives of three women, is a good read which I thoroughly enjoyed. Who knew�certainly not me? Read the rest of this review.

Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man? by Charles Barkley - Book Review by Kam Williams
http://www.aalbc.com/reviews/alargeblackman.htm

Barkley and Wilbon's methodology was simply to sit down and interview their subjects, allowing them to expound on their experiences. While most of the contributors were African-American males, some were white, some female. The list includes: golfer Tiger Woods, Senator Barack Obama, actor Samuel L. Jackson, President Bill Clinton, George Lopez, Rabbi Steven Leder, gangsta rapper Ice Cube, writer Marita Golden, movie producer Peter Guber, Reverend Jesse Jackson, BET founder Robert Johnson, actor Morgan Freeman and children's rights activist/attorney Marian Wright Edelman. Read the rest of this review.

Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation: Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race, 1903-1967 by Susan Courtney - Book Review by Kam Williams
http://www.aalbc.com/reviews/hollywoodfantasies.htm

Actor Taye Diggs, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Miami Dolphins star Jason Taylor and some other high profile black men have recently been receiving hate mail threatening to castrate, burn and or shoot them for being married to white women. To understand the deep-seated hatred motivating their racist pen pal, you might like to turn to Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation, a highly academic, seminal study of black-white romance as portrayed in cinema. Read the rest of this review.

My Jim by Nancy Rawles

Told with spare eloquence and mirroring the true stories of countless slave women, My Jim re-creates one of the most controversial characters in American literature. A nuanced critique of the great American novel, My Jim stands on its own as a haunting and inspiring story about freedom, longing, and the remarkable endurance of love.

The Untelling by Tayari Jones

Aria is no stranger to tragedy. Fifteen years ago, a family outing took the lives of her father and baby sister, leaving remaining members of this fractured family struggling to live with their own guilt�real and imagined. At 25, Aria believes she can reinvent herself through her planned marriage, with all its promise of a family of her own. But the reality of infertility changes Aria's life as swiftly and irrevocably as the urban landscape around her. With prose that is both eloquent and unflinching, Jones charts the emotional journey of her characters as they explore the painful territory of truth and the healing landscape of forgiveness.

Black Rednecks And White Liberals: And Other Cultural And Ethnic Issues by Thomas Sowell

Black identity has become a hot item in the movies, on television, and in the schools and colleges. But few people are aware of how much of what passes as black identity today, including "black English," has its roots in the history of those whites who were called "rednecks" and "crackers" centuries ago in Britain, before they ever crossed the Atlantic and settled in the South.

Eddie's Ordeal by Kelly Starling Lyons

Thirteen year old Eddie Delaney loves his dad. But sometimes he wishes that he'd lighten up. His father, a lawyer who grew up during the civil rights movement expects nothing but the best from his only son. And with Eddie�s success as a starter on the basketball team, and his good grades, Mr. Delaney�s been getting it. Then Eddie brings home a D in language arts and everything changes. His parents make him quit the team. And now Eddie�s lost the one thing he knows he�s good at, the very thing that had helped bring him and his dad together. Why is his dad so hard on him? Eddie�s friends decide to find out. But when they dig into Mr. Delaney's past they uncover a secret that rocks the foundation of the already unsteady father-son relationship, and changes Eddie�s life forever.

S. D. Edgehill was born in St. Croix and raised in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. She began writing at the age of 11. She has written in multiple arenas, as a press intern, as a Congressional Aide, as Vice President of Education for Toastmasters International, and as a Technical Writer.  Edgehill is the author of To Honor Thy Mother.

Genevieve

Eric Jerome Dickey, the six-time New York Times bestselling author of Drive Me Crazy, returns with a sizzling new novel of romance and betrayal.

African American Booksellers Conference

BookExpo America � American Booksellers Association

Jacob Javits Convention Center � New York, NY

Thursday, June 2, 2005

Sponsors: Atria and Washington Square Press, division of Simon and Schuster, Ingram Book Company, Moody Publishers, BET Books, Kensington Books, HarperCollins Publishers, Earl Cox and Associates, Literally Speaking Publishing House, Macro Publishing Group, One World/Ballantine Books, Holtzbrinck/St. Martins Press

Registration for the African American Booksellers Conference is not required. For more information on the AABC, contact Emma Rodgers, Black Images at blackimagesbooks@sbcglobal.net

11:30 a.m. Opening Session and Luncheon - Room 1E 12-13 Welcome: Clara Villarosa, Harlem, NY Luncheon Sponsored by: Jump At the Sun, an imprint of Hyperion Books for Children

1:00 p.m. � 2:00 p.m. Keynote Address: Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers - Room 1E 11

2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Workshop: How to Sell Children�s Books - Room 1E 11

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Workshop: Remainder Books to Increase Your Bottom Line -- Purchasing, Pricing, and Positioning of Publisher Overstock Books -- Room 1E 11 Moderated by Felicia Wintons, Bookseller, Food For Thought, Tampa, Florida Panel: Jordon Lubberts, Sales Representative, Book Depot, Lewiston, New York

5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Reception - Room - 1E12/13

For more information bout Book Expo America Visit http://www.bookexpoamerica.com

Volunteers Needed!
http://www.evite.com/troy@aalbc.com/harlemhousetour

Troy Johnson, founder of AALBC.com, serves on the board of The Mount Morris Park Community Improvement Association (MMPCIA), a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit neighborhood preservation organization committed to ensuring the historic character and the revitalization in and around the Mount Morris Park Historic District, located in the village of Harlem.

The MMPCIA is hosting it's 16th ANNUAL MT. MORRIS PARK HISTORIC HOUSE TOUR
Sunday, June 12, 2005

Events include: Self-Guided House Tours, Guided Tour of Marcus Garvey Park, Guided Walking Tours and Jazz in Harlem (Music and Refreshments in local business venues along Lenox Avenue)

Volunteers will be needed for 6 Hours (from 10AM until 4PM) with a break to participate in the activities.

All volunteers will get a free tee-shirt and will be entitled to attend the private House Tour after party. Volunteers will also receive a copy of a novel written by an African-American Author � courtesy of AALBC.com

For more information on volunteering please contact the MMPCIA at: ht2005@harlemmtmorris.org.  Please consider volunteering: You be supporting the Harlem Community and you'll have fun doing it!

Also Visit http://www.harlemmtmorris.org to learn more about MMPCIA and the Historic House Tour.

Harlem Book Fair - 2005
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Save the Date: The Harlem Book Fair Events - July 20 - July 24th
Street Fair Saturday, July 23rd

Exhibitor Info: http://www.qbr.com/hbf/HBF05%20Vendor%20Registration%20FormHarlem.pdf