Watch a video featuring Brenda Thomas reading during
an AALBC.com Literary Salon held in May of 2005. Ms. Thomas is
the author of three books including The Velvet Rope and Fourplay:
The Dance of Sensuality.
Watch a video of Yasmin Shiraz talking about her work at the
Patterson Free Public Library. This event was hosted by Urban Book
Bazaar on September 17th 2005. Yasmin is the author of several
titles including the non-fiction work; The Blueprint for My Girls in
Love: 99 Rules for Dating, Relationships, and Intimacy and the novel
Exclusive.
Despite the exploding popularity and growth of World
Wide Web, most authors fail to take advantage of the medium,
particularly when it comes to on-line advertising. Admittedly
the concepts of on-line advertising and how it works can be very
confusing. Read this article to learn more about the mechanics
and benefits of on-line advertising.
"I should have known better, especially with me being so fond of
old sayings. “Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.” I
love well written books about off-the-wall characters. To a
certain degree, I got that exact thing in Nate, the latest novel
by P. Lewis. The title character is interesting, but not enough
to endear him to me..."
Debut novel, Gangsta Lean, penned by Rochan Morgan
is one of the few chronologically tight stories written by a new
author this year. It is so tight that it can become annoying.
The chapters have sub chapters forcing too much scene
transaction, showing more than they tell, leaving little wiggle
room for the reader’s imagination. The layout is more
appropriate for a screen play than a novel. Still, it does
follow a sometimes confusing story accurately.
Visit
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which promote, support and sell books written by Black authors.
Learn which of these web sites gets the most
traffic, have been around the longest and more.
The
Coretta Scott King Awards are presented
annually by the American Library Association to honor African-American
authors and illustrators who create outstanding books for children and
young adults. Initially, the award was established in 1969 to recognize
authors and then was expanded to include a separate award for
illustrators in 1979. These awards are given to commemorate the life and
work of the late
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and to honor Mrs. Coretta Scott King
for her continuing efforts in working for peace and civil rights.
The 2005 winners include Toni Morrison for
her book Remember: The Journey to School Integration. The
Illustrator award went to Kadir A. Nelson
for his illustrations in, Ellington Was Not a Street, written by
Ntozake Shange
Diane Dorce evokes true terror in this sexy, suspenseful,
thriller from Door of Kush.
Atlanta, years after the Olympics, decades after Jim
Crow, forges ahead and becomes the number one city in the nation, for
murder. In the heart of Atlanta, the city too busy to hate, the powers
that be converge, murder is a blurb and death is sold to the highest
bidder. Detective Zack Monstar is put in charge of a bizarre murder case
involving two local men. To every one including Zack, it was obvious
they were shot, that was his first deduction, until Medical Examiner
Bobby Semien produced other evidence that proved at least one of the men
may have been exposed or injected with a deadly virus, the same virus
that is sweeping the nations of Africa, killing thousands daily.
Janet Wilson is a married attorney living in Erie, Pennsylvania, who’s
been having recurring nightmares about a man dressed in black
burglarizing her home. The man in black whistles the nursery rhyme
London Bridge is Falling Down as he carefully picks through her
things. With loaded gun in hand, Janet startles him. He
attacks her; she shoots him yet he crawls after her before he dies.
But what truly frightens Janet is with each dream her attacker gets
closer until finally he touches her just before she awakens.
The next book on our club's reading list is Buffalo Gordon on the Plains
by J. P. Sinclair Lewis.
Thumper has personally selected all of the books on our reading list
going back to 1998. All of the books are excellent reads. If you
are look for a good book to read -- look no further. AALBC.com
enthusiastically recommends all of the books on our reading list.
Longtime friends Rice, Coach, and Geffen can't
believe it when they see an abandoned property just a stone's throw
away from Rodeo Drive -- the dilapidated wreck is more haunted house
than Hollywood high life. But when they enter the massive estate
with their best friend and realtor Sunnie, they see a great
financial investment. A fixer-upper with room for a gym and a sauna.
A cavernous hall for swanky celebrity parties. A hideaway for
seducing the ladies...in other words, a place to live large and
dream big.
But Sunnie senses all is not right with the house.
Turns out it is already occupied by a supernatural vixen who resents
the intruders and vows to use her shape-shifting powers to dispatch
them -- not with violence but with an equally lethal weapon: sex.
Morphing into each man's fantasy lover, she takes them one by one to
heights of ecstasy designed to torment their souls. Only Sunnie,
armed with an extrasensory gift and some very powerful prayers, can
take on this devilishly gorgeous demon -- even if she has to pay the
ultimate price.
In this new novel from the national bestselling
author Francis Ray, a bad girl falls on hard times, and forgiveness
and redemption are the only things she has left.
Broke and living in a shabby motel, beautiful bad
girl Jana Franklin has become an outcast in the elite Dallas society
she once ruled. With her divorce from wealthy Gray Livingston, her
dubious past, and no skills to claim, Jana is unable to support
herself. Without friends and without hope, she has no one she can
depend on but herself.
Then one night she stumbles (literally!) into
Olivia Maxwell's store, Midnight Dreams. There she meets Tyler
Maxwell---the first man she can't maneuver, toy with, or fool. After
this chance meeting, tough girl Jana learns that it takes more than
scheming to get her man.
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"Is there no stopping this woman from getting her
hands on our books and turning them into TV disasters? Oprah please,
please, do a TV adaptation of a Danielle Steele book instead!!"
—Thumper
"You may or may not have heard about this, but what
if
Haley's account of slavery is a fraud? Does that change anything
about his legacy?" —Brian_egeston
1. Can we deny that implicit in the caliber of
Ralph Ellison's work is an assertion regarding acceptable standards of
literary composition?
2. Can we compare the caliber and compositional style of Ralph Ellison's
work to that of
Terry McMillan? Can we compare the works of Ralph Ellison to
Eric Jerome Dickey?
3. From : Survey of American Literature, 1992 --- (on Ralph Ellison):
"The central theme of Ralph Ellison's writing is
the search for identity, a search that he sees as central to American
literature and the American experience. He has said that "the nature of
our society is such that we are prevented from knowing who we are," and
in Invisible Man this struggle toward self-definition is applied to
individuals, groups, and the society as a whole. The particular genius
of Invisible Man is Ellison's ability to interweave these individual,
communal, and national quests into a single, complex vision."
Has the quest of Ralph Ellison (in terms of style,
in terms of vision, in terms of caliber) been advanced within
African-American literature?
—West_africa
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