AALBC
Top 25 Sellers for all of 1999
(click title to order book, click author's name for additional author
information)
During 1999 the AALBC sold 697 different titles - 75% more than 1998! The following titles represent the 25 most frequently purchased titles during all of 1999.
#1
Title:
The
Seventh Octave: The Early Writings of Saul Stacey Williams Click to order via Amazon ALL TIME AALBC
BEST SELLING BOOK for 1998 & 1999 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. 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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Title: She (Click title or book to purchase on-line) #2 ALL TIME AALBC BEST SELLING BOOK for
1998 & 1999 Author: Saul
Stacey Williams Publisher: Simon and Schuster Inc. "...the all time best selling book of poetry on AALBC.com. Who says "poetry does not sell?"" -- Troy Johnson AALBC.com 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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Title: Robert's Rules in Plain English Author: Doris P. Zimmerman, Henry M. Scott Robert Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, Incorporated Date Published: August 1997 Format: Trade Paper At last, a book on parliamentary procedure that everyone can understand! If you've ever had to run a meeting according to parliamentary procedures, you know just how difficult it is to keep track of all the rules, much less follow them. Figuring out what to say and how to say it seems an impossible task. Robert's Rules in Plain English is the solution to that problem. Not only does it provide you with essential, basic rules in simple, straightforward English, it also includes sample dialogues so you can see exactly how those rules work in practice. Using summaries, outlines, charts and forms, Robert's Rules in Plain English provides you with all you need to know to run a meeting successfully and to keep it on track.
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Encarta Africana (CD-ROM) The Only Software Title to make an AALBC Top 10 Best Seller's List Format/OS: Win95/98/NT "The disks -- crammed with 2.5 million
words and more than 2,500 pictures, maps, graphs, sounds and video clips on practically
all things of African descent -- reverberate with their subject. A mouse click can send
users, even those with modestly powered personal computers, on a cinematic voyage along
the Swahili coast, or permit them to retrace centuries of slave routes between the
"dark continent" and the New World, or simply watch, in stunningly stark video
clips, haunting scenes of civil rights marchers being attacked with fire hoses and police
dogs. "...a groundbreaking marriage of content and technology "" -- The New
York Times |
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Title: Words
Don't Fit In My Mouth (Click title or book to purchase on-line) Format: Trade Paper, 125 pages Author: Jessica C. Moore One of the all time best selling books on AALBC.com! |
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Title: Abide
with Me Author: E. Lynn Harris Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Incorporated Date Published: March 1999 Format: Trade Cloth The best-selling author of Invisible
Life and Just As I Am returns with the popular protagonists from those two
books, including Raymond Tyler, Jr., who experiences a setback in his successful legal
career, and Nicole Springer, whose relocation to New York forces her to reevaluate her
life and marriage. Through it all, Harris's masterful storytelling, wit, and sensitivity
permeate this enormously satisfying novel. |
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Title: Passing The beautiful, elegant, and ambitious Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. A light-skinned African American married to a white man unaware of her racial heritage, Clare has severed all ties to her past to become part of white, middle-class society. Clare's childhood friend, Irene Redfield, as light-skinned as Clare, has chosen to remain within the African-American community. Married to a successful doctor and the mother of two boys, Irene refuses to acknowledge the racism she grew up with and that continues to set limits on her family's happiness. A chance encounter forces both women to confront the lies they have told others and the secret fears they have buried within themselves.
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Title:
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the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Want (Click title or book to purchase on-line) All time top selling non-fiction title on AALBC.com Author: Iyanla Vanzant Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks You know where you want to be, but you have no clue how to get there. You know exactly what you want in life, but what you want is nowhere in sight. Perhaps your vision is unclear, your purpose still undefined. On top of it all, your relationships, particularly your romantic relationships, are failing. If these scenarios feel familiar way down in the deepest part of your gut, then you, my dear, are smack dab in the middle of the meantime. 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. Your mother, bless her heart, and your father, with all of
his good intentions, did not prepare you for the meantime. They did not because they could
not. No one can prepare you or help you find what you are looking for. What you need is
love, not romance. Love, not more money. Love, not a new car. Love is the only thing that
can make the meantime worthwhile. Once you find love, true self-love, and unconditional
love for everyone all the time, things will look, feel, and be a lot better. The question
is: What do you do in the meantime? We must mop and sweep away the stuff that trips us up,
keeps us confused, and makes the meantime miserable. In this book, Iyanla Vanzant tells us
how we can do this thorough mental housekeeping. If we do a good job of it, the light will
come through. Once that happens, our spirits will shine, bringing in the light of true
love and happiness.
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Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in
Black Children (Click title to Learn more about this Book and Author) Author: Dr. Jawanza
Kunjufu |
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Title: Flyy
Girl (Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: Omar Tyree, Designed by Deirdre C. Amthor Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade The dialog in this coming-of-age African American story by Tyree, who self-published two books before getting his big break, is some of the best this reviewer has read in a long time. Tyree has a way making each phrase of every conversation true to life, whether spoken by a child or an adult. The story begins at Tracy Ellison's sixth birthday party. We follow her through her parent's shaky marriage to grade school and high school. Although the story does not venture much beyond Tracey's boy-chasing escapades and an occasional side plot about her next-door-neighbor, Raheema, the book is an entertaining diversion. Tyree writes so well that readers will put up with Tracey, who is selfish and often unkind. The author captures growing up in the Eighties with a subtle and finely rendered backdrop of songs and mischief reminiscent of the era. This should be enough to keep folks reading to the mildly rushed ending while hoping that the nasty little "flyy girl," Tracy, learns a few lessons along the way. -- Recommended for large collections.Shirley Gibson Coleman, Ann Arbor Dist. Lib., Mich. (Library Journal)
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Title: Like
the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems Author: Sonia Sanchez, Deborah Chasman (Editor) Publisher: Beacon Press Date Published: December 1998 Format: Trade Paper |
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Title: One
Day My Soul Just Opened Up: 40 Days and 40 Nights Towards Spiritual Strength and Personal
Growth (The #1 best selling book on the AALBC web site in 1998) Author: Iyanla
Vanzant 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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Title: Something's
Wrong with Your Scale!: A Romantic Comedy Author: Van Whitfield(Whitfield participated in an AALBC Chat session on August 4th 1999 (read the transcript) Publisher: Doubleday & Company,
Incorporated The author of "Beeperless Remote" exercises his comedic flair in a universal tale of two people who meet and fall in love at a weight-loss center.
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Title: They Came before Columbus (Click title to Purchase Online and Learn more about this Book and Historian) Author: Ivan Van
Sertima This book makes it possible for us to see clearly the unmistakable face and handprint of Black Africans in Pre-Columbian America, and their overwhelming impact on the civilization they found here. |
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Title: Sasha's Way (Click title to Purchase Online and Learn more about this Book and Author)(Haskin's is scheduled to participate in an AALBC Chat session November 1st 2000 (see the complete schedule) Author: Scott D. Haskins Something comes alive in Dr. Sasha Timms when she walks in on her husband and his lover in their buppie paradise. Once they are dealt with, Sashas Way, she becomes a one-woman crusade, waging an all out war against male brutes. With sassy, divaesque style, this Womans Therapist delights in righting the wrongs that have been committed against her victimized patients. This unconventional novel is a fast-paced and tragically comic read. Imagine a "Waiting To Exhale" meets "Death Wish," Sashas Way is a thriller you wont want to put down. http://aalbc.com/SashasWay.htm |