6 Books Published by Dare Books on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

Novel (paperback) Romeo + Juliet Meets Boys in the Hood meets Gangs of New York. Jahvon is a young Jamaican man and a good guy who is happy with his life on the east side of Orlando. That’s until a feud between the east side and west side neighborhoods drags him into the middle of a conflict, especially after he falls in love with a young Spanish girl who just so happens to be the girlfriend of one of the west side’s leaders. He has friends and a mentor to help him through the crusades but he turns his back on them when his troublesome cousin agrees to help him get his revenge on the ones trying to keep him and his love apart. Unfortunately for Jahvon, his cousin has a dark ulterior motive that will land him in more trouble than he could imagine. www.theeastsidenovel.com

Today seven million African American women are living in their prime, experiencing the joys and challenges of middle age. Now, at last, here is the book that addresses the total health needs - physical, emotional and spiritual. Written by a distinguished physician and a clinical psychologist, Prime Time is the first complete guide that empowers women to take charge of their lives and attain the well-being they deserve.

Vitamin D deficiency is associated with a wide range of chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, mental illness, pregnancy related complications, asthma, and arthritis, to name a few.
More than 90 percent of blacks are critically deficient in vitamin D and blacks suffer disproportionately from chronic diseases.
This is the first book to comprehensively address chronic vitamin D deficiency among dark-skinned people.

Find out:

• Why dark-skinned people are predisposed to vitamin D deficiency
• How to optimize your vitamin D levels if you are dark-skinned
• How chronic vitamin D deficiency contributes to diseases such as cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity.
• Why it is critically important that pregnant dark-skinned women optimize their vitamin D levels
• How children can benefit from vitamin D

How dark-skinned athletes can benefit from vitamin D
• How elderly dark skinned people can benefit from vitamin D
• How hospitalized, dark-skinned people can benefit from vitamin D
• How some medications might affect your vitamin D level
• How to select and prepare foods that will optimize your immune system so your body can make effective use of nutrients such as vitamin D.

Praise for Correcting the Vitamin D Deficiency Epidemic.
“Vitamin D deficiency plays an important role in many diseases that are disproportionally fatal to people of color. The author draws attention to this sad situation, and the need for all society, and concerned people of all ethnicities, to act upon it.”—Cedric Garland, PhD, Dr.PH, F.A.C.E Professor, University of California san Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla , CA

“The author has done a masterful job of synthesizing and organizing the emerging scientific information on the health benefits of vitamin D solar ultraviolet-B radiation, especially for black Americans. Her logical and very readable presentation should be required reading for every black family in the United States; white and brown Americans could learn much from it as well.”—William B. Grant, PhD Director, Sunlight, Nutrition and Health Research Center, San Francisco, CA.

Deals with the challenges of the African American from the time of enslavement to the present, and dares the African American to both recognize and change his lot by his own actions.

Dana is a boy who lives in a big city, but the fast paced city spirit does not live in Dana. When Dana’s constant procrastination causes him to miss out on his own surprise birthday party, Dana turns over a new leaf. This story will help your children realize the value of time and opens up the opportunity for discussion between children and adults about time management.

Retelling of the Mother Goose rhymes. The Afrocentric kids make learning fun. With Swahili vocabulary words.