5 Books Published by Fawcett on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

The bestselling author of Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice now offers daily affirmations from prominent black Americans for business success. Here are 365 short, powerful motivations—one for each day of the year—from such distinguished African-Americans as Malcolm X, Whoopi Goldberg, Bill Cosby, Marian Wright Edelman, and many others.

This success guide for black Americans—based on the principles of wealth that Napoleon Hill formulated in his bestseller Think and Grow Rich—distills the secrets of success of many black Americans, from George Washington Carver to Bill Cosby, from Oprah Winfrey to Jesse Jackson.

“A fine novel.” —THE BOSTON HERALD

Photographer, writer, and composer, Gordon Parks has written a moving, true-to-life novel of growing up as a black man in this country in this century. Hailed by critics and readers alike, THE LEARNING TREE tells the extraordinary journey of a family as they struggle to understand the world around them and leave their mark — a world that is better for their having been in it.

A beautiful collection of short stories that explores blacks and whites today, Elbow Room is alive with warmth and humor. Bold and very real, these twelve stories examine a world we all know but find difficult to define.

Whether a story dashes the bravado of young street toughs or pierces through the self-deception of a failed preacher, challenges the audacity of a killer or explodes the jealousy of two lovers, James Alan McPherson has created an array of haunting images and memorable characters in an unsurpassed collection of honest, masterful fiction.

A sensitive, mildly alcoholic, solitary former advertising executive and a street-wise, lonely eleven-year-old ragamuffin from the Atlanta slums are drawn together and experience heartbreaking tribulations and the joys of loving and being loved.