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AALBC.com eNewsletter - September 27th 2005

Celebrating Our Literary Legacy! 

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RECENT AALBC.COM BOOK REVIEWS, ARTICLES & VIDEOS
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Brenda Thomas Reading
http://authors.aalbc.com/brenda_thomas.htm

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.

Yasmin Shiraz Presentation
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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.

Why Advertise On-Line? - Article by Troy Johnson
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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.

Nate by P. Lewis - Reviewed by Thumper
http://reviews.aalbc.com/nate.htm

"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..."

 

Gangsta Lean by Rochan Morgan - Reviewed by Linda Watkins
http://reviews.aalbc.com/gangsta_lean.htm

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.

The Best of The Black Book Web Sites - Updated
http://aalbc.com/otherwebsites.htm

Visit http://aalbc.com/otherwebsites.htm for a comparison of web sites 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.

 
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AALBC.com RECOMMENDS

Coretta Scott King Author Award
http://aalbc.com/books/2005_csk_winners.htm

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

Click to buy Devil In The Mist by Diane DorceDevil In The Mist by Diane Dorce
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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.

Falling Down by David T. Boyd
http://authors.aalbc.com/davidtboyd.htm

�Evil Whistles While It Works�

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 Coffee Will Make You Black Reading Group
http://thumperscorner.com/Reading_List.htm

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.

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OCTOBER 2005 RELEASES
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Pretty Evil by Lexi Davis
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1416505253/ref=nosim/aalbccom-20

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.

Any Rich Man Will Do by Francis Ray
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312324316/ref=nosim/aalbccom-20

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.

Visit http://books.aalbc.com to view a complete list of books coming out over the next 6 months.
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30% off POPULAR URBAN TITLES DIRECT FROM AALBC.com

Buy Popular Titles - 30% off Directly from AALBC.com
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Purchase these best selling titles directly from AALBC.com; including the AALBC.com best selling book for all of 2004; Let that Be the Reason by Vickie M. Stringer.  We also have our #5 best selling Non-fiction for 2004, the classic, The MIS-Education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson for only $6.97 Plus shipping.

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INTERESTING DISCUSSION BOARD POSTS
 

Oprah now spinning her special form of black magic on Morrison's Paradise
http://www.thumperscorner.com/discus/messages/1/6519.html?1123998872

"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
 

What if ROOTS is a fraud?
http://www.thumperscorner.com/discus/messages/1/7367.html?1127318053

"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


Perpendicular to Ralph Ellison. . .

http://www.thumperscorner.com/discus/messages/1/7057.html?1127067154

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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