AALBC.com eNewsletter - September 3rd, 2003

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, Said the Shotgun to the Head by Saul Stacey Williams
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"Astonishing...poet. The internal rhyme, metrics, and imagery are so fleet...that they're humbling."
�The Washington Post

Eighteen-year-old college student Tiara Bynum is as pretty as a princess, and just as spoiled. Her castle is the Harlem housing project where she lives with her younger sister, Jo-Jo and her doting father Reggie. Her fiefdom is the legion of men at her beck and call when she snaps her always perfectly manicured fingers. She has no qualms about flaunting her charms to get what she wants because she�s �got it like that.�

Nervous by Zane

Zane's legion of fans can't get enough of her way of telling a juicy, sexy story. Now, the New York Times bestselling queen of erotica brings us a tale of a woman with a split personality -- one highly sexed and one sexually repressed.

Jonquinette Pierce has always been nervous when it comes to men. She took a job dealing with mostly women so she could avoid men. She goes to work and comes straight home during the week, but on the weekends her other self, Jude, takes over and goes on intense sexual escapades.

Naughty or Nice by Eric Jerome Dickey?

Making a list? Checking it twice? Eric Jerome Dickey knows who's naughty or nice.  The New York Times bestselling author promises to deliver all the humor, heart, and superb storytelling that have made him one of the biggest names in African-American fiction. Wrapped up in a gift-sized, gift-priced, beautiful package, Naughty or Nice has all the elements Eric Jerome Dickey's fans have come to love-humor, heart, and soul, with a considerable dose of spice to thaw out those cold winter nights. Hot on the heels of his surefire summer blockbuster, The Other Woman, Naughty or Nice is the present every Dickey fan will want to give as a gift (and keep for themselves)!

Trouble Man: A Novel by Travis Hunter

"Highly Recommended -- and y'all know I don't recommend much!"
�Eric Jerome Dickey

Growing up on Philadelphia�s gritty streets, Jermaine Banks was used to fighting but lately life has been throwing him hooks and jabs he�s never been prepared to deal with. Almost thirty years old, with a three-year-old son who worships the ground he walks on, a pregnant girlfriend whose family hates every breath he takes, and a slain best friend for whose death he feels responsible for, Jermaine realizes its time to change. But can he step up to the challenge, or will continue to be a Trouble Man?

Eden by Olympia Vernon

"Eden, the debut novel by Olympia Vernon, is a powerful coming of age tale. It is an extraordinary novel, one that offers magnificent artistry in addition to the unveiling of Olympia Vernon as a gifted new writer. Eden is a reason to celebrate and is one of the highlights of my reading year."  �Reviewed by Thumper

Leaving by Richard Dry

"Leaving, the debut novel by Richard Dry, is an epic tale that spans three generations of a black family, from the 1950s to circa 2000. Leaving is an epic not only in size, with over 600 pages, but in depicting the vast scope of human nature and the emotional wounds inflicted from loving someone too much at times, and not enough at others. Leaving chronicles a family doing the best they can with what they have. The book is a mesmerizing tour de force, which comes to life -- fluid, powerful, and deep. �Reviewed by Thumper

Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South by Trudier Harris

"Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South, is a collection of essays by Trudier Harris, based on her memories, observations and opinions that came from being born, raised and reared as a Black woman in the South. Written with elegance and grace, Summer Snow is an open love letter to her Alabama home, perfumed with bittersweet recollections and a lingering love that is still evident despite the passage of time. I draped Harris's words around me like a warm fuzzy blanket on a cold wintry day and snuggled in. I loved it." �Reviewed by Thumper

More Like Wrestling by Danyel Smith

"More Like Wrestling, the debut novel by Danyel Smith, is centered on the close relationship between two sisters. This was a vexing book -- emotionally empty yet captivating, excessively wordy and still brilliant. No, I am not schizophrenic. More Like Wrestling is all these things, and there lays my problem." �Reviewed by Thumper

Lana Reid

Lana Reid, a newcomer to the poetry scene announces her passion for Black men in her new book My Love Notes to a Black Man. A coffee table collection of forty poems with sensual but tasteful mixed media illustrations. Lana shares her up and downs and continuing devotion to her Black men through a fusion of poetry combined with light erotica.

J.T. Smith

Author J.T. Smith�s take on the relationship game in New York City. Many of the scenarios in this story were either experienced, witnessed, or told to the author by some of his male friends. �Love Don�t Come Easy!� was meant to be a funny, fast-paced story with a few bits of insight on the game of love in it as well. Hopefully the author has succeeded�

#1 - The Secret Medicine of the Pharaohs: Ancient Egyptian Healing by Cornelius Stetter

"Although the subject is Egyptian, the book itself is really international--written and originally published in Germany and printed in Singapore (which accounts for the 39 pages of beautiful color illustration). After introductory material on the country, hieroglyphics, and papyri, Stetter looks at the medical papyri and related social and religious matters. He gives many quotations from the Ebers, Smith, and lesser-known papyri, explaining what is known and what remains guesswork. Some Egyptian medicines, although they may sound strange to our ears, had good results that can now be understood scientifically. For example, the Egyptians used a birth-control remedy that included acacia, which, when inserted near the uterus, broke down into lactic acid, making the area inhospitable to sperm. Unfortunately, there are several places where the text was translated out of German but not into good English, and typos are not uncommon. An informative and attractive publication, nevertheless"
�William Beatty, ALA

#2 - A Renaissance in Harlem : Lost Essays of the WPA, by Ralph Ellison, Dorothy West, and Other Voices of a Generation
by Lionel C. Bascom

#3 -Too Beautiful To Die
by Glenville Lovell

#4 - Life, Love & Loneliness
by Crystal Winslow

#5 - A Hustler's Wife
by Nikki Turner

#6 - A Right to Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury
by Aaron McGruder

#7 - Always True to You in My Fashion: A Novel
by Valerie W. Wesley

#8- Threesome: Where Seduction, Power and Basketball Collide
by Brenda Thomas

#9 - Captain Blackman
by John A. Williams

#10 - Po' Man's Poker: No Guts No Glory...Bid Your Hand and Tell Story!
by Cheryl Dooley-Ponton
 

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