Long Train to the redeeming SIN Stories about AFRICAN women

by Kola Boof

Paperback, 178 pages, 2001
ISBN 0-9712019-2-7
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Threesome: Where Seduction, Power and Basketball Collide

by Brenda Thomas

Format: Paperback, 144pp., ISBN: 0970380313
Publisher: Writers and Poets.com, Pub. Date: January 28, 2002

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Heart of the Artist, The by Rory Noland 

Format: Paperback, 208pp.
ISBN: 0310224713
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing House
Pub. Date: May  1999

This book explores issues of character facing Christian artists who want to use their gifts more effectively in church ministry.

Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 302pp.
ISBN: 0883781042
Publisher: Third World Press
Pub. Date: November  1990, Edition Desc: 1st ed

One of AALBC.com's all-time best selling books - 1 of 3 books to make on both the 2002 and 2001 best sellers lists

Preface: "We now are nearing the final decade of the 20th century. Recently, there has been an unraveling and an analysis of the core issue of the first global power sysem of mass oppression-- the power system of racism (white supremacy). One the collective victim (non-white population) understands this fundamental issue, the ultimate organizing of all of the appropriate behaviors necessary to neutralize the great injustice of the white supremacy power system will only be a matter of time. The length of time required to neutralize global white supremacy will be inversely proportional to 1) the level of understanding of the phenomenon; plus 2) the evolution of self- and group-respect, the will, determination and discipline to practice the appropriate counter-racist behaviors--on the part of the non-white victims of white supremacy."

Guy Johnson

Format: Hardcover, 584pp., ISBN: 0375505679
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
Pub. Date: August 2002, Edition Desc: 1ST

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violence and bloodlust that seemed to be his grandfather's way of life, Jackson chose to distance himself from King and live a simpler life. But now King is gravely ill, and his impending death places Jackson's life - as well as those of his family and friends - in jeopardy. Reluctantly, Jackson travels to Mexico to see King. But after a brief reconciliation, his grandfather is assassinated, and Jackson suspects that his grandmother Serena may have had a hand in it. Jackson takes control of King's organization, and as he does, he reflects on the summers he spent in Mexico as a child and the lessons he learned there at the knee of his strong-willed, complex grandfather.

Format: Paperback, 272pp.
ISBN: 0452282241
Publisher: Dutton/Plume
Pub. Date: December 2000

Also the #5 Best Selling Book for 2001 on AALBC.com - 1 of 3 books to make on both the 2002 and 2001 best sellers lists

Silk sheets...jazz playing softly in the background. The many moods of Eros are explored in this rich and diverse array of black erotica, written especially for this Plume collection.

Brown Sugar brings together some of the most acclaimed voices in today's black literary world-Sapphire, Natasha Tarpley, Reginald Harris, and Pamela Sneed, among them. These titillating stories cover the full spectrum of black experience and identity as they reveal sexuality and sensuality in all their varied and exotic forms. From the subtle to the graphic, Brown Sugar embraces the ardor and passion of black love and lust, and will appeal to both men and women. Featuring both well-established authors and promising new writers, this one-of-a-kind collection represents the past, present, and future of black literature at its pleasurable and outrageous best.

It is a must-have for every lover, as well as every lover of first-rate fiction.

Author Bio: Carol Taylor is a former book editor now working as a freelance editor and writer. She co-edited and contributed to Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books.

Words Don't Fit In My Mouth

by Jessica Care Moore 

Format: Paperback, 151pp.
ISBN: 0965830802
Publisher: Moore Black Press
Pub. Date: April  1997

The best selling book poetry book on AALBC.com and one of the best selling books of any genre.  This is the only book to make AALBC.com annual best sellers list each year since 1998!

Addicted

Zane

Format: Paperback, 336pp.
ISBN: 0743442849
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pub. Date: October 2001

Addicted is the story of Zoe, an African-American female arts dealer. It traces her life from the time she first meets her husband, Jason, in the fifth grade, falls in love with him over a game of Twister in the eighth grade, loses her virginity to him in high school and eventually marries him. Everything seems perfect in Zoe’s life to her friends and family as she secretly deals with serious problems in her marriage.

After failing to get Jason to open up to her sexually, Zoe becomes involved in not one, not two but three extramarital affairs. By the time she seeks the aid of a prominent female African-American therapist, the walls of her picture perfect life have already started to crumble.

The book shifts into high gear as Zoe finds out that everyone from her lovers to her husband to her own mother are hiding secrets of their own. Her best friend, Brina, is physically abused by her alcoholic boyfriend, Dempsey. Zoe discovers under hypnosis that her fascination with sex stems from two incidents in her early childhood she had buried deeply into the crevices of her mind. She is stalked and attacked. The book comes to a head on a cold, dark mountain following a trail of murders and the true murderer is anyone’s guess. Addicted does for women what Fatal Attraction did for men. It will make a woman think twice before risking it all.