Jan 1999

Title: One Day My Soul Just Opened Up: 40 Days and 40 Nights Towards Spiritual Strength and Personal Growth
(The all-time best selling book on the AALBC web site!)
Author: Iyanla Vanzant
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
Date Published: December 1997
Format: Trade Paper

Both an inspiring guide and a hands-on measurement tool that enables readers to chart their spiritual growth as it unfolds, One Day My Soul Just Opened Up encourages readers to use journal-writing as a self-awareness process. Vanzant introduces 40 principles to follow and embrace in daily living as guideposts on the path toward spiritual strength and understanding.

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#2

Title: In The Meantime: Finding Yourself and The Love You Want
Author: Iyanla Vanzant
(The 2nd all-time best selling book on the AALBC web site!)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
Date Published: January 1998

The best-selling author of "Acts of Faith" and "The Value in the Valley"--whose books have empowered countless women--now reaches out to anyone who yearns for love, in a book about relationships that can help them reach new levels of awareness, spiritual growth, and fulfillment.

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#3

Title: 360° - A Revolution of Black Poets
(For sale directly by the AALBC and all time best selling poetry book!)
Author: Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam & Kwame Alexander
Publisher: BlackWords
Date Published: September 1998
Format: Trade Paper

Grand divas Sonia Sanchez, author of Wounded in the House of a Friend and Does Your House Have Lions, and Mari Evans, author of the classic I Am a Black Woman, are displayed side by side with the youthful albeit sophisticated musings of Apollo Showtime winner Jessica Care Moore and Pulitzer prize nominee Ruth Forman.

Haki Madhubuti, who has sold over 3 million books, and poetry slam World Heavyweight Champ Quincy Troupe mix it up with performance poet D-Knowledge (featured in Poetic Justice and Higher Learning) and Dark Room Collective founder Thomas Sayers Ellis.

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#4

Title: The Lady, Her Lover, and Her Lord
Author: T. D. Jakes
(First appreance on the AALBC's best sellers list)
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group, The
Date Published: June 1998
Format: Trade Cloth
In this accessible, sensitive, and practical book, the bestselling author of Woman, Thou Art Loosed! and Loose That Man and Let Him Go! provides inspired and clear advice to women -- and to the men who love them -- who desire to transform past pain into fuel for future achievement.

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#5

Encarta Africana (CD-ROM)
(First software title on the AALBC's best sellers list)
"The disks -- crammed with 2.5 million words and more than 2,500 pictures, maps, graphs, sounds and video clips on practically all things of African descent -- reverberate with their subject. A mouse click can send users, even those with modestly powered personal computers, on a cinematic voyage along the Swahili coast, or permit them to retrace centuries of slave routes between the "dark continenet" and the New World, or simply watch, in stunningly stark video clips, haunting scenes of civil rights marchers being attacked with fire hoses and police dogs. "...a groundbreaking marriage of content and technology "" -- The New York Times

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#6

Title: Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality
(First appreance on the AALBC's best sellers list)
Author: Thomas Sowell
Publisher: William Morrow & Company, Incorporated
Date Published: November 1985
Format: Trade Paper
A landmark work on the state of civil rights three decades after Brown v. Board of Education.

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#7

Title: Like the Singing Coming off the Drums : Love Poems
(First appreance on the AALBC's best sellers list)
Author: Sonia Sanchez, Deborah Chasman (Editor)
Publisher: Beacon Press
Date Published: December 1998
Format: Trade Paper

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#8

Title: Faith in the Valley: Lessons for Women on the Journey to Peace
(The 4th all-time best selling book on the AALBC web site!)
Author: Iyanla Vanzant
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
Date Published: April 1996
Format: Trade Paper
A beautifully rendered meditation book to help and support women through the rough valley experiences of life--now reissued in a special keepsake edition that makes a wonderful Mother's Day gift.

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#9

Title: Men Cry in the Dark
(First appreance on the AALBC's best sellers list)
Author: Michael Baisden, Stanley Rabinowitz (Editor)
Publisher: Legacy Pub
Date Published: June 1997
Format: Trade Cloth

The bad boy of literature is back! Michael is taking the book world by storm once again with a provocative new book that is sure to stir controversy.Men Cry in the Dark is an entertaining and relaistic novel about relationships, fatherhood, and interracial dating from the man's perspective. Michael has courageously stepped outside the boundaries to prove once and for all that men do love their children, cherish their women, and yes, even cry.

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#10

Title: Dark Eros
(First appreance on the AALBC's best sellers list)
Author: Reginald Martin, Ishmael Reed, Lenard Moore
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, Inc.
Date Published: December 1998
Format: Trade Paper
The overwhelming power of the erotic imagination is brought to full flower in this masterful collection of African-American writings. With pieces from more than seventy writers, Dark Eros explores the erotic possibilities as imagined and reported by authors both well-known and emerging. Using the literary to trace the range of the erotic impulse, this collection of writers and writings--poetry, fiction, and essays--covers the length and breadth of styles and emotions in contemporary African-American writing. As editor Reginald Martin notes, "The pieces collected in this volume throb with the tempo and tenor of writers who have defined the erotic verve of our urban times. Los Angeles, New York City, Miami, New Orleans--every place there is a bus line or dance club has produced African-American eroticism...." The result is a volume that is both compelling and necessary-an exploration of the African-American through the erotic.

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