AALBC.com's Best Selling Books
September & October 2002
#1 Threesome:
Where Seduction, Power and Basketball CollideClick to order via Amazon, Barnes and Noble or AALBC.com Format:
Paperback, 144pp.,
ISBN: 0970380313 Sasha is caught in the middle of the exciting, sexually charged underbelly of professional basketball, the sadness of suicide and constant self-destructive behavior. Follow along as the threads of love, happiness and self-worth are woven together to create the fabric of Threesome
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#2
Format: Paperback, 128pp.,
ISBN: 0740713957 Since its debut in April 1999, The Boondocks has found a home in more than 250 newspapers, making its launch the strongest since Calvin And Hobbes and For Better Or For Worse. The rich, multilayered comic strip offers a frank yet often funny look at race in America. It starts with a simple premise: Two young boys, Riley and Huey, move from inner-city Chicago to live with their grandfather. The tension increases, however, because the two boys are African-Americans now compelled to adapt to a white suburban world. They must take all they've learned in the 'hood and apply it to life in the 'burbs. Aaron McGruder has created a strip unlike any other. Superbly illustrated, The Boondocks has stirred controversy, attracted widespread media coverage, and won readers who've applauded McGruder's unapologetic and humorous approach to race. This second collection includes some of the year's most compelling story lines. The Boondocks is a groundbreaking strip of enormous proportions. It's certain to only increase in popularity.
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Format:
Paperback, 5th ed., 176pp.,
ISBN: 0971201927 Kola's powerful and shocking collection of short stories, "LONG TRAIN
TO THE REDEEMING SIN" is developing a growing fan base and Kola Boof's
strong feminist viewpoint is finally getting a look-see. Issues such as
colorism, female genital mutilation, authentic love and the "sexual
longing" of Black Women are what make Kola's work so daring. Her famous
poetry can be downright chilling |
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#4
Format: Hardcover, 584pp., ISBN: 0375505679 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.
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#5
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Paperback, 320pp. ISBN: 0060934549 Every Tongue Got to Confess is the first new book by Zora Neale Hurston to be published in over 50 years. The most extensive volume of African American folklore that Hurston left behind, this collection of nearly 500 folktales gathered in the late 1920s represents a major part of her literary legacy and a rich slice of African American life in the rural South. The bittersweet and often hilarious tales reveal attitudes about faith, love, family, slavery, race, and community. Together, these folktales weave a vibrant tapestry that celebrates the black oral tradition.
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#6
Michael
Baisden Read bout the Stage Play for Men Cry in The Dark (First appeared on the AALBC.com's best sellers list in January 1999) 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 realistic 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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#7
by Frederick Douglass, Peter J. Gomes (Introduction) Preface by William Lloyd Garrison
Format: Mass Market Paperback, 127pp., ISBN: 0451526732 In 1845, just seven years after his escape from slavery, the young
Frederick Douglass published this powerful account of his life in
bondage and his triumph over oppression. The book, which marked the
beginning of Douglass's career as an impassioned writer, journalist, and
orator for the abolitionist cause, reveals the terrors he faced as a
slave, the brutalities of his owners and overseers, and his harrowing
escape to the North. It has become a classic of American autobiography.
This edition of the book, based on the authoritative text that
appears in Yale University Press's multivolume edition of the Frederick
Douglass Papers, is the only edition of Douglass's Narrative designated
as an Approved Text by the Modern Language Association's Committee on
Scholarly Editions. It includes a chronology of Douglass's life, a
thorough introduction by the eminent Douglass scholar John Blassingame,
historical notes, and reader responses to the first edition of 1845.
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Carol Taylor (Editor)
Format: Paperback, 272pp.
#5 Best Selling Book
for 2001 on AALBC.com 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.
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.
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#9
by Elizabeth Murphy Oliver, Thomas A.
Stockett
(Illustrator) "It is not often that a book of this quality geared toward African American children is available. The illustrations using an African American Humpdy Dumpy are the most impressive. I read this book to my neice until she got old enough to read it herself. I feel that she had an interest in this book because the characters resembled her." -Amazon Reviewer
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Sam Greenlee From Sacred
Fire
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Boondocks
Collection 
Echoes
of a Distant Summer 
Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales From the Gulf States
The
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
Brown Sugar: A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction
Spook Who Sat by the Door
