AALBC.com's 10 Best-Selling eBooks of 2010

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#1 - How Did I Get Here?
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by Ahmad Williams .

Pub. Date: October 2010
Publisher: Mortified Books
Sales Rank: 3,446
Available only in the U.S.

Preston Brown is one of the most elegant and upcoming stars in the African-American community; who has destiny written all over him. He has everything a twenty-five year old man could ever want in life: a miraculous looking wife (Delight), kids, dog, and a career lined up after seminary school to top it all off.

Although, very intelligent and keen with words you will find out how Preston’s strengths will ultimately turn into his center of weakness. Preston finds himself in a series of unfortunate events that makes it difficult for him to even believe in himself after some time. Preston’s ambitious attributes meet the test when he finds himself caught up with a woman that attracts him in every way. Preston soon finds himself in a dilemma of whether to stay married or get a divorce.

The first of a three part series will read to you a story about failure, struggle, and redemption at its greatest capacities. Find out how the consistent faith of his wife delivers him from evil and how Preston finds humility as the greatest spiritual relief he has ever felt.

#2 - Sistergirl Devotions: Keeping Jesus in the Mix on the Job
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by Carol M. Mackey

Pub. Date: May 2010
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
ISBN-13: 9781441211927
ISBN: 1441211926
Available only in the U.S.

Finally, a book of meditations for African American women that understands the world they live in. Centering on the lessons God teaches us at work, at church, and in our relationships, this book of devotions uses stories and settings that will resonate with women of color—urban life, office culture, and the leading of the Spirit in things large and small. Using Scripture, conventional wisdom, and stories from the African American community, each devotional will show women how their faith can empower them to have success on the job—at whatever workplace they find themselves. With topics such as respect, resourcefulness, image, timeliness, honesty, negativity, and balancing work and home, each devotion ends with a "power move"—practical affirmations that will move readers toward success at work.

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#3 - For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf
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by Ntozake Shange

Pub. Date: November 2010
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
ISBN-13: 9781451624151
ISBN: 1451624158
Available only in the U.S.

From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award–winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange’s words reveal what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975, when it was praised by The New Yorker for “encompassing . . . every feeling and experience a woman has ever had,” for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed for generations to come. Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.

#4 - Big Girls Do Cry
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by Carl Weber

Pub. Date: January 2011
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
ISBN-13: 9780758268341
ISBN: 0758268343
Available only in the U.S.

In this explosive follow-up to Something on the Side, two of the original members of the Big Girls Book Club have started a new chapter of BGBC in Richmond, Virginia. The same rules apply here: You must be at least a bodacious size 14 to join. . .

Living in the plush suburbs, thirty-seven-year-old Egypt has it all--almost. She's happily married to Rashad, but there's one thing missing. They want to start a family. Enter her sister, Isis, who's moved into Egypt's McMansion with dreams of starting over. There's just one hitch: before her sister married Rashad, he was Isis's man for ten years. Isis thought she was over him, but the close quarters are creating doubts. She's ready to leave until Egypt and Rashad ask her for a serious favor. And Isis can't say no--even if the price might be way too high for them all.

Meanwhile, Loraine--Egypt's boss and one of BGBC's newest members--may be in the running for her sorority's next national president. But Loraine has secrets that could ruin her if they ever see the light of day. Now these book lovers are about to learn that drama can follow you wherever you go--and that big girls do cry. . .

#5 - Every Thug Needs A Lady
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by Wahida Clark

Pub. Date: October 2006
Publisher: kensington publishing
ISBN-13: 9780758258441
ISBN: 0758258445
Available only in the U.S.

Essence® best-selling author Wahida Clark created a gripping look at sex, violence, and the struggles of ghetto life in her first best-selling novel, Thugs and the Women Who Love Them. Her gritty portrayal of love in a criminal world now continues in the sequel where strong men make bad choices--and good women are their only hope.

Having escaped from the hard streets where deals go down on the corner and shots ring out in the night, sexy, beautiful Roz--friend of Angel, Jaz, and Kyra, who've all loved thugs of their own--is on her way to a professional career in physical therapy. She doesn't need to make a U-turn back to the ghetto. But then she meets Trae, who's still after the bling bling and fast money of drugs. He's hard, hot, irresistible--and trouble.

Soon Roz is wild for a brother whose world is filled with dark schemes and deadly desires. But blinded by her passion, she can't see the heartbreak ahead where the 'hood has a law of its own--and its own brand of revenge . . .

#6 - Glorious
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by Bernice McFadden

Pub. Date: May 2010
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN-13: 9781936070787
ISBN: 1936070782
Available only in the U.S.

McFadden has a wonderful ear for dialogue, and her entertaining prose equally accommodates humor and pathos.

Award-winning novelist Bernice McFadden's highly anticipated new historical novel set amidst the Harlem Renaissance.
The New York Times - Gregory Beyer

#7 - Missionary No More: Purple Panties
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by Zane

Pub. Date: November 2009
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
ISBN-13: 9781439186695
ISBN: 1439186693
Available only in the U.S.

Steamy, sensual and poetically hypnotic, Missionary No More: Purple Panties 2 is the follow-up to the bestseller Purple Panties.

No one can debate the fact that Zane knows sex. The Queen of Erotic Fiction has hit home run after home run in the literary arena with her literary offerings. Now comes the latest, a collection of lesbian erotica that will have readers squirming on the edge of their seats, curling up beneath the sheets, and fantasizing about the possibilities.

Including such stories as "The Namma's Nectar," "Coast to Coast" and "She Loved a Girl," Missionary No More gives an insight into a world where love and lust have no boundaries. Come take a journey through the eyes of several women who have one thing in common: an appreciation for female sensuality.

#8 - Something On The Side
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by Carl Weber

Pub. Date: January 2009
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
ISBN-13: 9780758239365
ISBN: 075823936X
Available only in the U.S.

Carl Weber--the New York Times best-selling author of The First Lady and So You Call Yourself a Man--represents with a straight-up novel about friendship and love, sex and betrayal, and how getting some on the side is never as simple as it seems. . .

Meet Tammy, Egypt, Isis, Nikki, Coco, and Tiny--the bodacious women of the Big Girls Book Club. There's only one rule to being a member. You must be at least a size 14. . .

BGBC president Tammy loves everything about her life--her two kids, her fierce friends, her BMW. She especially loves taking care of business for her husband, Tim, for whom she'd do anything. This year, she intends to top all his past birthdays by having a threesome with her best friend, Egypt. Now, if only Egypt will agree to grant them this very special favor. . .

And then there's hot-to-trot Coco Brown, who has a habit of messing around with married men. It doesn't bother her, as long as they don't try to deny it. But now that she's hooked up with a man who makes his living being every woman's fantasy, all she cares about is making sure he doesn't stray.

But not every BGBC member is lucky with men. As insatiable about books as they are about love--or lust--these friends are about to discover how tough it is to keep it real when they all have Something on the Side.

#9 -The Grace of Silence: A Memoir
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by Michele Norris

Pub. Date: September 2010
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-13: 9780307379467
ISBN: 0307379469
Available only in the U.S.

In the wake of talk of a “postracial” America upon Barack Obama’s ascension as president of the United States, Michele Norris, cohost of National Public Radio’s flagship program All Things Considered, set out to write, through original reporting, a book about “the hidden conversation” on race that is unfolding nationwide. She would, she thought, base her book on the frank disclosures of others on the subject, but she was soon disabused of her presumption when forced to confront the fact that “the conversation” in her own family had not been forthright.

Norris unearthed painful family secrets that compelled her to question her own self-understanding: from her father’s shooting by a Birmingham police officer weeks after his discharge from the navy at the conclusion of World War II to her maternal grandmother’s peddling pancake mix as an itinerant Aunt Jemima to white farm women in the Midwest. In what became a profoundly personal and bracing journey into her family’s past, Norris traveled from her childhood home in Minneapolis to her ancestral roots in the Deep South to explore the reasons for the “things left unsaid” by her father and mother when she was growing up, the better to come to terms with her own identity. Along the way she discovered how her character was forged by both revelation and silence.

Extraordinary for Norris’s candor in examining her own racial legacy and what it means to be an American, The Grace of Silence is also informed by rigorous research in its evocation of time and place, scores of interviews with ordinary folk, and wise observations about evolving attitudes, at once encouraging and disturbing, toward race in America today. For its particularity and universality, it is powerfully moving, a tour de force.

#10 - What a Westmoreland Wants
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by Brenda Jackson

Pub. Date: September 2010
Publisher: Harlequin
Series: Silhouette Desire Series , #2035
ISBN-13: 9781426865848
ISBN: 1426865848
Available only in the U.S.

Mr. September: Callum Austell, sexy Australian ranch owner

His Deepest Desire: The elusive Gemma Westmoreland

The Seduction Plan: Get her on his turf—ASAP!

He'd been biding his time, and now the perfect opportunity had arrived to pursue the ultimate object of his affections. Offering Gemma a job to decorate his new home meant she had to come to him. And on his territory, the Aussie knew he could easily woo her into his bed. But this Westmoreland woman was no pushover. If Callum was going to get what he wanted—as always—the millionaire just might have to utter three little words first.

Which eBook reader is better, Amazon's Kindle or Barnes & Noble's Nook?

This is a question I'm frequently asked and my reply is usually, "It depends."

As far as a pure eBook reading device the Kindle is best suited for the job. However, if I had to chose only one device I would pick the Nook.

The Nook can be read in bed with the lights out. The Nook also has a solid web browser which gives it far more functionality than Amazon's Kindle. While the Kindle is useless with an external light source, it is great for reading on the beach.

The Nook is pretty heavy. Too heavy to read, for long spans without resting the reader on something. With my protective case whole thing weights over a pound, which does not sound like much, but it can get heavy in a hurry -- even for a strong guy like myself.

By contrast the Kindle is relatively svelte at just over 8 ounces (much less than a pound, even with the a protective case). The Kindle is also a lot slimmer. The size and weight make the Kindle much easier to hold and read books for long stretches.

Both download books in a heart beat and allow you to keep your place it you chose to pick up the same book on your smart phone, using the free apps both vendors provide. Of the two eBook reader, the Kindle is less expensive and has more available titles.

So your choice really depends on how you plan on using the device. If you are like me you can get both and save yourself the hassle of deciding.

I've been fascinated by the eBook phenomenon for sometime now. Over a decade ago I wrote a research paper on the most popular eBook reading devices. At the time I thought eBook would pick up steam much more quickly. I would never have guessed it would take more than a so long.

--Troy Johnson, AALBC.com Founder.

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