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~APRIL'S PROMOTIONAL BOOKS~
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HAVING IT ALL
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Black Women and the Question of Success
Author:Veronica Chambers
A behind-the-scenes look into the lives of successful middle- and upper-middle class African American women, the groundbreaking HAVING IT ALL? is sure to spark discussions from cocktail parties to boardrooms.
In a single generation, black women have made extraordinary strides academically, professionally, and financially. They�ve entered the workplace at a far greater rate than white women; increased their enrollment in law schools and graduate programs by 120 percent; and many are now running top companies, or in some cases, the country. Isn�t that enough? Not necessarily. With sharp insight, award-winning journalist Veronica Chambers explores the challenges and stereotypes she and other African American women continue to endure, and answers the question most often posed to her: What does success mean for black women?
Twenty-first century black women draw their inspiration from a wide range of sources: Claire Huxtable to Audrey Hepburn, snowboarding to basketball, Gloria Steinem to bell hooks. They choose what they like. Yet they are misunderstood by mainstream America and lack an accurate portrayal in the media of their lives. HAVING IT ALL? interweaves the thoughts and reflections of more than fifty women who occupy this territory. The voices range from Thelma Golden, chief curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, to a Silicon Valley executive, to medical and legal professionals, and stay-at-home �mocha moms.�
Successful black women today want it all: marriage, motherhood, engaging work, and prosperity. The difference is that they come to the table with the strength, courage and wisdom of black women ancestors who-did-it-all, even when they didn�t-have-it-all. What has gone so undocumented by the media is that modern black women are coming up with creative, satisfying answers to the juggling act that all women face.
Retails:$23.95
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JUBILEE
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The Emergence of African-American Culture
Author:Howard Dodson, Lisa Lytton (Editor) Winton Marsalis (Introducion)
Slaves came to the Americas from many different parts of the African continent, bringing with them distinct languages, religions, and expressive arts. Jubilee shows the many ways that these diverse peoples united, forged their own identity, and laid the foundations for truly unique African-American social, cultural, political, and economic expressions throughout the Western Hemisphere.
Jubilee is written by Howard Dodson, chief of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture-one of the most prominent institutions of black scholarship in the world. Essays by leading voices in African-American history and literature, including Henry Louis Gates, Jr., John Hope Franklin, Amiri Bakara, Annette Gordon-Reed, and Gail Buckley will explore topics such as abolition and emancipation, changes in family life and social development, religion, and the evolution of language, literacy, and education through the end of Reconstruction. This illuminating text is surrounded by more than 200 stunning illustrations, culled from the Schomburg�s collection of more than 5 million items. From slave ship manifests, manumission papers, and some of the earliest photographs of slaves to carved items that echo African sculpture and freedom quilts with African motifs, the book is richly illustrated in an interactive way that brings to life this crucial transition from slavery to freedom.
Retails:$35.00
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I WILL SURVIVE
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The African American Guide to Healing from Sexual Assault and Abuse
Author:Lori Robinson, Julia A.Boyd (Foreword)
In I Will Survive Lori Robinson has created a valuable resource for African-American survivors of sexual assault (as well as their families, friends, and communities), incorporating personal stories, civil rights history, and a call for community activism. An award-winning journalist and a rape survivor herself, Robinson walks readers through the ways survivors can experience emotional, physical, sexual, and spiritual healing, offering her firsthand knowledge on the particular difficulties African-Americans face on their journey toward recovery. She also explores why black women are more likely to experience sexual crimes-an insightful discussion framed in the context of the American slave system and modern institutionalized racism. This groundbreaking guide for African Americans contains an abundance of culturally specific and compassionate advice and information that includes accessible instruction on navigating police, health care, and legal systems, as well as an extensive resources section. The book�s sympathetic, informative, and ultimately hopeful advice will resonate with African-American survivors and all those who wish to support them.
Retails:$12.95
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MISTRUSTFUL
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Author:C. R. Jackson
After sacrificing his childhood in order to gain a good education and a college scholarship, Davis Virginia soon finds himself attending college in Atlanta, Georgia. With a lustful desire to make up for all of the fun he missed as an adolescent, he quickly becomes the centerpiece of a few sexual fantasies.
Three enterprising women enter his life. Each of the women are drawn by his over-developed muscular physique but they eventually fall for the innocent, trustful, and intelligent boyish nature that defines his character. Now the once composed and determined young man has become a confused play toy for three older females-one of which, is extremely ferocious.
In a struggle to maintain her independence, one of the women battles sexual urges to keep a platonic relationship with him while another readily gives into his chiseled physique in attempts to capture an orgasmic state of euphoria. The third female desperately tries to keep her past from ruining the best relationship she has ever had.
He eventually learns a lot from the ladies but will his attempts to keep all three succeed? Can his sensible but over-protective mother watch him now that he's away in college? Will he finally rescue himself from a world of newly found erotic pleasures so that he can continue his matriculation through college? Can he be rescued at all?
Retails:$12.00
ISBN: 1930231067
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4 GUYS AND TROUBLE
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Author:Marcus Majors
When four young men make a pledge to their dying fraternity brother to take care of his little sister, Bunches, a delightful story unfolds. Each of these successful African American men takes his responsibility as a brother seriously, giving gifts and advice as well as compliments and scolding. As Bunches matures from their friend's little sister into a young woman, the men find it increasingly difficult to accept her independence... and when one of them falls in love with her agains his better judgment...
Retails:$6.99
ISBN: 0451410173
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ONE HAND IN MY POCKET
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Author:Joyce E. Davis, Mikel Husband, Kendra Lee, Joy Davis
Three stories of love and triumph...You will be inspired by these moving and uplifting stories of people whose lives have been touched by the AIDS virus...ordinary people who find the courage--and hope--through the power of love.
Retails:$5.99
ISBN: 1583142517
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NO MORE MR NICE GUY
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Author:C. Kelly Robinson
Mitchell Stone has had it! No more Mr. Nice Guy. Sick and tired of dates that end with a pat on the back, he's decided it's time to even his odds with the ladies and become the type of man they really seem to want: a mysterious, mischievous, deceitful Dog! With the help of his �Player� instructors, Tony and Trey, he's dipping his toe into a stream of booty calls, baby-mamas, and sexual spin, winning over every woman who crosses his path!
Nikki Coleman has had it, too! The men in her life have been good for one thing: disappointment. There's her high school sweetheart, Barry, a successful attorney who got someone else pregnant and derailed Nikki's early hopes of marriage. Then there's Jomo, a guitarist who's great in bed-except Nikki's not the only one he's great in bed with. There's Mitchell Stone, an old friend and fellow executive at her record company, who's handsome but just a little too nice. Last but not least, there's her father, Gene Coleman, who took a few years to acknowledge that, yeah, she's his. Now that a case of sexual harassment has Nikki on the verge of losing her job and with it her entire career in the music industry, the lack of a strong man in her life is even more painful. She can survive on her own, but in her heart she wants a Mr. Right to stand by her side and help her ride out the storm.
Retails:$13.95
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TALK OF THE TOWN
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Author:Traci Howard, Danita Carter
Tracie Howard and Danita Carter's sizzling debut, Revenge Is Best Served Cold, broke "exciting new ground in African-American fiction" (Kimberla Lawson Roby). Now they're back-and so are their invincible heroines-in a sexy new novel of romance and wealth...Manhattan style.
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ALWAYS TRUE TO YOU IN MY OWN FASHION
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Author:Valerie Wilson Wesley
A trio of great single women is being driven to distraction; they have one thing in common -- Randall Hollis, a successful art dealer at the top of his game. Randall is rich, handsome, and charming -- the true-to-life dream lover of these smart, independent women who all find themselves passionately involved with him during the same seven-month period. There's Medora Jackson, an artist who has loved Randall since college and is now desperately trying to cut him loose. But turning Randall Hollis out of her life will end up being far more difficult than she thinks. There's Ana Reese-Mitchell, a wealthy widow and art collector who is haunted by the death of her best friend and the specter of her cruel late husband. She hopes Randall Hollis will be her second chance at love. And there's ambitious Taylor Benedict, a graduate student in art history who is coming to terms with her parents' divorce and problems from her childhood that she can't chase away. She's sure that Randall Hollis will be the first rung on her ladder to success. Randall Hollis is a man for all seasons, representing a different fantasy for each of the women who love him. As the novel unfolds, each woman will discover more about herself than she bargained for. And each, along with the errant Randall himself, will finally know the true meaning of love and the peace that comes with forgiveness.
Retails:$23.95
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RISING
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Author:Darnella Ford
Rising, a suspense thriller based in Northern Michigan, reveals the cryptic tale of Symone Huston, a young woman forced to spend Thanksgiving Day with the man who raped her years ago. As the evening wears on, violent flashbacks reduce Symone from guest to savage and what would have been just another Thanksgiving dinner winds up making history as The Last Supper.
Book Review: Rising by Darnella Ford: This book ia amazing. The autthor takes you into the mind of a child that seen everything that life as to offer (good and bad). If you grow up during the time that crack was rising in the black community then this the book for you. Or if you have inner demon in you the you must read this book. I highly recommend this book (well writing).
Shavonne
Retails:$12.95
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ONE CRAZY A++ NIGHT
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Author:The Urban Griot(AKA Omar Tyree)
The year in 1995. The place is the hills of western Pennsyvania. The issue is trespassing. But who would have thought that a black couple, simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, would end up running for their lives from an angry white mob in the 1990's
Retails:$12.00
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AND ON THE EIGHTH DAY SHE RESTED
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Author:J.D. Mason
What happens after the abuse ends? This is the question fueling one African American woman's journey on the road to self-discovery. Ruth Johnson has finally left her abusive husband of 14 years and jumped feet first into "What the hell do I do now?" oblivion. As much as she'd like to, Ruth finds that letting go of the past is easier said than done. Over the years, dodging the bullets of her husbands anger has become second nature and Ruth soon realizes that long after the physical scars disappear, the emotional scars have lingered on and shaped her into the woman she has become. But is this the woman she truly is? It's not easy learning to love yourself when you've been taught to believe you aren't worth loving. However, Ruth quickly begins to see the truth buried deep beneath the lies. The truth that little treasures are sometimes where you least expect to find them; in the company of good friends, winning the battle in fighting for a worthy cause, spending a quiet night alone sipping on a cup of hot tea, listening to some good jazz, and finally...falling in love. Ultimately, the return of her ex-husband and another of his vicious attacks is no longer powerful enough to break Ruth and her new foundation.
Retails:$13.95
ISBN: 0312309899
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GRACE
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Author:Elizabeth Nunez
Justin Peters is a Harvard-educated professor of British and classic literature who reads Shakespeare to his four-year-old daughter, Giselle. A native of Trinidad and the product of a strict, English-style education, Justin and his focus on the works of �Dead White Men� receive little professional respect at the public Brooklyn college where he teaches. But whatever troubles he might have at work are eclipsed when he realizes his wife, Sally, has begun to pull away from him, both physically and emotionally.
Harlem-born Sally Peters, a mother on the verge of turning forty, is a primary school teacher who believes that joy is a learned skill, and that it takes strength to be happy. After a life of tragic losses, Sally thought she had finally found that strength when she met Justin.
But now, Sally wants something more. And Justin is angered by her uncertainty about their life and frightened by the thought that perhaps Sally never stopped loving the ex-boyfriend for whom she wrote fierce poems. Is he, Justin wonders, responsible for helping Sally find meaning in her life-a life that seems to him most fortunate? If Sally and Justin�s union is to survive, both must face the crippling echoes of their own pasts before those memories forever cloud and alter their future.
Retails:$23.95
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CRAWFISH DREAMS
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Author:Nancy Rawles
The luminous, uplifting story of a woman who cooks up a plan to bring her family back together and discovers that love, sharing, and a dash of daring are the secret ingredients that can turn dreams into reality.
Camille Broussard can remember a time when she had more pep in her stride and her single-story house was one of the nicest homes in the cozy, well-kept neighborhood of Watts. Her kitchen overflowed with the fragrant aromas of Creole cooking, and the taste of her divine crawfish, rich gumbos, and delicious pralines had family and friends begging for seconds and thirds. The devastation of the Watts riots and the ravages of Reaganomics, however, changed everything. Her neighbors have fled, the church pews are nearly empty at Sunday mass, and her own children have turned their backs on Watts and on the pride and values Camille instilled in them.
Her grandson Nicholas has just finished serving time for a crime he knew better than to commit; her politically active lesbian daughter, Grace, is struggling with an identity crisis; and Yvette, her na�ve, sexually cloistered daughter, has a husband whose secrets threaten to destroy the bond between mother and daughter. But despite how far they have strayed, Camille is not ready to give up on the family who has nourished her as she has nourished them. So she decides to combine her love of family and her love of cooking into one great enterprise. She opens Camille�s Creole Kitchen and recruits her family to help her get the restaurant on its feet. As the business gradually grows, Camille not only restores her family�s spirit and sense of purpose, she also recovers her own lost dreams.
Retails:$21.95
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ALL THE TROUBLE YOU NEED
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Author:Jervey Tervalon
All Jordan Davis wants is a smooth ride, speeding his Triumph along the 101, living the beautiful life among the beautiful people of Santa Barbara. But trouble seems to find him at every turn in the road. There's Trisha, the seductive twenty-two-year-old virgin from the glamorous foothills...Mary, the angry white girl whose defiance is a definite turn-on...and Daphne, an exotic, forbidden student, and keeper of shadowy secrets. They all want to define him, limit him, turn him into what they want him to be. But for Jordan, the ultimate question is what does he want out of life -- and can a man truly create a destiny that isn't defined by his race or his past?
Retails:$13.00
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DRINKING COFFEE ELSEWHERE
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Author:Packer
Packer dazzles with her command of language-surprising and delighting us with unexpected turns and indelible images, as she takes us into the lives of characters on the periphery, unsure of where they belong. With penetrating insight that belies her youth-she was only nineteen years old when Seventeen magazine printed her first published story-Packer takes us to a Girl Scout camp, where a troupe of black girls are confronted with a group of white girls, whose defining feature turns out to be not their race but their disabilities; to the Million Man March on Washington, where a young man must decide where his allegiance to his father lies; to Japan, where an international group of drifters find themselves starving, unable to find work.
Retails:$24.95
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BLISS
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Author:Gabrielle Pina
"Sometimes a lie is the best thing."
Francesca Valentine is a successful, beautiful, world-renowned violinist. But when her perfect life is shattered, she must confess to a history of carefully calculated deception.
Claudine Jenkins was a musical prodigy who clung to her one true love-a violin given to her by her aunt Hattie Mae. Claudine grew up protecting herself from the tauntings of her father and her twin brother by eating herself into obesity. Her mother was an alcoholic who was indifferent to her, at best. But all that would soon change.
Feared by most, yet adored for her exotic beauty, Hattie Mae Jones remained a mystery even to those who thought they knew her best. But when her dark past threatened to destroy her perfectly laid plans for the future, she became determined to have her way. Would she have gone as far as committing murder?
What happens when three generations of lies come to the surface? Power, deceit, greed, and lust collide-leaving you with sheer Bliss.
Retails:$12.95
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THE ADVENTURE OF GHETTO SAM & THE GLORY OF MY DEMISE
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Author:Kwame Teague
The Glory of My Demise:
Take a trip with me - let me show you a few things about the hood, about my life. All of you sociologist, psychoanalysts and pseudo-liberals who think the hood is some sort of laboratory to experiment in, you think you're analyzing something that's not in your backyard? You think locking us up will keep you safe while you hide behind your suburban walls?You still asleep? The Glory will wake you up!The Glory of My Demise is not just a trip for you - it's my story, so that makes it for us. And in the end it's always for us.
The Adventures of Ghetto Sam:
A whimsical adventure about a brother named Sam Black who encounters a beautiful chick in the middle of New York and ends up in a world of trouble. Meet a princess with a body - and a dead body - a king with his own army, and a billionaire bank owner who turns out to be the biggest drug lord this country has ever seen.Ghetto Sam find opportunity in any obstacle and represents the change that one man can brig, no matter what the odds.
Retails:$14.95
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GANGSTA
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Author:K'wan
A word to the reader: The tale I�m about to run down to you is deep, so please pay close attention. It is a tale that reflects a lot of what we go through today as being young men of color. We struggle every day trying to make ends meet, in a world that ain�t got a whole lot of love for us. We do what we can when we can in hopes of a better tomorrow, that never seems to come. We do what we have to in order to get the things we need, for ourselves, as well as our loved ones. Whether you hustle, pimp, whore, or pull heist, I feel you. It's all in the name of survival. I feel you because I am you. The endangered species. The young black man. Whether this book sells one copy or one million, it is what it is, only god can dictate fate. But if I can help somebody by putting my thoughts to paper, then I�ve accomplished something. To those who came up under me, peep-game. To my elders, I�ve learned from your mistakes, so your lessons weren�t wasted nor your warnings unheeded. To those who feel misunderstood or unwanted, walk with me, and know that you�re not alone. To those who feel that life has only given one option, there�s light at the end of every tunnel. I don�t knock nobodies hustle cause survival is rule number one. But you gotta understand that we do have options, all we gotta do is look. I know to a lot of people, this probably sounds like some ol� bull shit, but I�m speaking from the heart. A heart just like yours. The heart of a man who has fallen time and again only to rise and continue on, so you know its possible. Walk with me, my niggaz, as I tell you about my peoples...
...THEY CALLED HIM LOU-LOC, AND THIS IS HIS STORY
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WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED
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Author:Velma Maia Thomas
We Shall Not Be Moved takes readers on an interactive journey through the freedom struggles of the 20th century, tracing 100 years of battles for justice and equality on all fronts, from Marcus Garvey to the mid-century civil rights movement, from the Tuskegee Airmen to school integration, from Paul Robeson to Malcolm X. The interactive elements include reproductions of letters from soldiers in World War II, a flyer advertising the original March on Washington, a sign urging black riders to boycott the buses in Montgomery, and other facsimiles of artifacts that give readers a unique, hands-on connection to this remarkable history.
Retails:$24.95
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AL ON AMERICA
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Author:Reverend Al Sharpton, Karen Hunter (Contributor)
From Kirkus Reviews:
Notes toward a national political vision from activist Sharpton (Go and Tell Pharaoh, not reviewed), who is again considering a presidential bid. Sharpton explores his sense of personal and national integrity and how it might guide his decisions if he were to reside in the White House. He considers himself a liberal ("one who believes in social and domestic policies geared toward people . . . not big business") who hopes to bring the liberal wing back into the Democratic Party. Foreign policy is treated only sketchily-end the Cuban embargo, promote stability in Africa-and though Sharpton does seem keen on "alliances," words like "when I deal with the white power structure, it's on my terms" don't exactly hew to the language of diplomacy. This inflexibility cuts both ways, for while brashness may not buoy foreign relations, it keeps the author to his sense of fairness, justice, and human rights within the political sphere, despite his religious convictions. He may not believe in abortion, but he believes in a woman's civil right to choose; he may believe homosexuality is a sin, but he "will fight for people to have the right to go to hell if they choose." He is against the death penalty; for prison reform; and for a cap on contributions to political campaigns. Health care reform gets only six pages while his disappointment in rap music gets nine, but that's because he gets particularly exercised over lost opportunities in the African-American community. Sharpton's version of the events at Howard Beach and Bensonhurst and of the Tawana Brawley, Amadou Diallo, and Abner Louima cases are valuable attempts to clarify misperceptions of his intentions, which were to highlight issues as a defiantadvocate of civil rights: "Racism is still America's biggest problem." Airy, but of a tone bespeaking Sharpton's notions of social justice and personal responsibility.
Retails:$27.00
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GUNSHOTS IN MY COOK-UP
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Author: Selwyn Seyfu Hinds
From Publishers Weekly
As a former editor-in-chief of hip-hop magazine the Source and a fan since he was a nine-year-old living in Guyana, Hinds knows hip-hop as well as any journalist around. This account is part memoir, part behind the music: we get days in the life of Puffy, Lauryn Hill at the Grammys and guerrilla touring with the Wu-Tangs. We get Hinds's writerly woodshedding at Princeton and the Village Voice, the rise of the Source, sweaty clubs in Brooklyn and the escalation of the East Coast-West Coast feud until two of rap's superstars, Tupac and Biggie Smalls, are lost. An excellent storyteller, Hinds can write with equal intensity about his little brother's aspiration to be an MC, hiring an intern to go through "the Wack Box" or hurtling down the highway with Raekwon and Ghostface. Even though he knows it's business, Hinds's book works because he still believes in the power of this new, brash and still-not-fully charted art: this is a fan's memoir first, and a journalist's chronicle second. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Retails:$23.00
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PIMPNOSIS
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Author:Tracy Funches,Rob Marriott
The word refers to a dark and powerful science. The science of the player -- the attitude, the way of life, the manner of speech.The intent is not to glorify, nor is it to judge. It is to walk under the red lights and into the smoky taverns of a secretive world, to take snapshots, to listen to hushed whispers, to simply observe.Two years ago, award-winning photographer Tracy Funches and award-winning journalist Rob Marriott set out to capture the pimp lifestyle in all its pomp and posture -- and to bring it into the light as has never been done before. Funches's powerful images depict the raw and intimate truth behind the glamour, while Marriott's text brings the characters and voices to life. Here is an unsentimental look at the underground world of pimps. The tattoos. The clothes. The icy stare of a hardened hustler. Uncensored.Your guide through this netherworld is a composite character called Mississippi Twilight. Born of the many interviews conducted with real-life players, Twilight takes you on an all-access tour through pimp life: his beginnings, his women, his peers, and his enemies. Finally, he takes you to: a Players' Ball -- the underground gathering where the game is laid down and true players are recognized.Some of your notions of pimps will dispelled, others reinforced, but one thing will remain certain: You'll never look at pimps the same way again
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THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
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Author:Melba J. Duncan
Although the first black slaves arrived in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619, our knowledge of African American history is often limited to "lessons" in films. The Complete Idiot's Guide to African American History reveals a full portrait of black life, including familiar figures such as Harriet Tubman, W.E.B. DuBois, and Martin Luther King, Jr
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WHAT NEXT
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An African American Initiative Toward World Peace
Author:Walter Mosley
In What Next, Walter Mosley -- New York Times bestselling author -- has crafted a deeply personal and political proposal, offering a commonsense approach to the challenge of finding world peace in a post-9/11 world. Mosley recalls his father�s story about not feeling like an American until German soldiers shot at him during World War II. Now the younger Mosley explores what the terrorist attacks meant to him, and challenges African Americans to use their unique position to help create a new kind of peace between the U.S. and the rest of the world. What Next examines this and other questions in a powerful polemic and call to action for African Americans and freedom-loving people everywhere.
Retails:$16.95
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WRAPPED IN RAINBOWS
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The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
Author:Valerie Boyd
A woman of enormous talent, remarkable drive, and rare intellectual prowess, Zora Neale Hurston published four novels, two books of folklore, an autobiography, many short stories, and several articles and plays over a career that spanned more than thirty years. Although she enjoyed some popularity during her lifetime, her greatest acclaim has come posthumously. All of her books were out of print when she died in poverty in 1960, but today nearly every black woman writer of significance -- including Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker -- acknowledges Hurston as a literary foremother. And her masterpiece, Their Eyes Were Watching God, has become a crucial part of the American literary canon. Yet, despite the recent renewed interest in Hurston's work, she remains, as a friend and contemporary described her, "a woman half in shadow." Wrapped in Rainbows -- the first biography of Zora Neale Hurston in twenty-five years -- illuminates the complexities of an extraordinary life. Born in Alabama in 1891, Hurston moved with her family to Eatonville, Florida, when she was still a toddler. In this close-knit community -- the first incorporated all-black town in America -- she spent a pleasant childhood, happily imbibing the rich language and folk culture of the rural black South.
When Hurston was still a girl, her mother died, and her father's swift remarriage led to the family's dispersal. Hurston spent the next decade wandering in search of parental figures, working menial jobs, and charting her own course into adulthood. Reinventing herself at the age of twenty-six, she entered high school in Baltimore by claiming to be ten years younger -- a fiction she would maintain throughout her life. Hurston went on to attend Howard University and Barnard College, and during this time launched her writing career in the midst of the blossoming Harlem Renaissance. In New York, she developed relationships with luminaries such as Langston Hughes, Ethel Waters, Fannie Hurst, and Carl Van Vechten. Hurston periodically left New York to travel the country (and the world) collecting black music, poetry, and literature -- becoming one of the most important folklore collectors of her time, as well as one of the most enduring writers of her century. Wrapped in Rainbows presents a full picture of Hurston as both a writer and a woman, shedding new light on her public and private lives. Drawing on meticulous research and a wealth of crucial information that has emerged over the past twenty years, Valerie Boyd delves into Hurston's thirst for the limelight, her sexuality and short-lived marriages, her mysterious relationship with Vodou, and her occasionally controversial political views. With the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Depression, and World War II as historical backdrops, Wrapped in Rainbows not only positions Hurston's work in her time but offers implications for our own
Retails:$30.00
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