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August's Monthly Promotional Books
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The LIFE AND TIMES OF MADAM C.J. WALKER
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Author:A'Lelia Perry Bundles
On Her Own Ground is the first full-scale, definitive biography of the legendary Madam C. J. Walker was orphaned at seven; she was the daughter of slaves. At fourteen she married, and was widowed by the tender young age of twenty. She earned her living as a washerwoman for a mere salary of $1.50 a week. She discovered a hair care formula for black women. She died in 1919, but Madam Walker, overcame all odds, and built a beauty empire from the ground up.
Retails:$15.00
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A SONG FLUNG UP FROM HEAVEN
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Author:Maya Angelou
A story that began more than thirty years ago, when I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was published, Maya continues the saga in A Song Flung Up to Heaven as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. However, she must first journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrives she learns that the great Malcolm X has been assassinated.
Retails:$23.95
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THE QUEEN OF HARLEM
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Author:Brian Keith Jackson
I'd been staying at Jim's East Village apartment for two weeks, but as we sat in his favorite bar on East Fourth Street downing dollar drafts, the air was let out of the keg."Listen, Mason, it's been cool having you crash, but if you wanna keep kicking it in New York you're gonna need to find your own place. "Jim was your average hipster whose claim to fame was that he was the first white guy, that he knew, to have dreadlocks. All summer I had been twisting my hair, trying to attach myself to something associated with black heritage. "I know. I've been looking," I said. "I've checked the ads every day."
Retails:$22.95
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FAR FROM THE TREE
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Author:Virginia DeBerry
Donna Grant:Like their mother, Della, and their grandmother before her, sisters Celeste English and Ronnie Frazier share a bloodline and proud African-American heritage-but little else. Struggling Manhattan actress Ronnie has come home to Buffalo for her father's funeral, only to find a family fraying at the seams and an unexpected windfall to be shared with her sister. In Ronnie's opinion, Celeste already has it all as a doctor's wife and the mother of willful Niki, a promising young chef. But when the sisters journey to their newly inherited North Carolina family homestead, the startling truth about Celeste's perfect life and Della's murky past begins to emerge. Now, faced with age-old secrets and an uncertain future, the two diverse women unexpectedly find themselves on common ground at last.
Retails:$5.98
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PATTI'S PEARLS
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Lessons in Living Genuinely,Joyfully,Generously
Author:Patti Labelle-Laura Randolph Lancaster
Patti LaBelle's music will lift you up. And so will the words of her grandmother, mother, aunts, sisters, and friends. Patti's Pearls is not a seven-step self-help book or a list of dictates. Instead, it asks you to look within, to look to your family and loved ones for the "pearls of wisdom" that they have instilled in you since you were a child.
Retails:$19.95
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HIS LADY
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Author:T.J. Jakes
Bishop T.D. Jakes demonstrates an unusual ability to inspire, uplift, teach, and comfort....[he] writes with an abundance of memorable metaphors and yet speaks to women's hearts in practical, often humorous terms. Whether they are dealing with anger, anxiety, despair, or fatigue, coping with work, family, or personal pressures, they can quickly find the comfort they need in this helpful book--from one of the most phenomenally popular spiritual leaders of our time.
Retails:$14.95
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WOMAN THOU ART LOOSED BIBLE
NKJV
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Author:T.D.Jakes
A Woman's Guide to Bible Reading," "Prayers for Women," a directory to biblical women, a concordance, and much more. Countless women of all ages, races, and denominations have found these unique features to be the resource they need to find healing and wholeness in their Savior.
Retails:$24.99
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SISTER WIT
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Devotions for Woman
Author:Jacqueline Jakes
Jacqueline Jakes knows all too well how God gives us challenges -- large and small -- every day. While still in her twenties, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor, underwent a risky, eight-hour surgery, and went through a long, difficult recovery. She credits her faith for giving her the courage and strength to face the future. Now, in Sister Wit, she offers more than one hundred devotions to help other women handle life's difficulties, from the landmark events that test our faith to the everyday annoyances that test our patience. Addressing the special needs of women and filled with secrets Jacqueline Jakes has held deep in her heart and never before shared about her illness, as well as uplifting quotations and anecdotes about her family and famous brother, Sister Wit shows us how to overcome past hurts, deal with conflicting emotions, and open our eyes to new perspectives.
Retails:$13.95
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SULA
(Oprah Edition)
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Author:Toni Morrison
Through their girlhood years they share everything�perceptions, judgments, yearnings, secrets, even crime until Sula gets out, out of the Bottom, the hilltop neighborhood where beneath the sporting life of the men hanging around the place in headrags and soft felt hats there hides a fierce resentment at failed crops, lost jobs, thieving insurance men, bug-ridden flour...at the invisible line that cannot be overstepped. Sula leaps it and roams the cities of America for ten years. Then she returns to the town, to her friend. But Nel is a wife now, settled with her man and her three children. She belongs. She accomdates to the Bottom, where you avoid the hand of God by getting in it, by staying upright, helping out at church suppers, asking after folks�where you deal with evil by surviving it.
Retails:$13.00
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WOMAN THOU ART LOOSED
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Healing the Wounds of the Past
Author:T.D. Jakes
Thousands of women have benefited from this insightful book on healing and restoration from T.D. Jakes. Whatever heartache or wound you face, there is a release that can cause the spirit to soar once again.
Retails:$19.99
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UP FROM HERE
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Reclaiming the Male Spirit
Author:Iyanla Vanzant
This guide will provide men with the insight and life skills they need to identify, name, and understand their feelings as overcome the outmoded patterns of behavior that result from misusing or not tapping into their emotional strength. In clear, essential terms, Iyanla Vanzant shows men alternatives to dated, negative feelings such as shame and anger. By following Vanzant's new approaches to old feelings, men can experience freer, more authentic, and ultimately more joyous behavior, enabling them to reconnect with their true emotional and spiritual power. This message of faith, self-knowledge, and courage will make an excellent gift for men everywhere.
Retails:$16.95
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