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~February's Promotional Books~
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BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON
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Author:Dean Koontz
Over the course of 24 hours, two brothers, Dylan and Shepherd O�Conner, along with traveling companion Jillian Jackson, race to solve the puzzle of a vicious violation committed against them. Can these intrepid souls find the missing pieces before it�s too late? Koontz is at the top of his game as the suspense mounts�
Retails:$26.95
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NAPPILY EVER AFTER
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Author:Trisha R. Thomas
Venus Johnston has a great job, a beautiful home, and a loving live-in boyfriend named Clint, who happens to be a drop-dead gorgeous doctor. She has a weekly beauty-parlor date with Tina, who keeps Venus's long, processed hair slick and straight. Ever since childhood, the tedious hours in the salon and the harsh, burning chemicals have grated on Venus, and increasingly she dreams of cutting off her beautiful "good" hair. When her boyfriend keeps balking at commitment, and the thought of another hour at the salon is just too much, Venus decides to give it up - all of it. She trades in the long hair for a dramatically short, natural cut and sends Clint packing. It's a bold declaration of independence - and one that has effects she never could have imagined. Reactions from friends and coworkers range from concern to contempt to outright condemnation. When Clint moves on and starts dating a voluptuous, long-haired beauty, Venus is forced to question what she really wants out of life. With wit, resilience, and a lot of determination, she finally learns what true happiness is...on her own terms.
Retails:$12.00
ISBN: 0609605836
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TROUBLE MAN
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The Life and Death of Marvin Gaye
Author:Steve Turner
Marvin Gaye was one of the greatest singers the world has ever heard. A Motown and soul legend, he was the voice behind such hits as "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," "What's Goin' On," and the unforgettable "Sexual Healing." Tragically shot dead by his father in April 1984, Gaye's musical legacy and popularity have continued into the next century. Trouble Man is Steve Turner's acclaimed biography of the man behind the music. Revealing Gaye as an extremely troubled individual-affected by drug dependency, tormented relationships, and legal and financial difficulties that ultimately led towards that final, fatal meeting with his father-this definitive portrait is a fascinating tale of a musical legend.
Retails:$24.00
ISBN: 0060198214
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DATING GAME
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Author:Danielle Steel
Paris Armstrong finds herself reluctantly dating again after her husband of 24 years takes off with a younger woman. At first, things don�t go well, but when Paris learns to turn despair into freedom and loss into joy, she finds things are really looking up.
Retails:$26.95
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DARK CORNER
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Author:Brandon Massey
From Brandon Massey, award-winning author of Thunderland, comes a terrifying new novel about a town besieged by evil...and the one man who is determined to fight the darkness...
When renowned author Richard Hunter dies in a boating accident, his son David travels to Mason's Corner, Mississippi, to find out more about the father he never really knew. At first, Mason's Corner seems friendly and unassuming-the perfect "small town." But after a newcomer moves into the old-and supposedly haunted-mansion on the hill, everything changes...
People begin to disappear. Dogs viciously attack. And soon David discovers that the terror consuming this place has its roots in his own family tree...
For something has risen in Mason's Corner. Something with bloody ties to the town's past. Something undead--and hungering for vengeance...
Retails:$14.00
ISBN: 0758202490
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BLACK BOY
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Author:Richard Wright,Jerry Ward (Introduction)
Black Boy is Richard Wright's unforgettable story of growing up in the Jim Crow South. Published in 1945, it is often considered a fictionalized autobiography or an autobiographical novel because of Wright's use of fiction techniques (and possibly fictional events) to tell his story. Nevertheless, the book is a lyrical and skillfully wrought description of Wright's hungry youth in rural Mississippi and Memphis, told from the perspective of the adult Wright, who was still trying to come to grips with the cruel deprivations and humiliations of his childhood.Life in the pre-civil rights South was intensely alienating for young Richard. At every turn, his desire to communicate was stunted, whether by famiIy members who insisted he "hush!" or by teachers who harassed and mocked him. He was surrounded by people he considered contemptibly ignorant, people who willingly allowed their lives to be restricted by tradition and authority no matter how illegitimate or self-destructive. Whether they were racist whites or passive, uncompassionate blacks, his fellow southerners viewed Richard's independence and intelligence with suspicion and scorned and humiliated him for his family's poverty. He lashed out by hitting the streets: He was already drinking by the time he turned six, and he fought constantly. He finally found his outlet in writing; by the end of the book, he decided that there was nothing he could ever do to improve his life in the South and committed to moving to Chicago to pursue his art.
Retails:$13.00
ISBN: 0060929782
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E.A.R.L.
The Autobiography of DMX
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Author:DMX (Earl Simmons), Smokey D. Fontaine
DMX is an international superstar who has sold more than twenty-million albums and defined hip-hop culture better than any of his peers. He also lived the kind of rags-to-riches story that has molded some of the best American heroes. From a smart and mischievous young boy to a teenager dubbed "Crazy Earl" to the most feared MC on the street, DMX never stopped struggling for the kind of life he knew belonged to him. Born in Yonkers, New York, to a father who abandoned him and a mother ill equipped to raise her only boy, Earl Simmons grew to hate and distrust the world around him. But a passionate talent to rhyme gave him a dream, while a lifelong companionship with stray dogs gave him the strength to go on. His journey of self-discovery began with beatings, robbery, and group homes, lead to jails, car chases, gun battles, and rap wars, and culminated in commitment, love, fame, and fortune. This is the extraordinary first-person account of a man who gives expression to the thoughts and feelings of those who have never been heard. In the process, Earl Simmons became a father, a husband, a role model, and an international icon know as DMX.
This is his story.
Retails:$24.95
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ANOTHER DAY AT THE FRONT
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Author:Ishmael Reed
Dispatches from the Race War
An irreverent, brilliant, politically charged barrage of essays aimed at the perpetrators of America's war on blacks. African Americans have been at war with certain elements of the white population from the very beginning. Being black in this hemisphere is a battle, and each day is one spent at the front. In this new collection of essays, his first since Airing Dirty Laundry (1993), Ishmael Reed explores the many forms that this homefront war has taken. His brilliant social criticism feints deftly among past and present, government and media, personal and political. From the author whose essay style has been compared to the punching power of boxers Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali, this book is a series of fast, powerful jabs at America's long tradition of racism.
Retails:$24.00
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GROWING UP KING
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Author:Dexter Scott King, Ralph Wiley (Contributor)
A memoir of great style, exploration, and impact. "I was born worried. I was born anxious," writes the third child of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. It�s not surprising. Even in the beginning, when "we were kids just running around" in the bitterly segregationist Atlanta of the early 1960s, "a lot did rub off on us, just through osmosis, being in the environment, the SCLC conventions where Aretha Franklin sang." When Dexter was six, his father was killed. "Hope went out of many lives. We were not alone in that, and never would be alone in it from then on." Imagine the pressures: The requirement of being pious moral exemplar; the "if only I�d been more like my father" guilt; the failure to finish college; the love of music that earned him the black-sheep tag; the "extra oomph in my feelings of failure when I didn�t follow in his exact footprints." There would be highs and lows: the cruel politics of the King Center; the author�s inability to sustain a commitment because of his experience of what happens when you love somebody and they are taken away. But there were also his fights to secure the intellectual-property rights of his father and to try to learn the full circumstances of the assassination, both efforts that earned him the calumny of vested interests. Throughout, the memoir is wonderfully written: stories are nested within stories, pulled forward through history with a disarming openness--King is still very much a work in progress. There�s a lightness to his touch and a subversiveness to his humor. For all his black-sheep status, the author has found grace and purpose, and has stayed aware of his own identity, even when it was truly out of focus
Retails:$24.95
ISBN: 0446529427
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A LAWYER'S LIFE
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Author:Johnnie Cochran, David Fisher (Contributor)
Johnnie Cochran gained international recognition for leading the "Dream Team" defense of O. J. Simpson. But long before and since then Johnnie Cochran has been a leader in the fight for justice for all Americans.
While often vilified for his defense of Simpson, Cochran emerged from the trial as a leading African American spokes person. But he has done most of his talking through the courtroom in such high profile cases as:
Abner Louima
Amadou Diallo
The Racially profiled New Jersey Turnpike Four
Sean "Puffy" Combs
Patrick Dorismond
Cynthia Wiggins
Cochran explains how he has used the law to force fundamental changes in America, it was Cochran, critics still claim, who dealt the first "race card." Here is his answer to that and other accusations.
Retails:$14.95
Publisher:St Martin's
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FOOLISH/UNFOOLISH
Reflections on Love
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Author:Ashanti
Foolish/Unfoolish is a collection of vibrant and honest "reflections on love" by R&B; singer Ashanti. Ever since she was thirteen years old, Ashanti has kept journals of her poetry, thoughts, and ideas about life and love. Now, in this very personal collection, Ashanti presents her poems about love, along with stories about what (or who) moved her to write them. In Foolish/Unfoolish, Ashanti explores such universal themes as falling head-over heals in love, becoming insanely jealous, feeling broken-hearted, and being single but having hope for the future. In "No Words," she describes being completely addicted to a new boyfriend; in "Ride Out," she captures what it feels like to be joyriding with your man on a hot summer night; in "Insecure," she writes about telling a suspicious boyfriend to stop driving by her house at night to see if her car is there; and in "Us," she delves into the pain of discovering that your man is cheating on you. Spirited, moving and often filled with humor, Ashanti�s poetry and reflections will entertain and surprise as they offer an intimate look into the life of one of today�s most popular performers. These are works that are both lyrical and raw and which tell the truth about love.
Retails:$16.95
ISBN: 1401300308
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ROCK MY SOUL
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Author:Bell Hooks
World-renowned scholar and visionary bell hooks takes an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues of our time, the impact of low self-esteem on the lives of black people. Without self-esteem everyone loses his or her sense of meaning, purpose, and power. For too long, African Americans in particular have been unable to openly and honestly address the crisis of self-esteem and how it affects the way they perceive themselves and are perceived by others. In her most challenging and provocative book to date, bell hooks gives voice to what many black people have thought and felt, but seldom articulated. She offers readers a clear, passionate examination of the role self-esteem plays in the African-American experience in determining whether individuals or groups succeed or self-sabotage.
Retails:$13.00
ISBN: 0743456068
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A PLENTIFUL HARVEST
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Author:Terri Williams
Creating Balance and Harmony Through the Seven Living Virtues
Terrie Williams is the goddess who brings comfort to busy African American women everywhere. Written by a woman who understands what it means to have a hectic schedule, Terrie Williams, a high-powered public relations executive who owns her own firm, has found an empowering life philosophy in one of black culture's enduring spiritual rituals: Kwanzaa. In A PLENTIFUL HARVEST, Williams uses The Seven Living Virtues of Community, Independence, Responsibility, Thrift, Love, Creativity, and Spirituality to help women achieve balance in their daily lives, reconnecting them to the truths of their heritage and the true needs of their souls
Retails:$14.95
ISBN: 0446691208
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SISTER BETTY !
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Author:Pat G'Orge-Walker
A hilarious collection of short stories chronicling the adventures of the Ain't Nobody Else Right But Us--All Others Goin' to Hell Church members, Sister Betty! God's Calling You, Again! depicts the lives and loves of congregation members like Reverend Knott Enuff Money, The Most Righteous All About Me, Minister Breedin' Love, and the good-hearted Sister Betty herself. Both insightful and laugh-out-loud funny, Pat G'orge Walker's novel brings God's message to the forefront with wit and humor.
Retails:$22.00
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EVERY DAY I PRAY
Paperback Edition
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Beloved:
Over the years, I have received many letters from readers who want to know how to pray. Some are afraid they are praying wrong. Some want a formula. Some think that their prayers are unworthy. I know how it feels to be afraid to pray, afraid you're praying wrong, afraid that your prayers are unheard. So I pass on to you the knowledge that changed my approach to and experience of prayer: your every thought, every word, every action is a prayer. If we can focus on God's presence in everything and everyone, then prayer will become as natural to us as breathing. This book is a collection of prayers I have written over the years in my prayer journals. They address a variety of topics and situations. It is my prayer that they will spark a light in your heart, and you will come to know the peace of God's grace. Please join me in making the thoughts, words and actions of our everyday lives more reverent, honorable and loving so that we can anchor the peace, joy and harmony of God on this planet.
Be Blessed.
Retails:$10.00
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STUPID WHITE MEN
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Author:Michael Moore
Wow! Michael's done it again! This book hits the nail on the head or maybe prunes the Bush would be a better phrase.
As usual, Michael has done his homework, researched and re-researched to bring us reporting worth reading.
Whether you're right of, left of or dead center, this is a must-read book if you're at all concerned, truly concerned about our country and its future.
If you're a shallow flag-waving jingoist, this isn't for you but if you're a thinking, sensitive concerned American citizen (one who votes-or intends to)this is a must-read.
Keep it up Michael, we need more guys like you!
Retails:$24.95
ISBN: 0060392452
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