TITLE:HOW TO MAKE BLACK AMERICA BETTER
AUTHOR: TAVIS SMILEY
ISBN#: 0-385-50214-1
PRICE: $21.95
How to Make Black America Better opens with Tavis Smiley's twelve "challanges" to the African American community. Among the issues that Smiley addresses are getting Black Americans to "think Black first," inisisting that Black Americans-- inculding those in entertainment and the media consider the consequences to their actions with regard to the black community ; and encouraging African Americans to put family first.

TITLE: SOUL FOOD
AUTHOR: ERIC V. COPAGE
ISBN#: 0-7868-8499-1
PRICE: $11.95
Soul Food is comprised of seven sections, Love, self-esteem, family , creativity, tenacity, wisdom, and faith. Each section contains writing form famous authors (Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin, among others), people simply telling moving and uplifting stories from their lives. Filled with the special joy, laughter, and love unique to African Americans, Soul Food is a book to cherish.

TITLE: SO YOU CALL YOURSELF A MAN
AUTHOR: T.D. JAKES
ISBN#: 1-882706-02-1
PRICE: $12.00
Expounding on five encouraging life stories of men in the Bibiel, T.D. Jakes helps your realize that god created you to be free, powerful, and filled with purpose. You can become as powerful as you ever thought about starting and owning your own business, this book is for you. It is your launching pad into the world of entrepeneurship and will help you get in to orbit fast.

TITLE: SPIRITED MINDS
AUTHOR: ARCHIE GIVENS
ISBN#: 0-393-31739-0
PRICE: $11.00
Spirited Minds is a unique resource containing lively, informative descriptions of more than one hundred outstanding works of literature. With selections for readers of all ages, these works of fiction, poetry, biography, autobiography, folk tales, drama, and history celebrate the African American male experience from childhood to adulthood.

TITLE: WELCOMING SPIRIT HOME
AUTHOR: SOBONFU E. SOME
ISBN#: 1-57731-009-8
PRICE: $16.00
Welcoming Spirit Home is an exceptional portrayal of the power and beauty of ritual’s inherent function and importance in our daily lives. Sobonfu Some’s commitment to children and community are vivid reminders of how these two essential components enhance and enrich the human spirit and ultimately ensure the sustainability of our future

TITLE: AFRICAN PRESENCE IN THE AMERICAS
AUTHOR: TANYA R. SANDERS & SHAWNA MOORE
ISBN#: 0-86543-233-3
PRICE: $18.95
This book is comprised of the proceedings of the First and Only Conference on Negritude ever held in the Americas. The conference which gathered intellectuals of African descent from various countries of the new continent was held in Miami in 1987 around the theme "Negritude", Ethnicity and Afro Cultures in the Americas."

TITLE: BLACK IS THE COLOR OF MY TUBE
AUTHOR: GIL NOBLE
ISBN#: 0-8184-0538-4 9.95
PRICE: $9.95
Black is the Color of My TV Tube is a Black Newman's personal account of the world in which he lives. In these pages, the reader is given a view beyond the calm professional exterior that usually faces the viewer on the television screen. Here is a behind the scenes look at the wide range of joys, frustrations, challenges and hard labor that goes into responsible journalism.

TITLE: THE JEWISH ONSLAUGHT
AUTHOR: TONY MARTIN
ISBN#: 0-912469-30-7
PRICE: $9.95
The Jewish attack on Black progress reached Wellesley College in 1993, Dr. Tony Martin from his tenured professorship at the elite women's college, Martin, one of the school's most widely published scholars suddenly found himself the target of a hysterical campaign of Jewish lies, distortions and half-truths, spread around the country and internationally by the major media.

TITLE: MOVE OVER, GIRL
AUTHOR: BRIAN PETERSON
ISBN#: 0-375-50402-8
PRICE: $19.95
"Move Over, Girl represents the male mind at its purest. The honesty of the book is exhilarating and speaks forthright about the contemporary collegiate generation. I look forward to reading Brian Peterson's future work. I'm moving over and welcoming in this new, refreshing author, because his voice reads like that of no other."

TITLE: DOING WHAT'S RIGHT
AUTHOR: TAVIS SMILEY
ISBN#: 0-385-49930-2
PRICE: $17.95
In Doing What's Right, Smiley shows how each and every one of us can take up arms against como;agency and fight for the causes in which we believe. We don't have to accept things as they are. By choosing the battles that matter most to us, and organizing a plan to bring about the changes we feel are necessary, we can make a difference in fact we cab transform the world around us.

TITLE: THE DIVINE NINE
AUTHOR: LAWRENCE C. ROSS, JR
ISBN#: 1-57566-491-7
PRICE: $30.00
Never before has information about African American fraternities and sororities been published for the general public, until now. A meticulously researched history, THE DIVINE NINE tells the story of how these organizations have played a major role in shaping generations of black leaders.

TITLE: AFRICAN PRESENCE IN EARLY AMERICA
AUTHOR: IVAN VAN SERTIMA
ISBN#: 0-88738-715-2
PRICE: $21.00
In this collective work, Van Sertima is joined by a half a dozen other colleagues. The work focuses largely on contact between Africa and America towards the close of the Bronze Age (circa 948-680 B.C.) and the Mandingo-Songhay trading voyages (from early fourteenth and fifteenth century).

TITLE: DO UNTO OTHERS
AUTHOR: KRISTIN LATTANY
ISBN#: 0-345-40708-3
PRICE: $24.00
Zena Lawson honors all things African--art, culture, history. So when fortune hands her a twenty-year-old West African girl in need of temporary housing, of course Zena and her husband Llucius jump at the chance to help. To Zena, Ifa Olongo is an exotic beauty with enough haughtiness and grace for three royal families.

TITLE: THE WAKE OF THE WIND
AUTHOR: J. CALIFORNIA COOPER
ISBN#: 0-385-48705-3
PRICE: $12.95
The Wake of The Wind tells the dramatic story of a remarkable heroine, Lifee, and her husband,, Mor. When news of Emancipation finally comes to Texas, Mor, Lifee and their family set out in search of hope and a piece of land they can work and call their own. Miraculously, they manage not only to survive, but to succeed---their crops grow, their children thrive, they educate themselves and others.

TITLE: THINK BIG
AUTHOR: BEN CARSON
ISBN#: 0-310-21459-9
PRICE: $5.99
In this follow-up to his best-selling Gifted Hands, Dr. Ben Carson prescribes his personal formula for success. And who could better advise than a man who has transformed himself from a ghetto kid into the most celebrated pediatric neurosurgeon in the world?.

TITLE: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PEOPLE
AUTHOR: HERB BOYD
ISBN#: 0-385-49278-2
PRICE: $27.50
Editor Herb Boyd has combined a powerful chorus of voices from the past and present to create a compelling portrait of how African Americans have survived--and shaped--some of the most important events in United States history. The misery of slavery, the bloodshed of war, and the struggle for civil rights are just some of the pivotal experiences described in vivid detail throughout the book.

TITLE: DAILY MOTIVATIONS FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN SUCCESS
AUTHOR: DENNIS KIMBRO
ISBN#: 0-449-22325-6
PRICE: $23.25
DAILY MOTIVATIONS FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN SUCCESS will help you focus on the thoughts, attitudes, and deeds that will lead to the achievement of your true goals. In 365 short, powerful motivations, one for each day of the year.

TITLE: GIFTED HANDS
AUTHOR: BEN CARSON, M.D.
ISBN#: 0-310-21469-6
PRICE: $5.99
Ben Carson, MD, works medical miracles. Today, he's one of the most celebrated neurosurgeons in the world. In Gifted Hands, he tells of his inspiring odyssey from his childhood in inner-city Detroit to his position as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital at age 33.

TITLE: HARD LEFT
AUTHOR: TAVIS SMILEY
ISBN#: 0-385-48404-6
PRICE: $17.95
In Hard Left, he presents an impassioned polemic that will shape the Democratic platform and the political debate at the Summer 1996 Democratic and Republican National Conventions. At last, those on the left have a fast-talking champion with fresh ideas.