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TITLE: THE
PAINTED CANOE AUTHOR: ANTHONY C. WINKLER ISBN#: 976-610-153-1 PRICE: $16.95 Zacharih was just a simple, poor, ugly fisherman. But he was exceptionally stubborn.Even though he knew he was tirad, his stubbornness made him go to sea.And when he found he was lost, his stubbornness made him,refuse to give up hope.And when the elements conspired against him, his stubbornness made him refuse to die. |
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TITLE: BANANA
BOTTOM AUTHOR: CLAUDE MCKAY ISBN#: 187450974-3 PRICE: $10.95 Bita Plant is adopted and sent to England from Jamaica by white missionary benefactors and returns to her home Village seven years later a beautiful, English cultured, young lady. Despite the evangellical guidance of her foster parents, and the friendship of a white squire, Bita is increasingly drawn to the vitality of her more natural culture with it's festivals, superstitions, revival meetings and passionate courtships. |
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TITLE: THE
PRISONER'S WIFE AUTHOR: ASHA BANDELE ISBN#: 0-684-85073-7 PRICE: $23.00 The Prisoner's Wife takes us through not the dungeon of emotions but the sunshine of hope. This book needs to be read by anyone who has ever hummed a tune on the day the rent was due; by anyone who tapped her foot on the day the kids needed money for the school trip; by anyone who is sitting drinking coffee because she's hungry and there isn't enough to go around. By anyone who has paid a price for love. |
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TITLE: GOD
DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE AUTHOR: RODNEY SNOW ISBN#: N/A PRICE: $14.95 Somewhere in Brooklyn, New York, a young man is being killed. Ironically, he has an audience, and though the onlooker would like to remain an unbiased and casual observer of this life and death struggle, he soon finds himself drawn into the battle for this man's life. The odds against these unlikely allies seem insurmountable. |
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TITLE: MAMA
PURSUES MURDEROUS SHADOWS AUTHOR: NORA DELOACH ISBN#: 0-553-57722-0 PRICE: $5.99 All i'd wanted to do back home in Ohio, South Carolina, was whip up a wonderful thirty-fifth anniversary party for my parents. But we'd hardly picked tthe baker before Mama found herself volunteering her services for the one thing she did nearly as well as cook. And that is sleuthing. |
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TITLE: VOODOO
LOVE AUTHOR: SONIA CAULTON ISBN#: 0-9655545-1-1 PRICE: $14.95 Voodoo Love, is a spellbound romance novel written from the souls and experiences of all men and women who have been held captive to a mentalo anguished, dried up, stagnate relationship for all the wrong reasons other than love. Knowing deep down inside, they shouldn't be in the relationship, they just can't find the strength to leave because the strongholds of their lover's voodoo hold them in bondage. |
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TITLE: SOMETHING
IN COMMON AUTHOR: PATRICIA ANNE PHILLIPS ISBN#: 1-881524-46-9 PRICE: $14.95 Harriet, Elaine and Helen were happy and loving sisters. They had everything in common, until Harriet overheard an argument between her mother and father. Harriet discovered that she was an outsider. The mother, feeling that she was all that Harriet had, teamed up with her against Helen and Elaine. |
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TITLE: THE
BLUEST EYE AUTHOR:TONI MORRISON ISBN#: 0-375-41155-0 PRICE: $15.00 Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye is an inquiry into the reasons why beauty gets wasted in this country. The beauty in this case is black. (Ms. Morrison's prose is) so precise, so faithful to speech, and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry.....I have said "poetry", but The Bluest Eye is also history, sociology, folklore, nightmare, and music. |
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TITLE: THE
TRAIN RIDE AUTHOR: LOUISE SPENCER STRACHMAN ISBN#: 0-9660362-0-4 PRICE: $13.00 This is a witty and moving story enveloping a strong African American working class family in Washington, D.C with Tameka as the protagonist,. Although only in her mid twenties, Tameka has experienced tragedies far exceeding many, twice her age. |
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TITLE: JUNETEENTH AUTHOR: RALPH ELLISON ISBN#: 0-375-70754-9 PRICE: $14.00 Ralph Ellison, author of the classic novel of African American experience, Invisible Man, the long awaited second great narrative. Here is Ellison, the master of American vernacular--the preacher's hyperbole and the politician's, the rhythms of jazz and gospel and ordinary speech--at the height of his powers, telling a powerful, evocative tal e of a prodigal of the twentieth century. |
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TITLE: GETTING
TO THE GOOD PART AUTHOR: LOLITA FILES ISBN#: 0-446-67548-2 PRICE: $13.95 The sistahs are back! Serious but savvy Misty Fine and outrageous Reesy Snowden take on New York, mad success, and hot men in ways that make even the Big Apple Blush. Now a star in a sizzling off Broadway musical, Reesy isn't about to forever lose her best friend Misty to marriage. |
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TITLE: NO
TIME TO DIE AUTHOR: GRACE F. EDWARDS ISBN#: 0-553-57956-8 PRICE: $5.99 On a sweltering Harlem summer night, ex-cop Mali Anderson steps out to celebrate her friend Claudine's divorce from a handsome, cheating deadbeat who couldn't keep his fists out of her face. But Claudine doesn't show up for their dinner. |
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TITLE: ONE
WOMAN SHORT AUTHOR: NELSON GEORGE ISBN#: 0-684-86461-4 PRICE: $12.00 Rodney Hampton, a thirty-three year old LA native, is a pro at juggling women. He and his best friend, Timothy Waters Jr., spent many years recklessly scoping and honors at ski summits, getting acquainted with MBAs at Martha's vineyard beach parties. Yet when Tim gets married, Rodney begins to wonder whether what his ailing mother tells him is true---is he really "One woman short". |
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TITLE: PLEASE
PLEASE PLEASE AUTHOR: RENEE SWINDLE ISBN#: 0-440-22376-8 PRICE: $6.50 Baby-sitter gets what Baby-sitter wants. Always has. Always will. After all, she's been spoiled rotten ever since she witnessed her mother's death as a child, and she's made the most of it---especially with her dad. So when her oldest friend,, Deborah, begins to date a fine-looking, fine-acting man named Darren--babysitter doesn't think twice: she wants Darren for herself. And what Baby-sitter wants, Baby-sitter gets. |
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TITLE: HERE
AND NOW AUTHOR: KIMBERLA LAWSON ROBY ISBN#: 1-57566-494-1 PRICE: $13.00 Brilliant and vibrant, Marcella Jones had the whole world in her hands, until she gave her heart to the wrong man. Tyrone was handsome and charismatic, but he left her destitute, raising two small children alone--and yearning for the kind of life her dead end job will never provide. |
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TITLE: THE
FLIP SIDE OF SIN AUTHOR: ROSALYN MCMILLAN ISBN#: 0-684-86287-5 PRICE: $24.00 From best-selling African American writer Rosalyn McMillan comes this extraordinary Novel of how love can bring redemption and the ultimate salvation to any circumstance. The Flip Side Of Sin takes readers on journey through the lives of a group of unforgettable characters who must overcome life's toughest challenges to find true happiness. |
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TITLE: PASSING AUTHOR: PATRICIA JONES ISBN#: 0-380-80585-5 PRICE: $12.00 "Like a glass of lemonade that is both sweet and tart, writer Patricia Jones mixes up a refreshing blend of deep emotion and raw truth, tempered by a grounded dose of wisdom. To Lila Giles, the term "Passing" refers to those pale-hued folks who take advantage of their creamy shade by crossing into the white world." |
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TITLE: PRECONCEIVED NOTIONS AUTHOR: ROBYN WILLIAMS ISBN#: 0-94839-061-1 PRICE: $12.95 Imagany is bright and ambitious Elliot is the handsome, charismatic star quarterback for Tennessee State University. When they meet, the attraction is immediate. The intensity of their passion leaves their lives irrevocably changed forever. As their relationship unfolds. However, their unrivaled love is challenged by the deep, dark secrets lurking in the shadows of Imagony's past. |
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TITLE: TRUE TO THE GAME AUTHOR: TERI WOODS ISBN#: 0-9672249-0-x PRICE: $14.95 True to the game, is like no other story of it's time. The main character Gena finds herself in true blue live with Quadir, a millionaire associated with the cartel, Quadir is faced with combating the art of explosion and interception masterminded by the notorious Junior Mafia. |
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TITLE: THE
LUNATIC AUTHOR: ANTHONY C. WINKLER ISBN#: 0- 976-652-010-3 PRICE: $12.95 Aloysius is the village madman, tolerated by neighbors but forced to seek out a living by doing odd jobs while he uses the hospitable woodlands for shelter. He is starved of human companionship; instead he has running conversations with trees and plants. Then lobe, or a peculiar version of it, comes to Aloysius a German lady who has come to Jamaica to photograph the Flora and Fauna. |
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TITLE: THE
GOOD AUTHOR: A.J. VERDELLE ISBN#: 0-06-097683-7 PRICE: $12.00 Denise Palms, fresh to big city Detroit from rural Virginia, discovers through her friends and teacher the importance of learning "proper" English. While struggling to master language, she watches the limits of her own future lived out in her brothers: David, hardworking and silent, and Luke Edward. In time she questions the legacies of her family and determines beyond great odds her own course for the future. |
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TITLE: GOING
HOME TO TEACH AUTHOR: ANTHONY C. WINKLER ISBN#: 0- 976-625-075-8 PRICE: $12.95 This autobiographical account of the year that he spent at a rural teacher training college flashes back to the Jamaica of the narrator's childhood, recounting incidents and vignettes that shed light on the middle of competing personalities, doctrines and images of self currently vying for center stage in the tumult of Jamaican life. |
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TITLE: ARCH
OF FIRE AUTHOR: BARBARA LALLA ISBN#: 0- 976-625-089-8 PRICE: $18.95 Haunting histories emerge in sharp relief on the fiery background of Jamaica's evolving society. Barbara Lalla traces Taino, Maroon and other paths to reveal the intertwining of Jamaican roots, and transports the reader through five hundred years of incendiary Jamaican history up to the explosive 1970's, and beyond. |
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POOR BLACK AND IN REAL TROUBLE AUTHOR: JEROME DYSON WRIGHT ISBN#: 0-87067-890-6 PRICE: $8.90 Based on a true story, this amount of the life on one of the most infamous streets in America is shocking, compelling reading. Through the brutal tales of murder, mayhem and sadism, Wright paints the reader living pictures of real people; con artists, thieves, prostitutes, addicts, the old, the poor, the naive runaways....they all have one thing in common, however. They are Poor Black And In Real Trouble. |
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TITLE: IF THIS WORLD WERE
MINE AUTHOR: E. LYNN HARRIS ISBN#: 0-385-48656-1 PRICE: $13.95 If this world were mine, E Lynn Harris's fourth book, was a New York Times bestseller for ten weeks. It is an "Engrossing and fast paced"novel about four friends whose deep bonds of intimacy are threatened by conflicts of career and romance. When one of them faces death, the crisis forces them to recognize and accept the inner strength that their friendship has nurtured in each of them. |
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TITLE: MAMA AUTHOR: TERRY MCMILLAN ISBN#: 0-671-88448-4 PRICE: $7.99 "Mildred Peacock is the tough, funny, feisty heroine of MAMA, a survivor who'll do anything to keep her family together". In Mildred's world, men come and go as quickly as her paychecks, but her five children are her dream, her hope and her future. The stunning debut novel from the acclaimed author of Waiting to Exhale, MAMA is a black women's story portrayed with rich power, honesty and love. |
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TITLE: SATIN DOLL AUTHOR: KAREN E. QUINONES MILLER ISBN#: 0-9676028-0-7 PRICE: $12.95 Set in Harlem and Philadelphia, Satin Doll tells the story of a women living in two worlds, and feeling comfortable in neither. The lovely Regina sips cocktails in Greenwich Village with the literary elite one night, and goes barhopping with her Harlem homegirls the next. |
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TITLE: SOMETHIN EXTRA AUTHOR: PATTY RICE ISBN#: 0-684-85340-x PRICE: $23.00 Somethin Extra the story of a sassy, cynical Genie Gatlin. A slew of bad relationships causes twenty-something Genie to believe men are good for only two things: their bank accounts and their bedroom skill. Her no strings attitude leads her to date married men. |
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TITLE: WHEN CHICKEN HEADS
COME HOME TO ROOST AUTHOR: JOAN MORGAN ISBN#: 0-684-86861-x PRICE: $12.00 Joan Morgan bravely probes the complex issues facing African-American women in today's world where feminists often have not-so-clandestine affairs with the most sexist of men; where women who treasure their independence often prefer men who pick up their tab and where the deluge of babymothers and babyfathers reminds black women who long for marriage the traditional nuclear families are a reality. |
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TITLE: WAITING TO EXPLODE AUTHOR: ONYEKA ISBN#: 0 9533182 0 6 PRICE: $13.95 "If you think you know what it is to be young black and British, think again...read this novel and you will know." |
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TITLE: ROOTIN FOR THE CRUSHER AUTHOR: CARL HENDRICKS ISBN#: 1-881524-17-5 PRICE: $12.95 "This compelling story captures the essence of life in all its Complexity, A contemporary account of how passion for success and money can lead honorable men to immortality. This book will touch your life." |
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TITLE: SISTER SECRETS AUTHOR: BREGGIE JAMES ISBN#: 0-9659042-0-2 PRICE: $12.95 "Daughters of four women mysteriously meet at Missouri State University. As they cope during their college years, bits of information about their mothers' past begin to unfold slowly. Sister secrets is a story about friends, sorrows, secrets and the commitment to sisterhood beyond death." |
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TITLE: A LONG WAY FROM HOME AUTHOR: CONNIE BRISCOE ISBN#: 0-06-017278-9 PRICE: $25.00 A Long Way From Home is a wonderful celebration of strength and perseverance, and a brilliant song of hope, Connie Briscoe joyfully honors her family, herself and all of us in this wonderful homage to the resilience and courage of the people who made her the woman and writer she is. |
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TITLE: CHEATERS AUTHOR: ERIC JEROME DICKEY ISBN#: 0-525-94386-2 PRICE: $24.95 Stephen Mitchell and his best friends Jake and Darnell are living well with good jobs, fine clothes, and beckoning futures. For Stephen and Jake, who attract plenty of beautiful sisters,, variety is the spice of life. But Darnell is different: He has kept his marriage vows despite some rough going.until he meets a woman who understands his dreams. |
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TITLE: WALKIN' THE DOG AUTHOR: WALTER MOSLEY ISBN#: 0-316-96620-7 PRICE: $24.95 "Anyone who has read Mosley's earlier books will be at home here, but others for whom the mystery label has been a turnoff will meet a writer of great acuity and style...by the end of this fine novel we are listening to prose of such deceptive simplicity and fine-hewn poetry that it sings." |
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