Reading Department
August, 2008
Sidney Poitier is One of the Most Revered actors in the history of Hollywood. He has overcome enormous obstacles in extraordinary times and is a role model for many Americans because of his ...
August, 2008
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
Daniel G. Amen
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
David Sedaris
Destini the Chocolate Princess
Joan Lewis
The Mary Kay Way
Mary Kay Ash
Parable of the ...
August, 2008
The stars of MTV's Emmy-winning, top-rated Run's House—dubbed "the new Cosby family"—offer a vital rescue manual for modern parenting.
An icon of hip-hop, a father of six, and an ordained minister, Rev Run has ...
August, 2008
Three prolific authors bring truth to the title of this heart-wrenching book, Love Is Never Painless, with a collection of novellas that explores the deeper side of love -- the side rarely explored ...
August, 2008
The debate over the N word touches almost every aspect of American popular culture: Does it ever have an appropriate place in the media? Are rappers justified in using it? Should Huckleberry Finn, ...
July, 2008
“Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said thy edge should blunter be than appetite”
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July, 2008
Here is the classic--and true--story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress, a Southern Civil War heroine to rival Scarlett O'Hara. Vyry bears witness to the South's ...
July, 2008
In this groundbreaking historical exposé, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history—an “Age of Neoslavery” that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through ...
July, 2008
Harris serves up a treat that will capture and enchant audiences everywhere—a big, bold, and irresistible novel about football, family, and secrets.
Brady Bledsoe and his mother, Carmyn, have a strong relationship. A single ...
July, 2008
The Midnight Hour (Madaris Series)
Brenda Jackson
One in a Million
Kimberla Lawson Roby
Black Widow: A Novel
Nikki Turner
Street
Ann Lane Petry
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
Dreams from My Father : A ...
June, 2008
Widow Traci Evans happily sits in on meetings with the lovely ladies of the Invincible Sisterhood solely because they reached out to her first. A loner, Traci feels for the first time ...
June, 2008
Nella Larsen is a central figure in African American, Modernist, and women's literature. Her status as a Harlem Renaissance woman writer was rivaled by only Zora Neale Hurston's. This Norton Critical Edition of ...
June, 2008
The Women Who Raised Me
Victoria Rowell
My Jim
Nancy Rawles
Shaking the Tree : A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women
Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
Black Masculinity and the U.S. South : ...
June, 2008
Zane, the New York Times bestselling author and Queen of Erotic Fiction, brings a new collection of lesbian erotica that will blow the sheets off beds everywhere.
What happens when "The Finest Man" you ...
June, 2008
In an electrifying novel, a black street girl, sixteen years old and pregnant, again, with her father's child, speaks. In a voice that shakes us by its language, its story, and its unflinching ...
June, 2008
Let's face it! Prince Charming and his bank balance, just aren't coming to bail us out financially. 'Love Is Not Enough' -- the definitive lifestyle, financial bible for sassy women -- will teach ...
May, 2008
The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
Married Men
Carl Weber
Sugar
Bernice L. McFadden
Them
Nathan McCall
Fly On The Wall
Trista Russell
Crack Head
Lisa Lennox
The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
...
May, 2008
Tempest Landry, an everyman African American, is “accidentally” killed by a cop. Denied access to heaven because of what he considers a few minor transgressions, Tempest refuses to go to hell. Stymied, Saint ...
May, 2008
In his thought-provoking memoir, Turning White, Emmy Award-winning TV broadcaster Lee Thomas shares the physical and mental battle he is waging with vitiligo a skin disorder that is literally turning him white.
At age ...
May, 2008
For Josephine Evans, home was on the stages of the world where she spent thirty years establishing herself as one of the finest actresses of her generation. Josephine was the toast of Europe, ...
May, 2008
As a little girl, Jane has no one. Her mother Vivienne Margaux, the powerful head of a major New York theater company has no time for her. But she does have one friend--Michael--and ...
May, 2008
A powerful and searing novel of three lives fractured by a civil war. For ten years, Norma has been the voice of consolation for a people broken by violence. She hosts Lost City ...
May, 2008
This landmark gathering of Zora Neale Hurston's short fiction—most of which appeared only in literary magazines during her lifetime—reveals the evolution of one of the most important African American writers. Spanning her career ...
April, 2008
This powerful memoir portrays the life-altering transformation of a feisty nomad girl who undergoes genital excision. Crippled with rheumatism as a result of the cutting, Fadumo Korn, who once freely roamed the deserts ...
April, 2008
I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage to come with me.
The young ...
April, 2008
On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 PM, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King-the prophet for ...
April, 2008
According to Dr. Elizabeth Warren, head of Harvard’s Consumer Bankruptcy Project, more women file for bankruptcy than graduate from college, suffer heart attacks or are diagnosed with cancer. But Marcia Brixey, author of ...
April, 2008
All About Love
Susan L. Taylor
Wifey
Ki Ki Swinson
Looker
Stanley Bennett Clay
26a
Diana Evans
The Amen Sisters
Angela Benson
Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching
Paula J. Giddings
Pants on Fire
Maggie ...
March, 2008
Shay Youngblood's debut novel, Soul Kiss, received accolades from reviewers and writers alike. The Washington Post hailed it as "intelligent and erotic ... immensely engrossing and satisfying," while The Atlanta Journal-Constitution called it ...
March, 2008
Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a ...
