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During 2000 AALBC.com sold 937 different titles - 35% more than 1999 and 130% more than 1998! The following titles represent the 10 most frequently purchased books during all of 2000. |
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#1
Publisher: Simon
and Schuster Inc. She is a fascinating and unique collection of interconnected poems by this multi-talented star -- and marks the beginning of an incredible and totally original artistic career. Author:
Saul Stacey Williams ALL TIME AALBC BEST SELLING BOOK since we started selling books in December 1997 (and we've sold over 1,200 different titles during this period)! Publisher: Simon and Schuster Inc. "Who says poetry does not sell?" -- Troy Johnson AALBC.com AALBC top 10 bestseller every 11 out of 12 months in 2000! She is a fascinating and unique collection of interconnected poems by this multi-talented star -- and marks the beginning of an incredible and totally original artistic career.She is a fascinating and unique collection of interconnected poems by this multi-talented star -- and marks the beginning of an incredible and totally original artistic career. |
#2 Title:
The
Seventh Octave: The Early Writings of Saul Stacey Williams(Click title to Purchase Online and Learn more about this Book and Poet) Author: Saul
Stacey Williams, Jessica C.
Moore (Editor) Publisher: Moore Black Press Hailed as "a dreadlocked dervish of words...the Bob Marley of American poets" (Esquire), Saul Williams is a gifted young poet who is opening up this literary art form to a new generation of readers. Like his writing -- a fearless mix of connecting rhythms and vibrant images -- Saul Williams is unstoppable. He received raves for his performance as an imprisoned street poet in the Trimark Pictures release Slam, winner of the Camera d'Or at Cannes and the Grand Jury prize at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. The consummate spoken-word performance artist, Williams has also been signed by producer Rick Rubin to record a CD of his poetry.
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#3  Not
a Day Goes By(Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: E.
Lynn Harris Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Incorporated Welcome to the irresistible world of E. Lynn
Harris--
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#4 Satin
Doll(Click title or book to purchase an autographed copy directly from AALBC.com) Author: Karen E. Quinones Set in Harlem and Philadelphia, Satin Doll tells the story of a woman 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. There’s Yvonne, who discovers the lawyer she is dating is married, but decides to steal him away from his wife. Tamika, who finds out the prison inmate she’s been loyal to for three years has married a white woman while behind bars. And Puddin�, a cocaine sniffing good-time girl who will snatch off her wig to fight at the drop of a hat.
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#5 For
Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
when the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem(Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: Ntozake Shange Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 64pp. From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the twentieth century. Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.
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Edited by Kevin Powell Format: Hardcover, 470pp. The best work of hip-hop generation writers [Over 100!] captured in a single volume "Kevin Powell is pushing to bring the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, the fears, and the fearlessness."�Nikki Giovanni From fiction writers, poets, journalists, and commentators, this absorbing anthology captures, for the first time, the new school of black writing, including established and award-winning authors like Junot Diaz, Edwidge Danticat, Danyel Smith, and Paul Beatty, as well as emerging voices from around the world. In addition to showing today's literary flowering, Step Into A World provides a window into the crucial issues of contemporary black life, including racial and sexual identity, post-civil rights politics, and hip-hop culture. Compiled by critically acclaimed poet, journalist, and essayist Kevin Powell, this groundbreaking book is a revelation. |
#7 Title:(Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: Jessica
C. Moore Format: Trade Paper, 125 pages
Excerpt from the title Poem
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#8  Captain
Blackman(Click Title To Order) Format: Paperback, 336pp. Named "among the most important works of fiction of the decade" by the New York Times Book Review when first published in 1972, Captain Blackman is the first book to be published in the Coffee House Press's Black Arts Movement reprint series. True to form, John A. Williams is exhaustive and accurate in his historical research of the significant role played by African Americans in the military. Captain Blackman is a U.S. soldier in Vietnam who becomes seriously wounded. As he drifts in and out of consciousness he hallucinates back in time as a soldier in each of America's wars from 1775 to 1975. |
#9 (tie) Starlight
Passage(Click Title To Order) Author: Anita
Richmond Bunkley |
#9 (tie)  Silent
Conspiracy: A Lincoln Keller Mystery(Click Title To Order) Format:
Hardcover, 273pp. Lincoln Keller makes his living being in places most people know nothing about. As a former professional football player for the Oakland Raiders and as a police officer for the same California city, Lincoln Keller has seen and done things few people have. And now, as a private investigator in his hometown of Detroit, Michigan, he applies his unique expertise in human behavior in service to an eclectic list of clients. He's used to intrigue, deception, malice, action, beautiful women and strange requests. And when one of those beautiful women hires him to track down five men who all disappeared at the same time forty years ago, the case sounds interesting. But dangerous? Wouldn't seem like it. Together, the five young men in question formed a pre-Motown singing group called appropriately enough, The Sentiments. At one time in the mid Fifties, their incredible talent was setting the standards for the coming era of Detroit's blossoming music industry. The Sentiments were unquestionably on their way to the top. But what happened on a warm, late summer night in 1955 that would cause The Sentiments to disappear? Individually... as a group...suddenly gone. Why? |
#9 (tie) Behind
Closed Doors(Click title or book to purchase on-line) Author: Kimberla
Lawson Roby Best friends since childhood, Regina Moore and Karen Jackson have everything two "just-turned-30" women could possibly want--beautiful homes in an upper-echelon Chicago suburb, loving husbands, and financial security. But are their lives really as wonderful as they seem? |
#10 (tie)  The
Isis [Yssis] Papers: The Keys to the Colors(Click title or book to purchase on-line) by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, M.D. Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 302pp. "This work is dedicated to the victims of the global system of white supremacy (racism), all non-white people worldwide, past and present, who have resolved to end this great travesty and bring justice, then peace to planet Earth."
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#10 (tie) The
African American Writers Handbook: How to Get in Print and Stay in Print:by Robert Fleming (Click title to buy this book online now) Format: Paperback, 352pp.
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She
Step
into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature
