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2007 marks the start of AALBC.com's 10th year of selling books on-line.
We sold our first book on December 1997.
We sell book's directly and through a number of affiliate programs. This year's
best sellers list is based upon online sales, via the Amazon.com affiliate
program and represents the sale of over 1,400 different titles (virtually all
by African-American authors).
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| #1
 Getting
Buck Wild: Sex Chronicles 2, Vol. 2
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Zane
Zane is back with Gettin' Buck Wild: Sex Chronicles II,
more stories for the legion of readers that made The Sex Chronicles a
bestseller.
Zane's erotic short stories have captivated the minds of both sexes and
all races. The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth did exactly what
its title implies -- exploded the myth that men are more sexual in nature
than women, and that African-American women in particular are inhibited
compared to their female counterparts of other cultures.
Her audience is growing by leaps and bounds, nurtured by her Internet
site and her previous bestselling titles, including The Heat Seekers,
her debut in hardcover. Zane knows exactly what her readers want, and in
Gettin' Buck Wild she gives them some of her most provocative prose to
date. Her characters and settings run the gamut from committed, monogamous
couples looking to experiment, to the wild single sisters who belong to a
very unconventional sorority. Zane tells the story of a high-paid
multi-tasking career woman who gets her groove back in "When Opposites
Attract," a couple who try something new in "The Subway -- A Quickie," and a
new way of celebrating Christmas in "The Santa Claus." She spices up
real-life scenarios with over-the-top sexual fantasy and ultimately gives
her readers the best time they've ever had between the pages of a book.
With all-new characters and settings, Gettin' Buck Wild is Zane's
hottest collection of stories yet. Smart, witty and extremely sexy, this
second volume of Sex Chronicles is tailored to women -- but perfect for
lovers to share. |
#1
 Confessions
of a Video Vixen
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Karrine Steffans
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Glass vases filled with marbles crashed all around us
as he began tossing linens from the bed. As the marbles scattered, we
laughed in unison ... I remember the exact moment that I first laid on my
back for him ... My legs were wrapped around his waist and just before his
body was to merge with mine, I noticed his upper right chest. On it was a
tattoo with the words "Pain is Love."
Confessions of a Video Vixen is the widely anticipated
memoir of Karrine Steffans, the once sought-after sexy siren who appeared in
the music videos of multiplatinum hip-hop artists such as Jay-Z, R. Kelly,
and LL Cool J. A top-paid video dancer, Karrine transitioned to film when
acclaimed director F. Gary Gray picked her to costar in his film A Man
Apart, starring Vin Diesel. But the movie and music video sets, swanky Miami
and New York restaurants, and trysts with the celebrities featured in the
pages of People and In Touch magazines only skims the surface of Karrine's
life.
This memoir -- part tell-all, part cautionary tale --
shows how Karrinne came to be the confidante of so many, why she kept their
secrets, and how she found herself in Hollywood after a life marked by
physical abuse, rape, and drugs -- all before she was twenty-six. By sharing
her emotionally charged story, she hopes to shed light on an otherwise
romanticized industry. |
| #2
 The
Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni
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Nikki Giovanni
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The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni has been grafted to my hands for
the last 3 weeks. This anthology is the chronological atlas of her published
work from 1968 - 1998. But this goes beyond the simplicity of a gathered
collection of publications. Each work is tagged with a biographical
timeline; introductions; new after-words from Giovanni; along with title and
first line indexes, and illuminating notes about the poems. The effort to
put together a first rate book is evident from page one. The liner notes
refer to this book as the testimony of Giovanni life’s work. I concur with
this assessment and commend the results.
For those of you who are Nikki Giovanni fans, this book is more than just
complementary. It provides depth through personal insights that tend to
edify her work. Her books of poems: Black Feeling Black Talk (1968), Black
Judgment (1968), Re: Creation (1970), My House (1972), The Women and the Men
(1975), Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (1978), and Those Who Ride Night Winds
(1983) are here in completion. She has also included a section called
Occasional Poems which are primarily contemporary odes dedicated to
significant persons/people whom have moved her to pay homage to them in
words.
This collection could be a chronological study of the transition of
Giovanni’s poetry. Her iconic debut was the self-published revolutionary
scripture Black Feeling Black Talk. It is a contemporary collection that has
established itself as an indisputable centerpiece of modern poetry. This
book is a resounding voice for the 1960’s Black empowerment and pain. It is
an ardent torch for socio-political change. Giovanni’s work did not just
comment on society’s ills, she verbally demonstrated against it. |
#2
 The
Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story
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Yvonne S. Thornton, M. D. as told to Jo Coudert,
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The remarkable power of family values as articulated by an
uneducated black man and his wife is played out in this loving memoir.
Thornton is one of five daughters born to a laborer in a New Jersey shore
town who was almost obsessed with the importance of education for his
children and the nurturance of their talents. He strictly monitored their
musical training, scrimping and wheedling where necessary to pay for their
lessons. Eventually the Thornton Sisters Band was formed A family
enterprise whose financial success became the source of the daughters'
college tuition. Although only two of the girls fulfilled their father's
dream that they become doctors, all of them have successful careers. This
picture by Thornton and Coudert (Advice from a Failure) of a black man's
single-minded devotion to his family is a tribute to an extraordinary father
who transcended racial prejudice to raise appreciative daughters to be
independent women. —Publishers Weekly |
| #3
 Addicted
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Zane
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Addicted is the story of Zoe, an African-American female arts dealer. It
traces her life from the time she first meets her husband, Jason, in the
fifth grade, falls in love with him over a game of Twister in the eighth
grade, loses her virginity to him in high school and eventually marries him.
Everything seems perfect in Zoe’s life to her friends and family as she
secretly deals with serious problems in her marriage.
After failing to get Jason to open up to her
sexually, Zoe becomes involved in not one, not two but three extramarital
affairs. By the time she seeks the aid of a prominent female
African-American therapist, the walls of her picture perfect life have
already started to crumble.
The book shifts into high gear as Zoe finds
out that everyone from her lovers to her husband to her own mother are
hiding secrets of their own. Her best friend, Brina, is physically abused by
her alcoholic boyfriend, Dempsey. Zoe discovers under hypnosis that her
fascination with sex stems from two incidents in her early childhood she had
buried deeply into the crevices of her mind. She is stalked and attacked.
The book comes to a head on a cold, dark mountain following a trail of
murders and the true murderer is anyone’s guess. Addicted does for
women what Fatal Attraction did for men. It will make a woman think
twice before risking it all. |
#3
 The
Covenant with Black America
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Tavis Smiley
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The Covenant with Black America
Six years' worth of symposiums come together in this rich
collection of essays that plot a course for African Americans, explaining
how individuals and households can make changes that will immediately
improve their circumstances in areas ranging from health and education to
crime reduction and financial well-being.
Each chapter outlines one key issue and provides a list of
resources, suggestions for action, and a checklist for what concerned
citizens can do to keep their communities progressing socially, politically,
and economically. Though the African American community faces devastating
social disparities—in which more than 8 million people live in poverty—this
celebration of possibility, hope, and strength will help leaders and
citizens keep Black America moving forward. |
| #4
 The
Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth
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Zane
After more than two years of entertaining
tens of thousands of loyal readers on the Internet with her vivid
imagination, a large collection of Zane's erotica is finally available in a
published format. Zane has captivated the minds of both sexes and all races.
She has completely shattered the myth that men are more sexual in nature
than women and that African-American women in particular are inhibited
compared to their female counterparts of other races.
The erotica collection is divided into three
sections: Wild, Wilder and Off Da Damn Hook. Her characters run the gamut
from the sensual housewife that wants her husband to experiment more to the
secret underground sorority of women that let it all hang out literally. |
#4
 Diary
of a Lost Girl
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Kola Boof
Kola Boof's long awaited autobiography "Diary of a Lost
Girl" is nothing less than magnificent. Many will be spellbound by more than
90 pages detailing her terrifying experience as Osama Bin Laden's former
mistress, but the Sudanese-born Novelist/Poet writes even more profoundly
about the hardships of being vaginally circumcised, about witnessing her
birth parents killed in her presence as a small child, about slavery and
Arabism in Sudan, about being adopted and raised in the U.S. by African
Americans, about her quest for true love, and in one particularly daring
chapter, about her hopes for the future of her sons.
Add to that years of psychiatric treatment, a struggle with manic anger
and quite a few daring romances other than Bin Laden and you've got the
perfect ingredients for a feature film.
Readers will find themselves fascinated as innocent young Naima Bint
Harith tragically becomes the vitriolic complicated temptress Kola. A doomed
movie starlet, feminist activist and "kept woman"...who ultimately emerges
as the loving mother, outspoken novelist/poet and professional cook that we
know today as Kola Boof.
Throughout the book, Kola speaks in a voice so utterly naked, truthful
and unpretentious that it's impossible not to fall in love with her.
—Kurt Rampling (editor) |
| #5
 Public
Enemy #2: An All-New Boondocks Collection
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Aaron McGruder
Here's the next big collection of Aaron McGruder's The
Boondocks, the most subversively funny, controversial, and politically
engaged strip to be found in America's comics pages. Featuring Huey Freeman,
a radical preteen conspiracy theorist, and his little brother Riley, a
desperately cute thug-in-training, The Boondocks skewers targets from
George W. Bush and Ralph Nader to Queen Latifah and
Bill Cosby. With more than
500 previously uncollected strips—including strips banned from newspapers
around the country—Public Enemy #2 is a must-have collection of the
sharpest satire being crafted today. |
#5
 We
Speak Your Names:
A Celebration
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Pearl Cleage
For centuries, African American women have been remaking the world,
giving testament to the power of hope, courage, and resilience. But it took
the inspired generosity of
Oprah Winfrey to honor fully the many gifts of sisterhood. For three
amazing days–from May 13 to 15, 2005–a distinguished group of women was
invited to celebrate the enduring achievements of twenty-five of their
mentors and role models–and in the process pay tribute to the long, glorious
tradition of African American accomplishment.
The brilliant centerpiece of the weekend was the reading aloud of Pearl
Cleage’s poem “We Speak Your Names,” written especially for the occasion and
appearing here for the first time in this beautiful keepsake book. As deeply
moving in print as it was during that weekend of love and praise, the poem
names each of the women honored:
Dr. Maya Angelou, Coretta Scott King, Diahann
Carroll, Toni Morrison,
Nikki Giovanni, Rosa Parks,
Katherine Dunham, and other legends of the brightest magnitude. With
heartfelt eloquence, Pearl Cleage (herself a luminary of the younger
generation) celebrates her distinguished elders’ strength, their magic,
their sensuality, their loving kindness, their faith in themselves, and the
priceless example of their lives. In her introduction, the poet shares: “My
sisters, here, there, and everywhere, this poem is for you. Use it, adapt
it, pass it on. . . .”
Destined to become a classic, We Speak Your Names is a treasure to keep
forever and a precious, inspiring gift for the ones you love. |
| #6
 Breaking
the Cycle
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by
Zane
Breaking the Cycle is a stunning and moving anthology of
stories, each of which focuses on an aspect of domestic abuse. This powerful
collection is sure to serve as a wake-up call for people either dealing with
a domestic abuse situation, or those watching someone else endure it.
In the title story, Zane describes the turmoil that a
young girl suffers at the hands of her stepfather. The girl and her mother
plan their escape, but at the last minute the mother falters—causing her to
break down and tell her daughter the long history of domestic abuse in her
own family. In D.V. Bernard’s “The Lonely Echoes of My Youth,” readers are
introduced to a young boy who witnesses an alluring young girl who
encourages the boys around her to physically fight one another until they
become violent by nature. And Nane Quartay’s provocative story “The
Grindstone,” a tale based on the author’s own experience, describes a boy
who witnesses a brutal murder, in which a woman decapitates her abusive
husband with a machete. The boy’s mother is a victim of abuse herself, and
as her son relates the story over and over, she starts speculating about the
benefits of sharpening knives on a grindstone.
These stories capture the dangerous realities of domestic
abuse, while also pointing toward the steps that need to be taken to break
the cycle that perpetuates it. It is sure to serve as a rallying cry for all
those who desire victory over their own victimization, and a guide for
understanding the complex undercurrents that make such patterns possible. |
#6
 Countering
the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys
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Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
Advice for parents, educators, community, and church
members is provided in this guide for ensuring that African American boys
grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible African American men. This
book answers such questions as Why are there more black boys in remedial and
special education classes than girls? Why are more girls on the honor roll?
When do African American boys see a positive black male role model? Is the
future of black boys in the hands of their mothers and white female
teachers? and When does a boy become a man? The significance of rite of
passage activities, including mentoring, male bonding, and spirituality, are
all described.
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| #7
 Chocolate
Flava: The Eroticanoir.com Anthology
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Zane (Editor)
ISBN: 0743482387
Format: Paperback, 352pp
Pub. Date: January 2004
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
As a bestselling author and successful publisher of
Strebor Books, Zane's name is synonymous with popular fiction -- especially
erotica. Her website, Eroticanoir.com, gets over a million hits a year from
around the world, and her fans look forward to every one of her publishing
ventures with eager anticipation.
Chocolate Flava is the first in a series of collections of
great erotic fiction edited by Zane, the reigning queen of erotica. Based on
the Featured Erotica section of her website, Chocolate Flava gathers
twenty-five sizzling tales from some of the most talented -- and dedicated
-- writers of erotica working today.
This is a his-and-her collection. There are stories
specifically written with female readers in mind, and others written
expressly for men. Among the contributors are names already familiar to
readers of erotica, such as Reginald Harris, Robert Edison Sandiford,
Jonathan Luckett and, of course, Zane -- as well as emerging voices, such as
Geneva Barnes and Robert Scott Adams. What they all have in common is that
they are great at what they do, and have been handpicked by Zane -- an
editor who knows a hot story when she sees it.
Zane wanted stories "that took risks, that explored unique
situations, that were creative beyond compare." She wanted to show that men
and women can equally express themselves through the medium of erotic
fiction. She wanted stories that would turn her on. This collection of
selected sexy short stories will turn you on, too. |
#7
 Never
Satisfied : How & Why Men Cheat
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Michael Baisden
Format: Paperback, 3rd ed., 254pp.
ISBN: 0964367580
Publisher: Legacy Publishing
Pub. Date: January 1995
The book is a collection of interviews of men who have cheated. It
examines how men are raised from childhood to be unfaithful and how parents
play a large part in creating cheaters. It also takes a hard look at the
role of the other woman as well as the tolerant wives and girlfriends. Never
before has a book dealt with infidelity on such a realistic level. This is a
book every woman and man should read |
| #8
 Wild
Stars Seeking Midnight Suns:
Stories
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J. California Cooper
ISBN: 0385511337
Format: Hardcover, 224pp
Pub. Date: April 4, 2006
Publisher: Doubleday Publishing
In stories that are simple yet elegant, hard-hitting yet
poignant, J. California Cooper writes about the search for fulfillment that
propels people’s dreams and desires. In “As Time Goes By” a young woman
named Futila Ways grows up focusing her dream of a better future on material
wealth, only to discover that having everything she ever wanted cannot
compensate for the emptiness in her heart. “The Eye of the Beholder”
recounts the story of an unattractive young girl, Lily Bea, whose search for
love leads her to embrace her own brand of freedom. And in “Catch a Falling
Heart” a woman mildly crippled in a fall endures loneliness and solitude
until she finds a man and provides a resting place for his love. Each story
beautifully conveys the profound human need to seek some sort of
satisfaction, just as a wild star seeks a midnight sun.
J. California Cooper’s insights into the hearts and souls of ordinary
people and her irresistible storytelling voice have endeared her to fans and
critics. As Ms. magazine wrote, “Cooper’s stories beckon. It is as if she is
patting the seat next to us, enticing us to come sit and listen.” |
#8
 Kill
Them Before They Grow: The Misdiagnosis of African American Boys in
America's Classrooms
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Michael Porter
ISBN: 0913543543
Format: Paperback, 100pp
Pub. Date: March 1998
Publisher: African American Images
According to Michael Porter, some people believe that
today's youth, especially African American males, are lost; many of them can
be found inside Behavior Disorder classes in America's public school system.
This book examines how African American males end up in dead end BD classes,
what happens to them in these classes, and how people can help their
community to get on a life enhancing path. |
| #9
 Chasing
Destiny
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Eric Jerome Dickey
ISBN: 052594950X
Format: Hardcover, 432pp
Pub. Date: April 2006
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Eight-time New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey's new novel
is filled with intrigue, speed, and sex appeal. And an unforgettable female
narrator rides her sexy yellow motorcycle right through it all.
Billie (aka "Ducati") is known as much for her extraordinary beauty as
for the sexy yellow motorcycle she rides through the mean streets of Los
Angeles. Tough, talented, and self-assured, Billie's used to doing things
her way-but that was before love threw an oil slick in the road and spun her
life into chaos.
Billie's first problem is simple: she's pregnant.
Her second problem is that her lover, Keith, is still married.
Keith has some "things" to deal with, and the people in his life are dark
and duplicitous enough to take matters into their own hands, determined to
keep Billie from having her baby. Billie suddenly finds herself confronted,
attacked, run off highways, threatened and shadowed. Keith still has ties to
his manipulative wife, Carmen, and he adores his fifteen-year-old daughter
Destiny. Will he do the right thing by his new family, or stand by his old
one?
Soon all eyes shift as everyone finds themselves desperately chasing
Destiny, a troubled and deceptive girl dancing on the edge of womanhood.
When the rubber meets the road, everyone's fighting dirty for what they
want...and they're all willing to destroy their enemy or go down in flames
to get it. |
#9
 Christopher
Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European
Capitalism
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John Henrik Clarke
ISBN: 1886433186
Format: Paperback, 128pp
Pub. Date: August 2002
Publisher: A & B Distributors
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| #10
 Birth
of a Nation: A Comic
Novel
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Aaron McGruder, Reginald
Hudlin, Kyle Baker (Illustrator)
This scathingly hilarious political satire--produced from
a collaboration of three of our funniest humorists--answers the burning
question: Would anyone care if East St. Louis seceded from the Union?
East St. Louis, Illinois ("the inner city without an outer city"), is an
impoverished town, so poor that Fred Fredericks, its idealistic mayor,
starts off Election Day by collecting the city's trash in his own minivan.
But the mayor believes in the power of democracy and rallies his fellow
citizens to the polls for the presidential election, only to find hundreds
of them turned away for trumped-up reasons. Even sweet old Miss Jackson--not
to mention the mayor himself--is denied the vote because her name turns up
on a bogus list of felons. The national election hinges on Illinois's
electoral votes and, as a result of the mass disenfranchisement of East St.
Louis, a radical right-wing junta led by a dim-witted Texas governor seizes
the Oval Office.
Prodded by shady black billionaire and old friend John Roberts,
Fredericks devises a radical plan of protest: East St. Louis will secede
from the Union. Roberts opens an "offshore" bank (albeit in the heart of the
U.S.) to finance the newly liberated country, and suddenly East St. Louis
becomes the Switzerland of the American heartland, flush with money. It also
begins to attract a motley circus of idealistic young militants, OPEC-funded
hitmen, CIA operatives, tabloid reporters, and AWOL black servicemen eager
to protect and serve the new nation.
Problems set in almost immediately: Controversies rage over the name and
national anthem of the new country (they decide on the Republic of Blackland
with an anthem sung to the tune of the theme from Good Times), and local
thug Roscoe becomes a warlord and turns his gang into a paramilitary force.
When the U.S. military begins to move in, Fredericks is forced to decide
whether his protest is worth taking all the way.
Birth of a Nation starts with a scenario drawn from the botched election
of 2000 and spins it into a brilliantly absurd work of sharply pointed
satire. Along the way the authors lay into a host of hot social and cultural
issues--skewering white supremacists, black nationalists, and everyone in
between--drawing real blood and real laughs in equal measure in this riotous
send-up of American politics. |
#10
 Keeping
Black Boys out of Special Education
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Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
This critical analysis looks at the disproportionate
number of African American males in special education. Arguing that the
problem is race and gender driven, questions covered include Why does
Europe send more females to special education? Why does America lead the
world in giving children Ritalin? Is there a relationship between sugar,
Ritalin, and cocaine? and Is there a relationship between special
education and prison? More than 100 strategies to help teachers and
parents keep black boys in the regular classroom, such as revising teacher
expectations, increasing parental involvement, changing teaching styles from
a left-brain abstract approach to a right brain hands-on approach, redoing
the curriculum, understanding the impact of mass media, and fostering
healthy eating habits.
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