Jan 1998

A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines Pub. Price $12.00 AALBC Price: $9.60 You Save: $2.40 (20%) Format: Paperback Date Published: September 1997 From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting. Appears on Oprah's Selections Appears of NY Times Best Sellers List	The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou (Pub. Price: $12.00) AALBC Price: $9.60 You save 20% Order Now! The fourth volume in Angelou's highly acclaimed autobiography breaks her turbulent life wide open with joy as the singer-dancer enters the razzle-dazzle of fabulous New York City. There, at the Harlem Writers Guild, her love for writing blazes anew. More on Maya Angelou Appears on Oprah's Selections Appears of NY Times Best Sellers List
A Kwanzaa Keepsake: Celebrating the Holiday with New Traditions & Feasts This festive cookbook captures the true spirit of the African-American holiday of Kwanzaa, providing more than 50 recipes in menus for each night of Kwanzaa, plus inspirational biographies of ancestors of the African-Atlantic world and special projects for each of the seven days. Illustrations. Jessica B. Harris Pub. Price $22.00 AALBC Price: $15.40 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade Format: Hardcover Date Published: August 1995 Click For Review by Book list	The Whoopi Whoopi Goldberg Pub. Price $22.00 AALBC Price: $15.40 Publisher: William Morrow & Company, Incorporated Format: Hardcover Date Published: September 1997
Rock This Chris Rock Pub. Price $19.95 AALBC Price: $13.96 ISBN#: 0786862890 Publisher: Hyperion Format: Hardcover Date Published: September 1997 Edition Number: 1	The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother James McBride Pub. Price $12.00 AALBC Price: $9.60 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Format: Paperback Date Published: February 1997 This "fascinating . . . superbly written" (Boston Globe) national bestseller tells the story of James McBride and his mother--a rabbi's daughter, born in Poland and raised in the South, who fled to Harlem, married a black man, founded a church, and put 12 children through college. Movie rights optioned by Midge Sanford and Sarah Pilsbury. Targeted print features.