Oct 1998

Title: One Day My Soul Just Opened Up: 40 Days and 40 Nights Towards Spiritual Strength and Personal Growth
(The all-time best selling book on the AALBC web site!)
Author: Iyanla Vanzant
(First author with three titles on the best seller's list concurrently!)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
Date Published: December 1997
Format: Trade Paper

Both an inspiring guide and a hands-on measurement tool that enables readers to chart their spiritual growth as it unfolds, One Day My Soul Just Opened Up encourages readers to use journal-writing as a self-awareness process. Vanzant introduces 40 principles to follow and embrace in daily living as guideposts on the path toward spiritual strength and understanding.

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Title: In The Meantime: Finding Yourself and The Love You Want
Author: Iyanla Vanzant
(The 2# all-time best selling book on the AALBC web site!)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
Date Published: January 1998

The best-selling author of "Acts of Faith" and "The Value in the Valley"--whose books have empowered countless women--now reaches out to anyone who yearns for love, in a book about relationships that can help them reach new levels of awareness, spiritual growth, and fulfillment.

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Title: The Wake of the Wind
Author: J. California Cooper
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Incorporated
Date Published: September 1998
Format: Trade Cloth
From the beloved and highly successful author of "Family" and "In Search of Satisfaction" comes a dramatic and thought-provoking new novel of one African-American family's triumph in the face of the hardships and challenges of the post-Civil War South.

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Title: Somebody Else's Child
(Fourth consecutive as best-seller on the AALBC web site, and the #3 all-time best selling book on the AALBC web site!
Author: Terris McMahan Grimes
Publisher: NAL/Dutton
Date Published: February 1996
Format: Mass Market Paperbound

Theresa is a career woman, a mother and a wife. When her mother calls to say there's trouble at her elderly neighbor's house and she's going over to investigate, Theresa has no choice but to get involved. Before the night is over, Theresa finds herself caught up in the harsh brutality of the streets, with a drive-by shooting, a mysterious kidnapping, and more.

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Title: Words Don't Fit In My Mouth
Author: Jessica C. Moore
Publisher: Moore Black Press
Date Published: April 1997
Format: Trade Paper

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Title: Faith in the Valley: Lessons for Women on the Journey to Peace
Author: Iyanla Vanzant
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
Date Published: April 1996
Format: Trade Paper
A beautifully rendered meditation book to help and support women through the rough valley experiences of life--now reissued in a special keepsake edition that makes a wonderful Mother's Day gift.

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Title: The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
Author: James McBride
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Date Published: February 1997
Format: Trade Paper
Around the narrative of Ruth McBride Jordan, a.k.a. Rachel Deborah Shilsky, the daughter of an angry, failed Orthodox Jewish rabbi in the South, her son James writes of the inner confusions he felt as a black child of a white mother and of the love and faith with which his mother surrounded their large family. The result is a powerful portrait of growing up, a meditation on race and identity, and a poignant, beautifully crafted hymn from a son to his mother.

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Title: 360° - A Revolution of Black Poets
(For sale directly by the AALBC, 2nd consecutive month on the AALBC best seller list)
Author: Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam & Kwame Alexander
Publisher: BlackWords
Date Published: September 1998
Format: Trade Paper

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Title: Fertile Ground
(For sale directly by the AALBC, 2nd consecutive month on the AALBC best seller list)
Author: Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam & Kysha N. Brown
Publisher: Runagate Press
Date Published: June 1996
Format: Trade Paper

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Title: In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology
Author: Joseph Beam (Photographer), Joephh Beam (Photographer)
Publisher: Alyson Pub
Date Published: April 1988
Format: Trade Paper
Here, thirty-three writers and artists explore what it means to be doubly different--black and gay--in modern America.

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