Flying off the shelves.

Hardcover

Fiction

1. The Interruption of Everything/ Terry McMillan (NEW) (Viking, $25.95, ISBN 0-670-03144-5)

McMillan's sixth novel is a tale of midlife crisis told in the witty, honest and inspiring style we've come to expect from this seasoned storyteller.

2. Genevieve/Eric Jerome Dickey (1) (24.95, Dutton Books, ISBN 0-525-94878-3)

The six-time, best-selling author returns with a sizzling new novel of romance and betrayal.

3. 72 Hour Hold/Bebe Moore Campbell (NEW) ($24.95, Knopf, ISBN 1-400-04074-4)

The powerful story of a mother coping with her daughter's bipolar disorder.

4. Can't Get Enough/Connie Briscoe (NEW) ($19.95, Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-50162-5)

Lust, greed and revenge continue to drive the well-to-do residents of suburban Silver Lake, Md., in Briscoe's entertaining sequel to FOTS list-maker P.G. County.

5. Boss Lady/Omar Tyree (NEW) ($21.95, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-743-22868-5)

Tyree checks in on everybody's favorite flyy girl and finds her older, wiser and as sassy as ever.

Nonfiction

1. Confessions of a Video Vixen/Karrine Steffans and Karen Hunter (1) ($24.95, Amistad/HarperCollins, ISBN 0-060-84242-3)

The memoir of a sexy siren who appeared in the music videos of many muttiplatinum hip-hop artists.

2. Is Bill Cosby Right?/Michael Eric Dyson (2) ($23, Basic Civitas Books, ISBN 0465017193)

Dyson takes on Cosby, the iconic figure of American fatherhood, in this provocative defense of impoverished African Americans.

3. The Moments, The Minutes, The Hours/Jill Scoff (3) ($18.95, St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0-312-32961-X)

The singer explores life, love and self through her collection of earthy, honestly erotic, soulful and very real poetry.

4. Your Best Life Now/Joel Osteen (NEW) ($19.99, Warner Faith, ISBN 0-446-53275-4)

A Houston megachurch pastor and TV evangelist offers an inspirational self-help debut.

5. The Purpose Driven Life/Rick Warren (4)

A Southern Baptist preacher guides readers through a 40-day campaign to align with God's Purpose.

Paperback

Fiction

1. Grown Folks Business/ Victoria Christopher Murray (1) ($14, Touchstone Books, ISBN 0-743-27097-5)

Christopher Murray weaves together an intriguing tale of what happens when a husband's DL life is exposed.

2. Dutch II/Terri Woods (2) ($14.95, Teri Woods Publishing, Ted Woods, ISBN 0-967-22496-9)

The second installment of the Dutch Trilogy that put this author on the urban lit landscape.

3. The Glamourous Life/Nikki Turner (4) $13.95, Ballantine Books, ISBN 0-345-47683-2)

The author of A Hustler's Wife and A Project Chick gives up the game that could never be sold, only told.

4. The Velvet Rope/Brenda L. Thomas (NEW) $13, Downtown Press, ISBN 0-743-47728-6)

Another erotic journey from the author of Threesome and Fourplay.

5. Chyna Black/Keisha Ervin (NEW) ($15, Triple Crown Publications, ISBN 0-976-23491-2)

A newcomer weaves an urban tale of love, pain and redemption through inner strength.

Nonfiction

1. The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave/Kashif Malk Hassan-el (5) ($3.95, Lushena Books, ISBN 0-948-39053-0)

An essay analyzing the reputed advice of an 18th-century planter for controlling slaves and its residual effects among black people today.

2. Reallionaire/Farrah Gray (NEW) $12.95, Health Communications Inc., ISBN 0-757-30224-6)

A remarkable teenager who went from public assistance to a million dollar net worth shares his story and offers nine key principles to success.

3. Dreams From My Father/Barack Obama (3) $13.95, Three Rivers Press, ISBN 1-400-08277-3)

The first black president of the Harvard Law Review, now a U.S. senator, Obama takes us on an intellectual journey in this poignant, probing memoir of an unusual life.

4. The Mis-Education of the Negro/Carter G. Woodson (1) ($9.50, African-American Images, ISBN 0-913-54370-5)

This classic 1933 work by Carter G, Woodson, the father of Black History Month, is published with an Introduction by the publisher and activist Dr, Jawanza Kunjufu.

5. On the Down Low/James L. King (4) ($12.95, Harlem Moon, ISBN 0-7679-1399-X)

Author and activist J.L. King's intriguing look at the lives and lifestyles of black men who sleep with other men but do not consider themselves to be gay.