Flying off the shelves.

Hardcover

Fiction

1. Genevieve/Eric Jerome Dickey (NEW) ($24.95, Dutton Books, ISBN 0-525-94878-3) Eric Jerome Dickey, the six-time best-selling author of Drive Me Crazy, returns with a sizzling new novel of romance and betrayal.

2. 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 African American residents of suburban Silver Lake, Md., in Briscoe's entertaining sequel to FOTS list-maker P.G. County.

3. Who Does She Think She Is?/ Benilde Little (NEW) ($21.95, The Free Press, ISBN 0-684-85482-1) From the beloved, best-selling author of Good Hair and The Itch comas a richly evocative multigenerational story of three powerful women.

4. Boss Lady/Omar Tyree ($21.95, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-743-22868-5) (NEW) Tyree checks in on everybody's favorite flyy girl and finds her a little bit older, a whole lot wiser and just as sassy as ever--devotees of the Flyy Girl trilogy will enjoy this addendum.

5. The Best-Kept Secret/Kimberla Lawson Roby (4) ($23.95, William Morrow, ISBN 0-758-20724-7) The third installment by best-selling author Roby, featuring the infamous Reverend Curtis Black.

Nonfiction

1. Confessions of a Video Vixen/Karrine Steffans and Karen Hunter (NEW) ($24.95, Amistad/HarperCollins, ISBN 0-060-84242-3) The highly anticipated memoir of the once-sought-after sexy siren who appeared in the music videos of many multiplatinum hip-hop artists.

2. Is Bill Cosby Right?./Michael Eric Dyson (NEW) ($23, Basic Civitas Books, ISBN 0-465-01719-3) Dyson takes on Bill Cosby, iconic figure of American fatherhood, and brings forth his provocative defense of impoverished African Americans.

3. The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours/Jill Scott (NEW) ($18.95, St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0-312-32951-)0 Scott explores all the flavors of life, love and serf through her collection of earthy, honestly erotic, soulful and very real poetry.

4. The Purpose Driven Life/Rick Warren (4) ($19.99, Zondervan Publishing, ISBN 0-310-20571-9) A California-based Southern Baptist preacher guides readers through a 40-day campaign to align with God's purposes.

5. He-Motions/ Bishop T.D. Jakes (1) ($19.95, Putnam, ISBN 0-399-15196-6) The Dallas-based preacher turns his attention to "a man's relationships," using the many-sided King David as his starting point.

Paperback

Fiction

1. Grown Folks Business/ Victoria Christopher Murray (NEW) ($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 (NEW) ($14.95, Ted Woods Publishing, Ted Woods, ISBN 0-967-22496-9) The long-awaited second installment of the Dutch trilogy that put author Woods on the literary map.

3. Addicted/Zane (1) ($14, Pocket Books, ISBN 0-743-44284-9) Zane's breakout novel: secret sex addiction almost ruins the life of a wife, mother and professional.

4. The Glamorous Life/Nikki Turner (NEW) ($13.95, Ballantine Books, ISBN 0-345-47683-2) The best-selling author of A Hustler's Wife and A Project Chick, Turner gives up the game that could never be sold, only told.

5. Brickhouse/Rita Ewing (NEW) ($12.95, Avon, ISBN 0-060-57055-5) Paying homage to Harlem, Ewing hits the winning shot with this delightful contemporary tale.

Nonfiction

1. 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.

2. Life Lessons for My Sisters/Natasha Munson (NEW) ($11.95, Hyperion Books, ISBN 1-401-30805-8) An inspirational guidebook and valuable resource for women who want to live a more meaningful life.

3. Dreams From My Father/Barack Obama (2) ($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. On the Down Low/James L. King (NEW) ($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.

5. The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave/Kashif Malk Hassan-el (3) ($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.