Flying off the shelves.Hardcover Fiction 1. Changing Faces/ Kimberta Lawson Roby (New) ($24.95, William Morrow
abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 04360-78077-0) A chick lit "Chick lit" is a term used to denote genre fiction written for and marketed to young women, especially single, working women in their twenties and thirties. The genre's creation was spurred on, if not exactly created, by Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole diaries which inspired Adele novel on the friendship, love lives and tribulations of three women by a popular author. 2. Baby Brother's Blues: A Novel/Pearl Cleage (New) ($23.95, One World/Ballantine, ISBN 0-345-48110-0 This veteran writer of consistently good and commercially successful literary fiction follows on the life of Wesley "Baby Brother" Jamerson, a soldier on soldier on Verb to continue one's efforts despite difficulties or pressure leave from duty in Iraq for his mother's funeral. 3. So You Call Yourself a Man/Carl Weber (3) ($24, Dafina Books, ISBN 0-758-20718-2) A tale of three best friends who've grown from boys to men together. 4. The Interruption of Everything/ Terry McMillan (1) ($25.95, Viking, I.SBN SBN Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology SBN Standard Book Number (now ISBN) SBN Strontium Barium Niobate SBN Site Builder Network SBN Sociedade Brasileira de Neurocirurgia (Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery) 0-670433144-5) McMillen's sixth novel is a tale of midlife crisis midlife crisis n. A period of psychological doubt and anxiety that some people experience in middle age. midlife crisis told in the witty, honest and inspiring style we've come to expect from this seasoned storyteller. 5. Freshwater Road/Denise Nicholas (New) ($23.95, Agate, ISBN 1-932-84110-5) A familiar actress (from Room 222; In the Heat of the Night) delivers a first novel that follows a young woman's journey to Mississippi in one of the hottest seasons of the Civil Rights Movement, the summer of 1964. Nonfiction 1. Come Hell or High Water Adv. 1. come hell or high water - in spite of all obstacles; "we'll go to Tibet come hell or high water" no matter what happens, whatever may come . Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster/Michael Eric Dyson (4) ($23, Basic Civitas Books, ISBN 0-465-01761-4) Displaying the intellectual rigor rigor /rig·or/ (rig´er) [L.] chill; rigidity. rigor mor´tis the stiffening of a dead body accompanying depletion of adenosine triphosphate in the muscle fibers. , political passion and personal empathy that have won him fans across the color line, Michael Eric Dyson offers a searing sear 1 v. seared, sear·ing, sears v.tr. 1. To char, scorch, or burn the surface of with or as if with a hot instrument. See Synonyms at burn1. 2. assessment of the meaning of Hurricane Katrina. 2. Confessions of a Video Vixen/Karrine Steffans and Karen Hunter (1) ($24.95, Amistad/HarperOollins, ISBN 04360-84242-3) The memoir of a sexy siren who appeared in the music videos of many muitiplatinum hip-hop artists. 3. Life Is Not a Fairy Tale/Fantasia Barrino (2) ($21.95, Fireside Books, ISBN 0-743-28156-X) American Idol winner Fantasia fantasia (făntā`zhə) [Ital.,=fancy], musical composition not restricted to a formal design, but constructed freely in the manner of an improvisation. In the 16th and 17th cent. talks about life in frank and powerful language in this memoir. 4. A Piece of Cake: A Memoir/Cupcake Brown $24.95 (New) ($24.95, Crown, ISBN 1-400-05228-9) An attorney with a leading California firm and a motivational speaker shares her memoir of a difficult childhood. 5. Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin/John Hope Franklin (New) ($25, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 0-374-29944-7 One of the leading authorities on black history, now in his nineties, shares his own pilgrimage through the 20th century. Paperback Fiction 1. Candy Licker/ Noir (2) ($13.95, One World/Ballantine, ISBN 0-345-48647-1) Urban erotic fable about an aspiring singer whose life is ruled by a mega producer. 2. G-Spot: An Urban Erotic Tale/Noir (5) ($13.95, Strivers Row/Ballantine Books ISBN 0-345-47721-9) A 19-year-old gets herself and her younger brother away from the deadly control of her boyfriend, who is a sex-club owner and powerful drug dealer. 3. The Known World/Edward R Jones (1) ($13.95, Amistad/HarperCollins, ISBN 0-060-55755-9) The story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who owns slaves. 4. I'm Still Wifey/ Kiki Swinson (3) ($15, Melodrama Publishing, ISBN 0-971-70215-2) While Kira's husband, Ricky, is serving federal time, she clings on to the hope that one day she'll get a taste of sweat revenge. 5. It's luke That/Cheryl Robinson (New) ($13.95, NAL NAL National Agricultural Library (Agricultural Research Service; US Department of Agriculture) NAL New American Library NAL National Accelerator Laboratory NAL National Aerospace Laboratory (Japan) , ISBN 0-451-21746-2) This sequel to the urban novel If It Ain't One Thing continues with the lives of a car designer with HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. and a firefighter with a dream to make it big in music, who struggle with their relationship and other issues. Nonfiction 1. Covenant With Black America/ edited by Tavis Smiley (New) ($12, Third World Press, 0-88378-277-4) Essays by leading black thinkers on the challenges and opportunities for the future of African Americans, anchored by the television and radio talk-show host as author. 2. 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. 3. The Mis-Education of the Negro/Carter G. Woodson (2) ($9.50, African-American Images, ISBN 0-913-54370-5) This classic 1933 work by Woodson, the father of Black History Month, is published with an Introduction by the publisher and activist Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu. 4. Reallionaire/ Farrah Gray (1) ($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 his principles to success. 5. Autobiography of Malcolm X/ Malcolm X Malcolm X, 1925–65, militant black leader in the United States, also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, b. Malcolm Little in Omaha, Neb. He was introduced to the Black Muslims while serving a prison term and became a Muslim minister upon his release in 1952. and Alex Haley (5) ($7.99, Ballantine Books, ISBN 0345-35068-5) A unique collaboration between Alex Haley and Malcolm X, whose voice and philosophy resonate from every page. |
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