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The Little Black Book of Success: Laws of Leadership for Black Women

owner — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:59:10 +0000

THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK OF SUCCESS is filled with 100 years of collective experience from three high powered, richly experienced black female executives –Elaine Meryl Brown, Marsha Haygood, and Rhonda Joy McLean.

What these dynamic, successful female executives show is that the building blocks for success are often right below the surface. As they point out, “although they’re able to get jobs, many of today’s young women don’t realize they have the potential to move themselves forward. Many women hold leadership roles in their communities, schools, and churches, but aren’t aware that they can transfer skills from those leadership positions to the workplace. Research indicates that their talents often remain invisible both to the women who possess them and their business managers. But leadership can be taught.”

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Appearing at National Book Club Conference 2010, Atlanta, GA, Friday, July 30th 2010!

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Basketball Jones

owner — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:32:29 +0000

AJ Richardson is living the good life. Thanks to his longtime lover, NBA star Dray Jones, he has a gorgeous townhouse in New Orleans, plenty of frequent-flier miles, and an MBA he’s never had to use. Built on a deep and abiding love, their hidden relationship sustains them both. But when Dray’s teammates begin to ask insinuating questions, Dray puts their doubts to rest by marrying Judi, a beautiful and ambitious woman. Judi knows nothing about Dray’s other life. Or does she?

In Basketball Jones, E. Lynn Harris explores the consequences of loving someone who is desperate to conform. Filled with nonstop twists and turns, it will keep readers riveted from the first page to the last.

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If It Takes A Village, Build One: How I Found Meaning Through a Life of Service and 100+ Ways You Can Too

owner — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:42:51 +0000

Service is the rent we pay for living says preeminent children’s advocate Marian Wright Edelman and this is the motto by which Malaak Compton Rock, dedicated humanitarian and wife of comedian Chris Rock, lives her life. From a childhood grounded in the importance of giving back to her work in public relations at The U.S. Fund for UNICEF to becoming a full-time mother and humanitarian, Malaak’s life has fully embodied this sentiment.

Part memoir, part practical guide, If It Takes a Village, Build One offers readers insightful advice on everything from how to find just the right volunteer opportunity, how to get kids involved in a life of service, how to research charities, and even how to start a nonprofit, as Malaak did several years ago. All of this practical wisdom is grounded in inspirational anecdotes about her own experience with service, including her work with Katrina rebuilding and her recent brainchild, Journey for Change: Empowering Youth Through Global Service, a program for at-risk kids from Bushwick, Brooklyn, which takes teens on a two week service mission to South Africa to volunteer and experience the world.

The book also features interviews with other well known humanitarians, like PR powerhouse Terrie M. Williams, activist Bobby Shriver, and journalist Soledad O’Brien and engaging sidebars with interesting facts about service and nuggets of advice. At the end of the narrative readers will find a compendium of information including Malaak’s favorite charities, unique service ideas, and suggested reading and web resources, which will make this a book to be visited time and time again.

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I’m a Piece of Work! Sisters Shaped by God by Reverend Cynthia L. Hale

owner — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:08:58 +0000

Rev. Dr. Cynthia L. Hale has written out of her own experience of struggle in order to help other women realize and celebrate our uniqueness, acknowledge without shame our issues and challenges, and receive healing and forgiveness.

I’m a Piece of Work Sisters Shaped by God features poetry, reflections, and Scripture, taking women on a journey from brokenness to wholeness. It is a book designed to help women affirm themselves and to claim God’s best.

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Best African American Fiction

owner — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:17:20 +0000

Introducing the first volume in an exciting new annual anthology featuring the year’s most outstanding fiction by some of today’s finest African American writers.
From stories that depict black life in times gone by to those that address contemporary issues, this inaugural volume gathers the very best recent African American fiction. Created during a period of electrifying political dialogue and cultural, social, and economic change that is sure to captivate the imaginations of writers and readers for years to come, these short stories and novel excerpts explore a rich variety of subjects. But most of all, they represent exceptional artistry.

Here you’ll find work by both established names and up-and-comers, ranging from Walter Dean Myers to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Mat Johnson, and Junot Diaz. They write about subjects as diverse as the complexities of black middle-class life and the challenges of interracial relationships, a modern-day lynching in the South and a young musician’s coming-of-age during the Harlem Renaissance. What unites these stories, whether set in suburbia, in eighteenth-century New York City, or on a Caribbean island that is supposed to be brown skin paradise, is their creators’ passionate engagement with matters of the human heart.

Loving Simone by Jessica Tilles

owner — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:25:10 +0000

From the outside, Simone has the perfect life and family. However, the inside tells of a different story. After ten years of being the faithful, dutiful wife and mother, Simone desperately struggles with releasing the hidden desires of pleasure she can’t seem to get from her husband, causing her to turn to self-fulfillment and outside influences. Jackson is too busy focusing on the women who work for him, self indulgence, and sticking his pole in every hole, rather than his wife. Darius is every woman’s dream and has had a crush on Simone since he was a teen. When their paths cross, all of Simone’s inhibitions are released and finally someone is Loving Simone.

The Black Book

owner — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:27:39 +0000

Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her Child.

In 1974, Middleton A. Harris and Toni Morrison led a team of gifted, passionate collectors in compiling these images and nearly 500 others into one sensational narrative of the black experience in America: The Black Book.

Now in a deluxe 35th anniversary hardcover edition, The Black Book remains a breathtaking testament to the legendary wisdom, strength, and perseverance of black men and women intent on freedom. Prominent collectors Morris Levitt, Roger Furman, and Ernest Smith, as well as Middleton Harris and Toni Morrison (then a Random House editor, now a two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning Nobel laureate) spent months studying, laughing at, and crying over these materials-from transcripts of fugitive slaves’ trials and proclamations by Frederick Douglass and other celebrated abolitionists to chilling images of cross burnings and lynchings, patents registered by black inventors throughout the early twentieth century to vibrant posters from Black Hollywood films from the 1930s and 1940s.

A labor of love and a vital link to the richness and diversity of African American history and culture, The Black Book honors the past, reminding us where our nation has been, and gives flight to our hopes for what is yet to come. Beautifully and faithfully presented, and featuring a new Foreword and original poem by Toni Morrison, The Black Book remains a timeless landmark work.

Total Eclipse of the Heart by Zane

owner — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:23:26 +0000

Brooke Alexander, a waitress who has self-esteem issues regarding her lackluster existence and her fluctuating weight, is in love with Patrick Sterling, one of the most prominent attorneys in Washington, D.C. On his good days, Patrick is the man in every woman’s dream. On his bad days, Patrick’s behavior is demeaning and he is angry at the world.
Damon Johnson, who’s been married to Carleigh for four years, is one of the last good men — compassionate and honest, he worships the ground his wife walks on. But Carleigh treats Damon like a trophy husband, allowing her friends to salivate over him and disrespect their happy home. Damon has dreams beyond his six-figure corporate job, and Carleigh views his life aspirations as a joke. Her selfish nature makes Damon wonder if he made the right decision when he asked for her hand in marriage.

When a tragic event causes Brooke’s and Damon’s lives to intersect, truths unfold as they begin to reflect on their own relationships.

In this provocative tale of love and heartbreak, Zane explores what happens when you cater to your emotional well-being and discover the meaning of unconditional love…or, rather, experience a total eclipse of the heart.

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Featured Book: Celebrate Kwanzaa

owner — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:07:57 +0000

“Celebrate Kwanzaa” continues the spectacular Holidays Around the World series by focusing on this African-American holiday, which falls during the festive, gift-giving season and is celebrated by families, communities, and schools throughout America. With succinct, lively text and beautiful photographs, the book celebrates African-American culture and helps us to understand and appreciate this special holiday. Over the course of seven days, African Americans, families and friends, come together to light the candles that symbolize their past and future–and their unity. They gather as a community to make music and to dance; to feast on harvest foods and the good things of the earth; and to exchange simple, often homemade, gifts. Readers are introduced to the symbols of the holiday, such as the “mkeka” (a special placemat), “kinara” (candleholder), and “kikombe cha umoja” (unity cup). Important concepts, like the seven principles, are explained. In addition, a note from the book’s consultant, aimed at parents and teachers, puts the holiday in its full cultural and historical perspective.

Mrs. O: Democracy of Style

owner — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:42:48 +0000

Mrs. O’s style is the manifestation of her genuine, personal point of view. It serves not just as expected clothing for the occasion, but as a creative expression of her life experiences and personal beliefs. It is a style celebrated for its ease, authenticity and approachability.
As Mrs. O writes her her chapter in White House history, this book will pay tribute to her personal style story thus far. It will highlight the influences and recurring themes that have made our first lady a modern icon, laying the foundation for what will truly be an evolving, engaging tenure for the next 4 to 8 years.

Like many American women today, Mrs. O must play multiple roles in her life – mother, wife, successful professional, political advocate, and first lady. Different roles demand different wardrobe choices, driving a multiplicity that’s central to Mrs. O’s style. As a result, her style has inspired women across this country.

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