Stories Collection

  1. Harlem--from its rural beginnings to its illustrious, modern-day status--has always h...
  2. The Honey Well by Gloria Mallette Dafina Books, November 2003 $24.00, ISBN 0-758-20...
  3. Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories by Jean M. Humez University of Wiscon...
  4. Saturday, February 7, 2004, from 1:00 to 3:00 P.M. Community College of Philadelphia,...
  5. Carl Weber, author of the best-selling novel Baby Momma Drama (Kensington. Janaury 20...
  6. Legacy of Forgiveness, by Jacquelin Thomas, about a young widow, has been sold to Kri...
  7. It's time to assert your right to an extraordinary life! Thrive! 7 Strategies for Ext...
  8. In the early '90s, to some people at least, African American fiction referred only to...
  9. A Family Affair by Marcus Major Dutton, January 2004 $24.95, ISBN 0-525-94768-X In ...
  10. Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are by Brooke Kroeger PublicAffairs Books, Sep...
  11. Benjamin Banneker: Pioneering Scientist by Ginger Wadsworth, illustration by Craig Or...
  12. * Ballantine/One World will publish a memoir by Deborah Santana, wife of Carlos Santa...
  13. A true booklover's idea of heaven on earth is either a library, a bookstore or simply...
  14. The momentous March on Washington. The tragedy of the bombing of the Sixteenth Street...
  15. by Sheila Copeland BET Books, November 2003 $15.00, ISBN 1-583-14236-3 In this capt...
  16. by Mikki Taylor, with photographs by Paul Lange One World/Ballantine Books, April 200...
  17. by Brenda Dixon Gottschild Palgrave Macmillan, October 2003 $29.95, ISBN 0-312-24047-...
  18. * Marie Brown is shopping Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara, essays ...
  19. Calendars can reveal a lot about their owners--the art they appreciate, the music the...
  20. Al Roker's Hassle-Free Holiday Cookbook: 125 Recipes for Family Celebrations All Year...
  21. by Karen E. Quinones Miller Simon & Schuster, August 2003 $22.00, ISBN 0-743-24614-4 ...
  22. by Felicia T. Scott Butterfly Works, August 2003 $13.95, ISBN 0-970-48981-1 This "E...
  23. by Lucas L. Johnson II Rutledge Hill Press, August 2003 $19.99, ISBN 1-401-60037-9 ...
  24. * Kelli Martin, editor at Amistad, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, has acqui...
  25. NOVEMBER NOT ONLY MARKS THE PUBLICATION OF TONI Morrison's eagerly anticipated eighth...
  26. In 2000, when Virginia View attended a public forum on book clubs sponsored by Sister...
  27. by April Reynolds Metropolitan Books, September 2003 $24.00, ISBN 0-805-07346-9 Apr...
  28. If he had taken a tip from a gradeschool teacher, Franklyn Ajaye would have graduated...
  29. by Andre Leon Talley Villard Books, April 2003 $24.95, ISBN 0-375-50828-7 Readers o...
  30. No one has contributed more to the cause of black reading than Toni Morrison. As an e...
  31. Gerald Boyd, the former New York Times managing editor who fell on his sword after th...
  32. When Valerie Young, a Bermudian educator, left teaching 13 years ago, she wanted to d...
  33. Billed as the "world's largest book club meeting," the first conference of reading gr...
  34. In 1999, asha bandele published The Prisoner's Wife (Scribner), about how she, as a y...
  35. There is no doubt that blues music is considered the greatest single art form given t...
  36. by Susan Fales-Hill HarperCollins Publishers, April 2003 $24.95, ISBN 0-060-52356-5 ...
  37. As we were finishing work on this edition, what came to mind was how "Santa" delegate...
  38. NATIONWIDE Black Male Development Symposium. Visit www.thirdworldpressinc.com for l...
  39. "Sojourn: to stay temporarily." In this new department, BIBR will review travel guide...
  40. With familiar names such as Francis Ray and newcomers like Dana Johnson, this season ...
  41. Ripped from today's headlines, The Jesus Thief by JR Lankford (Great Read Books LLC, ...
  42. With this issue, Black Issues Book Review introduces THE WRITING LIFE, a department f...
  43. Synthia Saint James, whose work conveys family, harmony and unity, is an internationa...
  44. As the author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker (Scribne...
  45. "Well, the bad news. Mr. Steinbeck, is that for fifty years critics will be divided o...
  46. You could compare A Small Nation of People to an old family album, all dusty in the a...
  47. Walter Mosley has never experienced writer's block. Ever. But he expects to. "I'm jus...
  48. by Serita Ann Jakes Warner Faith, November 2003 $19.95, ISBN 0-446-53130-8 As first...
  49. An island is a place that suggests by its definition that you have to leave; the boun...
  50. Black Issues Book Review's editor for children's books, Suzanne Rust, chose a dozen b...
  51. Sotheby's, one of Manhattan's most prestigious auction houses, put Dr. Martin Luther ...
  52. FICTION Daughter by asha bandele (Scribner) Knee-Deep in Wonder by April Reyn...
  53. All that glitters is gold in this lavish volume that celebrates both the superb metal...
  54. by Edward P. Jones Amistad, August 2003 $24.95, ISBN 0-060-55754-0 This is a brilli...
  55. by Bonn Elmore Walk Worthy Press/Warner Books October 2003 $22.95, ISBN 0-446-52984-2...
  56. Return to Glory: Inside Tyrone Willingham's Amazing First Year at Notre Dame by Alan ...
  57. SAM LACY, 99, died May 8, 2003. America has lost a key player in the integration of m...
  58. * Nancy Rawles, the award-winning play wright and novelist, has sold her latest ficti...
  59. FICTION Best Emerging Young Writer Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer (Atria,...
  60. Necessity is the maternal well from which springs most inventions, or so it has been ...
  61. Edited by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah W.W. Norton, September 2003 $23.95, ISBN 0-393-05067-...
  62. Edited by Carleen Brice Beacon Press, May 2003 $14.00, ISBN 0-807-02823-1 This cand...
  63. by Stephen Brunt The Lyons Press, March 2003 $22.95, ISBN 1-585-74829-3 Among boxin...
  64. Hardcover Fiction 1. The Other Woman/ Eric Jerome Dickey (1) ($23.95, Dutton, ISB...
  65. * Tanya McKinnon announced four, six-figure deals: Writing Between The Lines: A Histo...
  66. For Kwanzaa 2003, which begins December 26, Black Issues Book Review asked an expert ...
  67. In this visually beautiful and comprehensive work--replete with more than 150 rarely ...
  68. by Leslie Esdaile, Monica Jackson Reon Laudat and Niqui Stanhope Griffin Trade/St. Ma...
  69. by Dr. Susan C. Taylor Amistad Press, May 2003 $24.95, ISBN 0-060-06871-0 Dr. Susan...
  70. by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Basic Civitas Books, April 2003 $18.95, ISBN 0-465-02729-6 ...
  71. * Jamise L. Dames, author of the self-published Momma's Baby, Daddy's Maybe, has sign...
  72. Long hours of leisure during the holidays provide ample time for reading, but they al...
  73. In 1993, some 14 years after "Rappers Delight" set the tone for the emergence of hip-...
  74. by RM Johnson Simon & Schuster, September 2003 $23.00, ISBN 0-743024455-9 Johnson e...
  75. by Ronn Elmore, Psy.D. HarperResource, April 2003 $22.95, ISBN 0-066-21130-1 Elmore...
  76. by the Reverend Floyd Flake and the Reverend M. Elaine McCollins Flake Amistad, Septe...
  77. Thank you very much for your thoughtful insights in your book review of The Dawn At M...
  78. On October 27 at Madison Square Garden: A lifetime tribute to Hal Jackson, cofounding...
  79. The First Amendment to The U.S. Constitution provides, apparently not in the clearest...
  80. by Elizabeth Harney Philip Wilson Publisher (London)/ Smithsonian National Museum of ...
  81. by Manthia Diawara Basic Civitas Books, June 2003 $26.00, ISBN 0-465-01709-6 This M...
  82. by Tananarive Due Atria Books, September 2003 $25.00, ISBN 0-743-44900-2 In this me...
  83. Second in a three-part series on Web sites and technology for writers Still sitting...
  84. Reading Rainbow, the PBS show that uses television to entice children to read good bo...
  85. The New Jersey State Assembly voted 69 to 2 on July 7 to abolish the state poet laure...
  86. Anyone who thinks that a young black reporter wrote the book on plagiarism does not k...
  87. by Fela Anikulapo-Kuti edited by Trevor Schoonmaker The New Museum for Contemporary A...
  88. edited by George E. Curry Illustrated by William Sandifer One World/Ballentine Books,...
  89. Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall wanted to create an anthology that featured ...
  90. For all you eBook enthusiasts, Palm Digital Media announces an upgrade to Palm Reader...
  91. * The Minutes, The Moments, The Hours, Jill Scott's collection of poetry (her origina...
  92. For the June debut of her autobiographical Living History (Simon & Schuster; June 200...
  93. When Her Dream of Dreams: The Rise and Triumph of Madam C.J. Walker by Beverly Lowry ...
  94. by Shirley Verrett with Christopher Brooks John Wiley & Sons, May 2003 $30.00, ISBN 0...
  95. by Wendy Williams with Karen Hunter Atria Books, August 2003 $24.00, ISBN 0-743-47021...
  96. by Eva Rutland MIRA Books, February 2003 $12.95, ISBN 1-551-66662-6 Taking its titl...
  97. by Bebe Moore Campbell, Illustrated by E.B. Lewis, G.P. Putnam's Sons, September 2003...
  98. * October is the publication date of Death of Innocence (Random House, $24.95, ISBN 1...
  99. Editors Catherine E. McKinley and Donald Weise invite submissions of personal and pub...
  100. "EACH GENERATION MUST, OUT OF RELATIVE OBSCURITY, DISCOVER ITS MISSION, FULFILL IT, O...
  101. by Alfred Appel Jr. Knopf, September 2002 $35.00, ISBN 0-394-53393-3 Peppered throu...
  102. Ella Baker was an activist and an organizer whose work touched many lives. Educated a...
  103. by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie October 2003, $12.95, ISBN 1-565-12387-5 The first line...
  104. Black Issues Book Review asked several middle- and high-school teachers what books th...
  105. * Kings Crossing Publishing of Atlanta adds a heavyweight to its list. It is reissuin...
  106. Nestled in a fisherman's village on the south coast of the Caribbean island of Jamaic...
  107. Edited by Trevor Schoonmaker Palgrave, July 2003 $19.95, ISBN 1-403-96210-3 This co...
  108. by John W. Fountain, Public Affairs June 2003, $26.00, ISBN 1-586-48084-7 Ordained ...
  109. by Priscilla Stone Sharp Ambrosia Books, January 2003 $25.95, ISBN 0-972-75190-4 In...
  110. Cousins by Virginia Hamilton Philomel Books, October 1990 $17.99, ISBN 0-399-2216...
  111. * Monique Patterson, an editor at St. Martin's Press, gives a November publication da...
  112. ANN ARBOR, MI Tananarive Due will be reading from her latest book, The Good House. ...
  113. When the play Funnyhouse of a Negro opened off-Broadway in 1964, reaction was swift a...
  114. by Greg Tate, Lawrence Hill Books, July 2003 $18.95, ISBN 1-556-52469-2 Say "Jimi H...
  115. by Bishop T.D. Jakes Warner Books, July 2003 $22.95, ISBN 0-446-52906-0 In his late...
  116. by Kristin Lattany Ballantine Books, April 2003 $23,95, ISBN 0-34544249-0 In Breaki...
  117. by Walter Dean Myers HarperCollins Publishers/Amistad May 2003 $15.99, ISBN 0-060-295...
  118. Maud Martha 50th Anniversary Celebration September 2003 will mark the 50th annivers...
  119. * Dr. Ronn Elmore, the minister-psychotherapist-author, has followed up How to Love a...
  120. The novel Property by Valerie Martin (Doubleday, February 2003, $23.95, ISBN 0-385-55...
  121. CARTOONIST AARON MCGRUDER WOULD be a great grumpy old man, but he'll have to wait. He...
  122. It's easy to understand why Jessica Harris is considered the Zora Neale Hurston of th...
  123. by Mumia Abu-Jamal Africa World Press, Inc., September 2003 $19.95, ISBN 1-592-21019-...
  124. by Mat Johnson Bloomsbury Books, May 2003 $23.95, ISBN 1-582-34272-5 After a two-ye...
  125. In keeping with Islamic tradition, the Prophet Muhammad and family are not depicted i...
  126. What do popular erotic novels by Zane and Christian fiction like Church Folk and Seco...
  127. For September: Novelist Steinbeck Reviving the Oprah Book Club in a classics-only v...
  128. Alameda County California: Superior Court Judge Trina Thompson Stanley presides over ...
  129. by Ruth E. Fine (essays by Sarah Kennel, Nnamdi Elleh Jacqueline Francis, and Abdul G...
  130. by Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock Knopf, April 2003 $29.95, ISBN 0-375-40035-4 Edna L...
  131. Bookstore shelves are fully stocked with African American titles, both mainstream and...
  132. This remotely exciting sci-fi thriller centers on heroics of Soledad "Bullet" O'Roark...
  133. Jericho Prescott, a hefty 16-year-old trumpet whiz, can't believe his luck when he is...
  134. On a brilliantly sunny day in Harlem not king ago, hundreds of people packed the bloc...
  135. * Marlene Connor, an agent who left New York City to work in Minnesota, is looking fo...
  136. Paula Penn-Nabrit and her husband, Charles, removed their three sons, twins Charles a...
  137. by Edward Denison, Guang Yu Ren and Naigzy Gebremedhin Merrell Publishers, September ...
  138. With his trilogy--Invisible Life (1991), Just As I Am (1994) and Abide With Me (1999)...
  139. As long as there have been Africans in America, spirits have spoken to them in one fo...
  140. Rickey and Robinson: The Men Who Broke Baseball's Color Barrier by Harvey Frommer Tay...
  141. The great god Shango in the African sea reached down with palm oil and oozed out me. ...
  142. I know I always feel awkward when someone "thanks" me for an article. After all, I ha...
  143. HarperCollins has relaunched Amistad Press, one of the oldest imprints devoted to tid...
  144. Achievement Matters: Getting Your Child the Best Education Possible By Hugh B. Price,...
  145. by Michael Henry Adams, photographs by Paul Rocheleau The Monacelli Press, June 2003 ...
  146. In the mid-'80s, when my husband and I were saving for a house, I read about a man wh...
  147. Edited by Nalo Hopkinson Aspect/Warner Books, April 2003 $13.95, ISBN 0-446-67929-1 ...
  148. The Club: Kuumba Book Club Book Preferences: Fiction by African American Auth...
  149. Hardcover Fiction 1. The Other Woman/Eric Jerome Dickey ($23,95, E.P. Dutton, ISB...
  150. Late in 1997, I noticed a development I believed would become a permanent phenomenon-...
  151. Brandon Massey, the author of the self-published 1999 horror novel Thunderland, appea...
  152. Gospel lovers are planning a pilgrimage to Florida this summer, to transform the stea...
  153. With an essay by Lucy R. Lippard, Pomegranate Communcations, Inc., April 2003 $29.95,...
  154. Neither Jill Nelson nor Tricia Rose had heard about each other's most recent books, b...
  155. by Todd Gould Indiana University Press, February 2003 $27.95, ISBN 0-253-34133-7 Th...
  156. by Sandra Belton, Illustrated by Benny Andrews Greenwillow Books, an imprint of Harpe...
  157. For some of us, satisfying our curiosity about what others are reading brings almost ...
  158. Strong in niche marketing, Kensington's African American component includes early Les...
  159. For 54 years, thousands of Christian bookstore owners, buyers, agents, authors and me...
  160. by Maren Stange The New Press, May 2003 $39.95, ISBN 1-565-84618-4 I am a near-sigh...
  161. We all know that men and women are really different, including how they approach the ...
  162. by Michael E. Lomax, Syracuse University Press, March 2003 $39.95, ISBN 0-8156-0786-5...
  163. by Romare Bearden Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers September 2003, $18.95, IS...
  164. I was real surprised to see your children's book selections for the May-June 2003 iss...
  165. PBS will premiere the documentary series This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritua...
  166. For some of us the pattern was set in childhood, when the school year was for reading...
  167. by Carroll Parrott Blue University of Texas Press, January 2003 $29.95, ISBN 0-292-70...
  168. Who Killed Tiffany Jones?, published under the Amistad imprint, is the first time a m...
  169. by Vincent Mallozzi, Doubleday, June 2003 $24.00, ISBN 0-385-50675-9 Their names we...
  170. by Angela Johnson, Illustrated by Loren Long Simon and Schuster Books for Young Reade...
  171. We founded BIBR to cover books by and about people of African descent. Both the Powel...
  172. Audiobook Oscars The Audio Publishers Association listed finalists for the Eighth Ann...
  173. Spring may be the season for fresh starts, but many top black writers are using this ...
  174. Niloo Imami Paydar and Ivo Grammet, General Editors Indianapolis Museum of Art, June ...
  175. It was pure serendipity when Woods discovered that her Amazon.com discount certificat...
  176. by Donald McRae, Ecco--HarperCollins, June 2003 $25.95, ISBN 0-060-00228-X Imagine ...
  177. by Bill Cosby, Illustrated by Erika Cosby HarperEntertainment (HarperCollins) May 200...
  178. I agree [with Victoria Christopher Murray, "First, Do No Harm to the Language," SELF-...
  179. At BIBR's press time, Jayson Blair, the 27-year-old star nonreporter who almost got a...
  180. Many African American parents are encouraging reading from a young age, and children ...
  181. by Bram Djikstra, Abrams, May 2003 $60.00, ISBN 0-810-94231-3 AMERICAN EXPRESSIONIS...
  182. Saving a Black Haven Novelist Kris-fin Lattany mourns the loss of a real Undergroun...
  183. by Trudier Harris Beacon Press, March 2003 $24.00, ISBN 0-807-07254-0 In literary c...
  184. For a brief moment, the brothers at Karibu took time out to have their cake and eat i...
  185. BIBR regrets the error that appeared in the May-June 2003 CHILDREN'S BOOKSHELF review...
  186. Brenda Wilkinson retired this spring as staff writer with the United Methodist Church...
  187. Two friends, Deborah Sulton-Brown and Sandi Quash, cofounded Sister Friends Book Club...
  188. The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press Alisa LaGamma, November 2002 $30...
  189. by Nancy Rawles Doubleday, March 2003 $21.95, USBN 0-385-50418-7 The role that food...
  190. by Dorothy Height foreword by Maya Angelou PublicAffairs, June 2003 $26.00, ISBN 1-58...
  191. A year ago, Trevy A. McDonald was buildng a successful writing career and publishing ...
  192. Recent books recommended this month by the editors of Black Issues Book Review--the b...
  193. Susan L. Graham has reorganized her agency About Words in Roswell, Georgia, near Atla...
  194. Nowadays anyone with a computer and the time to type can legitimately call themselves...
  195. IN BOTH ART AND LITERATURE, THE THEME OF Mother and Child has become an inspiring, ri...
  196. by Jervy Tervalon Atria Books, July 2003 $24.00, ISBN 0-743-44884-7 After Lita Du C...
  197. by Jennifer Fleischner, Broadway Books April 2003, $26.00, ISBN 0-767-90258-0 As Ab...
  198. Denise Stinson, a highly successful literary agent whose clients have included Bishop...