BOOK TRAILER | Them
SNEAK PEEK | Watercolored Pearls
Watercolored Pearls By Stacy Hawkins Adams will be released October 2007.
(An Excerpt)
Today the tears stopped.
The way her mother looked at her this morning told Tawana if she didn’t pull herself together, she’d soon find herself admitted to a local hospital.
LITERARY NEWS | Kickoff!
Kickoff!
by Tiki & Ronde Barber with Paul Mantell
Tiki and Ronde’s twelfth summer is winding down — the nights are getting shorter and the evenings cooler. That means two things: The first day of junior high is just a few days away, and it’s almost the start of football season at last. With two championships and an 8-2 season last year, Tiki and Ronde are ready to graduate from the Peewee League and hit the field as starting players for the Hidden Valley Eagles. But junior high is a lot bigger than elementary school. The competition for starting spots is stiff, and seniority rules. If Tiki and Ronde make it past tryouts and cuts, will they get the chance to play, or will they have to spend the season watching from the bench with the other seventh graders? Inspired by the childhood of NFL superstars Tiki and Ronde Barber, Kickoff! is a story of teamwork, perseverance, and what it takes to be a champion.
SNEAK PEEK | Alek
Alek: From Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel
By Alek Wek
Since the day she was scouted by a modeling agent while shopping at a London street fair when she was just nineteen, Alek Wek’s life has been nothing short of a fantasy. When she’s not the featured model in print campaigns for hip companies, or gracing the cover of Elle, she is working the runways of Paris, New York, and Milan to model for the world’s leading designers, including Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel. But nothing in her early years prepared her for the life of a model.
Born in Wau, in the southern Sudan, Alek knew only a few years of peace with her family before they were caught up in a ruthless civil war that pitted outlaw militias, the Muslim-dominated government, and southern rebels against each other in a brutal conflict that killed nearly two million people. Here is her daring story of fleeing the war on foot and her escape to London, where her rise from young model to supermodel was all the more notable because of Alek’s non-European looks.
A probe into the Sudanese conflict and an inside look into the life of a most unique supermodel, Alek is a book that will inspire as well as inform.
SNEAK PEEK | Obama: From Promise to Power
Obama: From Promise to Power
By David Mendell
David Mendell has covered Obama since the beginning of his campaign for the Senate and as a result enjoys far�reaching access to the new Senator��both his professional and personal life. He uses this access to paint a very intimate portrait of Obama and his life pre and post Senate, including Obama’s new status as a sex symbol now that going into a crowd to shake hands with constituents carries the added concern of being groped by women, and the toll this has had on his marriage. Mendell also describes the dirty tactics sanctioned by Obama��who has steeped his image and reputation on the ideals of clean politics and good government �� to win his Senate seat by employing David Axelrod, a Chicago�based political consultant (consultant to the John Edwards’s campaign) with what the author describes as “an appetite for the Big Kill.”
Mendell also positions Barack Obama as in fact the Savior of a fumbling Democratic party, who is potentially orchestrating a career in Senate to guarantee him at the very least a vice presidential nod, if not a nod for the top job in 2008. The dream ticket would be Hilary Clinton�Barack Obama given his reception at the Democratic National Convention in 2004. Because he enjoys popularity among Whites (particularly suburban White women) and Blacks, it might not be such a far�fetched idea.
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