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Articles in Sept-Oct, 2005 issue of Black Issues Book Review

• Leading Beyond Excellence: Discover How to Achieve Leadership Significance and Your Personal Dreams with 7 Practical Steps
  by Andria Y. Carter
• Signings & sightings
• Monument to a magnate
  by Robin Green
• Favorite places: online resources let booklovers surf for services
  by Ingrid Sturgis
• Rush to Judgment: The Simeon Rice Story
  by Fred Lindsey
• Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life
  by Warren J. Carson
• Classically black: African American presses and new imprints lead the trend in reissuing important works for a new day
  by Denise Simon
• How to Discover Your Purpose in 10 Days: God's Path to a Full and Satisfied Life
  by Andria Y. Carter
• A history lesson on the road
  by Suzanne Rust
• Rescuing black history: the Schomburg
  by William E. Cox
• Slam dunk: NBA dispatches its stars to be role models for literacy
  by Al Harvin
• Affirmative action: 40th anniversary: an analysis of books on the promises and pitfalls of a Federal policy intended to equalize opportunity
  by Fred Beauford
• Love Conjure/Blues
  by Tonya C. Hegamin
• The Amen Sisters
  by Glenn Townes
• Noteworthy Faith Title: Singing in a Strange Land: C.L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America
  by Alvelyn J. Sanders
• For Ruby Dee and the late Ossie Davis
  by Ruth Parker
• Well-read ladies in red: a Reno book club evolves into a chapter of an organization for mature women with a sense of mirth
  by Pat Houser
• The Inside Game: Race, Power, and Politics in the NBA
  by Howie Evans
• African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision
  by Charles E. Wilson
• Close encounters: fiction excerpt: 1996 by Gloria Naylor
• Get right, get rich: books preaching the theology of prosperity grow in popularity
  by Andria Y. Carter
• On their best behavior: with the proper books, cultivating civility among the young in the 21st century need not be a lost cause
  by Daphne Muse
• On Malcolm Gladwell
  by Larry Hightower
• National hispanic heritage
• Spinning the Globe: The Rise, Fall, and Return to Greatness of the Harlem Globetrotters
  by Art Rust, Jr.
• In pursuit of wisdom: a distinguished author/philosopher encourages college students to grasp the opportunity to take it all in
  by Charles Johnson
• Where the Apple Falls
  by Cheryl Boyce Taylor
• Reader survey
• Wine for Every Day and Every Occasion: Red, White and Bubbly to Celebrate the Joy of Living
  by Clarence V. Reynolds
• Center stage
• Sister act: Venus and Serena Williams set the rules in a new book of advice for young women
  by Yanick Rice Lamb
• University presses just keep on rollin': a roundup of fall and winter releases from the halls of academia
  by Sandra L. Jamison
• Voice for the voiceless: RedBone, a press for LGBT writers of color, rises from the ashes to make a mark in publishing
  by Reginald Harris
• Just My Luck
  by Carey D. Yazeed
• Righteous Riches
  by Tracey D. Weaver
• Get serious
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Window on the book world: Calvin Reid plays a major role inside a leading trade publication
  by Felicia Pride
• No books, no basketball: a Brooklyn program's "got game" to hook children on reading
  by Beverly Shelton Sanchez
• John Hope Franklin, repairing history: a conversation: whose story is it?
  by Fred Beauford
• Nothin' Ugly Fly
  by Tonya C. Hegamin
• The anatomy of a town: dreaming up characters and shaping a plot were relatively easy, but conjuring up a whole town? That took thought
  by Elaine Meryl Brown
• Dining at Monticello: In Good Taste and Abundance
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Edward P. Jones claimed the 10th International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the biggest prize in literature for a single work, in June
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Blues Boy: B.B. King, a tribute in pictures
  by Anthony C. Davis
• Other noteworthy titles
• Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom
  by Tiffany A. Simpkins
• Troubled minds: a best-selling author's latest novel peers into the pit of mental health care
  by Amy Alexander
• Inspiration, old and new
• Buying Zane: Strebor Books founder says her new deal with Simon & Schuster frees her to write more
  by Wayne Dawkins
• Flying solo: after success with big publishing houses, some authors see advantages in self-publishing
  by Victoria Christopher Murray
• The Oprah effect: two scholars independently assess the book club that changed everything
  by Todd Steven Burroughs
• Spike Lee: That's My Story and I'm Sticking to It
  by Herb Boyd
• Groove
  by Cecily D. Cooper
• What's Really Holding You Back?
  by Andria Y. Carter
• Flying off the shelves
• J. Everett Prewitt's debut novel, Snake Walker placed first for fiction in the 2nd Annual Los Angeles Black Book Expo and was a semifinalist in the Independent Publisher Book Awards-2005 in New York City
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Elegant Soul: The Life and Music of Gene Harris
  by Fred Lindsey
• Sacred ground: the Schomburg is the neighborhood library to students of black history and to great scholars who mine its vast collections for clues to the "lost" history of a people
  by Herb Boyd
• A Matter of Law: A Memoir of Struggle in Cause of Equal Rights
  by C. Gerald Fraser
• Third Girl From the Left
  by Antoinette Dykes
• Mastering Abundance: A Spiritual Approach to Getting Anything You Want By Having God Serve You
  by Andria Y. Carter
• The write stuff: teen author of a superhero series wants to inspire his peers
  by Suzanne Rust
• The Romance Writers of America have announced a research grant competition for academic research devoted to genre romance novels, writers and readers
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Old school
  by Curtis Stephen
• Lost in time: scholars react to a doctoral student's discovery that a "pioneer" of African American women's literature was not black at all
  by Wayne Dawkins
• Tom Joyner and Spike Lee: Ministers of Culture: I'm Just a DJ But … It Makes Sense to Me
  by Rick Blalock
• Bliss
  by Regina Cash-Clark
• Reallionaire: Nine Steps to Becoming Rich from the Inside Out
  by Andria Y. Carter
• Paperboy 2: Overwhelming Odds
  by Julian