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ETHICAL AMBITION: LIVING A LIFE OF MEANING AND WORTH (Bloomsbury, $19.95) is scholar Derrick Bell's response to the persistent question of how to succeed without selling your soul. Bell distills more than 70 years of life experience into six chapters, concluding that passion, faith, risk, courage, inspiration, humility and love have guided him for more than 50 years and all are within our reach. Bell is the author of seven books and an internationally recognized legal scholar and civil rights activist whose controversial protest of Harvard Law School's refusal to give a Black female professor a tenured position at the school cost him his own job.

QUILTING THE BLACK-EYED PEA: POEMS & NOT QUITE POEMS (William Morrow, $16.95) by Nikki Giovanni is a powerful new collection of poems from this writer, activist professor and mother.

JOURNEY TO THE WELL (Viking Compass, $24.95) by Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie takes the Biblical story of the Samaritan woman and draws 12 lessons for readers for finding hope and God in unexpected places, healing past wounds and turning excuses into opportunities.

SHOWING MARY: HOW WOMEN CAN SHARE PRAYERS, WISDOM, AND THE BLESSINGS OF GOD (Warner Books, $12.95) by the Rev. Dr. Renita J. Weems offers a reassessment of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and challenges the standard patriarchal image of Mary as a frail figure. By using her as the primary role model, as well as other biblical women, she offers a guide for modern women to transcend the most demanding life trials.

STRONGER THAN CANCER: TREASURED INSIGHTS FROM THE HEARTS AND HOME OF FAMILIES FIGHTING CANCER (Compendium, $14.95) by Connie Payton, wife of the late NFL legend Walter (Sweetness) Payton, is a compilation of advice, wisdom, favorite quotations and inspiring accounts from families who have battled the disease. She wrote book because she said that everyday friends and family have "astonishing power in the war against cancer."

AL ON AMERICA (Dafina Books, $27.00) by the Rev. Al Sharpton with Karen Hunter. The candid and controversial leader delivers his manifesto for change in America and a plan to get there. From the economy and foreign policy to the hip-hop movement, Sharpton has a platform on every issue. This book explains why he should lead America in the new millennium.

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