Ebony book shelf - Bibliography

The Long Walk: The Placemaking History of Howard University (Moorland-Spingarn Research Center/Howard University, hardback $250; paperback $50) is a pictorial narrative of the school's mission, campus, architecture and its place in the history of Washington, D.C., and the nation. The coffee table book by Harry G. Robinson III and Hazel Ruth Edwards features more than 280 pages containing rarely seen photographs, documents, drawings and maps. The Long Walk tells the story of how the power of place and physical setting has shaped the social and cultural life of the institution.

Author Lloyd L. Brown, the subject's authorized biographer and, for more than 25 years, his close friend and co-worker, focuses on the early life of the activist, scholar, athlete and actor in The Young Paul Robeson: "On My Journey Now" (Westview Press, $24.95). In addition to never-before-published interviews with and photos of Robeson's family, Brown also relates for the first time how Robeson's father, William Robeson, escaped from slavery to freedom and gained academic excellence.

The first comprehensive one-volume reference work devoted to Black literary history, The Oxford Companion to African American Literature (Oxford University Press, $49.95), features biographical profiles of more than 400 writers and 150 entries of significant literary works and characters, genres, cultural customs, and other unique aspects of African-American life. With contributions by more than 300 scholars, the volume, edited by William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster and Trudier Harris, also includes a subject index, extensive cross-referencing and bibliographies after several of the articles.

Does Your House Have Lions? (Beacon Press, $16), a book-length poem in four voices, by Sonia Sanchez.

Pure Light: Book of Poems (McGraw-Hill, $9.95), by Leonard A. Slade Jr.

The Darden Dilemma: Twelve Black Writers on Justice, Race, and Conflicting Loyalties (HarperCollins, $13), a collection of essays, edited by Ellis Cose.

The Dictionary of Global Culture (Alfred A. Knopf, $35), a book of more than 1,200 definitive entries, edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Pioneering Women of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church: 1796-1996 (A.M.E. Zion Publishing House, $14.95), a historical account, written and edited by Dorothy Sharpe Johnson and Lula Goolsby Williams.

Spirits Of The Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Seventeenth Century (Simon & Schuster, $35), a coffee table book of history, text by Madeleine Burnside, edited by Rosemarie Robotham.

Eli Reed: Black In America (W.W. Norton, $29.95), a photographic coffee table book, by Eli Reed.

Violent Crimes (Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., $23.95), a mystery novel, by Hugh Holton.

Tryin' To Sleep In The Bed You Made (St. Martin's Press, $24.95), a novel, by Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant.

Preconceived Notions (Nobel Press, $24.95), a novel, by Robin Williams.

Only Twice I've Wished For Heaven (Crown Publishing, $23), a novel, by Dawn Turner Price.

Blood Brothers (for Books, $24.95), a novel, by Steven Barnes.

An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad (St. Martin's Press, $25.95), a biography, by Claude Clegg.

Watching Our Crops Come In (Viking Press, $15.95), a memoir, by Clifton L. Taulbert.

Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin (Scribner; $23), a memoir, by Deborah E. McDowell.

You're So Fine, I'd Drink A Tub Of Your Bathwater (Hyperion, $9.95), a book of more than 500 pick up lines, by Stephen Dweck and Monteria Ivey.

The Black Student's Guide to Colleges and The Black Student's Guide to Scholarships (Madison Books, $19.95 and $14.95, respectively), by Barry Beckham.

The Family Reunion Planner (Macmillan Publishing, $9.95), by Donna Beasley.

The African-American Heritage Cookbook: Traditional Recipes & Fond Remembrances From Alabama's Renowned Tuskegee Institute (Birch Lane Press, $18.95), by Carolyn Quick Tillery.

Sweet Words So Brave: The Story of African American Literature (Zino Press, $24.95) a children's book, by Barbara K. Curry and James Michael Brodie, illustrated by Jerry Butler.