| February 2007 |  Go Long!: My Journey Beyond the Game and the Fame by Jerry Rice and Brian Curtis (Authors) (Hardcover - Jan 16, 2007) It’s been a long journey for Jerry Rice, from his childhood in Starkville, Mississippi, to a certain berth in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. As a kid, he was always working toward something, even if he wasn’t sure what it was. Rice honed his hand-eye coordination by catching airborne bricks tossed by his siblings while on the job with their bricklayer father, and he ran–everywhere. From these humble beginnings, Rice blazed a path to greatness in college and the NFL–a trip that was fueled by tireless effort and belief in a few simple principles, among them that achievement is a voyage, not a destination; that modesty and perseverance, not talent, are what determine how far you will go; and that everyone should strive to be a role model. Rice even demonstrates these rules in action, breaking down the greatest games from his stellar career. |  Jerry Rice (Grolier All-Pro Biographies) by Mark Stewart (Author) (Paperback - Sep 1996) Other Editions: School & Library Binding | | Rice by Jerry Rice and Michael Silver (Authors) (Paperback - Oct 1996) Other Editions: Hardcover | May 2003 | | A Deeper Love by Shonia L. Brown (Books) ~ Book Description ~ Coffee will make you black. Beauty is skin deep. The brown paper bag test. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You're too dark to wear bright colors. The mind is a powerful thing. Developing negative thoughts through what the mind receives can be detrimental to any human being. Paula Travis... Read more | April 2003 | Let's Get Financial Savvy! From Debt-Free to Investing With Ease by Lois Center-Shabazz (Books) (Paperback - October 2002) ~ Let's Get Financial Savvy will be a great addition to anyone’s library! It takes the reader on an educational journey from the ashes of debt to the glowing promise of a stable retirement. Ms. Center-Shabazz helps to relay concepts that the reader may have already known and forgotten and she also conveys information that may not be readily available to most. | December 2002 | | Crossroad Blues: A Nick Travers Mystery by Ace Atkins ~ Florida journalist and former college football player Ace Atkins takes full advantage of the legendary blues guitarist Robert Johnson's life, music, and strange death in his first mystery. And even though it bears the weight of two of the genre's most overused icons--a New Orleans setting and an ex-sports star as hero--Crossroad Blues is fresh and imaginative enough in all its other aspects to inspire hope for an ongoing series. ~ Similiar books: Mystery & Thrillers > Mystery > General | July 2002 | | The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Editor) (Hardcover - April 2002) Editions: Hardcover | Audio Cassette (Unabridged) |
| August 2001 | | Dangerous Dilemmas by Evelyn Palfrey (Paperback - June 2001) Audrey Roberts's life is certifiably awful. Her son, Malcolm, is being held in a Houston jail on murder charges, and she learns that her husband of 25 years is having an affair with a man. Things must get worse before they get better: on a visit to her son, Audrey's rental car gets a flat tire, and she's rescued by a tall, dark and handsome stranger named Kirk Maxwell. All seems heavenly ("Audrey looked up into his black eyes and felt herself drowning in his tenderness") until she learns that Maxwell is Malcolm's arresting officer. She now must decide what's more important helping her son win his case or having a heated love affair with Malcolm's legal arch enemy. More Evelyn Palfrey | April 2001: | | Find Where the Wind Goes : Moments from My Life by Dr. Mae Jemison, Mae Jemison (School & Library Binding - April 2001) From majoring in chemical engineering at Stanford University (at the age of 16) to giggling with hairdressers in Nairobi (in Swahili) to orbiting Earth as the first woman of color to travel in space (conducting experiments in life and material sciences and bone cell research as the mission's science specialist), Mae Jemison has never been one to sit and watch life pass her by. Her confident, witty autobiography is full of anecdotes designed to empower young readers, even as they chuckle at her foibles and cheer her victories. | March 2001: | | A Must Read: Raising Fences : A Black Man's Love Storyby Michael Datcher (Hardcover - March 2001) Read an excerpt | Editorial reviews | Excerpt: "I've been obsessed with being a husband and father since I was seven years old. Quiet as it's kept, many young black men have the same obsession. Picket-fence dreams. A played-out metaphor in the white community but one still secretly riding the bench in black neighborhoods nationwide." read more | February 2001: | | Before the Mayflower : A History of Black America by Lerone Bennett Jr. ~ Editions: Paperback ~ Synopsis: A vivid, passionate history of black Americans--from their roots in Africa to their lives in contemporary America. In this newly revised edition of an established classic, Bennett relates with clarity and vision the experiences of "the other Americans." More from Lerone Bennett Jr. | You might also like these books: | | In the Matter of Color by Leon Higginbotham, A. Leon Higginbotham | | The Shaping of Black America by Lerone Bennett Jr., Charles White (Illustrator) | | They Came Before Columbus by Ivan. Van Sertima | | Three Negro Classics : Up from Slavery, the Souls of Black Folk, the Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man. by Booker T. Washington | January 2001: | | A Renaissance in Harlem : Lost Essays of the WPA by Ralph Ellison, Dorothy West, and Other Voices of a Generation by Lionel C. Bascom (Editor). Other works ofRalph Ellison. | 2000 | | Liar's Game by Eric Jerome Dickey ~ Hardcover ~ (June 26, 2000) |
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