Spring 1995 changed the lives of twelve female basketball players when they trained and won the gold at the 1996 Summer Olympics. They've gone on to play professional basketball in the Women's National Basketball Association and the dreams haven't ended.
[Reviewed by Corinne O. Nelson]

[Putnam ISBN 0-385-49352-5]

Set in modern-day East Africa, this adventure involves betrayal and obsession when Rutledge Jordan joins the Peace Corps, goes to Tanzania and becomes attached to a young girl about to undergo a barbaric ritual to please her fiance.

[Warner ISBN 0-446-52203-1]

Kenan unveils through interviews the thinking, feelings, and lives of African Americans in the 90s.  Different individuals discuss what it means to be Black, whether there is such a thing as a Black community, and how to integrate.
[Reviewed by Corinne O. Nelson]

[Alfred Knopf ISBN 0-679-40827-4]

Evers-Williams is known as the widow of Medgar Evers, but she is also a Civil Rights leader in her own right.
[Reviewed by Corinne O. Nelson]

[Little, Brown ISBN 0-316-25520-3]

Taulbert is the author of the memoir and film When We Were Colored. Now he writes a coming-of-age memoir about his life, beginning in 1967, as a young airman facing the possibility of going off to Vietnam.
[Reviewed by Corinne O. Nelson]

[Viking ISBN 0-670-85952-4]

The Civil Rights Movement dramatically transformed Prince George's County, Maryland, into a truly integrated community. Kohn focuses on the black and white residents, showing their struggles to live together by looking at an interracial romance and the oppositions they faced along with other day-to-day occurrences.

[Simon & Schuster ISBN 0-684-80874-9]

The husband and wife team promises this is the real deal on love and relationships, exploring commitment, monogamy, and decoding the mysterious ways of the opposite sex.
[Reviewed by Corinne O. Nelson]

[Quill ISBN 0-688-16498-6]

Author of Think and Grow Rich--A Black Choice, Kimbro explains how the gift of life includes all elements necessary for growth, maturity, and development. The tips he offers come from his examination of the thought processes of successful African Americans.
[Reviewed by Corinne O. Nelson]

[Doubleday ISBN 0-385-48268-X]

Mitchell takes a comprehensive look at depression among African American women and includes seven case histories of women sharing their experiences.

[Perigee ISBN 0-399-52376-6]

Patricia Conley is a journalist cum sleuth who unearths a plot involving crazed genetic researchers, covert government operatives, and a conspiracy that could devastate all of humankind.

[Simon & Schuster ISBN 0-684-83175-9]

McCall delivers a series of front-line reports on the state of the races in today's America that shakes up the assumptions of readers of every pigmentation and political allegiance.
[Reviewed by Corinne O. Nelson]

[Random House ISBN 0-375-70150-8]

This is a personal memoir of one woman's brave struggle through depression, but it deals with the mixed messages implied by a black woman's strength and is a powerful meditation on courage and survival.

[Norton. ISBN 0-393-04567-6]

[Crown ISBN 0-517-70592-3]

After 50 years of marriage, these two legends look back on their personal and political struggles to maintain a healthy marriage and to create a record of distinguished accomplishments.
[Reviewed by Corinne O. Nelson]

[Morrow ISBN 0-688-15396-8]

This powerful book takes readers back three centuries and to three continents to trace the complex and moving story of the African slaves and the slavers. It's the compelling testament of one African-American man's attempt to make sense of the history of his ancestors, striving for reconciliation with his homeland's past and his own country's future.
[Reviewed by Corinne O. Nelson]

[Harmony Books ISBN 0-517-70328-9]

[Simon & Schuster ISBN 0-684-81448-X]

[WestView Press: HarperCollins ISBN 0-8133-3178-1]

Robotham is the Editor-at-large at Essence Magazine and writes a love story about a young social worker who falls in love with a not-quite-single reporter who draws him deep into her life.
[Reviewed by Corinne O. Nelson]

[Scribner ISBN 0-684-84726-4]