Vol. 8 Nbr. 3, May 2006

Index

• Publisher's page.
• With love, mom.
• The road we traveled.
• Dealmakers.
• Agenda: BookExpo: 2006 Expo in the capital city.
• Life as art: character study: Anna Deavere Smith as herself.
• Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers and Artists of Every Kind.
• Maternal instincts: what will the children think?
• All that she touched: the "lucky ones" gather to remember the author they knew as a mentor and friend.
• Keeping on: Toni Trent Parker's legacy is the vast array of books now available to black children and all children.
• Jordan's Hair.
• Nappy.
• Wavy, Curly, Kinky: The African American Child's Hair Care Guide.
• In Coretta Scott King's name: something for every young reader.
• Playing the whiteness card: studies focus on the invention of race and its meanings.
• Jesus is a liberal! Authors challenge conservative Christians who co-opt God and narrow the message of the Gospel.
• A doll with a storied past.
• How we pray.
• Literary landscapes: novels of disparate places, themes and souls.
• Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns.
• Beasts of No Nation.
• The King of Macy's.
• Unburnable.
• George and Rue.
• Operation Smokeout.
• It's Like That.
• Neecey's Lullaby.
• Through the Fire.
• Dissecting Michael Jackson: a cultural critic takes the measure of the man captured in the mirror.
• More noteworthy titles.
• Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster.
• Target Zero: A Life in Writing.
• The Covenant with Black America.
• Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers.
• Hokum: An Anthology of African American Humor.
• Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away.
• The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop.
• He Talk Like a White Boy: Reflections on Faith, Family, Politics and Authenticity.
• Old Negro, new Negro: two recent books look at Booker T. Washington's legacy.
• Flying off the shelves.