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May 02, 2005

Essence Magazine Bestsellers

We have added the Essence Magazine Fiction & Nonfiction hardcover bestsellers to our bestsellers group. The Essence list covers African-American literature and is updated monthly. The current list is for May 2005.

Fiction #1
Zane. Afterburn
When Washington, D.C., chiropractor Yardley Brown goes to his local bank, it isn't only to make deposits into his account. He has long since accrued some interest in Rayne Waters, a bank employee who's too beautiful to be true -- and too beautiful to be single. At least that's what Yardley believes, which is why he has never approached her. Little does he know that Rayne is anything but taken. Not for want of trying, of course. But after barely surviving a dating disaster with her hairdresser's brother and then falling for a member of her church band who, it turns out, is celibate, she's on the verge of giving up. That is, until Yardley -- discouraged by his own slew of dead-end romances -- finally works up the courage to give her a try.

Nonfiction #1
Geoffrey C. Ward. Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise & Fall of Jack Johnson
He was the first black heavyweight champion in history, the most celebrated?and most reviled?African American of his age. In Unforgivable Blackness, the prizewinning biographer Geoffrey C. Ward brings to vivid life the real Jack Johnson, a figure far more complex and compelling than the newspaper headlines he inspired could ever convey.