Across Time: Mystery of the Great Sphinx |
 By O. J. Harp III, Ph.D Honorable Mention: Teenage Category A sci-fi story filled with mysticism, magic, future technology, and the history and lore of ancient For more information visit Ojharp.com |
A Plain Brown Wren, A Spiritual Journey of a Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse |
 By Hilda Thomasine Wren Highly suggested by AALAS The true life story of Hilda T. Wren who was born into a severely dysfunctional family. Beaten and sexually abused as a child, she ran away as a teenager trying to find a better way of life. She was however, soon thrust into a life of prostitution and from that point, began a series of damaging relationships with brutal uncaring men. In midlife, she began to realize that there was a higher power who might help her. Wren began to rebuild her life and started a foundation, Spiritual Connections Inc. to help other women who had experienced the devasting pain of abuse. This book proves that with faith, it is never too late to change your life.
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Achieving Success With Faith In God - The Concept of Faith-Based Perseverance |
 By D.M. Blake Highly suggested by AALAS An organized common sense approach to reaching goals and fulfilling dreams, which are often forgotten and left unattained due to a lack of faith in oneself, lack of faith in God, and a missing connection with God. This book is an inspirational how-to guide that doesn't just preach, but does teach. It tells the audience not only what must be done, but also how to do it. It provides a feasible framework and path of direction in getting one started on the journey to a spiritually-nurtured life with the additional joys of properity and personal self-fulfillment. For more information visit dmbauthor.com |
First Love First Kiss |
 By D.M. Blake Taking you back to good, old-fashioned love, this book will spur the thoughts, emotions, and contemplated actions of those who take Corinne's, journey and witness her testimony. Be ready to step into her world, ponder what your own actions would be, and question your own past moves and means of resolution. A story about one woman's reflection upon love, explore the ultimate grassroots, romance story with a dramatic twist and a contemporary flow.
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Dare 2B Different |
The premise of this book conveys an inspirational message of hope, endurance and eventual peace. Inspired by challenges and experiences that encourage the reader to view life from another perspective, Dare 2B Different evokes the spirit of self empowerment. |
By Ysidra Rivers More Than A Slave |
 By Margaret D Pagan Katherine Ferguson's parents are slaves in the late 1700s. Her mother escapes to New York only to be sold into slavery yet again, this time with her newborn, Katy. As her mother faces being taken away, she prays a desperate prayer, giving little Katy over to God. Based on a true story of perseverence and inspiration about a woman, who became a pioneer in the Sunday school movement. For more information visit margaretpagan.com |
The Fulani Girls |
 By Margaret D Pagan The sequel to More Than A Slave this is the story of two girls captured in Africa and separated during slavery who find a way to be together again. |
Sally Ann |
 By Kateb Shunnar This story takes place in a small country town thirty five years after chattel servitude which brought Blacks into the time of indentured servitude and sharecropping. The main character, Sally Ann, is a young poet from Albany Georgia born June 12, 1900. After a drastic event that angers Sally Ann, she moves north to Detroit in the 1930’s. She was hoping for a better chance of a new life in the booming industrial revolution, but when Sally Ann gets to Detroit she sees that life for the Negro living in the north is no better than life in the south. This author creates a quite interesting story with his use of of what he has coined as “Narpoefolk”, a style of writing consisting of narrative storytelling, poetry, and folktales blended in a unique way. For more information visit sbwaa.org |
Slavery and the Making of America |
 By James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton This is a companion volume to the four-part PBS series on the history of American slavery--narrated by Morgan Freeman. It shows the human side of this inhumane institution, presenting it largely through the stories of the slaves themselves. For more information visit slaveryinamerica.org |