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Articles in Nov-Dec 2004 issue of Black Issues Book Review

• 40 Days to a Life of G.O.L.D
  by Kevin Wayne Johnson
• Uncovering Africa's riches
  by Jeanne Fox-Alston
• Twice the magic: how two novelists write as one—from dreaming the creative vision to sitting shoulder to shoulder in front of the keyboard
  by Virginia DeBerry
• Kipligat's Chance
  by Tanu T. Henry
• Departures
  by Yvette Mingo
• He pulled the plug
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Those Preaching Women Volume 4
  by Brenda M. Tillman
• The alphabet as ideographic art
  by Clarence V. Reynolds
• Renaissance woman: Althea Gibson was a tennis legend, a professional golfer, actress, singer, political candidate, education advocate, and she wrote a memoir
  by Yanick Rice Lamb
• More Than You Know
  by Regina Cash-Clark
• The Ties that Bind
  by Donia Elizabeth Allen
• The case of the purloined paragraphs
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Sing it again: beloved old African American spirituals find a new following
  by Ingrid Sturgis
• Starting here, starting now: the basics of getting your book into print
  by Wayne Dawkins
• Ujamaa 2004
  by William E. Cox
• The Real Deal: a Spiritual Guide for Black Teen Girls
  by Deja LeShaun Matthews
• Commissioned by the Spirit
  by Jeanne Fox-Alston
• Dreams from My Father: a Story of Race and Inheritance
  by Dan Holly
• Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?
  by Joycelyn A. Wilson
• Gangsta Rap
  by Desiree Harrison
• Deals
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Our treasured hymnals: a revered publishing tradition in black religious music, started in 1801, continues today
  by Kathryn V. Stanley
• From bad breaks to boons: D.C.'s Sisterspace plans a comeback and other tales of black survival
  by Gwendolyn E. Osborne
• A backward glance
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Raising Up Young Heroes: Developing a Revolutionary Youth Ministry
• The Sweet Breath of Life: a Poetic Narrative of the African-American Family
  by Patricia Spears Jones
• The Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity
  by Herb Boyd
• The Color of Family
  by Alea J. Mitchell
• An American girl tea party: multicultural dolls escort some very special young readers to a fun event
  by Suzanne Rust
• Post it
• Black publishing's inspirational godmother: Susan L. Taylor reflects on her 34 years nurturing writers at Essence and her dozen years as an author in conversation with Malaika Adero, the veteran book editor who midwifed Taylor's In the Spirit
  by Susan McHenry
• Listen up: fans are demanding audiobooks faster than the industry can record them, and prices are coming down
  by Earni Young
• Immersed in West African ritual: a Brooklyn club samples the cuisine of Senegal to enrich its reading of a Senegalese novelist
  by Pat Houser
• The Zane craze
  by Daphine Marcus
• BIBR best of 2004
• Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry
  by Karma Johnson
• Blink: the Power of Thinking Without Thinking
  by Denise Simon
• Back to Life
  by Felicia Pride
• Holiday offerings focus on the classics and heritage: new selections make perfect stocking stuffers
  by Suzanne Rust
• From 'Round the Way
  by Black Artemis
• Power, passion and play
  by Gwendolyn E. Osborne
• Ostinato Vamps
  by Duriel E. Harris
• Open House: of Family, Friends, Food, Piano Lessons, and the Search for a Room of My Own
  by Denolyn Carroll
• Accident of Birth
  by Pat L. Simmons
• Flying off the shelves
• More on gay lit
  by Lisa C. Moore
• The late, great ladies of song, and that Philly sound: how Celia, Dinah and Ella were crowned queens, and musicmakers in the City of Brotherly of Love became known for their soulful sounds
  by Zakia Munirah Carter
• Swapping recipes: popular community cookbooks keep African American culinary traditions alive
  by Melissa Ewey Johnson
• Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don't Have Bruises
  by Alex P. Kellogg
• Sweet Bye-Bye
  by Nicole Sealey
• And the winner [again] is …
• A House on Fire: the Rise and Fall of Philadelphia Soul
  by Anthony C. Davis
• The golden girl: Marion Jones's glory shines through in her memoir
  by Fred Lindsey
• Voodoo Queen: the Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau
  by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
• All Things Hidden
  by Tracey D. Weaver
• Genesis Press teams with Kensington
• Other noteworthy titles
• Sometimes I cry, sometimes I laugh: J. California Cooper spins tales of common folk who insist on being heard
  by Denolyn Carroll
• A new light on an old master: scholars reexamine the provocative racial themes in the fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt
  by Robert Fleming
• Boaz Brown
• The 2004 Miami Book Fair International
• What is color to an artist?
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Facing up to HIV/AIDS: authors lift the veil on complex issues surrounding pandemic in Africa and black America
  by Pearl Cleage
• Angel of Harlem
  by Earni Young
• Mother Eternal Ann Everlastin's Dead