Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority by Tom Burrell

Annotation from distributor: In this powerful examination of "the greatest propaganda campaign of all time"--the masterful marketing of black inferiority, aka the BI Complex--Burrell poses ten disturbing questions that will make black people look in the mirror and ask why, nearly 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, so many blacks still think and act like slaves.

Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire by Drusilla Dunjee Houston

This deals with the ancient Cushite Empire of Ethiopia that covered three continents and held unbroken sway for three thousand years. It visits old Ethiopia, whereas Herodotus said, "the gods delighted to banquet with the pious inhabitants." It also studies the land and the ancient race.

Sundays with TJ: 100 Years of Memories on Varner Road by Janis F. Kearney

Kearney writes of her father, Thomas James "TJ" Kearney, who grew up in rural southeast Arkansas in the early 1900s. His purpose-filled life included an impoverished childhood, early years as a drifter and vagabond traveling the country by train and foot, and then 70 years of working and raising 19 children on the 8-mile gravel strip called Varner Road.

Merri Dee: Life Lessons on Faith, Forgiveness & Grace by Merri Dee

Merri Dee, a TV and radio icon in Chicago, offers some of her hard-won lessons on how to be victorious in the face of pain and sorrow.