Electronic Village Bookstore

Updated: 3/6/1999

buy a book from da village bookstore!! We would like to provide opportunity for Villagers (those of you visiting the Electronic Village to review & buy books while online. we have joined with amazon.com to provide you with the largest online bookseller in the world. Villagers ordering any of the books listed below receive substantial discounts!!! Let us know what you think of this service.

Welcome	Fiction (Hardcover)
Fiction (Paperback)	Mystery/Science Fiction
Non-Fiction (Hardcover)	Non-Fiction (Paperback)
Religion	History/Genealogy
Children/Youth	Information Technology

Villagers can purchase books for a substantial discount at our Village Bookstore. However, the largest African American bookstore on the internet is CushCity.com which offers hundreds of titles in more than 20 subject categories to readers interested in African American topics. There are other Black-owned bookstores available on the internet. These include Mosaic Books, Karibu Books and Black Images Bookstore.

African American Literature

[Note: Villagers get substantial discount on any book listed below. Just click on the title or the book cover for details!]

There's only a few weeks left before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) plans to have a "final look" into all the issues raised regarding the CIA inspector general's report on contra drug trafficking. Check out this press release for an interesting book dealing with this issue!

There is a novel about Black people entitled Pseudo Cool that cannot be found inside local bookstores. Why? Because it's always hard to find books written by Black people that tell the truth about the Black experience. Pseudo Cool is written by a Black student named Joseph Green who graduated from Stanford University. The book describes several racist incidents and the struggle of a Black Student Union to recover from the death of its leader and add cultural diversity to the university's curriculum. Pseudo Cool has been criticized for its so-called graphic sex scenes, language, and descriptions of prostitution and drug abuse. Others are saying that Pseudo Cool presents a very true picture of what happens to a lot of Black students at predominately white universities. The author, Mr. Green has stated,

"They don't want this book to get too popular because it's fiction that does tell a truth about a very challenging experience many Black people go through at these white universities."

Mama Flora's Family by Alex Haley and David Stevens is culled from Haley's unpublished works, the saga of three generations of a Tennessee sharecropping family headed by Mama Flora.

Two Cities by John E. Widerman is a tale of two cities, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, focusing on Kassima, a widow who withdraws after the loss of her husband and sons to violence, only to find two other men who renew her spirit.

Please take a moment to review the Black author links website to get an idea of the books you might like to purchase. Then pop back over here to Da Village's bookstore and order your title(s) from Amazon.com [see above]!

Black Women In Publishing (BWIP) is an employee-based trade association dedicated to increasing the presence, and supporting the efforts of African Americans in the publishing industry. BWIP was established for anyone interested in the world of books, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and interactive media.

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