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	<description>Announcements of new and upcoming African American Books</description>
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		<title>A Purse of Your Own by Deborah Owens</title>
		<link>http://booksofsoul.com/2010/03/a-purse-of-your-own-by-deborah-owens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JavaNoir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspirational/Self-Help]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Purse of Your Own: An Easy Guide to Financial Security
by Deborah Owens
and Brenda Lane Richardson (Contributor) 
Fireside
Available 12/29/09 in Paperback
THERE IS NO BETTER TIME THAN NOW TO STRAIGHTEN OUT YOUR PURSE
In A Purse of Your Own, wealth coach Deborah Owens draws from more than twenty years of experience in the financial services industry for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JavaNoir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy)
by N.K. Jemisin
Orbit
Available 10/01/10 in Mass Market Paperback
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north.  But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky.  There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king.  But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith</title>
		<link>http://booksofsoul.com/2010/03/changing-my-mind-by-zadie-smith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JavaNoir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adult Nonfiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[essa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
by Zadie Smith
Thorndike Press
Available 04/02/10 in Hardcover		
Zadie Smith brings to her essays all of the curiosity, intellectual rigor, and sharp humor that have attracted so many readers to her fiction, and the result is a collection that is nothing short of extraordinary.
Split into four sections-&#8221;Reading,&#8221; &#8220;Being,&#8221; &#8220;Seeing,&#8221; and &#8220;Feeling&#8221;-Changing My Mind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Days Before the Shooting by Ralph Ellison</title>
		<link>http://booksofsoul.com/2010/03/three-days-before-the-shooting-by-ralph-ellison/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JavaNoir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adult Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ralph Ellison]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Modern Library
Available 01/26/10 in Hardcover
At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly two thousand pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing. Long awaited, it was to have been the work Ellison intended to follow his masterpiece, Invisible Man. Five years later, Random House published Juneteenth, drawn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nelson Mandela: A Life in Photographs by David Elliot Cohen</title>
		<link>http://booksofsoul.com/2010/03/nelson-mandela-a-life-in-photographs-by-david-elliot-cohen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JavaNoir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History & Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nelson Mandela]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sterling
Available 12/01/09 in Hardcover
A celebration of freedom and the man who fought so valiantly for it: NELSON MANDELA
Almost 20 years ago, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela—brutally imprisoned in South Africa for his struggle against apartheid—was finally released. This beautiful illustrated volume commemorates that event and Mandela’s inspiring life and work.
Created by renowned author David Elliot Cohen—who has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black is the New Green by Leonard E. Burnett Jr. and Andrea Hoffman</title>
		<link>http://booksofsoul.com/2010/03/black-is-the-new-green-by-leonard-e-burnett-jr-and-andrea-hoffman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JavaNoir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History & Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black Is the New Green: Marketing to Affluent African Americans
Leonard E. Burnett Jr. and Andrea Hoffman
Palgrave Macmillan
Available 03/16/10 in Hardcover
The general market for luxury goods has become stagnant. Given the new economic reality of the early 21st Century—not to mention the all-important new demographics of the new century—it’s bad business to continue to rely on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Coretta Scott King Book Awards</title>
		<link>http://booksofsoul.com/2010/03/2010-coretta-scott-king-book-awards/</link>
		<comments>http://booksofsoul.com/2010/03/2010-coretta-scott-king-book-awards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JavaNoir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Clubs & Libraries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Children & Young Adults]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Designed to commemorate the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and to honor Mrs. Coretta Scott King for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace, the Coretta Scott King Book Awards annually recognize outstanding books for young adults and children by African American authors and illustrators that reflect the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top-Selling African American Books in 2010</title>
		<link>http://booksofsoul.com/2010/03/top-selling-african-american-books-in-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://booksofsoul.com/2010/03/top-selling-african-american-books-in-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JavaNoir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bestsellers]]></category>

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot(Crown, 02/02/10, Hardcover)


Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells &#8212; taken without her knowledge &#8212; became one of the most important tools in medicine. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bestselling African American Books, February 2010</title>
		<link>http://booksofsoul.com/2010/03/bestselling-african-american-books-february-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://booksofsoul.com/2010/03/bestselling-african-american-books-february-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JavaNoir</dc:creator>
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot(Crown, 02/02/10, Hardcover)


Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells – taken without her knowledge – became one of the most important tools in medicine. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BookExpo America</title>
		<link>http://booksofsoul.com/2010/03/bookexpo-america/</link>
		<comments>http://booksofsoul.com/2010/03/bookexpo-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JavaNoir</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BEA shines a spotlight on African American publishing
Location: Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York City
Description: African American Publishing at BookExpo America (BEA)
BookExpo America, one of the largest book trade exhibits in the world provides independent African American book publishers, self publishers, authors, African American imprints at major publishing houses, distributors, literary agents, publicists, librarians, and [...]]]></description>
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