Eric Jerome Dickey
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FROM: Carol Elmore <[removed]@westga.edu>
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REC'D: 3/8/02, 10:24 AM
Sharon McRae, Adult Services Librarian
Shaler North Hills Library
1822 Mt. Royal Blvd.
Glenshaw, PA 15116
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Subject: Eric Jerome Dickey
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REC'D: 3/8/02, 12:00 PM
Carole-
E. Lynn Harris
Terry McMillan (possibly)
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FROM: Robin Bradford <[removed]@imcpl.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 3/8/02, 12:00 PM
Carl Weber
Edwardo Jackson
robin
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--- Carol Elmore <[removed]@westga.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a patron that would like Eric Jerome Dickey
> read-a-likes.
>
Carole-
E. Lynn Harris
Terry McMillan (possibly)
Gina
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Assistant Director
Kirtland Public Library
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FROM: Thelma Stone <[removed]@fortworthlibrary.org>
REC'D: 3/8/02, 12:41 PM
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REC'D: 3/8/02, 12:52 PM
Marcus Major -- Four Guys and Trouble (4 black frat
brothers vow to care for a dying
friend's little sister)
Edwardo Jackson -- Ever After (Morehouse grad
rejected by his true love
heads to Chicago to make a
fresh start)
Kathy Shannon
Thornwood H.S.
South Holland, IL
FROM: David Wright <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 3/8/02, 4:13 PM
BAISDEN, MICHAEL. MAINTENANCE MAN. (1999)
Love, lust and lies abound when Malcolm discovers
it's hard to give up his fast life, even
though he's burned out on exotic cars, designer
clothes and hot women.
BOYD, RANDY. BRIDGE ACROSS THE OCEAN. (2000)
Hiv POSITIVE AND READY FOR A Cancun vacation,
twenty-six year old Derek Mayfield meets a
beautiful young man and enters into a
relationship with him and his family.
BUNKLEY, ANITA. BALANCING ACT. (1997)
A huge explosion and fire destroys much of
Elise's old neighborhood and she suspects her
boss is responsible.
BUTLER, TAJUANA. HAND-ME-DOWN HEARTACHE. (2001)
Nina Landers, a sorority sister and recent
journalism graduate, must deal with her troubled
family and make tough choices about the men she
loves.
COPELAND, SHEILA. CHOCOLATE AFFAIR. (2001)
The lives of four glamorous women and their
interwoven friendships are portrayed.
DIXON, MELVIN. VANISHING ROOMS (1991)
Reminiscent of Baldwin and Morrison, this is a
novel about the pain of child abuse and the
dark side of interracial relationships. It is
also a beautiful portrait of the healing power of
art.
DUE, TANANARIVE. THE LIVING BLOOD. (2001)
Jessica and her daughter have the "living blood"
in their veins that desperately ill people seek
as their cure. (Horror)
FILES, LOLITA. CHILD OF GOD. (2001)
Set in Boston, this family saga details the
tragedies that herald the downfall of the Boten
clan.
GEORGE, NELSON. SHOW AND TELL. (2001)
A TV talk show producer decides to up the ratings
with racier programming and does the
same thing in his personal life.
HARDY, JAMES EARL. THE DAY EAZY-E DIED. (2001)
In this fourth installment of the Raheim Rivers
saga, Raheim is forced into some tough
decisions when he learns that hip-hop star Eazy-E
has AIDS.
HAYNES, DAVID. ALL AMERICAN DREAM DOLLS. (1997)
Following a painful break-up with her boyfriend,
Deneen Wilkerson rouses herself out of a
junk food funk to help her little sister prepare
for a beauty pageant.
HERMES, MYRLIN. CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR. (1999)
Eleanor Blackmore Cline left her husband after
installing his mistress in the family home, but
fifteen years later, when John dies, she returns
to regain her connection with her son.
HILL, DONNA. RHYTHMS. (2001)
Three generations of African American women live
lives of thwarted dreams and hardship,
keeping a dark secret.
JOE, YOLANDA. THIS JUST IN. (2000)
Themes of sexism and racism are explored in this
witty and intriguing story of office politics
and women's friendships.
LAMBRIGHT, SLIM. JUSTUS GIRLS. (2001)
After the death of one member of their high
school drill team, the Justus Girls reunite in
supportive friendship that takes them through
social and personal changes over the years.
JOHNSON-HODGE, MARGARET. SOME SUNDAY. (2001)
Sequel to Butterscotch Blues, this is the story
of widowed Sandra's struggle to overcome grief
and her friends' battles with their own love
relationships. Themes of skin color, self-esteem
and sex are explored.
LITTLE, BENILDE. THE ITCH. (1998)
Abra's privileged lifestyle has not prepared her
to face serious issues and her circle of friends
can't help.
MAJOR, MARCUS. FOUR GUYS AND TROUBLE. (2001)
Four African American buddies living together
have promised to take good care of Erika, the
sister of a friend who died.
MCFADDEN, BERNICE. THIS BITTER EARTH. (2002)
The story begun in Sugar continues as she
struggles to overcome hatred's reach down the
generations.
MCKINNEY-WHETSTONE, DIANE. BLUES DANCING. (1999)
Passion re-ignites when Johnson returns to
Verdi's life.
MCLARIN, KIM. MEETING OF THE WATERS. (2001)
Neither Porter nor Lee expect to kindle an
interracial relationship, but they can't deny the
feelings that lie between them.
PETERSON, BRIAN. MOVE OVER GIN. (1998)
Urban street vernacular and young black male
culture structures this amusing novel of
self-absorbed college junior, Tony Norris, who is
far more interested in sampling the physical
attributes of his female companions than
concentrating on his studies.
RAY, FRANCIS. UNTIL THERE WAS YOU. (1999)
A lovely mountain cabin in New Mexico provides
the sanctuary Dr. Catherine Stewart seeks
from her tumultuous life. When P.I. Luke Grayson
shows up unexpectedly, Sr. Stewart is at first
annoyed until she realizes that Luke is her only
protection from a particularly cunning and
vicious
stalker.
ROBY, KIMBERLA LAWSON. IT'S A THIN LINE. (2001)
Private heartaches, sibling rivalry, birth order,
domestic abuse and incest are only a few
carefully concealed secrets that threaten to
erupt and devastate a close-knit African American
family, when the challenge of a gravely ill
matriarch finds three Chicago siblings reunited
at her bedside.
ROSE, ODESSA. WATER IN A BROKEN GLASS. (1999)
A chance meeting in a bookstore transforms
talented sculptor Tonya Mimm's successful life.
SANCHEZ, PATRICK. GIRLFRIENDS. (2001)
This light episodic novel traces amusing
vignettes in the amours and careers of a trio of
chic,
ambitious "20-something" characters.
SHAPODEE, KIEJA. WRITTEN IN RED INK. (1999)
Emily Bennett is convinced that once she finds
her mother's long hidden journals she'll also
find out why her mother has always despised her.
SOULJAH, SISTER. THE COLDEST WINTER EVER. (1999)
"Black" English and underworld slang add a stark
element to this tour de force about Winter
Santiaga, the quick-witted, sex-y,
entrepreneurial-minded teenage daughter of a
Brooklyn drug lord.
SWINDLE, RENEE. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. (1999)
The steamy cover of this book only hints at the
hilarity inside this first novel featuring "Baby
sister" a talented young African American woman
of almost unbelievable selfishness who sets her
heart on possessing her best friend's beau.
WHITE, FANKLIN. CUP OF LOVE. (1999)
Two couple ride life's roller coaster of good
luck and hard times in this hip but tender
romance.
-Jen Baker (& David Wright)
Seattle Public Library
--- Carol Elmore <[removed]@westga.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a patron that would like Eric Jerome
> Dickey read-a-likes.
> Help please!
> Thanks,
> Carole Elmore
>
>
>
>
>
......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the
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FROM: Nancy Mulder <[removed]@kdl.org>
REC'D: 3/9/02, 12:21 PM
If you Like... Terry McMillan
Campbell, Bebe Moore
Brothers and Sisters.
Campbell goes beyond slogans and prejudices to tell the story of two women
- one black, one white - trying to forge a genuine friendship in the
aftermath of the L.A. riots. LP and BOT both available
Dickey, Eric Jerome.
Sister, Sister.
Dickey creates believable female characters and explores the "sister-sister"
relationship with genuine insight in this sassy, comical, and true-to-life
book.
Got to Be Real : Four Original Love Stories
by E. Lynn Harris, Eric Jerome Dickey, Marcus Major, Colin Channer
Original stories by four contemporary African American male authors bring
unique styles to the universal subject of love.
Hill, Donna.
If I Could.
Regina only wanted respect and support from her family and friends, but all
they did was tell her how wrong she was about everything in her life. Only
Regina herself could make her life what she wanted it to be.
Jackson, Sheneska.
Li'l Mama's Rules.
Modern-day heroine Madison Maguire holds her own as she fends off advances
from two-bit actors, old flames, and a secret admirer who is determined to
bring love into her life.
Lambright, Slim.
The Justus Girls.
Charming and down-to-earth, Lambright's first novel tells the story of Jan,
Peaches, Roach and Sally, girlfriends since adolescence in 1950s
Philadelphia. Time and distance caused them to lose contact, but they
reunite when one of them is murdered.
McCann, Timmothy.
Forever.
McCann follows his highly successful debut, Until, with another compelling
novel, this one about two couples and their interconnected lives
Rice, Patty.
Somethin' Extra.
Genie finds herself in love with David, an older married guy, who finally
must make a decision about love.
Roby, Kimberla Lawson.
Casting the First Stone.
A fast-paced story about faith's challenges in a world made up of material
desires and other physical temptations. The Essence Magazine and Blackboard
Fiction Book of the Year 2001. BOT available
Weber, Carl.
Lookin' for Luv.
A quartet of male African American coworkers experience the travails of
searching for love in a New York high school community.
Wesley, Valerie Wilson
Aint' Nobody's Business if I Do.
Her husband has left her, and at the age of forty, artist-turned-librarian
Eva Hutchinson isn't looking for a change. Then one day Isaiah Lonesome, a
handsome hunk of a twenty-eight-year-old jazz musician teaches her love's
oldest song.
-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Elmore [[removed]@westga.edu]
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 7:39 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Eric Jerome Dickey
Hi,
I have a patron that would like Eric Jerome Dickey read-a-likes.
Help please!
Thanks,
Carole Elmore
FROM: celmore <[removed]@westga.edu>
REC'D: 3/12/02, 1:35 PM
Authors:
Parry Brown
Trey Ellis
E. Lynn Harris
Edwardo Jackson
Terry McMillian
Marcus Major
Omar Tyree
Carl Weber
Van Whitfield
Specific Books:
Brothers and Sisters
Bebe Moore Campbell
Got To Be Real: Four Original Love Stories
E. Lynn Harris
If I Could
Donna Hill
Li'l Mama's Rules
Sheneska Jackson
The Justus Girls
Slim Lambright
Maintenance Man
Michael Baisdan
Bridge Across the Ocean
Randy Boyd
Balancing Act
Anita Bunkley
Hand-Me-Down Heartache
Tajuana Butler
Chocolate Affair
Sheila Copeland
Vanishing Rooms
Melvin Dixon
The Living Blood
Tananarive Due
Child of God
Lolita Files
Show and Tell
Nelson George
The Day Eazy-E-E Died
James Earl Hardy
All American Dream Dolls
David Haynes
Careful What You Wish For
Myrlin Hermes
Rhythms
Donna Hill
This Just In
Jolanda Joe
Justus Girls
Slim Lambright
Some Sunday
Margaret Johnson-Hodge
The Itch
Benilde Little
Four Guys and Trouble
Marcus Major
Forever
Timmothy McCann
This Bitter Earth
Bernice McFadden
Blues Dancing
Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Meeting of the Waters
Kim McLarin
Move Over Gin
Brian Peterson
Until There Was You
Francis Ray
Somethin' Extra
Patty Rice
Casting the First Stone
It's a Thin Line
Kimberla Lawson Roby
Water In a Broken Glass
Odessa Rose
Girlfriends
Patrick Sanchez
Written In Red Ink
Kieja Shapodee
The Coldest Winter Ever
Sister Souljah
Please, Please, Please
Renee Swindle
Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
Valerie Wilson Wesley
Cup of Love
Franklin White.
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