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I WISH I NEVER MET YOU: DATING THE SHIFTLESS, STUPID AND UGLY (Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster, $12.00), by Denise N. Wheatley, is a hilarious and sassy novel comprised of a series of vignettes from an unforgettable heroine who chronicles her dating calamities with men she renames Warren the So-Called Wonder, Marvin the Married Man-Boy and Igor the Ignoramus. In THIS TIME (Sutton Place Publishers, $16.95), best-selling writer Margaret Johnson-Hodge delivers a powerful story about love, relationships and how the choices people make challenge their ability to find what they really need, and really want. In GROWN FOLKS BUSINESS (Touchstone Trade Paperback Original/Simon & Schuster, $14.00), by Victoria Christopher Murray, the novelist writes from the perspective of a woman whose husband leaves her for another man. Murray deals with a range of emotions as the whipsawed protagonist, Sheridan Hart, works to overcome the news. CUTTIN' UP: WIT AND WISDOM FROM BLACK BARBER SHOPS (Doubleday, $24.95), by Craig Marberry, paints a portrait of barber shop life--and of African-American history and culture. He says, "Over the last seven years or so, I've become an accidental chronicler of good times in the barber shop. While waiting for a haircut, feeling like the lowly caboose on an endless train of customers, I bide my time by taking notes on the colorful conversations whirling around me." I TOLD THE MOUNTAIN TO MOVE (SaltRiver/Tyndale House, $19.99), by Patricia Raybon, chronicles a life-changing education that takes her from the rote prayers of childhood to a mature understanding of her faith. "I'd started out frightened and resentful, unloving and unsure," Raybon writes. "I wanted God to change these hard things for me. But God was changing me." THE COMPANY YOU KEEP (BET Books, $14.00), by Angela Henry, a finalist in EBONY'S 10th Annual Gertrude Johnson Williams writing contest, makes her debut with a tightly woven mystery that introduces Kendra Clayton, a smart and witty part-time teacher who suddenly finds herself caught in a deadly turn of events. In WHEN LOVE CALLS, YOU BETTER ANSWER (Doubleday/Broadway Books, $19.95), by Bertice Berry, the best-selling author delivers an inspirational tale about finding the love you need, especially the love that can only come from within. THE BLUEPRINT FOR MY GIRLS IN LOVE: 99 RULES FOR DATING, RELATIONSHIPS, AND INTIMACY (A Fireside Original/Simon & Schuster, $13.00), by Yasmin Shiraz, the lively writer and motivational speaker offers a straight-talking and empowering guide for teenage girls on issues from boys to dating to sex. In WE FLEW OVER THE BRIDGE: THE MEMOIRS OF FAITH RINGGOLD (Duke University Press, $24.95), one of the country's most preeminent African-American artists and award-winning children's book authors, shares the fascinating story of her life, complete with family pictures. Her works, "startling quilts," and politically charged paintings hang in, among other places, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In DOROTHY WEST: WHERE THE WILD GRAPE GROWS, SELECTED WRITINGS, 1930-1950 (University of Massachusetts Press, $27.95), edited by professors Verner D. Mitchell and Cynthia Davis, the scholars deliver a profile of West through a collection of works that are out-of-print, little-known, or unpublished, supplemented by dozens of family photographs.

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