Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karleen Pendleton Jiménez & Lean’tin L. Bracks: Coming Attractions

By Maryann Yin 

Here are some handpicked titles from our New Books section. Want to include your book? Just read our Facebook Your New or Upcoming Book post. Don’t forget to include your title’s exact release date and a link.

How to Get a Girl Pregnant by Karleen Pendleton Jiménez: “This frank and funny memoir follows a butch the journey of a butch Chicana lesbian trying to have a baby.” (November 2010)

African American Almanac: 400 Years of Triumph, Courage, and Excellence by Lean’tin L. Bracks: “The most complete and affordable single-volume reference of African American culture available today, this almanac is a unique and valuable resource devoted to illustrating and demystifying the emotionally moving, complex, and often lost history of black life in America.” (January 2012)

What Color is My World? The Lost History of African-American Inventors by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Raymond Obstfeld: “Offering profiles with fast facts on flaps and framed by a funny contemporary story featuring two feisty twins, here is a nod to the minds behind the gamma electric cell and the ice-cream scoop, improvements to traffic lights, open-heart surgery, and more – inventors whose ingenuity and perseverance against great odds made our world safer, better, and brighter.” (January 2012)