Bebe Moore Campbell Books In Order

Novels

  1. Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine (1992)
  2. Brothers and Sisters (1994)
  3. Singing in the Comeback Choir (1998)
  4. What You Owe Me (2001)
  5. Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry (2003)
  6. 72 Hour Hold (2004)
  7. Stompin’ at the Savoy (2006)

Picture Books

  1. I Get So Hungry (2008)

Non fiction

  1. Successful Women, Angry Men (1987)
  2. Sweet Summer (1989)

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Bebe Moore Campbell Books Overview

Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine

‘ABSORBING…
COMPELLING…
HIGHLY SATISFYING.’ San Francisco Chronicle’TRULY ENGAGING…
Campbell has a storyteller’s ear for dialogue and the visual sense of painting a picture and a place…
. There’s a steam that keeps the story moving as the characters, and later their children, wrestle through racial, personal and cultural crisis.’ Los Angeles Times Book Review’REMARKABLE…
POWERFUL.’ Time’Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine is rich, lush fiction set in rural Mississippi beginning in the mid ’50s. It is also a haunting reality flowing through Anywhere, U.S.A., in the ’90s…
. There’s love, rage and hatred, winning and losing, honor, abuse; in other words, humanity…
. Campbell now deserves recognition as the best of storytellers. Her writing sings.’ The Indianapolis News’EXTRAORDINDARY.’ The Seattle Times’A COMPELLING NARRATIVE…
Campbell is a master when it comes to telling a story.’ Entertainment WeeklyYour Blues Ain’t Like Mine won the NAACP Image Award for Best Literary Work of Fiction

Brothers and Sisters

‘This book is about succeeding and surviving even being happy, in a society where every card seems stacked against you. If this is a fair world, Bebe Moore Campbell will be remembered as the most important African American novelist of this century except for, maybe, Ralph Ellison and James Bladwin’ Carolyn See, Washington Post Book World

Singing in the Comeback Choir

Maxine McCoy has made it. She has overcome the odds she faced as a black woman from a working class Philadelphia neighborhood to become a successful television producer in Los Angeles. She loves her hardworking, ambitious husband and is pregnant with her first child. She does worry, though, that the shows she produces are of no social value. But even this concern drops away when she receives a phone call from the caretaker of her seventy year old grandmother and learns she has to return to Philadelphia. Orphaned at an early age, Maxine grew up with her grandmother Lindy, a singing star. Lindy is now a smoking, drinking, embittered women whose glorious voice has atrophied from disuse, and the house that used to swing with laughter and music is dim and lifeless. Lindy’s once striving neighborhood has become a blighted, crime infested area. Yet after a few days there, Maxine realizes that Lindy and Sydenham Street itself have been the source of her own strength and success, and she is moved to help both reclaim their glory. Bebe Moore Campbell’s writing is ‘clean and clear,’ said The Washington Post Book World. ‘Her emotions run hot, but her most important characteristic is uncompromising intelligence coupled with a perfectionist’s eye for detail.’ With lyrical prose, rich humor, and keen insight, she creates a moving story of hope and redemption, of the faith and commitment that can make any comeback possible.

What You Owe Me

Los Angeles, l945: When Hosanna Clark, newly arrived from the farm fields of Texas, befriends Holocaust survivor Gilda Rosenstein, she opens the door to a new life for them both. Using Gilda’s knowledge of cosmetics and Hosanna’s energy and determination, they begin producing a line of lipsticks and lotions for black women. The two are more than partners: They are dear friends. Then Gilda suddenly disappears, taking all the assets. Hosanna is doubly betrayed: financially ruined and emotionally bereft. When, years later, she pas*ses away, her small cosmetics company dies with her. But Hosanna leaves behind a daughter steeped in her mother’s pain: Matriece is as smart and driven as her mother and savvy enough to recognize that white firms are competing not only for black consumer dollars but for black professional talent as well. When Gilda’s huge cosmetics conglomerate hires her to launch a line of black beauty products, Matriece takes on a mission to collect her mother’s debt. What You Owe Me is a stunning account of the changes we have seen in white attitudes toward blacks, but it is also a sensitive look at what betrayal of friendship, of love does to us all. Ultimately, it is a moving book about healing. As Emerge magazine acknowledged, ‘Campbell’s writings are a beacon of light, helping assuage the anger by tending our deepest wounds.’

Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry

Some mornings Annie’s mommy helps her get ready for school and makes ‘hot, golden circles’ of pancakes for breakfast. Those days her smiles are as bright as sunshine. Other mornings Annie s mommy acts like she has dark clouds inside and doesn t smile at all. Those days Annie knows she can call her grandmother, eat a treat from her ‘secret snacks,’ and think happy thoughts. But Annie always remembers that even when Mommy is angry on the outside, on the inside she never stops loving her. E. B. Lewis s luminous illustrations are the perfect accompaniment to Campbell s artful handling of this poignant story.

72 Hour Hold

In this novel of family and redemption, a mother struggles to save her eighteen year old daughter from the devastating consequences of mental illness by forcing her to deal with her bipolar disorder. New York Times best selling author Bebe Moore Campbell draws on her own powerful emotions and African American roots, showcasing her best writing yet.

Trina suffers from bipolar disorder, making her paranoid, wild, and violent. Watching her child turn into a bizarre stranger, Keri searches for assistance through normal channels. She quickly learns that a seventy two hour hold is the only help you can get when an adult child starts to spiral out of control. After three days, Trina can sign herself out of any program.

Fed up with the bureaucracy of the mental health community and determined to save her daughter by any means necessary, Keri signs on for an illegal intervention. The Program is a group of radicals who eschew the psychiatric system and model themselves after the Underground Railroad. When Keri puts her daughter’s fate in their hands, she begins a journey that has her calling on the spirit of Harriet Tubman for courage. In the upheaval that follows, she is forced to confront a past that refuses to stay buried, even as she battles to secure a future for her child.

Bebe Moore Campbell s moving story is for anyone who has ever faced insurmountable obstacles and prayed for a happy ending, only to discover she d have to reach deep within herself to fight for it.

Stompin’ at the Savoy

On the night before her big jazz dance recital, young Mindy has made up her mind not to go she’s just too nervous. But when she finds herself transported to the Savoy Ballroom, she quickly changes her tune. Filled from wall to wall with legends of the swing era, the Savoy is a place where the dancers move like acrobats and the seats stay empty all night long. It s an all night party, and with all that fun going on around her, Mindy has no choice but to move her happy feet! In his picture book debut, renowned watercolorist Richard Yarde adds brilliant illustrations to this jazzy story by bestselling author Bebe Moore Campbell. It will keep toes tapping and pages turning!

I Get So Hungry

Beloved author Bebe Moore Campbell’s last book shines light on childhood obesity. Once Nikki starts eating, it s hard for her to stop. She snacks when she is upset, angry or bored. But when her teacher, Mrs. Patterson, is taken to the hospital because of her weight, Nikki realizes that she wants to live a healthier lifestyle. She and Mrs. Patterson work together to help each other succeed, and Nikki even convinces her mom to get involved and exercise too. Acclaimed author Bebe Moore Campbell said she wrote this as she felt strongly about the worth and necessity of this story. She hoped to touch kids and parents and help them make changes in their lives. Amy Bates charming illustrations bring to life this important story of one young girl s struggle with weight gain, an all too familiar problem for children today.

Sweet Summer

This acclaimed memoir by Bebe Moore Campbell, the bestselling author of Brothers and Sisters and Singing in the Comeback Choir, recalls the Sweet Summers spent with her father an extraordinary man of dreams and inspiration in the American South of the 1960s.’Unforgettable.’ New York Times Book Review’Fearlessly unveils the pain of loss and the ecstasy of love. I am grateful for Bebe Moore Campbell and for such a Sweet Summer.’ Maya Angelou’Mature insight, as well as a deft gift for language, gives this memoir its poignant, honest shape.’ Chicago Tribune’An uplifting reflection on family love.’ San Francisco Examiner Chronicle’A remarkable achievement.’ Philadelphia Inquirer’Poignant…
a beautiful tribute.’ Newsday’Campbell is a master.’ Entertainment Weekly’Touching…
. A candid account and loving tribute to a special man.’ New York Daily News

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