1. The Temple of My Familiar, Written by: Joicelyn
(Staff Picks/Fiction)

by Alice Walker (Simon & Schuster, $14.00) Alice Walker’s most divine work. It is the sort of narrative that demands a certain frame of mind, however, one willing to go to the depths of my

2. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Written by: Joicelyn
(Staff Picks/Nonfiction)

as told to Alex Haley (Ballantine, $7.99) A rare breed walked up to our cash desk and asked for the Autobiography of Malcolm X. He’d suggested it to his book club; no one had read it. He was s

3. D.V., Written by: Joicelyn
(Staff Picks/Nonfiction)

by Diana Vreeland (Da Capo Press, $17.00) Diana Vreeland was born to define fashion. In D.V. she chats up the reader in a fast-paced, whimsical ride through her socially-bred life. Her only formal e

4. The Ages Of Lulu, Written by: Joicelyn
(Staff Picks/Fiction)

By Almundena Grandes (Seven Stories Press, $13.95) Warning: This is not your mother’s erotica. The Ages Of Lulu is literature whipped with lawless lust and the type of human contact that had t