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After spending last week at Number 5, and the week before at Number 1, Hill Harper’s latest book Letters to a Young Sister: DeFINE Your Destiny has dropped out of the top 15 on the New York Times Bestseller List. The book, however, is still a huge success. Winning over hearts in the African-American community, the book is an incredible inspiration to young women of all races and cultures.

Hill Harper spent part of June touring in promotion of his new book. Hopefully, we’ll see more from him soon.

Have you read the book? Let us know what you think of it.

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The novel, written by Keith R. A. DeCandido, puts Mac and the team in the middle of a medium security prison on Staten Island, where two homicides have taken place. While one death has plenty of witnesses and evidence, the other turns out to be one of those CSI puzzlers, where the apparent cause of death changes as new evidence is discovered.

At the same time, Stella and Lindsay investigate the murder of a young woman from a Bronx bakery. Of course, the best suspect doesn’t seem to match up with the gruesome murder scene.

For more information, or to purchase, check out CSI: New York: Four Walls at Amazon.com.

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Harper shares some tidbits on Season 5 of CSI: New York, including his own –yet unsubstantiated- prediction that Hawkes will soon have a love interest. He also talks about how smoothly Season 4 went, given the strike and its many related hurdles.

The big news, though, is his new book “Letters to a Young Sister: DeFINE Your Destiny“, the followup to his 2006 book “Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny“. The success of the previous book, despite the prevalent misconception that young men do not read, has opened the door for several more encouraging reads for young men. The new book, set to hit shelves on June 10, is sure to be a huge hit, and is already causing a stir.

With loads of input from women he respects –Alfre Woodard, Angela Bassett, Michelle Obama, Ruby Dee, Gabrielle Union, Sanaa Lathan, and Nikki Giovanni- Harper shares a series of “letters” to his surrogate young sisters, everywhere. The letters address the challenges that young women face, today, including the biggest ones that came up while working on the book, “self-esteem and self-worth, a lot of issues surrounding body image and their view of themselves.”

Read the full Hill Harper interview on CSI Files.

If you’re dying to read it, or if you know a “young sister” who might benefit from it, you can order Hill Harper’s Letters to a Young Sister at Amazon.com, and receive it as early as Tuesday.

Are you going to read “Letters to a Young Sister”? Leave a comment, telling what you think about this upcoming book. When you do pick it up and start it, don’t hesitate to come back and comment on the book.

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