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Anna J is back with her tenth novel, and she's coming out the door blazing hot! Get ready for the ride of your life.
Two is company, but three is definitely a crowd, especially when we all want the same man. Who does a man love more: the woman he lies to or the woman he feeds the truth?
In the game of love and war, it's so easy to get sidetracked when you're the most sought after guy in your city, but for Chase Warren, he wants more. Bedding chicks...
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2022 Youth Media Awards
Printz Medal | Winners And Honorees | 2020-Current
SO MLK Day--Further Reading for Teens
Printz Medal | Winners And Honorees | 2020-Current
SO MLK Day--Further Reading for Teens
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Publisher Annotation: International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood.
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Murderville trilogy volume 2
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Cash Money Content
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2012
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English
7) Rubble kings
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SABOTEUR MEDIA
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2015.
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English
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From 1968 to 1975, gangs ruled New York City. An unrealistic rage lay beyond the idealistic hopes of the civil rights movement. Neither law enforcement nor social agency could end the escalating bloodshed. Peace came only through the birth of hip-hop culture, the most unlikely and courageous of events that would change the world for generations to come. RUBBLE KINGS, the most comprehensive documentation to date of life during this era of gang rule,...
8) Mirror Image
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Rapper and Law & Order: SVU star Ice-T brings his unique knowledge of the streets to a gritty crime thriller, the sequel to Kings of Vice.
Marcus "Crush" Casey should have it made. After two long decades in Attica, he's back on top and ruling the streets he left behind. But, maintaining control of New York's underworld is harder than he ever imagined. Crush has built an uneasy alliance between most of the gangs in New York, with himself at the head....
9) Harlem
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Building on the success of the Kingpins series, Carl Weber's Five Families series features some of Urban Books' most popular authors writing about crime in the boroughs of New York City, this time in Harlem.
Through the darkest tunnel comes the light, but for Caesar King, there is nothing, but more, darkness on the other side.
After the failed attempt on his life, he is afraid that the Pact of the Five Families is no more. He can trust nobody. Whoever...
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T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E. is a vicious, heart-wrenching and true-to-life novel about an LA gang member that masterfully captures the violence and depravity of gang life. Shakur's protagonist is Lapeace, the leader of the Eight Tray Crips gang in South Central Los Angeles. In a deadly gunfight with Anyhow, a Blood and Lapeace's rival since childhood, eight innocent civilians are killed. Anyhow is captured. Lapeace becomes a fugitive and he must hide out in...
11) Stone pillow
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KOCH Vision
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[2005]
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English
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The great Lucille Ball plays an elderly bag lady struggling to survive on the streets of New York City. When approached by a young social worker, both women discover a new perspective on their lives.
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Named a Best Book of the Year by: Boston Globe * New Yorker * NPR * PopMatters
From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn comes a sweeping story of community, crime, and gentrification, tracing more than fifty years of life in one Brooklyn neighborhood.
"A blistering book. A love story. Social commentary. History. Protest novel. And mystery
...13) True to the game
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GVN Releasing
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[2018]
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English
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A charismatic drug lord tries to start a new life after he falls for a young woman from Philadelphia.
14) Section 8
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Tionna's on-and-off addicted mother has always taught her to get hers by any means necessary. Tionna's heart is cold, but she holds a warm place in it for Duhan, the father of her two sons and her on-again-off-again boyfriend since they were teenagers. Duhan becomes her knight in shining armor until the government turns their dream into a nightmare. With Duhan behind bars and everything she loves seized, she finds herself starting over in the same...
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Cartel novels volume 1
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Distributed by Kensington Pub
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c2010
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English
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Random House
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[2022]
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English
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"Before becoming executive chef and part owner of the California soul food restaurant Alta Adams in West LA, Keith Corbin had spent a quarter of his life in prison. Renowned as the best cook of crack cocaine in Los Angeles, Corbin more or less raised himself on the streets of Watts, learning to cook crack when he was only thirteen. He knew he was doing it right if it had the consistency of the roux his granny made for her gumbo. It was a violent business-one...
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"Part memoir, part travelogue, part love letter to the people who live and work on a magical street in Paris. Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. 'I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs,' Sciolino explains, as she celebrates the neighborhood's rich history and vibrant lives. While many...
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