 | In My Father's Image: Life in the Shadows of a Local Legend
Publication Date: September 9, 2009In the midst of high level meetings in Paris, bank executive Dan Kinsey receives the shocking news of his father's death. Shaken, he rushes back to his hometown in Indiana. His father, a local basketball legend in this tough, blue-collar town, draws a huge crowd to his memorial service. Dan feels conflicted as he listens to the glowing accolades about his popular father.Seeking closure, Dan opens the door to his troubled past and takes the reader on an emotional journey into a world of pick-up basketball games, angry beatings from a drunken father and blood...
 |  | The Fruit 'N Food
Publication Date: January 1, 2010When Thomas Pak is hired as a clerk at a Korean grocery, he isn't prepared for the searing racial tensions that threaten to destroy the neighborhood in which he lives and works. His tenuous relationship with the store owners and their young daughter is jeopardized by his own conflicting affiliations of race and class, and these turbulent forces soon converge violently around in the form of a race riot. Thomas Keneally (Schindler's List) wrote of this book: "Leonard Chang's vigorous tale is a drama of society's perpetual struggle for renewal and reconciliation...
|  | Bangers
Release Date: October 1, 2003 On The Streets Of L.A.Us against them. That's the law of the cop world. In L.A.'s toughest'hoods, you gotta bang with the best of the roughnecks. And the best arethe five members of TRASH, an elite team of street cops unafraid to go upagainst the city's worst gangbangers, even if it means bending the rules,planting a piece, or looking the other way for a fellow cop.The Most Dangerous Person Can Be A Cop... The crime-infested Venice Heights section is a place Detective SergeantRafael "Saint" Santian understands. It's where he grew up, and part of himnever left....
|  | Born Dying (Strebor on the Streetz)
Release Date: February 5, 2008| Series: Strebor on the Streetz Harold L. Turley II reveals the not-so-glamorous lifestyle of crime in this story of a Washington D.C. kingpin and a drug-addicted ex-detective who cross paths and change each other's lives forever. There are two fates that come from indulging in a life of crime: death or incarceration. Nate Rodgers and Lionel Taylor are opposites in every way. While Nate has achieved dubious power and fame by pushing drugs on the streets, Lionel has fallen from honor as a police detective by giving in to the lure of drug abuse and losing his f...
|  | Mixed Messages
Release Date: March 1, 2006On the surface Kailah Carter is a loyal and trusted friend, hardworking financial consultant, and devoted daughter. At least that’s what her best friend Mona Richards always thought. That is until she discovers Kailah’s been sleeping with her man. Kailah believes Keith Terrence to be her Prince Charming. His smooth talk and fat bank account sweeps Kailah off her designer heels, and she happily assumes the role of respective wife --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Be Careful What You Pray For
Release Date: October 26, 2010“Be careful what you pray for” is an old adage, but third grade teacher Maya Richards comes to discover that it’s more than just a cliché. Maya has been with her soul mate, Kenneth Green, for more than ten years. She never doubted that he would one day ask for her hand in marriage, but on the eve of their anniversary, their relationship ends abruptly, and she finds herself alone for the first time in thirteen years. Maya turns to her family and best friend to help deal with her heartbreak, but is left to heal on her own. Her parents hav...
|  | Criss Cross
Release Date: January 31, 2006Brand new book! ...
|  | Body of Evidence
Release Date: October 1, 2007Panthea Daniels is stunned and devastated when she learns her husband of seven years is having an affair. She visits attorney Marcus Douglas to begin divorce proceedings, but sparks immediately begin to fly between the two. Things take a dramatic and unexpected turn as the two engage in an illicit affair. After receiving pictures of the womanIt s not everyday that you see your husband s mistress. - Panthea is arrested and charged with her rival s murder. The victim, Abril Arrington was involved with several men, and was conning them all out of money- including Pa...
|  | Dope, Death and Deception
Publication Date: March 1, 2011Meet Lovely Brown, a 20 year old from Detroit, MI that has witnessed too much! After her father was sentenced to major time behind bars her mother turns to drugs and is later found dead because of it. She is left to take care of her younger sister after her older sister bails! She s been homeless and hungry, taking various street jobs to put food on the table for her baby sister Tori, but after a case of mistaken identity Lovely is left all alone with no family because they ve all become victims of the streets, in one way or another. She vows to take vengeance ...
|  | Whatever It Takes
Release Date: May 26, 2007Whatever It Takesis a compelling novel depicting what happens when Butch and Zig Steel, carrying a 25 year grudge, finally gets their chance to unleash hell upon an unsuspecting prey. Their plan includes kidnapping, extortion and murder; all skillfully executed and absent of pity and remorse. The cherry on top of the Steel brotherscake is 25 million dollars that feeds their thirst for revenge.To complete their mission, it will involve the capturing of innocent 9 year old Penny Baker, because she holds the key to it all. The only thing standing in the Steel brothersw...
|  | Matthew Flinders' Cat
Publication Date: April 2, 2012Billy O'Shannessy, once a prominent barrister, is now on the street where he sleeps on a bench outside the State Library. Above him on the windowsill rests a bronze statue of Matthew Flinders' cat, Trim. Ryan is a ten-year-old, a near street kid heading for all the usual trouble. The two meet and form an unlikely friendship. Appealing to the boy's imagination by telling him the story of the circumnavigation of Australia as seen through Trim's eyes, Billy is drawn deeply into Ryan's life and into the Sydney underworld. Over several months the two begin the mutua...
|  | The Baddest Chick
Release Date: June 26, 2007Following up on the gritty street drama, It s on and Poppin , DeondraDee DeeDavis is now out of jail on bail and set to find her brotherskiller.Don Ruiz, now in control of Don Valdez s territory, discovers from the little black book that Jay and Bee, her brothers, owe a lot of product and money, and calls upon a hired killer named Pecaso to seek them out.Dee Dee must find a way to stay strong and keep her inner circle moving forward because, if she slips one time, Detectives Gary and Perkins will be right there to hand deliver her in cuffs to Ms. Cole, the ShrewdI ...
|  | The Cathouse
Release Date: May 27, 2008Inside the walls of Allure, your kinkiest fantasies can become reality. With top of the line women, top shelf drinks, and top quality drugs, you can be floating on cloud nine in a matter of minutes. That is, if you are amongst the fortunate few to be invited.Lady Dee, a retired working girl who is the madam at Allure, lets nothing slide. But one of her top performers has been making it almost impossible to maintain serenity within the walls of Allure. Will Lady Dee get a handle on the situation or will it be an all-out war? For Kimona, losing her spot as the top v...
|  | Beautifully Imperfect
Publication Date: March 30, 2012Rebecca Thomas is living the American dream. She's successful, beautiful and married to her high school sweetheart. Life wasn't perfect but it was close enough. At least that's what she thought until she received the phone call that would send her world spiraling down. Malik Thomas has never been one to be faithful. It's not that he doesn't love his wife but papa was a rolling stone and the apple didn't fall far from the tree. His motto was "a man's got to do what a man's got to do". That's until his past catches up to him and jeopardizes his future....
|  | The Lovechild (Urban Christian)
Release Date: September 1, 2011| Series: Urban Christian Makaeli Lovechild Hunt is a successful fashion designer in Italy. She left a painful history in Newark, New Jersey, where she repeatedly struggled with her own spirituality and identity. But when a family emergency calls her back to her home town, she is forced to face her tumultuous past. In returning to the States, she also leaves something behind in Italy. But when it unexpectedly surfaces during her home visit, Makaeli is caught between a rock and a hard place. In seven life-altering days, Makaeli discovers the true definition of h...
|  | Snapped (Urban Renaissance)
Release Date: October 26, 2010| Series: Urban Renaissance To Merlin Mills, his family ceased to exist when his father turned his back on him, and he had to make some drastic changes in order to survive. Now, nine years later, his family is back, and their existence threatens his once stable relationship with his new wife. If Merlin wants to hold on to her, he must face the demons he’s conveniently forgotten and put them in their proper perspective. Can he undo the damage caused by his omission, or will he snap under the pressure? Gavin Mills always despised his twin brother,...
|  | The Last Block in Harlem
Release Date: July 13, 2010All fire escapes lead back to the same block in Sugar Hill, Harlem- where kids run through hydrants and music blares from stereos plugged into lampposts. When a new resident (the story's unnamed narrator) notices the trash polluting the picturesque streets and tainting the block's beauty, he is spurred to action. However, his best intentions go awry when the clean-up brings media coverage that in turn, sets off a rash of evictions and ushers in an influx of new and affluent tenants. In an attempt to preserve his neighborhood, the tenant mobilizes a grassroots effor...
|  | FLOSS
Publication Date: August 10, 2008In the world we live in people are divided into three main social classes. The Upper class is comprised of the immensely wealthy and powerful. The Middle class consists of managers and highly paid professionals, and the Lower class is made up of people who are paid average or low wages, receiving 'welfare', unemployed or homeless. In Detroit and other cities like it, a fourth social class has emerged in the minds of those who occupy it that falls somewhere in between the middle and upper classes.Unlike the other classes, the fourth is more of an active state ...
|  | American Music
Publication Date: November 1, 2007“Chris Martin . . . takes the O’Hara city poet eye in his own direction, showing a sweet vision for the distance between public and private spaces.”—Jacket American Music, selected by C. D. Wright from over one thousand manuscripts as winner of the Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets, is uniquely attuned to the feedback symphony of a modern city, the lyrical product of “an earnest rage born of the absurd.”Chris Martin’s poems reflect all things found in the urban environment: asphalt, subways, technology,...
|  | The Necessary Hunger: A Novel
Release Date: December 5, 2011As a star basketball player in her last year of high school, Nancy Takahiro’s life is about to change forever. Facing the fear of leaving home and wondering where her skill will take her, Nancy is not prepared for the complications that arise when she meets Raina Webber, a devoted, ferocious athlete, whose love of basketball is matched only by her talent for it. ...
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