 | 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. ...
 |  | Gangster Girl
Publication Date: April 1, 2011A girl must reconnect with her outlaw roots in the second book of this gritty female thriller trilogy Daisy Sullivan's father was one of London’s most infamous gangsters. Haunted by his violent death, she vows to live a respectable life—until the day her mom, who abandoned her when she was young and who she barely remembers, barges back into her life unexpectedly. It doesn't take Daisy long to realize that her mom is the queenpin of a prostitution ring with links to high society and the head of one of London's most feared underworld f...
|  | It Was Just, Yesterday
Publication Date: February 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 1905583370 | ISBN-13: 978-1905583379On Christmas Eve, a girl stalks an older man through wintery city streets, haunted by their shared past; in a remote woodland cottage, an eccentric explains to his granddaughter why he shoots cats whenever they make themselves too comfortable; in a checkout queue, a woman suddenly shows charity to a penniless guy she seemingly doesn’t know. The characters in this collection are all, in their own way, evading something, whether failing to confront the true nature of an encounter or avoiding responsibili...
|  | 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 ...
|  | 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...
|  | Chocolate Sangria
Release Date: March 27, 2007Juanita Lucas is a young woman living in a housing project in Brooklyn. Although she has a very light complexion, she is proud of her blackness, even as she takes a beating from the very sistahs she tries so hard to emulate. Her only friend, Scooter Morrison, is an upwardly mobile brother who also happens to be young, gifted, and gay. Then a chance encounter with two fine Puerto Rican men changes Juanita’s and Scooter’s lives in ways they could never have imagined. There is Conan, a hardworking man who wrestles with both his love for Juanita and his ...
|  | 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....
|  | Zipcodez A Watts and Compton Tale
Publication Date: April 28, 2011Set on the gritty streets of Watts and Compton Zipcodez is an exhilarating urban anthem that is bound to entertain and inspire. We are introduced to Lana a resilient young woman dealing with the excitement and disappointment of first love, an abusive relationship, and the trials and tribulations of everyday life. We also meet Debo a young menace from a well to do family who is mesmerized by the gangsta' lifestyle and gets caught up along the way. Will they change their outlook or will they ultimately succumb to the ills of the ghetto? From the looks of it the ...
|  | Urban Affair
Release Date: July 1, 2008For Chance Bates, life doesn't come with too many certainties. He learned this while growing up in the foster care system, being shifted from one home to the next. What he does know is that only the strong survive, and he is determined to make something of himself and marry the girl of his dreams.His girl, Patrice Trent, teaches Chance that life is wonderful. She should know. She grew up in an upper-class black family where her opportunities have been abundant. But when her family learns that Chance was born to a mother with a severe mental illness, they are determi...
|  | 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...
|  | All Lies and Jest
Publication Date: December 1, 2011A dark, sexy subculture romp, All Lies and Jest is a novel about belief, delusion, and the dangers of being so open-minded that your brain falls out. When the USA becomes a fundamentalist theocracy, one of its first actions is to round up all the queers, atheists, deviants, geeks, goths and other undesirables it can find, and throw them out. The United Kingdom welcomes more than its fair share. But Britain is no haven; the Christian United States wants the Old Country to follow in its footsteps, and the fundamentalist tides are rising. Elinor Rosewood is a h...
|  | 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....
|  | 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...
|  | Crew Love
Publication Date: June 16, 2009Phil-Good Trenton is caring, charismatic, and passionate. Traits that get buried underneath his kill or be killed mentality in an attempt to pay rent.Jermaine Lloyd is a casino operator at an illegal after hours joint. He lives an ideal life of a bachelor but will his gambling addiction threaten to take that all away?Blue Ball has always cared for himself and his younger brother. But bailing his brother out of trouble one time too many may prove fatal.Short Stack was a hustler all his life, always about the dollar but will he change his attitude for the love of...
|  | 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,...
|  | Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed: A Novel
Publication Date: January 1, 2011On a manic ride from the mixing boards of hip-hop recording studios to mansions in the Hamptons and the projects of the urban ghetto, Detective Black Sallie Blue Eyes ventures behind-the-scenes of the record business in search of a street-side assassin. Casting a widely satirical net on all spectra and species of the Manhattan social scene—from tweaking downtown hipsters, wrestling fetishists, and rapper wannabes to real estate moguls and hip-hop impresarios—this satirical urban noir novel offers intrigue, insight, and an innovative brand ...
|  | Teenage Bluez III
Publication Date: March 23, 2009| Series: Teenage Bluez The third installment in the most sought after Urban Series for teens. Teen issues that get real crazy... With the year 2009 quickly approaching, technology has young Alondi texting, hanging out on myspace, facebook, and any other internet site or chat room she can find. She thinks all is well as she basks in the good life with her affluent family and friends. That is, until she realizes someone is watching her. Buckle up...you don t wanna miss what happens next. ...
|  | 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 ...
|  | Walk Like a Man
Release Date: September 26, 2006"The first time I lied naked with a woman I was nervous but anxious to get it on. I had no idea what we were supposed to do. As I sat there waiting for her to make her move, she was lying there waiting for me to make mine. So I kissed her. ...I will say that our lovemaking was one of the most intense events of my life. That whole night I felt this power...
|  | Oriental Girls Desire Romance
Publication Date: February 29, 2012It's 1980s New York, and though the coke flows freely, money and glamour are the more powerful intoxicants. While fortunes are being made in SoHo galleries and on Wall Street, an underclass of transient drag queens and dandies, club kids and strippers, artists and actors, models and waitstaff wander the streets, providing the city's background color, cheap labor and even cheaper entertainment. The unnamed narrator of Catherine Liu's 1997 novel Oriental Girls Desire Romance--now reprinted by Kaya Press--is a young Chinese-American woman who skirts the edges ...
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