Fiction - Urban & Street Lit

200's jackboy ambitions has brought him millions of dollars, but its also brought him many enemies. The most active being the true underworld bosses of Dallas - the Golliday's, and the ruthless leader of their faction, PG. Scorned and hurt by the unfortunate deaths...

" A Billionaire's Bucket List: A Life of Dreams, Regrets, and Redemption" is a powerful and deeply personal journey of a billionaire who spent his life chasing wealth, only to realize that true fulfillment lies beyond material success. Told in an intimate first-person narrative,...

Have you ever looked at a woman and knew something just wasn't right with her? That no matter how hard she tried to fit in, there was always something off about her?We've all got that friend. The strange one who never wants to introduce...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES CHARLOTTE AITKEN YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD'With the sharp and delectable music of its dialect, the book grabs you by its teeth from the first page and never quite lets go . . . This is an urgent...

Can a former supervillain escape his sins? Years on a grueling, deep-cover mission left young superhero Jake Powell world-weary and broken. With his past behind him, he just wants to focus on getting his life back together to prepare for a future with his...

Wasted days and wasted nights with your friends can be a beautiful thing. Sidney Beckett finds his place among the Wildwood Dead. Summer nights of adventures, good tunes and wild fights. Join Sidney and the rest on their journeys in their world of outcast,...

The Metalheads - Heavy metal music, partying, drugs, alcohol and sex are the only things that matter to this subculture of teen misfits. When the hottest rocker chick in town, Trisha Williams, is thrown a 16th birthday bash at her father's house, things take...

Eric "Pharaoh" Wright is an up-and-coming producer and hip hop artist in the City of Birmingham. As his star begins to rise, he finds it harder and harder to find love. Groupies are good for one thing, and the women that he takes interest...

Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, it includes one of his better-known short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". Several of the stories...

Together they have the world in their hands. They are the First Family of Black America. The power couple. No one can stop them. But their enemies are hard at work trying to do just that. The Mexican terrorist Jennifer Costilla returns to the...

Just one shot, and Ray became a KILLER!Provoked by his gang leader into shooting an innocent guy, Ray now faces a forty-year sentence in Chicago's infamous prison system. As far as he is concerned, it might as well be for life.In prison, he finds...

This story collection--a finalist for the annual first fiction award presented by the Texas Institute of Letters--explores Austin, Texas, a city famous for music, football, and drunken fun frolics-- and famous too for traffic jams, anomie, and dislocation. In Long Time Ago Good, Lowell...

What happens when Mila doesn't feel like going home directly after a visit to the local grocery store with her mom? Discover the adventures they encounter on their leisurely walk home. Mila becomes a guide for her mom - to see, hear, smell, and...

Teacher Raymond Donne finds himself embroiled in another baffling murder case when his friend MoJo is found dead on the school roof, pierced by an arrow. On the rooftop of Raymond Donne's school, Maurice 'MoJo' Joseph's lifeless body is found with an arrow sticking...

Author: Fern KupferISBN-10: 1683151151ISBN-13: 9781683151159Publisher: Culicidae Press, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/2025Pages: 258Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d

Completing his celebrated novels-in-stories triptych, begun with Good People and A Better Class of People, Robert Lopez delivers the third installment, The Best People, which follows a man who made the mistake of being born and is trying to make the best of that...

A complex family drama with a Manhattan family court judge at its center. I Don't Know How to Tell You This focuses on Judge Rachel Sugarman and her life both inside and outside the courtroom. Rachel is part of a close Jewish family whose...

Author: King RioISBN-10: 1965448348ISBN-13: 9781965448342Publisher: Lock Down PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/14/2025Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d

In the fifth installment of this action-filled, gripping urban fiction saga, Joker Red and the crew face new challenges like never before. While doing so, new missions are taken on, opening up another can of worms. Although they have clearance to do things their...

After the tragic shooting of Potential, the entire Clifton family was in disarray. With Potential's fate hanging in the balance, the Clifton family is united in prayer for his survival. Yet, amidst the turmoil, Liz is consumed by a thirst for vengeance, and is...

Growing up in the city of Nashville, where life was extremely plentiful for some, and completely difficult for others, the Clifton's managed to hold it all together by manifesting amongst themselves. The family embraced one of the most powerful emotions of them all... Love....

In Debt with God is an in depth look at the Game - the dope game, the pimp game, the street game. It's the truth story of a young man who ruthlessly ran the streets for twenty years. A young man who was taught...

Crumbs To Bricks is an exciting story of rags to riches that takes place in the inner city slums of Jacksonville, Florida. Confronted with the hardships of poverty and the negative stimulus of his environment, young Goldie teams up with a neighborhood crack fiend...

Hoping for a fresh start, Samone the black sheep of her family, soon learns things are not what she anticipated, and while living with her father, she discovers grave secrets will change her life.Author: S. M. JohnsonISBN-10: 0975945378ISBN-13: 9780975945377Publisher: Augustus Publishing, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2006Pages:...

From the writer whose first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, defined a generation, a collection of twenty-six stories, new and old, that trace the arc of his career for nearly three decades.Author: Jay McInerneyISBN-10: 030738795XISBN-13: 9780307387950Publisher: Knopf Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/06/2010Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize:...

Author: Matt BilleISBN-13: 9798893250381Publisher: Hangar 1 PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/08/2025Pages: 250Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d

When Kaedon stumbles into the quiet and orderly life of Trenika and her daughter Aryanna, he has no clue of the path that is set for him. But Kaedon is in a dire situation -- he is a wanted man, and at the risk...

Taking its title from the savvy, street-wise slave girl in A Thousand And One Nights, this debut collection from Mosul-born Anoud, celebrates the strongest of women in the toughest of predicaments. From the heroine of the title story, fighting her way out of forced...

Set in contemporary Cardiff, this diverse, pacey, high-concept time-warp crime novella explores themes of violence, ritual and alternative realities, while it seeks to honour the victims of serial killers and challenge the way that some have become part of the tourism industry. A grieving...

Dusman Gonzaga lives in a squalid apartment with a lot of hungry cockroaches. His neighbours, a mix of garbage men, hawkers, witch doctors, fraudsters, wise men and mad men, all think he is insane when he asks them to join his revolt against rent...

As the OG That's All Me crew gets older and wiser they just want healing and peace. But is that possible after years of torment and tragedy? Join them in the FINAL installment of That's All Me: The Beginning to find out if a...

Felisha Ford is looking for excitement in her life, and college seems to be the answer! She's looking forward to the HBCU culture and independence, but falling for basketball star Julian Martelle was the last thing on her mind. *THIS IS A PART 1...

Long stretches in the slammer can make an amateur hustler tapout and call it quits.Not Fool, tho. He's a decorated vet from the original war on drugs. After his recent release from the state pen, he touches back down in his old 'hood with...

Rico da'Don is what they use to call him. Now days they calling him Rico d's Police. He was your average guy, at least from the look of him, but on the inside, he was cold blooded.In 1996, Rico was the man. He was...

Washington, D.C. has never seen rage like that of ShaniQua "NiQue" Watkins. After taking out her entire family she has decided to settle in on being a mother to her newborn daughter, YaSheema Nicole, and soon-to-be wife to her rapper fianc , Ronald "Dread"...

One day Russell J. Smith was sitting in his restaurant, having just laid-off two shifts of workers, and with no business coming through the front door. The bills where due and Russell had to come up with a new plan of action that would...

Edge City, from the author of Low Bite, takes place in an every-noir-city (a thinly veiled portrait of San Francisco's North Beach), and its newest resident is Reno, an angry fledgling just hatched out of prison. Getting out is like a weird dream, and...

Things are heating up with Misha and Tori Carter as they decide the fate of their marriage. Lauren isn't done with married men and will go all out in one extreme attempt to save face. Though her one real love may be standing in...

Mia Evans and Karrine Ray are best friends. They have been through everything together since Jr. High School, and both have grown into womanhood beautifully. Each is pretty successful in her own professional life. Mia is one of the top Executives at Crane Talent...

Options tells the story of Rome, a young man growing up in the hard streets of Detroit. Born to a teenage mother and raised by the streets, he is easily exposed to the criminal activities that played out in his impoverished community. Lured in...

Just as Dr. Aminah Goodwin, a successful college professor and independent spirit, thinks that she has settled into middle age without any foreseeable excitement left in her 10 year marriage, she is far from mistaken. Despite the embellishments of success, her marriage has lacked...

Boss Bitch Rises by Keita B. Star is an average girl just trying to make it. With a sick mother and younger siblings to look after she has a lot on her plate. When her baby brother Cory gets into trouble the entire family...

Synopsis: Brandy was still a firecracker; Lance was still quick tempered and his gentleman side had subsided. Together, they were the modern day Bonnie & Clyde; until tragedy struck. Lance had to figure out how to live without Brandy. Would he be able to...

Brandy is a firecracker, and Lance is a gentleman with a quick temper. Together, they are the modern day Bonnie & Clyde. After breaking up several times in the past, they try their hand at dating again. This time Lance gets another girl pregnant,...

Suge Knight was raised in one of the deadliest neighborhoods in Compton, California. In the culture he was molded in, joining a gang and putting his life on the line for his set was a rite of passage. His inner circle was made up...

There's an up-and-coming crew called Cutthroat that's trying to take over the streets, but they are already taken... Fresh off of doing a 5-year bid for a gun that was found under his seat, Greedy hit the streets on a mission and he wasn't...

One day, you'll realize that there are some people you'll never see again; at least not the same way... Neighbors Lantana Hart and Ralo Thompson are both raised in domestic violence households, but miraculously survive the horrific circumstances when they rely on each other....

Greed, jealousy and power will be the driving force as the cartel boss Carlos De Sosa, attempts to take over what he desires. Minister, a hired assassin will issue torture like never before, black magic and a sadistic torture will appease his dark soul....

Long live the queen Tisha has worked hard to establish her name in the streets of New Jersey. She's paid her dues taking lives and losing those closest to her. Still reeling from the unexpected loss of her right hand, her sister Tosha, she...

Follow one of the most beautiful and desirable women in Chicago as she makes her way through the world of professional athletes. Groupie Chronicles 1 introduces us to Mia Delgado, a feisty and beautiful Black, Dominican and Italian 21 year old who sees nothing...