Fiction - Urban & Street Lit

Forced out of the Los Angeles Times amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, using his final days at the paperto write the definitive murder story of his career. He focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old...

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of The HoursMichael Cunningham's best novel in more than a decade.-Megan O'Grady, VogueIt's November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is inspired to look up at the sky; there he sees a...

Imagine This is the sequel to Vickie Stringer's bestselling Let That Be the Reason, her stunning debut novel based on life as she knew it in the shocking underworld of the sex and drug trade. Vickie Stringer has gained a legion of fans for...

Mrs Featherby had been having pleasant dreams until she woke to discover the front of her house had vanished overnight.On a seemingly normal morning in London, a group of people all lose something dear to them, something dear but peculiar: the front of their...

This collection of stories set in contemporary America--a finalist for the National Book Award--herald a work of singular literary merit by an important writer at the height of her power. We think about it every day, sometimes every hour: Money. Who has it. Who...

A summer bestseller from the immensely popular Lindsey KelkBeing arrested in your own bedroom is never a good start to the day. Tess Brookes really needs to sort out her back-stabbing flatmate - and her life.Should she gamble all on the new photography job...

Writing with equal insight about New York City, Hollywood, and the small-town Pennsylvania world where he grew up, John O'Hara cultivated an unsentimental and often unsparing realism, aiming, he said, "to record the way people talked and thought and felt . . . with...

As El Salvador returns to peace after more than a decade of civil war, Eduardo Sosa, an unemployed sociologist, becomes fascinated by a homeless man who lives in a beat-up yellow Chevrolet parked across the street from his sister's apartment. An unexpected turn of...

A living lizard nailed to a pillar and a young man bound by a family misfortune--a tale that poses questions about life, death, and karma by one of Japan's most beloved living writers In 1970s Osaka, college student Tetsuyuki moves into a shabby apartment...

Don Carpenter wrote about Hollywood like no one else. Hollywood Trilogy collects, for the first time, Carpenter's most significant Hollywood novels--A Couple of Comedians, The Turnaround and The True Life Story of Jody McKeegan--into a single volume. Here readers will find the jungle of...

In the tradition of The Stranger and The Old Man and the Sea, this masterful novella by critically acclaimed novelist Michael Farris Smith explores the human spirit and its capacity for faith and forgiveness in an imperfect world and begs the question: how do...

Henry James led a wandering life, which took him far from his native shores, but he continued to think of New York City, where his family had settled for several years during his childhood, as his hometown. Here Colm T ib n, the author...

Winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in short fiction, selected by David Means, and the University of Nevada's Silver Pen Award.What would have become of Nick Adams if he'd been born along the ragged edges of a new American city, one with more churches...

A hip New Yorker confronts the accident of middle age.Author: Joan SilberISBN-10: 1889330434ISBN-13: 9781889330433Publisher: Sarabande BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2000Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.99h x 5.98w x 0.61dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2000 pg. 328Library Journal 04/01/2000 pg. 134Booklist 04/15/2000 pg. 1525New York Times 06/11/2000 pg. 22Library...

A New York Review Books Original In 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage-set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural life of the city. Berlin Stories...

Soul has just finished his 18-month sentence for a parole violation. Still in love with his son's mother, America, he wants nothing more than for them to become a family and move on from his past. But while Soul was in prison, America's music...

Sexy Shifters. Urban Fantasy. Reverse Harem.Karen Martin is drowning in men, but she wouldn't want it any other way. As a half-witch/half-Coyote shifter, she's got her hands full with four gorgeous shifters. Except the high-council told her as the thirteenth Zodiac sign, she'll need...

Au Bonheur des Dames presents a look at late nineteenth century Paris and the introduction of the large department store. It takes a close look at the conditions in the department store, as well as the appeal to its customers and affect on the...

Silver Medalist for Best West-Mountain Regional Novel 2017Winner of the 2017 International Book Award for Best Literary FictionFinalist for Best New Fiction at the Best Book AwardsFinalist for the Red City Review Best Literary Fiction Award Forty million people visit Vegas every year but...

It begins with an envelope. Twenty years old, maybe more, with the dust of the dead-letter office still clinging to the stained, fraying paper. It arrives in the mailbox of Lucy with the address of a vacant neighborhood lot barely legible on the front....

Hot and sticky describes the ancient Japanese city of Kyoto in summer. And that is just the situation Peter Meadowes finds himself in when he flees to Kyoto for his summer vacation. During the rest of the year the middle-aged Meadowes teaches in Tokyo,...

There was a time when New York was everything to me: my mother, my mistress, my Mecca, when I could no more have wanted to live any place else than I could have conceived of myself as a daddy, disciplining my boy and dandling...

***WINNER - IPPY Bronze Book Award - Best Regional Fiction (2009)***WINNER - BookBundlz Best Book (2009-2010 Winter Award) The Hierophant of 100th Street is a remarkable, unusual book: a metaphysical novel set in a violent world of slums, gangs, and prisons. Drawing on the...

In the fifth installment of the popular Ghetto Girls series, Coco suffers an injury that leaves her more helpless than she could have imagined. As she relies on her best friend Deedee for love and support, their relationship grows to another level. But Deedee...

From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of A Sense of an Ending comes a comedy of sexual awakening in the 1960s that is "wonderfully fresh, crackling with nostalgic irreverence" (Vogue). Only the author of Flaubert's Parrot could give us a novel that is at...

The darkest places in the world are the shadows inside of us all, and revenge is nothing more than a black light. Nobody forgets who broke their heart, who fu#ked them over or who took what they loved the most. Because the pain becomes...

Tressa always thought that the best moment in her life was the day she gave birth to her twin boys, Khalil and Hadji, but even better was when she got the news that their abusive father, Lucky, was dead. His death gave the streets...

It's all fun and games until your goose gets cooked. Maddy Whitman, the sharp-witted aficionado of the storage auction world, is on a rollercoaster ride through hilarious mishaps and heart-pounding twists in "Fowl Play". When she stumbles upon a peculiar Mexican mask in a...

Welcome to the wicked lands of Dallas, Texas where being ruthless is the key to survival! It's the place where predators challenge predators, and prey doesn't stand a chance! Messiah's game has reached its peek, but when treachery from the ones at his table...

In the Caretaker, a realistic drama, a retired financial consultant once promised he'd protect and care for the wildlife park which his late grandfather donated to the small urban city of Aspen Grove. A very aggressive developer from Hollis Homes chooses part of the...

The Last of Us Survival Guide offers survival strategies and tactics for living in a post-apocalyptic world, filled with danger and infected humans. It provides readers with detailed instructions on how to find food, water, shelter, and other resources necessary for survival in the...

Dark and humorous, literary but with the heart of a detective novel, Ordinary Bear weighs the burden of grief while exploring our boundless capacity for humanity, kindness, and hope.Farley stands out among his Ipiat neighbors in the Alaska village he calls home, both white...

Mitchell Daniels' better known as MD in the streets, was born and raised in Memphis, TN, as a product of two worlds. MD's mother, Kendi, was from Germantown, TN, a suburb of Memphis. Kendi's parents tried to keep her under lock and key, causing...

In the Caretaker, a realistic drama, a retired financial consultant once promised he'd protect and care for the wildlife park which his late grandfather donated to the small urban city of Aspen Grove. A very aggressive developer from Hollis Homes chooses part of the...

With a 'functional user' and alcoholic as a parent, young Sabiyah had to grow up before her time. In addition to having to take care of her younger brother, maintain a 4.0 GPA and working, she'd been abused, neglected, mistreated, taken advantage of and...

This novel shows how literature manifests itself in a wide arrange of spaces and characters regardless of social class or education. Jesus Bottaro presents us with a narrative that is both complex and seductive in the sociological, psychological and poetic levels. Bottaro's writing could...

New Hope Academy-aka-No Hope. Every housing project has a local group home where unwanted kids are dumped like bags of trash. Those young throwaways view their latest struggle through innocent eyes; some scared, others crying, most of them both. But a HARD KNOCK LIFE...

There is no better friend than a sister and nothing hurts more than being disappointed by your sister, who vowed to never hurt you again. In this installment, Allison is silently screaming hell hath no fury like a woman scorned when she learns of...

The Hermit explores the world of high-stakes investment banking with a sharp eye for the existential ramifications of this calling. The plot follows the daily routine of Andy Sylvain, a 50-year-old Manhattan bond trader who grows disenchanted with his daily hustle and starts to...

Sister Souljah returns to her beloved character Winter Santiaga in the captivating and heart-pounding sequel to instant #1 New York Times bestseller Life After Death. After suffering a horrifying, yet soul stirring death experience, worldwide top bitch Winter Santiaga, of The Coldest Winter Ever,...

But Flop is faced with a task harder than Moses. When he attempts to convince his old teammates to cross over to a new hustle that the majority of hustlers in the streets has always considered a complicated white man's hustle. Find out if...

2021 Nordic Council Literature Prize FinalistThe stories in Purity take the reader through cities and suburbs, apartments and streets, to find characters struggling to survive in modern society: a man has an outburst on a bus; a fugitive finds insight in a color wheel;...

Almost nine years after being arrested, convicted and sentenced to life plus in federal prison for Murder, Continuance Of a Criminal Enterprise (CCE), and Kingpin related charges, the man known on the streets only as "Nightmare", is on the verge of having his convictions...

When Adonis Stuffy (Ug) is released from prison, he hits the ground running, as he began to pull his life back together. Everything was working in his favor: a connect, more money than he could ever imagine, supreme hustling status, and he even found...

Boy, I Had Enough... What if the man you love is not the man you love? A spin-off from the hit novel 'Girl, I Had Enough', this novel is a heart wrenching tale full of sex, drama, and mayhem. Daphne's sole purpose of living...

This is an easy to read children's chapter book about bullying. There are a few twist and turns, super hero's, and encouragement for victims to tell their stories. This book is written to capture the Multicultural group and promote reading.Author: Kaprice M. Williams, Kingston...

A debut novel from the award-winning journalist about the people in a San Francisco homeless shelter, and those who try to help--or prey on them. "Ever since I first read Mr. Garcia's journalism I have admired his bravery and accuracy. This work reminds me...

An Edgar Award Nominee, Best Paperback Original.For the first time in years, things are going well for Long Beach homicide detective Danny Beckett. He's closing cases with his partner, Jennifer Tanaka, and keeping a spare suit at the condo of his girlfriend, Julia Rice....

Sister Souljah returns to her beloved character Winter Santiaga in the captivating and heart-pounding sequel to instant #1 New York Times bestseller Life After Death. After suffering a horrifying, yet soul stirring death experience, worldwide top bitch Winter Santiaga, of The Coldest Winter Ever,...

Darius 'D-Boy' Jensen was pronounced dead from a car bomb explosion. But is he really dead? His only living sibling, Jay-Roc, knows the truth and he's been keeping the secret for 7 years. D-Boy and his lawyer, John, exiled themselves to Dubai until the...