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Series
Girls from da hood volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
For Unique, life is good until her dope-dealing boyfriend, Took, is arrested and winds up in jail. Now she's broke as a joke' trying to put every petty hustle into play to chase hard times away from the door. With an empty refrigerator, a stack of bills piling up, a tenth grade education, a big butt and a smile, it doesn't take long for her to learn to pull the wool over the eyes of any fool who's blinded by her good looks. She's sure that one
...Author
Series
Single ladies (Blake Karrington) volume 1
Publisher
Urban
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Life is complicated for a group of five friends living in the inner city. Tammy is starting to feel the pressure of being a single mother of two girls. Chris, her kids' father has been incarcerated for the past five months, not making Tammy's situation any better. Lamar and Falisha have crossed the lines of their friendship after having sex for the first time, and Kim is in her own world lately. She is so focused on her job that she really doesn't...
Author
Series
Real wifeys trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Rapper Make$'s wifey, Harriet Jordan, finds herself out in the cold financially after Make$ is imprisoned for his role in the brutal rape of Luscious' friend and his business partner, Kaeyla "Goldie" Dennis, a misguided young woman who once ran a strip club out of her apartment.
Author
Language
English
Description
1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Kraków Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of relative ease with her stepmother, who has developed...
Author
Series
Naeema 'Queen' Cole novels volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From one of the most daring voices in urban fiction comes a sexy new novel about a modern-day Foxy Brown who goes undercover in a dangerous quest for revenge. Naeema "Queen" Cole takes care of herself. From the death of her parents when she was just eleven years old to when she found herself pregnant and alone at sixteen, Naeema has had to make her own way in the world. She gave up her son for adoption and became an apprentice at a barber shop, making...
Author
Series
Bad girlz novels volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Escaping the dark and dangerous world of strip clubs, dirty money, sex, and murder for a career as a hair stylist, Tonya Morris finds herself back in the business after being blacklisted, teams up with her best-friend Na'eema to seek success with their underground sex parties, and encounters new perils in the form of an ex-lover and his murderous baby mama.
10) Tight
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After his quick-tempered father gets in a fight and is sent back to jail, sixth-grader Bryan, known for being quiet and thoughtful, snaps and follows new friend Mike into trouble.
Author
Series
Real wifeys trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Suga is the wifey of Dane, a man whose criminal lifestyle as a loan shark is in total contrast to her successful career in business. Dane swears he will go legit before they get married, but when their house is raided, Suga has to decide to avoid jail time by turning on him or standing by the man she loves. Things get more complicated when she steps in to run Danes business and has to use her book and street smarts to stay ahead of the game and out...
Author
Series
Ghetto girls volume 6
Publisher
Augustus Publishing
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
A compelling finale to the Ghetto Girls Series. Two teen girls are drawn together and after sharing similar experiences, they become even closer. The mountain of tragedies that they have faced in their lives still threatens to push them over the cliff. Even when they feel they've moved along, In Ghetto Girls 6 demons from back in the days continue to haunt. Coco and Deedee come face to face with the violence and issues of the past. Rachel Harvey's...
Author
Series
Haven series (Catherine Palmer) volume 3
Publisher
Steeple Hill
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"In the dead of night, there's a knock on the door at Haven, an inner-city youth center in St. Louis. A refugee family--scared, tired and hungry--seeks shelter. Fresh back from Afghanistan, former marine sergeant Joshua Duff takes on the mission. He recruits aid worker Liz Wallace, but she has questions for Joshua. Such as why a Texan with an oil magnate for a father is working at Haven. Or why a man who fears nothing--including the gang violence...
17) Crime partners
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Author
Series
Snapped volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Brown's scorching sequel to Snapped, about four New York African-American friends, picks up where the first book left off, at Misa Atkinson's beautiful Staten Island home, where she has just shot dead her brother-in-law and frequent babysitter, Steven Bingham, who'd been abusing Shane, her three-year-old son. As Misa prepares to go on trial for Steven's murder, she receives support from three women who each have their own major problems.
20) B-more careful
Author
Publisher
Kingston Imperial
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Fatherless and with an addict mother, Netta, the leader of the Pussy Pound, relies on her body and her wiles to survive the harsh streets of Baltimore, but finds there is more to life after her heartbroken lover Black swears revenge on her.
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