Urban & Street Lit

  • Black Hamptons 2: Gentrification

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    Things are heating up in the Black Hamptons, an affluent vacation community of African Americans nestled in Long Island, New York. The families are facing trials and tribulations both individually and[more below]

    • Author: Weber, Carl
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: February 25 2025
    • ISBN10: 1645567168
    • Language: English
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    Double Life

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    When several of Diamond’s people turn up dead, things become more complicated for her. A police contact tells her that her own alter ego, Alexis, is a person of interest in one of their deaths. It cau[more below]

    • Author: Zari
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: November 26 2024
    • ISBN10: 1645566633
    • Language: English
  • Inner City Hoodlum

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    The last novel by Donald Goines, the OG master of urban lit, a gritty, graphic thrill ride of relentless street violence, desperate measures, and brutal, unstoppable revenge . . .

    Johnny Washington is

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    • Author: Goines, Donald
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: December 24 2024
    • ISBN10: 1496750047
    • Language: English
  • The Treacherous Wife

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    In this fast-paced, suspense-fueled novel, Arizona’s most decorated detective finds a spectacular second chance at love–but when he starts digging into the most lethal case of his career, his future [more below]

    • Author: Saundra
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: January 21 2025
    • ISBN10: 1496752260
    • Language: English
  • Girls from Da Hood 15

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    Three deadly sins take center stage in this street anthology by some of Urban Books’s most popular authors.

    Book 1: Lust by Treasure Hernandez
    Amira James has always had everything she ever wanted: t

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    • Author: Hernandez, Treasure
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: November 26 2024
    • ISBN10: 1645566625
    • Language: English
  • Carl Weber’s Kingpins: Snitch

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    Blood is thicker than water! Every grimy hustler will utter those words when they are out on the block, chasing the bag. But when Flash’s back is against the wall and he’s being pressured by hom[more below]

    • Author: Hernandez, Treasure
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: June 25 2024
    • ISBN10: 1645566471
    • Language: English
  • Tainted 3: The Finale

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    In this dramatic finale to Blacc Topp’s Tainted series, FBI Agent Monica Deitrich is both the hunter and the hunted as she tries to end to murderous reign of King Kochese.

    With Jasmine locked away saf

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    • Author: Topp, Blacc
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: October 22 2024
    • ISBN10: 164556665X
    • Language: English
  • Deeper Than Love

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    Blake Karrington once again takes you on a Southern literary ride with his latest criminal romance.

    In Deeper than Love, find out what happens when Ciara and Sabrina fail to realize that the answers

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    • Author: Karrington, Blake
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: October 22 2024
    • ISBN10: 1645566390
    • Language: English
  • Turned Up

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    It’s time for SAC Gaines, also known as Hot Shot, to turn up the heat on the Inglewood 13s and get the vengeance he seeks for his family. Will he be able to maintain his professionalism without lettin[more below]

    • Series: Hot Shot
    • Author: Johnson, Clifford “Spud”
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: October 22 2024
    • ISBN10: 1645566617
    • Language: English
  • The Bell Tolls for No One

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    Previously uncollected pulp fiction by the 20th century American master.

    “The uncollected gutbucket ramblings of the grand dirty old man of Los Angeles letters have been gathered in this characteristi

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    • Author: Bukowski, Charles
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 305
    • Publish Date: July 28 2015
    • ISBN10: 0872866823
    • Language: English
  • Inner City Hoodlum

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    Johnny Washington, a black teenager in Los Angeles, knows the freight yard like the back of his hand. He and his pals, Josh and Buddy, hit them often, stealing for a fence. They have to. They’re the s… [more below]

    • Author: Goines, Donald
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: August 01 1992
    • ISBN10: 0870679996
    • Language: English
  • Chosen by a Jamaican Bad Boy

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    Zeke and Khallani seem like the perfect couple, but in a short time, their lives are turned upside down.

    Khallani’s love for her man is tested when she makes the unthinkable decision to become his rid

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    • Author: Williams, Racquel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: December 24 2024
    • ISBN10: 1645566765
    • Language: English
  • This Time, Baby

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    This Time Baby is a continuation of Roy Glenn’s bestselling Mike Black series.

    Some might say that Khalil Patterson is living his best life. Kendrick Nance and Jack Dandridge are both dead, and he is

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    • Author: Glenn, Roy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: December 24 2024
    • ISBN10: 1645566803
    • Language: English
  • Pretty Hustlaz

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    Hustle: To obtain by forceful action or persuasion.

    Meet the ladies of Pretty Hustlaz, Inc., a high-class escort service that caters to the most elite and powerful men of Charlotte, North Carolina. Fr

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    • Author: Karrington, Blake
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: November 26 2024
    • ISBN10: 1645566358
    • Language: English
  • The Commitments

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    In the first volume of the Barrytown Trilogy, Roddy Doyle, winner of the Booker Prize for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, introduces The Commitments, a group of fame-starved, working-class Irish youths with a … [more below]

    • Series: Vintage Contemporaries
    • Author: Doyle, Roddy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 165
    • Publish Date: July 17 1989
    • ISBN10: 0679721746
    • Language: English
  • How to Make a Life

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    “An engaging and heartfelt portrayal of intergenerational trauma and hope.”
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    When Ida and her daughter Bessie flee a catastrophic pogrom in Ukraine for America in 1905, they believe the

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    • Author: Kraut, Florence Reiss
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 328
    • Publish Date: October 13 2020
    • ISBN10: 1631527797
    • Language: English
  • Death List

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    Donald Goines continues the gripping, gritty story of crime in the black ghetto begun in Crime Partners.

    They’re all back for blood: Kenyatta, the ganglord with an army of brothers to deal deadly wit

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    • Series: Kenyatta #2
    • Author: Goines, Donald
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: February 16 2013
    • ISBN10: 0758286481
    • Language: English
  • Kenyatta’s Last Hit

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    Kenyatta, the living black legend, concentrates his army’s ruthless forces to rid the black community of rampant drug traffic. With the help of Elliot Stone, a black football star and latest recruit t… [more below]

    • Series: Kenyatta #4
    • Author: Goines, Donald
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: August 27 2013
    • ISBN10: 0758290292
    • Language: English
  • Los Angeles Stories

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    A Los Angeles Times’s and Southern California Indie Bookseller Association’s Bestseller!

    Los Angeles Stories is a collection of loosely linked, noir-ish tales that evoke a bygone era in one of America

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    • Series: City Lights Noir
    • Author: Cooder, Ry
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 232
    • Publish Date: October 04 2011
    • ISBN10: 0872865193
    • Language: English
  • There’s No Business

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    • Author: Bukowski, Charles
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 16
    • Publish Date: May 31 2002
    • ISBN10: 0876856229
    • Language: English
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