Urban & Street Lit
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How It Went Down
$10.99 Add to cartA Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
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When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white.- Author: Magoon, Kekla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1250068231
- Language: English
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Throw
$18.00 Add to cart“Llorona was no harmless little pigeon. She was the lechuza, the owl you see just before someone is about to die, the one that haunts you in your dreams and you never want to see in real life because
- Author: Degollado, Rub?n
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: February 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1639820183
- Language: English
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Gangland Cartel 2
$14.95 Add to cartAfter being gunned down by the leader of the New York Crips and put in a coma, RUGAR rebounds in a manner that makes him even stronger than he was before the attempt on his life. With a new postion am
- Author: Tukes, Romell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: November 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1952936632
- Language: English
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Murda Season 2
$14.95 Add to cartThere is no deadlier father and son team in the game than MURDA and WEB, and now they are up against some of the most powerful and dangerous men in the world.
With TOOKIE and little brother, GUNNA, at
- Author: Tukes, Romell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: November 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1952936543
- Language: English
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Rise to Power: From Idol to Rival
$14.95 Add to cartFrom a very young age he was a savage in the making, as he robbed and murked his way to a reputation that was both feared and respected in Harlem. Along the way he loved a few, none more than the woma
- Series: Rise to Power #1
- Author: T. J., Edwards
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: March 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1949138674
- Language: English
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Airtight Willie & Me: The Story of the South’s Black Underworld
$17.99 Add to cart“Iceberg Slim breaks down some of the coldest, capitalist concepts I’ve ever heard in my life.” –Dave Chappelle, from his Netflix special The Bird Revelation In this collection of six gritty tales fr… [more below]
- Author: Slim, Iceberg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1936399156
- Language: English
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Gangsta Twist 2
$18.00 Add to cartThe Network and its affiliates used to be one of Oklahoma City’s most organized crews. No one knew exactly where they got the money to buy up businesses and real estate, but everyone on the streets re
- Series: Gangsta Twist #2
- Author: Johnson, Clifford “Spud”
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2011
- ISBN10: 160162459X
- Language: English
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Jakob Von Gunten
$16.95 Add to cartThe Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a range of short stories, e… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback) #10
- Author: Walser, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 30 1999
- ISBN10: 0940322218
- Language: English
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Coke Kings 5
$14.95 Add to cartOn a murderous mission to dominate the dope game with extreme caution and intelligence, KAMMRON goes at the remaining kingpins of New York with no regard or mercy, leaving behind piles of gun shells a
- Author: Edwards, T. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 10 2021
- ISBN10: 195527066X
- Language: English
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Carl Weber’s Kingpins: West Coast
$15.95 Add to cartAll hail to the West Coast, where its natural resources of breathtaking beaches, smokable trees, and beautiful women are unlimited. From the freezing top of Mt. Denali in Alaska to the fly-ass archite… [more below]
- Author: Pittman, Raynesha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1645562050
- Language: English
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Dirty Tricks
$16.00 Add to cartSTAY SCHEMING
KIKI SWINSON
Karlie Houston is broke, betrayed–and running from a bounty on her head. Turns out the real owners of the payday loan office she ripped off weren’t cool with her idea of em… [more below]- Series: Schemes #2
- Author: Swinson, Kiki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1617739456
- Language: English
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The Way It Works
$10.95 Add to cartWalter Davis is young, handsome, intelligent, dynamic, personable and homeless.
The product of a bi-racial marriage but abandoned by his father as a young child, he prides himself on three things: his
- Series: Rapid Reads
- Author: Kowalski, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1554693675
- Language: English
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Born in the Grave
$14.95 Add to cartStuck in the belly of the beast, Q struggles to regain his freedom. Once his feet touch ground in the outside world and he returns to the toughest hood in Richmond, Virginia, Q must take advantage of
- Author: Tay, Self Made
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: July 18 2022
- ISBN10: 195811135X
- Language: English
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Snow Queen
$22.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-Winning Author of The Hours
Michael Cunningham’s best novel in more than a decade.-Megan O’Grady, Vogue
It’s November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through C- Author: Cunningham, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 1250067723
- Language: English
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Della: The Ballerina and The Billionaire
$19.99 Add to cartDella: perfectionist token-black ballerina…
Miles McKinnon: black-sheep billionaire…
The chemistry: unlike anything either has ever felt…
Disoriented by a week in Paris and a tough proposition, the
- Author: Palmer, Rod
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986428246
- Language: English
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Debt to Pleasure
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel and a New York Times Notable Book, John Lanchester’s The Debt to Pleasure is a wickedly funny ode to food.
Traveling from Portsmouth to the south of- Author: Lanchester, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0312420366
- Language: English
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Detroit City Mafia
$8.99 Read moreIndia, known for her gritty Urban tales, returns with a riveting new drama about one woman who plays a risky game to say alive…
After being left for dead by her mother, dissed by her peers, held res- Author: India
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1645562905
- Language: English
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Ride
$15.00 Add to cartRide is for those caught in the grip of addiction and for the ones who love them, desperate to understand.
Ride possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality that’s heartbreaking and authentic at t
- Author: Lafleche, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1989266274
- Language: English
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Street Kings 2: Dreams and Nightmares
$14.95 Add to cartSouth Los Angeles street legends, NOODLES and FILIPINO, are up against their strongest test to date. Numerous shooters from the notorious hood, Crenshaw, are gunning for their heads. Will Noodles and
- Series: Street Kings #2
- Author: Rich, Hood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: August 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1951081226
- Language: English
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Coke Kings: Fast Money and Gunsmoke
$14.95 Add to cartThe dark, seedy, and grimy trenches of Harlem, New York is no playground. But KAMMRON and BONKERS are out to make it theirs by cooperation or force. Those that ride with them are offered prosperity in
- Series: Coke Kings #1
- Author: Edwards, T. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1949138976
- Language: English
