Urban & Street Lit
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Girls from Da Hood 15
$16.95 Add to cartThree of Urban Books’ bestsellers have joined forces to tell a sinful tale chronicling the lust, violence, and cunning of street life. Lust by Treasure Hernandez Amira James has always had everything
- Author: Hernandez, Treasure
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1645565041
- Language: English
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The Laws of Loyalty
$16.95 Read moreIntrigued by danger, attracted to the thrill, and feenin’ for life in the fast lane, Morgan gives up everything she’s ever known to go on the ride of her life with Javon. Drugs, love, heartbreak, and … [more below]
- Author: Littles, T. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1645565378
- Language: English
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Let the Great World Spin
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER – Colum McCann’s beloved novel inspired by Philippe Petit’s daring high-wire stunt, which is also depicted in the film The Walk starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt
In the dawning l… [more below]- Author: McCann, Colum
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0812973992
- Language: English
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Silent Judgment
$17.95 Read moreWhen Detroit’s most-feared street executioner, a deaf thug known as Silence, is assigned the unsavory task of protecting a controversial Black conservative, brutal opposing factions, his own personal … [more below]
- Author: Crown, Zaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1496741935
- Language: English
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Wings of Red
$16.95 Read moreAn inventive and stylish debut written by a Black educator, Wings of Red is a clear-eyed, funny, imperfect, and observant work of autofiction that grapples with the absurdity of the New York City educ… [more below]
- Author: Jennings, James W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1593767099
- Language: English
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Strange Weather in Tokyo
$16.95 Add to cartShortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize, Strange Weather in Tokyo is a story of loneliness and love that defies age.
Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she- Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 14, 2017
- ISBN10: 1640090169
- Language: English
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Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
$17.99 Add to cartFinalist for the Gotham Book Prize, the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award, and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence * Longlisted for the Story Prize
Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by- Author: Fofana, Sidik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 198214582X
- Language: English
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The Intuitionist
$17.00 Add to cartThis debut novel by the two time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer… [more below]
- Author: Whitehead, Colson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 04 2000
- ISBN10: 0385493002
- Language: English
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Double Life
$17.95 Read moreWhen several of Diamond’s people turn up dead, things become more complicated when her police contact tells her that her own alter ego, Alexis, is a person of interest in one of their deaths. It cause… [more below]
- Author: Zari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1645565548
- Language: English
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Ham on Rye
$17.99 Add to cart“Wordsworth, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and the Beats in their respective generations moved poetry toward a more natural language. Bukowski moved it a little farther.” –Los Angeles Times Book R
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 29, 2014
- ISBN10: 006117758X
- Language: English
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A Fire So Wild
$25.99 Add to cartZibby Mag, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, and She Reads Most Anticipated Book of the Year
“Ruiz-Grossman balances the social and political, the emotional and physical, with insight and precision. Her
- Author: Ruiz-Grossman, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 20, 2024
- ISBN10: 0063305429
- Language: English
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The Expendable Man
$16.95 Add to cart“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is e… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Hughes, Dorothy B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 03 2012
- ISBN10: 159017495X
- Language: English
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Ask the Dust
$18.00 Add to cartAsk the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the e
- Author: Fante, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 07, 2006
- ISBN10: 0060822554
- Language: English
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August Blue
$27.00 Read moreNamed a Best Book of the Year by TIME, Vulture, The Guardian, BBC, The Week, and Publisher’s Weekly
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw Ev- Author: Levy, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0374602042
- Language: English
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Nightcrawling: A Novel (Oprah’s Book Club)
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK – A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system. This de… [more below]
- Author: Mottley, Leila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0593312600
- Language: English
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
$16.00 Add to cartOne of the most brilliant and provocative American writers of the twentieth century chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy’s spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention in this “truly extraord
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 12, 2013
- ISBN10: 0375701877
- Language: English
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Invisible Man
$17.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator tells his story from the basement lair of the Invisibl… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Ellison, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 14 1995
- ISBN10: 0679732764
- Language: English
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Silence
$16.95 Add to cartA gritty, intense novel set on Detroit’s mean streets, featuring a much-feared deaf killer known as “The Silent Assassin,” who’s fresh out of prison and on a mission to avenge the murder of the man wh
- Author: Crown, Zaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 27, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496741900
- Language: English
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Hollywood
$17.99 Add to cartFrom iconic tortured artist/everyman Charles Bukowski, Hollywood is the fictionalization of his experience adapting his novel Barfly into a movie by the same name.
Henry Chinaski, Bukowski’s alter-ego,
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 31, 2002
- ISBN10: 0876857632
- Language: English
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The Homewood Trilogy
$20.00 Add to cartFrom “master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman, a reissue of the revered trilogy that launched his career–two novels and story collection all set in Wideman’s own hometown.
Damball- Author: Wideman, John Edgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982148888
- Language: English
