Fiction - Urban & Street Lit

Cyber-stalking, drive-bys, drunken text messaging, creating fake email accounts--you're gonna have to face it, you're addicted to love. Sophie isn't dealing with her breakup well. Dumped by her boyfriend, Eric, for his sexting, D-cupped, young Floozy McSecretary, Sophie leaves Manhattan and lands back in...

Lisa Simmons is the psychologist that has it all. Randi Ratliff is the loving and devoted housewife. Princess Aubington is the upbeat high school senior. These are three very different, very unique women with one thing in common; they all suffer from abuse. Lisa...

The famous novel News from Nowhere (1890), written by socialist pioneer and artist William Morris, combines utopian socialism and soft science fiction. Starting on January 11, 1890, it was first serialized in the Commonweal newspaper. In the story, William Guest, the narrator, falls asleep...

A TEARFUL FAREWELL It's finally time for Sayu to head back to her family home in Hokkaido, and Yoshida has come along to support her. But when she opens the door to her old house, she's met with a slap in the face. While...

Salty Saltzmanous's life was pretty dull. After years of hopping from trailer park to trailer park with his family, he thought he would get a new start in a little house deep in Mennonite country; but all that's there to do is work, drink,...

LARGE PRINT EDITIONFashion model Laura Oakes longs to be taken seriously. When an inheritance brings her to Sweetheart Creek, Texas, she shucks her old life and dives headlong into small town living. Too bad the handsome and serious cowboy Levi Wylder she's crushing on...

El Dorado: A Kansas Recessional is a novel written by Willa Cather, an American author known for her works that explore the lives of pioneers and immigrants in the American West. The novel tells the story of a young man named Clark who returns...

Yrvin Lacroix, a determined young man, faces a heart-wrenching betrayal when his pregnant girlfriend, Michaela, succumbs to family pressure and is sent to Strasbourg, France. Wrestling with his own feelings of betrayal, Yrvin earns a software engineering degree from Barry University in South Florida,...

Forbidden love and impossible choices ...I'm a stay-at-home mum and happily married to my high school sweetheart. Sound familiar? Well, my guess is that's where the similarities end, because I've just returned to work, and my new boss is not only one of the...

Twenty years after Ashley and JaQuavis made their fiction debut with Dirty Money, Urban Books is proud to introduce this classic from the New York Times bestselling duo to a new generation of urban fiction fans. Ashley and JaQuavis tell the story of a...

These stories are not fables or fairy tales. They are severe chronicles of gangstas, written by men and women who have starved and bled and survived by the code of the streets. Essence magazine's #1 bestselling author Nikki Turner has earned her rep as...

The undisputed Queen of Hip-Hop Fiction presents five knockout tales set in the fast-paced, high-stakes rap game-written by a hot lineup of authors with unmistakable swag and a gift for dropping sexy, thrilling stories. From a big-time hustler who can't give up the streets-even...

Set in contemporary Washington, D.C., mixing urban edge with magic realism, this lyrical and sexy first novel is also the frank story of the clash between promiscuity and love, and the acceptance of a family legacy.Look at Me tells the story Dana, whose mother...

When Thomas Pak is hired as a clerk at a Korean grocery, he isn't prepared for the searing racial tensions that threaten to destroy the neighborhood in which he lives and works. His tenuous relationship with the store owners and their young daughter is...

What do you get when you have a town addicted to meth and creatures who feast on them? TWEAKER CREATURES, of course. The new drug induced, gory, splatterpunk novel from horror author, Robert Essig. The Southern California town of El Cajon is overrun with...

Diamonds are forever . . . or are they? The Cartel runs Miami, and loyalty to their organization runs deep, but when someone breaks the rules, things may be beyond repair. A snitch in the crew has dismantled the notorious Cartel, and now disloyalty...

You thought The Cartel was over, but Diamonds are forever. . . . The Diamond family has survived murder, deceit, and betrayal. Through it all, they're still standing tall, and a new era has begun. After surviving a failed attempt on her life, Breeze...

George Jackson was a "Swamp Man," born and bred in the dark watery woods of Mississippi. He was a gentle young man who turned as deadly as a water moccasin after he saw what the four hill boys did to his sister. They caught...

#1 bestselling author Nikki Turner returns with an explosive new novel about a woman at an emotional crossroads-and the men left in her wake. Isis Tatum knows firsthand the way love can mess up a person. After all, she saw her mother drive a...

The high priestess of the hood, Nikki Turner, is back with the novel fans have been feenin' for: the sequel to her #1 bestselling novel, A Hustler's Wife. Des, Virginia's slickest gangsta, is about to become a dad when he is charged with the...

Widely acclaimed as Naguib Mahfouz's best novel, Midaq Alley brings to life one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo in the 1940s. From Zaita the cripple-maker to Kirsha the hedonistic cafe owner, from Abbas the barber who mistakes greed for love to...

When the identity of the traitor in Kiam's clique is revealed justice is served swiftly and with no mercy, sending a message to the others that betrayal will be met with death. But has Kiam really uncovered the treacherous one in his midst or...

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...