Fiction - Urban & Street Lit

In the 80's, crack ruled the city like no other drugs before. It changed the laws of the streets forever that made a lot of young gangsters willing to kill and die for nothing but the American dream. So many millions of dollars went...

In the final installment of his immensely popular Million Dollar trilogy, #1 Essence bestselling author RM Johnson delivers a juicy and shocking conclusion that his throngs of fans will never forget. Picking up where The Million Dollar Deception left off, Freddy Ford knocks on...

Take a journey with Dejohn Patterson as he goes from the mean impoverished streets of Baltimore to the glamorous mansions of LA. He's caught up and faced with life or death - as a middleman where a shipment mysteriously comes up missing, thereby forcing...

Angela is the true definition of a ride or die chick, her love for her man Trey got her involved in things she had no business in. with a man in and out of jail, she had to be the one to keep the...

Photographer Rachel and Parisian exotic dancer Rochelle live miles apart in London and Paris. Yet when they agree to swap apartments for six months, both find the excitement of discovering a new city full of surprises.You've been seduced by 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and...

Caitlin Macy's remarkable first novel is an evocation of a time and a place in which those things that were always so dependable--money, class, family--are threatened on all sides. Narrated by George Lenhart, scion of a family who lost their fortune but not their...

In the hood it's supposed to be: What happens in the projects stays in the projects. But that's far from the truth. Misery loves company and those who live in the land of ruin can't seem to keep their trials and tribulations to themselves.Like...

"I have never been faced with a moral crisis, let alone a matter of life or death."Peter Simons doesn't spend much time at home in his bachelor apartment. Thanks to his job at a multinational company, he is often flying around the world, enjoying...

The hero of The Poet and The Scarecrow is back in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. Jack McEvoy, the journalist who never backs down, tracks a serial killer who has been operating completely under the radar--until now. Veteran...

Ask 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 elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling...

WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARDA NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION 5 UNDER 35WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTIONA stunning first novel about two young Black artists in London falling in and out of love by a new literary virtuoso and finalist...

NATIONAL 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-LevittIn the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up...

PHOENIX isn't the average hustler. He's an exceptionally deep-thinker armed with a lethal temper and the hunger for vast riches. His ultimate goal is to conquer the drug game and make those outside of his DUFFEL BAG CARTEL bow at his feet. Along the...

As blood spills from his body and pools beneath him, LUTHER KHADAFI FULLER believes he is taking his last breath after being stabbed in the Beaumont Penitentiary, but he is wrong. It isn't his day to die. Over time his wounds heal, but his...

The New York Times bestselling author of Life After Death, delivers her most compelling and enlightening story yet about young, deep love, the ways in which people across the world express their love, and the lengths that they will go to have it. Powerful...

Soon to be a TV show on Hulu Eve Babitz is a writer like no other--she "is to prose what Chet Baker is to jazz" (Vanity Fair)--and she has influenced a generation of writers and readers with her sophisticated, witty, and delightful work. L.A....

"Murray and Wearmouth's latest THE BRINK is a white-knuckled rollercoaster. This novel is chocked full of everything I love: strange creatures, a world teetering on the edge, and heroes who I'd want at my side during any firefight. This isn't just a story hopped...

The Cartel series is back...and more deadly than ever. Las Vegas. A city built on obscene wealth and corrupt deals, cunning entrepreneurs, and the ruthless mob. The Cartel's plan to open a casino will rake in cash, but comes with great sacrifice. The stakes...

When the Grand Design is finally revealed it will spell the last ride for Mr. Armed and Brokenhearted. In this final installment of the widely popular "Animal" series, we find our anti-hero on a hunt for the woman who forced him to pick his...

PHOENIX has never felt more betrayed than when he finds out that the woman he holds closest to his cold heart is on a mission to destroy everything he's worked so hard to build with his cartel. If that isn't enough, a few of...

In the little city of Flint, MI, the good die young and the people left standing are the grimiest of characters. With reign over the city's drug trade, Benjamin Atkins made sure that his precious daughter, Raven, was secluded from the grit that the...

Harper was never content, unless she was going from one toxic relationship to another. But when the young beauty sets her sights on Mahoney Monroe, a married billionaire playboy, she finds herself playing a dangerous game, she will more than likely lose. Will falling...

The port of Miami brings in millions of dollars' worth of cocaine every year, and the Cartel controls eighty percent of it. The Diamond family is a force to be reckoned with, but all hell breaks loose when they lose their leader. The most...

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - "A darkly incantatory tragicomedy of love and betrayal ... Beautifully paced, emotionally wise." --The Boston Globe In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A thrilling novel of the senses and a coming-of-age tale, following a small-town girl into the electrifying world of New York City and the education of a lifetime at one of the most exclusive restaurants in Manhattan. - "Brilliantly written.... Outstanding."...

Harry Bosch and LAPD Detective Ren馥 Ballard come together again on the murder case that obsessed Bosch's mentor in this New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist.Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide...

They say Loyalty is everything, but beneath the surface of a promise lies betrayal and deceit. Taught by the best and given the keys to an empire Kiam's loyalty is tested at every turn as he strives to enforce his rule over those who...

This 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. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American...

Beware of the company you keep.K'wan's urban fiction coming-of-age novel, Promise Broken, is set in the gritty streets of Newark, New Jersey. The story follows seventeen-year-old Promise Mohammed as she attempts to uphold friendships and new relationships--even if they lead to her demise.After Promise's...

If all goes according to plan, tonight will be Jack Current's last. The young engineer is at the end of his emotional rope and plans to take his own life. But first, a bar crawl through his downtown Cincinnati neighborhood is in order.Accompanying him...

After exhausting all of his appeals Kwon is thrown a new lifeline that grants him his freedom and the opportunity that he'd prayed for. All eyes are on him, and his intentions are clear. Along with raising his son, Kwon wants to use his...

A haunting, lyrical French bestseller set in Paris and Algiers about desire, shame and violence. In All Men Want to Know, the author traces her blissful childhood in Algeria, a sun-soaked paradise, recalling long trips across the desert with her mother and sister and...

Jamaica Johnson is back, and this time around she's taking no prisoners. After launching "Las Chicas," an illegal yet very profitable brothel to make a quick come up, Jamaica soon learns that money changes people for the worst. Feeling betrayed by people whom she...

In this installment of the CHRONICLES OF A JUNKY series we meet Teresa Sanders. She was born into a royal family among Atlanta Georgia's clergy. As the only child of a well respected minister and his wife she had the best of everything at...

This magical realist tale follows the travails of a burnt-out teacher from Queens who spends his time obsessing over the fact that he has been cheated out of living in his Grandma Rose's Lower East Side apartment and is thus priced out of his...

In the great Windy City, prominent businessmen are being found murdered. This leads Chicago's finest on the trail of a murderer who leaves a unique calling card behind. Private Investigator Sherman Brothers finds himself dragged into the string of murders when his own brother,...

From the Academy award winning screenplay writer of Burnt by the Sun, Solar Plexus is a compelling saga of family and friendship, love and betrayal, set against the backdrop of Azerbaijan's rapidly-changing capital, Baku, as the country struggles with the transition into a post-Soviet...

A young suburban wife bored with life and craving for something more quickly takes a turn when she accepts a friend request from a very old friend on social media. With just one fatal mistake, it unravels the past lifestyle her mother lived causing...

The best lessons in life are learned through experience.Life was fabulous for Summer for her first ten years. Parents and siblings that adored her, she was spoiled and treated like a princess. But then Summer's childhood is interrupted by the mistakes of her mother...

Liberty is the queen of New York. She owns and operates a chain of beauty salons and leads a double life as a drug queen pin. She has ties, connections, and special friends in high places. Freedom, Liberty's sister, is an FBI agent She...

When everyone else is lying to him, she's the only person he can trust. But how can he be honest with her when his lies are the only thing keeping her safe...?Ambitious middleman Conor Baxter is determined to become his own master. He's done...

What happens after a man sets out to break every woman within his grasp by using her body, taking her money, and draining her of all her energy? How will the dominoes fall after he has to answer for his indiscretions? Who all will...

Words without actions are just like a bucket with no bottom; useless & a waste of time The same can be said about a man with smooth lines and no intentions of following through with them. The leading man in this story, Quami is...

From one of Turkey's most influential authors, an arresting novel about male intimacy and desire.Author: Bilge KarasuISBN-10: 0872864014ISBN-13: 9780872864016Publisher: City Lights BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2002Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.53w x 0.54dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2002 pg. 917PW Notes and Reprints 08/12/2002 pg. 277Booklist...

Exploring the paranoia and bravura of the modern American male, these powerful novellas depict a realm marked by faltering blunders, misguided intentions, and the fear of failure. At once comical and terrifying, "I Am Death, or Bartleby the Mobster" charts the slumped career of...

About the book: If Patron and Wine wasn't enough Pilar has taken a step over to the dark side. More drama, new characters and many different personalities Pilar can't keep up. Giving birth to her baby girl was supposed to be a blessing but...

Raw and true to the street, no one portrays the underground like the godfather of urban lit, Donald Goines. Trapped in jail for a petty crime, Prince hatches a scheme from his cell to make it big. Once Ruby, the only woman worthy of...

When a Boeing 747 drops out of the sky with the men of the Cartel aboard, the women of the family have to step into their own. With the federal government on their heels and the family on the brink of destruction, a female...

With precious seconds ticking away, and JAHLIYA's life on the line, JAMICHAEL must do the unthinkable in order to rescue her. Will time run out before he can execute his deadly plan? Can Jahliya hold on or has she already taken her next to...

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...