Fiction - Urban & Street Lit

2022 Shortlist, Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Winner, Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa Winner, 2011 Herman Charles Bosman Award Winner, Sunday Times Fiction Prize Winner, The Sunday Times Literary Award Sipho, a 17-year-old from the Umlazi township, drops out of high school and joins...

After MUDMAN locks down Oakland, he plugs in with a deadly cartel boss below the border and flips the game on its heels by forming an independent drug cartel of his own. MUDMAN and his team have field goals that include becoming unmerciless CARTEL...

After his release from prison, DIRTY is on a mission to collect what he is owed from friends or foes. His work with that "tool" puts fear in many, while a few killers of his same ilk are eager to send Dirty home to...

DAMEIAN "DOLLAR" MORGAN has the SOUL OF A MONSTER. He eats gangsters and thugs and spits them out on the ground, figuratively speaking. His gunplay is phenomenal and killing is his pleasure. With a heart of stone, there's no place for love in his...

After the ambush at EASY's funeral, SONNY realizes that nothing appears to be what it seems. His closest allies turn out to be his worst enemies and with the deck stacked against him, he has two options: Avenge the murder of the man who...

After completing a blood assignment, FEAR shows up to collect what he is owed and runs head on into trouble he thought was left far in the past. This new turn of events puts him at odds with the most powerful opponent he could...

Upton Sinclair's classic brings home the brutal plight of the working class, exposing the corruption and callousness of Corporate America. Just as relevant today as when it was first published.Author: Upton SinclairISBN-10: 1617200271ISBN-13: 9781617200274Publisher: Wilder PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/15/2010Pages: 318Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - The New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho delivers a riveting, tour-de-force sequel to Less Than Zero, set on the seedy side of Los Angeles. - "A haunting vision of disillusionment, twenty-first-century style" (People). Returning to Los Angeles from New...

TAZ IS BACK What happens to an organized criminal enterprise when the weakest link finally breaks? Changes must be made for future growth, but nobody can see the forest for the trees. The Network, known for their calculated power moves, attempts to align themselves...

"An engaging and heartfelt portrayal of intergenerational trauma and hope."--Kirkus Reviews When Ida and her daughter Bessie flee a catastrophic pogrom in Ukraine for America in 1905, they believe their emigration will ensure that their children and grandchildren will be safe from harm. But...

Don't miss this epic conclusion to the internationally bestselling academy series. Life magic is abundant in Nova's world. But it might just take death magic to save it.Nova has sworn she will use every ounce of her wildcard power to bring down the worlds-destroying...

Several grave obstacles stand in his way, but PIMP is determined to hit the jackpot and succeed on this final mission of prosperity and hood riches. Vowing to let nothing and no one stop him, he has his game in tact and his guns...

A'LEESEEA thought breaking away from her mother's controlling, abusive and deadly fianc e, Idris "Shotgun" Wright, was going to be the hardest thing she ever faced in her life. She was sure her father, RAH'NELL, was her escape from misery, but what he has...

Down on his luck and still pining for his ex-wife, South Carolina taxidermist Romie Futch spends his evenings drunkenly surfing the Internet before passing out on his couch. In a last-ditch attempt to pay his mortgage, he replies to an ad and becomes a...

The slums of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania are like no other. Here, the level of desperation and grime is only surpassed by the city's murder toll. JAYDEN and his right-hand man, NICO, navigate the atrocities of their hood like the savages they've been forced to become...

CHELSEA has played Jason one too many times and can no longer dip her thirsty hands inside of his deep pockets. Now she finds herself desperate for a way to maintain her preferred lifestyle. Just when things look bleak, an old friend reappears and...

CHELSEA WHITE grew up rich but the cost to maintain the spoils of her lavish lifestyle came at the price of following her parents' strict blueprint. Choosing to do away with their rigid plan, she rebels and finds herself swallowed up by the streets...

Seated in a Paris caf , a man glimpses another man, a shadowy figure hurrying for the train: Who is he? he wonders, How does he live? And instantly the shadow comes to life, precipitating a series of comic run-ins among a range of...

In the aftermath of losing DEVAUGHN, those who built their worlds around him must now figure out who they truly are without him. With KEYZ' betrayal fresh on everyone's mind, Devauhn's wife, RAMONA, his mistress, CANDY, and his daughter, DESHANA, are hungry for the...

A Justice Hustlers Heist Novel She won't back down. She'll never stop. And in this seductive, suspenseful novel, one gorgeous sister puts her future on the line for the exploited--even as her past and present collide, threatening to take her out . . ....

Triple Crown Publications Best Selling Title PlayedAuthor: Lisa LennoxISBN-10: 098258881XISBN-13: 9780982588819Publisher: Triple Crown ProductionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/25/2011Pages: 307Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00d

They say you can't judge a book by its cover and I guess you can say the same thing about strippers, too. On the surface I'm Mo'Nique, the hottest stripper dancing at The Pink Palace, but on the inside I'm really just Janelle Taylor,...

When a boss gangsta dies, another one rises up to take his place on the food chain. LIL ALI is more than his deceased father's son. He is a chip off the old block, with an even more savage disposition than his late pops....

A story of blood, kin, and betrayal. Will brothers make it to the top from nothing? Or will the love of money be more important than family? Who will have the last say so in this wicked tale! Blood is blood, no matter how...

Joseph Phillips, a newly elected MP, looks back on his reckless life and the grand Barbados of his fading memory, in an attempt to make sense of both. The people of his life have a say as well, including his sweet resolute wife, his...

The lives of four friends, JEFF, TASHA, TY AND JAY, are headed in different directions until the tragic murder of one of the them brings the other three back together on the road of revenge.The price to avenge their friend's death may be a...

SHONEY loves her man unconditionally, and without wavering, in spite of his lies and callous betrayals. She is intent on proving that she is more deserving of his last name than any other woman in the world. But when one transgression after another comes...

Fresh home from a prison bid for robbery and murder, TAZ is striving to walk the right path, but the crimes he committed in the past aren't forgotten by some. When vengeance comes right to his front door, Taz is forced to get beastly...

"Ant is borderline obsessed with funerals, likening the events to weddings as gatherings he looks forward to. Yet, when a childhood friend passes, Ant's veneer starts to crumble. Weirdly funny, Whiteout Conditions tracks Ant and his friend Vince as they make their way through...

Many incidents that caused the savage clan, La Familia's, blood to spill remains unavenged and the repercussions are about to reach a scalding boiling point. GHOST remains an elusive nightmare and a dangerous threat to all. But will he be weakened by the age-old...

TAURUS thought he had witnessed every kind of cold blooded treachery imaginable until he walked in on his brother and his woman having sex on his living room floor. The emotions that raged inside of him were volcanic, and he wanted to kill. Family...

Ali, a drug dealer/business man, tries to change the way the game is played by giving back to the community. His life take a serious turn when a local rival, a crooked cop, his pregnant girlfriend, and his little brother comes into the picture....

Aaliyah Mills Carter sits in jail facing 1st Degree-Murder charges. As she waits for her day in court her fate becomes more uncertain. Precious is struggling to keep her marriage intact and prove her daughter's innocence but when a drug war erupts she has...

Bryant Park becomes a microcosm of humanity and an elegy for a lost New York. From the doorman of 40 years to the woman obsessed with receipts; the man who sweeps the park, the tourists, the homeless; life with its pathos and raucous beauty...

Shattered Illusions Cartier is back from South Beach and anxious to begin the next chapter of her life with Head. She soon awakens from her love fantasy, however, and realizes that her dark knight isn't all he seems. With her love life on the...

THE ASSIGNMENTYears have passed since Aoki was ambushed by the cartel and left for dead. Now, she's older, wiser, and even more sinister. When the Commission gives her an assignment to kill one of their most wanted and most elusive, Aoki is forced to...

Knock, Knock. Four broke girlfriends go into a Long Island church looking for a job. Four trained assassins come out. The Cristál Clique is born when these young killers are immersed in the intense underworld of murder-for-hire.But with youth comes naiveté. When heartache, betrayal,...

DEVIL IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING KIKI SWINSON Karlie Houston hasn't seen a raise in forever, but the payday loan office she manages is raking in the cash. So why not get what she's rightfully owed by masterminding a heist? Once her lover Sidney's boys hit...

Pop is a young kid from the projects looking for a way to make a quick dollar, and an even quicker way to escape from his crazy mother's house. His whole life takes a turn when he bumps into Fresh, the neighborhood dope man...

Roxy is a strong woman, a mother, and head of a drug trafficking ring, and she needs to flee with her daughter to save their lives. Roxy Reynolds learned the rules of the street nearly two decades ago as a low- level member of...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - " Mat Johnson's] unrelenting examination of blackness, whiteness and everything in between is handled with ruthless candor and riotous humor."--Los Angeles Times "Razor-sharp . . . Loving Day is that rare m lange: cerebral comedy with pathos."--The...

When times get hard in the Short house hold, De'Quan takes it upon himself to save his family from the harsh reality of living in Brooklyn, New York. Dre, De'Quan, and Fat Pee start out small with one of Pops guns he left behind,...

After DON is robbed and killed, RICH goes on a manhunt to find those who are responsible and make them suffer the most grizzly death imaginable. Nothing outside of Rich's own demise can stop him from extracting revenge. Meanwhile, ROB and his gang continue...

The second volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2019 by The New York Times critics. Anniversaries, Volume 2 begins on April 20, 1968. Before long Marie will be devastated by the assassination of Robert F....

"I enjoyed Diamond Hill very much. It's fantastically evocative of a time and place, full of vivid images but never at the expense of story. A hugely impressive first novel."--DAVID NICHOLLS, bestselling author of One Day It is 1987 and three years since Britain...

PRENTICE seeks to destroy KEISHA in a way that ensures she will never be able to recover. When he does the unthinkable, it launches an all-out war within the CARTEL KILLAZ. Lines are drawn in the sand, and loyalties are shattered. Friends become deadly...

With the death of their comrade, MAXIMO, the RENEGADE BOYS gear up to paint Chicago blood red. MAURICIO and SOSA take to the streets with their guns blazing as they vow to eliminate everyone involved in his murder. BIG JIM and his crew had...

THE COMBS are one of the most revered and feared drug families there ever was, but when their leader is murdered in cold blood, all hell breaks loose.The most notorious gangster Los Angeles has ever seen, LYNDELL COMBS, leaves behind the vacant throne of...

Beautiful, sexy MAKAYLA wants everything love has to offer: the whirlwind, hood romance, the breathtaking sex and the unbreakable commitment. The problem she's having is that she wants those things from a bad boy. When she encounters heartbreak after heartbreak, Makayla is almost ready...

Divided They Stand Chaos, betrayal, and turmoil have divided the West family into two factions. When the Mafioso squares off against a Boss Bitch, things are bound to get explosive. Layla begins her solo reign of terror with seed money stolen from her estranged...