Fiction - Urban & Street Lit

44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 4 The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy--just ask his mother. There is never...

Life has never been kind to DUCHESS, other than blessing her with beauty and a body to die for. But even that is a gift and a curse. All she's ever wanted was to be loved and cherished by someone who she could truly...

This hot, gritty first installment in Wahida Clark's iconic New York Times and USA Today bestselling Payback series tells the story of a woman who thinks she has everything, but who really has everything to lose--starting with her best friend, and ending with her...

KING NUT, a Jamaican drug kingpin operating in Atlanta, Georgia, has been black-balled by the powerful BILLY GUNZ for refusing to join The Order. Without a supplier, King Nut's empire begins to crumble, leaving him desperate. And a desperate man is unpredictable.As the pressure...

Only New York Times bestselling author Wahida Clark could take street lit to the next level in this incendiary tale of a hustler facing a game more lethal than any 'hood . . . The Golden Hustla She's the star sales associate of a...

"It may seem paradoxical to speak of such insights as liberating, or to find in the Underground Man's impassioned rejection of rational humanitarianism a call to arms. Yet each age we live through as individuals demands a certain kind of book- just as each...

Heart Attacks is California's last secret spot--the premier mysto surf haunt, the stuff of rumor and legend. The rumors say you must cross Indian land to get there. They tell of hostile locals and shark-infested waters where waves in excess of thirty feet break...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST ELMET "Stunningly clever . . . A deliciously spicy stew indeed." --Entertainment Weekly "A story about money and power, love and art, sex work and gentrification . . . Enjoyable and impressive on every page." --USA...

A sisterhood that had been tighter than a whore's dress has been completely destroyed. After discovering that her husband has fathered a child with her best friend, SASHA, in an extreme state of emotional vulnerability, falls for NASIR, a man who is definitely forbidden...

MAKAYLA and MAKENZIE are out to wreck havoc Making moves with a whole new team behind them, the twins touched down in Atlanta, ready to put the city on lock. But things get dicey when other members resent women being part of the squad....

TREASURE falls for PAIN, a street nigga who lives by the motto "Get rich or die hustling". Pain is nothing like any of the bad boys she's dated before. He's a gentlemanly thug that knows how to treat a lady, between the sheets and...

BRIAN'S lust for TERRY'S wife has no boundaries and no foreseeable end. In his own marriage, he tries hard to portray honesty and fidelity, but ALEX is nobody's damn fool. When she discovers Brian's betrayal, all hell breaks out Alex seeks revenge by doing...

With SCONY down, KELVIN thinks his worries are over if he can outrun the notorious Goon Squad. But he will have to think again or his overconfidence just might cost him greatly.MAKENZIE, MAKAYLA and NICASSY are on a rampage. They are out to get...

After spending 17 years in prison for a murder she did not commit, TINY is back on the streets. And as soon as her feet touch the cold, hard concrete, she's faced with the kidnapping of her beloved daughter, ALEXIS. Using the guile and...

It's a dog eat dog world, especially when all the dogs involved are hungry For a sheltered mama's boy like Demarcus, everything was all roses until a life-changing experience showed him that every rose has thorns. After a well-orchestrated set up, Demarcus's plans to...

"A delight and highly recommended." --Booklist "Showcases the truth and fullness of people of color." --Book Riot In the tradition of Best American Short Stories comes Everyday People: The Color of Life, a dazzling collection of contemporary short fiction. Everyday People is a thoughtfully...

The continuation of a bestselling, much loved series, bringing new drama and action. Old fans will devour this next installment and new fans will discover Wahida Clark's work for the first time--it's sexy, dangerous, and intriguing.Justify My Thug continues the scintillating drama of Wahida...

A finalist for the Edgar and Mary Higgins Clark Awards, in her riveting debut Invisible City, journalist Julia Dahl introduces a compelling new character in search of the truth about a murder and an understanding of her own heritage. Just months after Rebekah Roberts...

In the sequel to Payback is a Mutha, old scores are settled and before long, new tensions arise. Still recovering from the suicide of her best friend, Shan now pregnant by a married man is forced to make major decisions in her life. Ready...

Nikki Turner, Queen of Hip-Hop Lit, is back with one of her gutsiest female characters yet, a glamorous chick with a high-end hustle that can rival any man's game. As the respected, renowned concierge for a luxury hotel chain, Beijing Lee caters to the...

Shawn thinks he has the ultimate woman; Venus is sexy like an Essence model, hood as any Bronx girl, and as sly as a fox. Too bad he doesn't see her double cross before she strips him of all his belongings. Fortunately, Shawn is...

#1 National Bestseller"A sprawling, ambitious novel about Los Angeles, written with all the broad-stroke energy that was so irresistible to readers in A Million Little Pieces. By turns satirical, tense, and surprisingly touching, it is a portrait of a city onto which so many...

What happens to the children that the world throws away? They become Animals! Tayshawn Torres is a child born in the slums and cursed by the sins of his parents. His mother is a notorious drug addict and whore, more concerned with getting her...

Bruce Craven is a writer, public speaker, and educator. He teaches leadership at Columbia Business School, including his popular management elective "Leadership through Fiction." His nonfiction book Win or Die: Leadership Secrets from Game of Thrones was published by MacMillan in 2019. The book...

Winner, 2022 MLA Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies From the Jewish Provinces showcases a brilliant and nearly forgotten voice in Yiddish letters. An insistently original writer whose abrupt departure from the literary scene is the stuff of legend, Fradl Shtok...

TAJ and KALISSA are lifelong friends with a bond that can't be broken even though their lifestyles are so different. Taj aspires to evolve from a mid-level hustler to top dog in the game. He craves the fast money, bad women, and the respect...

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...

Everyone is trying to recover from their losses, but MERRICK is out for revenge. If the Italians think they can get away with the disrespect shown to him, they are about to feel the pressure Meanwhile, AMEED is forced to take to the streets...

GUSTAVO calls for the execution of FEAR and wages war on everyone he loves. This move catapults the kingpin to the top of Fear's hit list, a place where the life expectancy of the target isn't long. But in Gustavo, Fear has encountered a...

With her good looks, work ethic, and high intelligence, TORI could easily succeed at a legitimate profession, but the streets are calling. Instead of being an accountant, she wants to be the Queen of the Trap, following in the footsteps of her notorious father,...

KALEB'S world is spinning. BUDDY has forcibly snatched up RAYVEN, the woman closest to Kaleb's heart, and the game has just turned graveyard serious.Things are compounded by more treachery when others in Kaleb's family get kidnapped. With well strategized attacks threatening to end his...

After having been banned from the crack game and stripped of his fortune, FEAR turns to the murder game to support his lavish lifestyle. He must go off of the grid for a year, away from the rest of society, to train under one...

Antonio Bernal is a Guatemalan refugee in Los Angeles haunted by memories of his wife and child, who were murdered at the hands of a man marked with yellow ink. In a park near Antonio's apartment, Guillermo Longoria extends his arm and reveals a...

In turn-of-the century New York City, midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy see birth and death--and even murder...Author: Victoria ThompsonISBN-10: 0425173615ISBN-13: 9780425173619Publisher: Berkley BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2000Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 6.70h x 4.10w x 0.80dAward: Edgar Allan Poe Awards - Nominee

The tumultuous alley of this rich and intricate novel (first published in Arabic in 1959) is inhabited by a delightful Egyptian family, but is also the setting for a second, hidden, and more daring narrative: the spiritual history of humankind. The men and women...

Meet Jay.Small-time dealer.Accidental jihadist.The one man who can save us all?Shortlisted for the 2021 Edgar AwardsJavid - call him Jay - is a dope dealer living in West London. He goes to mosque on Friday, and he's just bought his pride and joy -...

Once TAJ realizes that his emotions have overridden his common sense, his thirst for respect and loyalty increases. Taj is determined to get it from the streets, by any means necessary. But has he forgotten how unforgiving the game is? Will the sweet lull...

Robbery has always been her game but murder was the case that they gave her. CACHE PRICE is set to be released from prison after doing a bid for a crime she did not commit. Staying true to the game, Cache refused to tell...

SHONEY will do anything for RAYLON, the man she loves with all her heart. Despite the rumors of his infidelity, gambling addiction, and his murderous past, she remains by his side. Holding on to the hope that he'll change and cherish her the way...

From 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 woman that gave...

They meet under strange and tragic circumstances, but once KATRINA lays eyes on the thuggish and fine bad boy, she becomes obsessed with the idea of him as her man. She doesn't know if he has a woman in his life or not. And...

Smooth, charismatic, yet cold to the bone, ZAYVION MILLER is a true gangsta and a Boss hustler who understands the code of the streets: Get your money, mind your business and punish anyone who threatens your hustle. And most of all, keep your mouth...

The streets of ATL are about to get hotter than lava after Youngblood is snatched up and beaten down by unknown thugs. Vowing fatal revenge on his attackers, Youngblood is released from the hospital only to return home and discover that Cheryl has run...

In the first volume of the Barrytown Trilogy, Roddy Doyle, winner of the Booker Prize for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, introduces The Commitments, a group of fame-starved, working-class Irish youths with a paradoxical passion for the music of Sam Cooke and Otis Redding...

Palace of Desire is the second novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork. The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad...

n the Bad News area of Virginia, RICH has the drug game in a headlock, while the haters hope for his downfall. When it happens, everyone will turn their backs on him and cross him out, but if they thought Rich's days on top...

VOSS is finally ready to go up against the very empire he was groomed to lead. He and his band of killer Bloods gear up to bring it to JABAR and his army of heartless goons. Both G's want to be the successor of...

After a deadly bank heist and JUAN-JUAN's ultimate sacrifice, J-BO escapes with a trunk full of money and a guilty conscious. But an unexpected chain of events will change his plans in a way he could've never imagined, and bags full of dough can't...

Four friends come across a once in a lifetime lick they can potentially take them from small time hustlers to boss status. But in the streets no dirty deed goes unpunished. Money is the root of all evil and greed often overpowers loyalty.JAMES is...

DEVAUGHN MITCHELL is back and he's finally got that bird in hand with his sights set on what lurks in the bush. As he maneuvers his way to his ultimate goal, there are only a few people he can trust and the list is...