Fiction - Urban & Street Lit

HONEY is heartbroken and shattered by the recent events in her life. For her, dying seems easier than living with the regrets she's facing, but face them she must. Not only has she played the role of judge and jury when dealing with the...

The gentleman of D-Block have arrived at the facility. Each with his own agenda but the administration has an agenda of their own. The wardens hatch a plan to get rich at the expense of the inmates. Trouble vows to stay out of trouble...

Latoya Bankhead is truly tired of living life on the edge of disaster. After being convicted of the failed casino heist, she takes her time on the chin and is prepared to do it all. Her crew has been dismantled, and just about everyone...

After Stink's death and JT's incarceration, it seemed the reign of terror for the Gank Masterz is over but it's only the beginning. JT has devised a plan and Toya is ready and willing to help execute it. After slithering his way out of...

Stink, Toya and JT are from the bottom. Black Bottom to be exact. All three just happen to be trapped inside the same impoverished, unforgiving neighborhood at the same time. Growing up deprived of even the simple necessities creates not just a want but...

The Chandler Brothers from New York Times Bestselling Author Carly Phillips are back He's a loner who indulges in a one night stand out of town.She's a senator's daughter who never expects to see her indulgence again.Small town journalist Chase Chandler has waited a...

Years after losing his parents, Akil's brother Milt sent him off to college to fulfill his parents' dying wishes. After graduating law school, Akil's career propelled tremendously after winning his brother Milt's highly publicized criminal case. With Milt now in Miami and out of...

Some secrets are better kept.To Raegan Keyes, she's the only one of her kind but has no idea what she is. Until one night, when she finds out her unexplainable abilities aren't the only thing she needs to worry about. Suddenly, her world becomes...

Benjamin King is the senior pastor of the megachurch, Mount Zion Tabernacle Baptist Church. He craves power over his congregation and appoints like-minded leaders to carry out his will. Pastors Allen and Bishop are already aligned in the vision, but with the growing number...

Roxane, better known as Roxy, is a young tender growing up in da hood with a dream.... Sex, money and mayhem are all of the things that Roxy is trying to avoid.Having an envious crew and abusive boyfriends, Roxy doesn't have much to look...

An extraordinary work that will stand as blazing witness to the age that bore it. -- Sarah PerryA masterpiece (Daisy Johnson) of mortality, passion, and human connection, set against the backdrop of a deadly global virus--from the Booker-nominated writerYou were the last one here,...

A brilliant novel-in-stories from award-winning author Robert Lopez In an uncanny, distorted version of New York City, a man rides the subway through the chaos of an ordinary commute. He may have a gun in his pocket. He may be looking for someone--a woman...

With the death of his mother and his father being strung out on heroin, MENACE took to the streets at a very young age. Being focused on his money and his grind, he didn't have time for love. That is until, he falls for...

With uncertainty drifting in the wind, these two families have been rocked to the core. This was a hurt they knew all too well but thought they had left in the past. Instead of coming together, guilt and pain started tearing them apart. No...

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...

Twelve original and interconnected stories in the traditions of Junot D az and Sherman Alexie. Victor D. LaValle's astonishing, violent, and funny debut offers harrowing glimpses at the vulnerable lives of young people who struggle not only to come of age, but to survive...

A New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Village Voice, The Globe and Mail Jonathan Lethem, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the MacArthur Fellowship whose writing has been called "as ambitious...

A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year. A searing and wildly entertaining love letter to New York City from the bestselling author of Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude. Chase Insteadman, former child television star, has a new role in...

"An illicit meeting between long-term lovers makes for a poignant, piercing meditation on middle age and the passing of time...In the closing pages, O'Callaghan's prose reaches a pitch of emotional intensity that ensures these characters will linger with you long after the book is...

With the fierce emotional and intellectual power of such classics as Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, and Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star, Kate Zambreno's novel Green Girl is a provocative, sharply etched portrait of a young woman...

There's a SAVAGE STORM brewing and many won't live to see the end of the rainbow. With HEAT and ROCKO still in hiding, MAKENZIE is anxiously waiting for the team to move forward. In the meantime, she's getting on everyone's nerve, including PHANTOM'S. How...

"Comic and terrifying and profound." --Rachel Kushner, The Guardian (Best Books of 2021)C. is a wretched grump, an anguished patron of bars, brothels, and train stations. He is also an acclaimed East German writer. Dogged by writer's block, remorse, and national guilt in the...

This thrilling, plot-twisting tale will change your views on storytelling forever. As a painter travels the world, he also mourns the death of his queen, his wife. He is secluded from the world and finds an escape through his art. Not until he gets...

Chicago: home to urban Indians and immigrants and working folks and the whole gamut of people getting by in a world that doesn't care whether they do so or not. Sacred City is an incomparable follow-up to Van Alst's award-winning debut collection, Sacred Smokes....

In this sizzling, high-octane new series, national bestselling author and urban lit superstar Kiki Swinson brings back the unforgettable Kira from her gritty bestselling Wifey novels. Now, from drug king pin's wife to streetwise widow and back again, along with all the danger and...

THE SIXTH INSTALLMENT TO THE FANTASTIC THE DEVIL WEARS TIMBS SERIES!!!!A mercenary more powerful and skilled than anyone has ever encountered bypasses the security systems of the Jackson's mansion and kidnaps a loved one.Now in order to get them back, it's up to EUREKA...

Life couldn't have been more perfect even if Azure Knight had written the fairy tale herself. The little girl from the hood who was abandoned on the day she was born was now living life of her dreams. She was about to marry the...

Darrell Jenkins a.k.a. The Sandman, is known as a legend in the streets of Waterloo, Iowa, experiencing success on both sides of the law. However, out of all the things Darrell has accomplished, love is the one thing that has eluded him. Enter Sherrice...

Quincy Underwood is a well known local celebrity in his hood. He's street smart, handsome, and the talented lead vocalist for Taboo, the hottest Neo Soul R&B band on the East Coast. Quincy's deepest desire is to live the lifestyle that he knows he...

This is the story of a man that has to put his life together while dealing with the murder of everyone that is dear to him. He learns how far people are willing to go to reach their ambitions. He also learns that killers...

ANTONIO "TONY" STALLWORTH is a killer by nature and a gangster by breed. Brooklyn, New York has never seen a hustler with his ambition before, but the city is about to be introduced to some downright GANGSTA SHYT. Opposing Tony's street dreams are an...

Life got off to a rough start for CORONA aka Sweets but giving up is not in her DNA. Instead of relying on her beauty and sex appeal to make it out of the hood, she decides to go to college and make something...

This is a story about Rated-R and Ta'Yiah and their love affair in the mist of all the hood drama.Author: Royalty K. I. N. G. McCallISBN-10: 1519103654ISBN-13: 9781519103659Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/02/2015Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.47d

Regarded as the first work of unalloyed naturalism in American fiction. The story of Maggie Johnson a young woman who, seduced by her brother's friend and then disowned by her family, turns to prostitution.Author: Stephen CraneISBN-10: 1517297206ISBN-13: 9781517297206Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/11/2015Pages:...

The Song of the Lark is the self-portrait of an artist in the making. The story revolves around an ambitious young girl, Thea, who leaves home to go to the big city to fulfill her dream of becoming a famous opera star. Along the...

AMINA isn't on top of the world but she is enjoying life. But things get better when she meets AMIR, a smooth criminal whose touch sets her body on fire. Amir doesn't just please her between the sheets, he loves her in a way...

"The Streets Call Me Treasure," is about a young woman brought up in the grimy streets of Dayton Ohio only taught how to take what she wants in this world. Treasure does that exactly, by robbing every man she comes across. She takes his...

A prequel to Ashley and JaQuavis' New York Times bestselling Cartel series, this story follows the rise of notorious gangster Carter Diamond, taking listeners through his days on the mean streets of Michigan to him becoming the biggest drug lord Miami has ever seen....

CDV (Criminal Domestic Violence), what is a girl to do? Through China's eyes, she was an ordinary sheltered girl that just wanted to do what others her age did. With a young single Pentecostal mother raising her, she didn't have such luck. She was...

In Love and War, and the Rise and Fall of a Crime God, we fell in love with Blaze and Phantom. We always wondered what their kids would be like when they grew up. Well, the wait is over, and these two are ready...

In 2001, a woman's skeleton was found in the woods overlooking Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital. Despite an audit of the hospital's patient records, a forensic reconstruction of the woman's face, missing-person appeals, and DNA tests that revealed not only where she had lived, but...

On the streets of Denton, Texas, ASSATA's blood type is G for gangsta, an attribute of himself that he wears with pride and honor. Loyalty runs through his veins thicker than blood, and his heart knows no fear. When killers gun down his closest...

At the tender age of seventeen, Chris aka Capone was snatched off the streets away from everything he loved and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The reputation he'd worked so hard for on the streets meant nothing behind the...

EBONY and IVY are two college educated, baaad females who are cut from the same cloth. Raised as "sisters", due to their fathers being best friends and devout partners in crime, the pair are far removed from the game. Blessed with stunning beauty and...

In the streets there are many savages, but the man known as 40 is unlike any other. 40 is cool headed but beastly and after coming home from a stint in jail and finding out that SKALEZ, his childhood friend has been brutally murdered,...

The saying goes you shouldn't bite the hand that feeds you, but maybe you should if that same hand prevents you from feeding yourself. Every territory has a king, and Metro Atlanta is no exception. Gang lords Blanket and Guerilla have been growing their...

The author of Secrets and Lies (November 2009 release) perfects her edgy brand of Christian fiction by bringing back the juiciest character from her debut novel. Samaria Jacobs is the deceitful, yet captivating diva who resorts to desperate measures in a fight to win...

Eureen, Tracey, Deja, and Jasmine are all looking for relationships that are based on strong moral values--despite their own less than moral lifestyles. Faithfully married but severely sexually frustrated, Eureen would do anything to catch her husband's eye again and reignite bedroom flames. She...

Eastside is a coming-of-age tale set among the backdrop of inner-city gang violence in the early '90s. Eastside is about mothers struggling and supporting one another as they match in a seemingly endless procession to the cemetery to bury their children. After his brother's...

Norman Moonbloom is a loser, a drop-out who can't even make it as a deadbeat. His brother, a slumlord, hires him to collect rent in the buildings he owns in Manhattan. Making his rounds from apartment to apartment, Moonbloom confronts a wildly varied assortment...