Fiction - Urban & Street Lit

VELLI is smooth, ruthless and calculating, with two things on his mental: Finding the whereabouts of the man who sent him to prison and filling the cracks of DC's grimiest streets with that man's blood. Will he fulfill those deadly vows? Or will he...

Growing up in the infamous Jordan Downs projects in Watts, California, with no father and a dope fiend for a mother, Eureka and Anton Jackson have never had it easy, and things are about to get worse. With the threat of being without food...

After waking up in the hospital with a hole in her chest, SWEETS knows that she has no other choice but to kill her ex-boyfriend, JAY, before he manages to put her down for good next time. Waiting is not an option, she must...

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...

Over 15 years ago, the infamous Summer Mckey had the streets of Augusta under seige, supplying the city with keys of cocaine and a string of unsolved murders. She had even raised her youngest son Dante to become a goon and to one day...

Black Butterfly 5: EBONI'S REVENGE THE FINALE' This is it... the final book in the Epic series Black Butterfly Take a final journey into the ferociously mean streets of Baltimore, Maryland as Nadet puts his life back together after serving time in prison. With...

Elijah "Li'l Nine" Hassahn born into the gritty environs of South Central Los Angeles in the late 1970s, is ripe to be molded by the first generation of the Crip movement. As a product of the first family of the Rollin 90s Neighborhood Crips,...

The climate in the streets of Washington, D.C. is fast-paced and violent during the Murder Capital years. Rule number one is to play for keeps. Reggie "Redds" Williams and his childhood friends grow up in the Kennedy Street area of Northwest. As they learn...

"When narcotics detective Lucas Cain meets news reporter Justine Greer, she stops his playa attitude in its tracks. ... Now, two of New York's finest, both in beauty and detective work, join Lucas and his sarcastic partner Noah as they once again go undercover...

Queen is young, beautiful and extremely intelligent. Born and raised as Princess of The Black Mafia, an organization founded by her father, she wants for nothing except the love of her cruel, cold-hearted mother. When the police arrest Queen's father for her mother's murder,...

A young journalism student named Coffee is granted the opportunity of a lifetime. During her spring break she has to follow Mickey Royal around day and night in order to do a report on The Pimp Game.As Coffee accompanies Mickey Royal throughout his daily...

Everyone's favorite Dirty Old Man returns with a new volume of uncollected work. Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), one of the most outrageous figures of twentieth-century American literature, was so prolific that many significant pieces never found their way into his books. Absence of the Hero...

With ROCKET slugged up and unable to retaliate on his enemies, it's up to his man TRAP, and his rude gal, JAE, to show the streets that he is still calling the shots in Brooklyn. Anyone who opposes them will be met with an...

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 and the rest of the family to track him down....

Throughout the grimy streets of Newport, Virginia, BKA Bad Newz, there was big money to be made by those who didn't hesitate to get it how they lived. For SKALEZ and his partners in crime, BLOCK and 40, that meant donning the ski masks,...

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...

To KRISSETT BAPTISTE, her husband, STONE, was everything she'd ever wanted in a man: tender, attentive, supportive and fully accepting of her challenges. Basking in the glow of marital bliss, everything was going along wonderfully, until Stone forgot the warning she had issued: DON'T...

J.T. is a cold-hearted but thoughtful, young street savage who learned the game from a wizened kingpin. Amongst the many lessons he was taught, he knew to move in silence and the importance of out-thinking the competition. Armed with boss jewels on hustling and...

Three brothers, MO, TAZ B and T SKI envision having BROOKLYN ON LOCK. To do so, they must exploit the drug game in a manner no other crew can compete with. T Ski, a young genius, comes up with a product that has the...

Throughout the grimy streets of Newport, Virginia, BKA Bad Newz, there was big money to be made by those who didn't hesitate to get it how they lived. For SKALEZ and his partners in crime, BLOCK and 40, that meant donning the ski masks,...

With innocent, baby-faced looks but the swag of an OG, SAVAROUS JONES aka PIMP is an opportunist that can charm and swindle the unsuspecting heart of any woman that can financially profit his hidden agenda because using the ladies for his come-up is a...

Betrayal is worse than slaughter. That's the motto Antonio Ameen Felder always instills in his friends. When a murder at the prison threatens to incarcerate them all for life, one man decides to sacrifice himself to free the others. All he asks for in...

...the sway of the trolley, the unusual passenger, the truck's raspy muffler, the woman's torn dress, and her own inability to help. Frances is determined to let the details of the disturbing incident go. She's certain that by Monday her life will return to...

What do you get when you cross Holden Caulfield with Johnny Rotten? None other than Seamus O'Grady, the 15-year-old, punk-rock protagonist of 85AAuthor: Kyle Thomas SmithISBN-10: 1935098268ISBN-13: 9781935098263Publisher: BASCOM Hill Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2010Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70dReview Citation(s): Booklist...

In this robust, elegantly plotted, and ultimately life-affirming novel, Zoe Whittall presents a dazzling portrait of the Millennial Generation -- the 25-year-olds who grew up on anti-anxiety meds, text messaging each other truncated emotional reactions, unsure of what's public and what's private. Holding Still...

The Narrator is a sensitive young man who wishes to become a writer, whose identity is kept vague. The Narrator's anxiety leads to manipulation, much like the manipulation employed by his invalid aunt Leonie and all the lovers in the entire book, who use...

"Contains explicit languages and adult themes suitable for ages 16+"--Title page verso.Author: Jahquel J.ISBN-10: 1720683735ISBN-13: 9781720683735Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/11/2018Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d

A moving tale about middle age, divorce, modern love, and returning home by one of the great American storytellers. Asher's career as a Hollywood screenwriter has come to a humiliating end; so has his latest marriage. Returning to New York, where he grew up,...

Jovanna, a successful mortgage broker, and her girlfriend, criminal defense lawyer Melanie, have established a warm, tender, and secure relationship during the four years they've been together. When business and friendship intertwine, however, the promise of their certain future is shaken. An online fixation...

Carin Douglas is a fearless young girl, thrust into the role of a stickup kid alongside Brooklyn's most notorious thugs. She learns to fight, to survive, and ultimately to shine through a series of events that take her from a young girl on the...

After assuming a lucrative diamond trade, ANTONIO becomes locked in a fierce battle for supremacy and survival with a deadly Russian mafioso, YURI, and his even deadlier identical twin female assassins. The war that ensued on the streets of New York is unlike anything...

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) is a novel by American writer Stephen Crane. Self-published by Crane when the author was only 22 years old, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets has since been recognized as the first work of American literary Naturalism....

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller Instant USA TODAY Bestseller The long-anticipated sequel to Sister Souljah's million copy New York Times bestseller The Coldest Winter Ever. Winter Santiaga hit time served. Still stunning, still pretty, still bold, still loves her father more than any...

Through all of the pain and struggle, DONK still smiles. When he feels left behind, he gets on his grind to the point that he accumulates more money than he ever dreamed he'd have. But money can't buy happiness.Taking care of his remaining family...

ALL NEW EDITION WITH BONUS STORY, "THE FIX". Perry Samson loves drugs. He'll take what he can get, but raw atlys is his passion. Shot hard and fast into his testicles, atlys helps him forget that he lives in an abandoned Baltimore school, that...

They wanted to change their stations in life, so they did the unimaginable. The money became addictive and the adrenaline rush that came with armed robbery was intoxicating. But, could it last?TATA, JELLI, PHATMAMA and ZOEY embark on a dangerous mission to come up...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Written in poetic and affecting prose, Jeet Thayil's luminous debut novel charts the evolution of a great and broken metropolis across three decades. A rich, hallucinatory dream that captures Bombay in all its compelling squalor, Narcopolis completely subverts...

New York Times Bestselling Author Joanne Wadsworth brings you her bestselling Billionaire Bodyguards series. This is steamy and adventurous romance that has readers eager for more! He will sacrifice anything to protect her. Twenty-one-year-old New Zealander Lydia Sands witnessed the hit-and-run of a powerful...

After spending more than a decade behind bars, ATKISON TEAGUE is finally free. Will his return to the hood set off gunfire and murder? J.L. is already dead, leaving many to mourn his death while others celebrate it. And now J.L. 's nephew is...

Nina Stilts is a woman standing on her last leg. Recently released from county jail, and currently awaiting trial behind the accidental killing of her own child, she bumps a unique fellow by the name of Mac 90. When she finds herself on the...

Ditch Lilies chronicles street youth in late 1980's Pittsburgh, when Downtown's major avenues hopped with vice and depravity. The homeless and displaced kids who find themselves at the center of its sensual squalor put survival first with consequences left to chance.Daimey is the young...

Author: Tranay AdamsISBN-10: 1732792275ISBN-13: 9781732792272Publisher: Tranay AdamsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/17/2018Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.47d

This Special Report reveals the secrets of women who have fallen in love with prisoners, regardless of crime, sentence, or location. This information will give you a HUGE advantage in getting girls from prison.Author: Mike EnemigoISBN-10: 1096462281ISBN-13: 9781096462286Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2019Pages: 74Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Money, power, respect and the battle for one woman's love pitted two notorious drug dealers against each other in a bloody battle that left behind many casualties. Young NARD has finally brought down CJ, Newark, New Jersey's most powerful and most dynamic crack King....

"Who gets hit next in this crazy game of killers for hire?" Rappers are showing too much disrespect for women these days. When an R&B legend's daughter is raped at a Death Row video shoot, she takes matters into her own hands and declares...

The streets of Washington, D.C. are at their most violent in years. From 5th and Rittenhouse to M.L.K. Avenue, roll with Mann, his little brother Lando, and their crew of uptown soldiers as they take no prisoners in the Fast Lane. As the drug...

"Get it how you live it," is the foundation of the street lawmakers. When two well-connected Arabs enter the city limits of Durham, North Carolina, they do so without knowing the rules of the land. Pay close attention to the main character of your...

When narcotics detective Lucas Cain meets news reporter Justine Greer, she stops his playa attitude in its tracks. It is love at first sight as the two fall head over heels for each other, despite the influence of Justine's jealous friend, Simone. While Simone...

Ivy Lee Jones and Candy Cane are a couple of sexy girls gone wild. Their first introduction came a bit premature due to a near fatal dilemma, but their next reunion was coerced and proved timely thanks to Stormy Daniels, a Memphis baller who...

A Los Angeles Times's and Southern California Indie Bookseller Association's Bestseller! Los Angeles Stories is a collection of loosely linked, noir-ish tales that evoke a bygone era in one of America's most iconic cities. In post-World War II Los Angeles, as power was concentrating...