Fiction - Urban & Street Lit

The follow up to his best-selling memoir Monster, Sanyika Shakur's T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E. is a vicious, heart-wrenching and true-to-life novel about an LA gang member that masterfully captures the violence and depravity of gang life. Shakur's protagonist is Lapeace, the leader of the Eight Tray...

Hip-hop megastar Snoop Dogg and award-winning playwright David E. Talbert join forces to bring you the unforgettable saga of an aspiring young rapper who finds himself at several crossroads at once, where everything, including himself, is about to suddenly change. The year is 1989,...

Life in the streets take on a whole new meaning in this urban anthology of "hood" tales compiled by New York Times bestselling author Wahida Clark. WHAT'S REALLY HOOD! Black Is Blue by Victor L. Martin delves into the life of a corporate woman...

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: 0425239721ISBN-13: 9780425239728Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/07/2010Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.21w x 0.77d

A teacher's affair with his underage student jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own power. Their nascent desires surprise even themselves as they find the practice room where they rehearse with their saxophone teacher is the safe place...

In these bittersweet, compelling stories, Virginia Pye's characters in Shelf Life of Happiness long for that most-elusive of states: happiness. A young skateboarder reaches across an awesome gap to reconnect with his disapproving father; an elderly painter executes one final, violent gesture to memorialize...

When heroin-addicted vampire and gang leader, RJ, reluctantly takes in a twelve-year-old prostitute called Bait, humanity is introduced to his otherwise lifeless existence. An unforgiving, vicious and realistic horror story, Knuckle Supper explores chemical dependency, inner-city brutality, religion, molestation, abortion and the very nature...

Born and raised in the Projects of Richmond VA, Derick Richards life was changed and his destiny to become a federal agent was forged at an early age when he witnessed the untimely death of his older brother and father figure Carlo at the...

A poet and novelist whose work has been variously compared to Rimbaud, Charles Bukowski and Irvine Welsh, Serhiy Zhadan's first novel Depeche Mode depicts Ukrainian youth during the turbulent 1990s. Described by the author as "a book about real male comradeship," the novel follows...

For a policeman, there are some questions that have to be asked even if you don't want to know the answers . . . A middle-aged man jumps under a tube train at Shepherd's Bush station, and a teenage girl is killed in a...

Taking place across a mutating set of darkrooms, art galleries, blank apartments and bedrooms; In Their Arms is an acute inspection of loneliness, desire and confusion. The narrator attempts to simultaneously find himself and become lost completely in a world of sex, internet hook-ups,...

Cherise McKenzie, an Atlanta crime scene investigator, and her husband, Detective Mason McKenzie, have experienced some turbulent ups and downs in their marriage over the years. With demanding careers and two children, the McKenzies find themselves spending more time apart than together, which allows...

Never judge a book by its cover. . . Xavier Preston is tall, dark, and handsome, and the problem is that he knows it. He's a bestselling author who is accustomed to adoring female fans, both young and old, flirting with him, throwing themselves...

From the author of his truly candid memoir, Inner City Miracle, comes the fast-paced thriller about a judge who is caught up in a gritty case involving a brutal murder that no one else seems to care about. Detroit was once considered the murder...

NYRB Classics presents 3 darkly humorous, atmospheric novellas of love and disappointment, set in a run-down London pub after WWI--from the author of the Hitchcock classics Gaslight and Rope. "Bleak and brilliant. . . an authentic lost classic." --The Guardian Featuring a Dickensian cast...

TRUST NO MAN, the gripping, fast-paced, debut novel by CA$H, is an urban street tale told in such vivid detail and with such gritty and compelling style, it's like watching a movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat from start to...

Hannibal, a young man from Tulsa, Oklahoma, grows up and wants some of the finer things in life. Due to the fact that his family cannot afford those things he decides to take things into his own hands. Hannibal begins a life of crime...

Fall in love with a mysterious and tortured hero in this #1 New York Times bestselling author's steamy, suspenseful romance about an "irresistible" (Booklist) British alpha and the one woman who may be able to save him -- as long as he can protect...

CHOPPA is the man. A young, rich, thuggish hustler who has the city on lock. All he needs is the right woman to come home to. But life has taught him that women are a pleasure. They are not to be loved, and they...

From the time she was born Faith has only known pain from her abusive mother. She's never understood the reason on why her mother hated her with a passion, but there is only so much one person can take before they break. When she...

After all of the turmoil they've been through, KEYZ and SHAUNIE finally make their way back to each other, where they belong. This time they're stronger than ever before. But just when everything is going good, tragedy strikes. In the midst of a tragic...

Black Butterfly 4: TEMPER... The Generational Curse I was once told by a New York Times Best Selling Author that "Mixed reviews make for a great book..." and this is it People are TORN because Nadet's a grown man now and making the same...

It all begins when PI Gulliver Dowd is approached by Ellis Torres, a street kid, on Valentino Pier in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. Ellis has lost his dog, and after Gulliver helps to find the dog for him, they go their separate...

Widely heralded as one of the first truly modern novels, Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" was published in 1925 and is one of the author's most popular and critically acclaimed works. All of the events of the novel take place on a single day in...

Diva supreme Yancey Harrington Braxton is working her way back to Broadway and beyond--and stirring up drama in and out of the spotlight--in the acclaimed New York Times bestseller from E. Lynn Harris. After being out on tour, the ambitious singer and actress is...

From British Fantasy Award-nominated author Chris Kelso comes the DREGS trilogy, comprising three installments: Shrapnel Apartments Unger House Radicals and Ritual America in a transgressive odyssey that will leave you dazzled, fascinated and shocked in equal measure.Author: Chris KelsoISBN-10: 1913038424ISBN-13: 9781913038427Publisher: Black Shuck BooksLanguage:...

Mahfouz's last novel, an evocative depiction of life in Egypt in the twentieth century as told through the lives of a group of friends, is now available in paperback for the first time On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya,...

LUKE is on trial for his freedom and his life. Will he beat the murder rap or is prison about to become his home? Can SYN hold things together without her better half? Or will pressure bring out that female beast that's inside of...

After losing her parents at the tender age of 14, kicked out on the street by the only living family she had left, Sha'Naya Power's world came tumbling down. With no money, knowledge or family to fallback on she learns the true meaning of...

Trina is what you would call a 'get money hoe'. She does whatever it takes to get it. People are sucked in by her sexy body and the innocent way she talks; little do they know they're in for a rude awakening. Trina does...

Having successfully served out his one hundred and twenty day probation, Hannibal is free move about the country and expand his criminal empire. He has devised a plan that will bring a level of anonymity to himself and the top-level people he has around...

After a frightening close call with death, BLACQUE BARBEE wants to leave the game for good and start a new life with COREY. But there's a problem looming in the shadows and its name is RICH. Rich refuses to let Barbee go, and he's...

After SASHA awakens from her coma, she has no recollection of what happened to her, or who tried to kill her. However, BLUE is there to help her regain her memory and pick up the pieces of her shattered heart. He vows that his...

GREED is stuck in prison serving a life-long bid. His only chance to regain his freedom is to enter into a blood pact with a man who's twice as crazy as he is himself. Is the price of freedom worth a man's soul? Will...

After serving a long prison bid, Devaughn Mitchell comes home armed with a vengeful heart and a hunger to regain everything he lost. By his side is his sister, Keyz. Beautiful, intelligent, calculating and deadly, she is a Boss in her own right. The...

The streets thought KASH was gone forever when he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. But what no one knew was his brother from a different mother, GANGSTA, would sacrifice his own life to set his partner free. Now the notorious Kash...

Long-listed for the 2018 Man Booker PrizeShort-listed for the 2018 Gordon Burn PrizeShort-listed for the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize Inspired by the real-life murder of a British army soldier by religious fanatics, Guy Gunaratne's In Our Mad and Furious City is a snapshot of the...

Escape with a dynamic group of young adults that meet at a Vancouver West End room and board house named Arbutus Manor. Follow Matt the "lovable scoundrel", Mina the beautiful runaway bride, Carol the physically challenged woman with a zest for life and Jordie...

Tony and his crew of thugs take over the drug trade, but will they be able to maintain it? Join the urban adventure as a crew go to war with a ruthless neighborhood known as, Lil Medellin for power and respect. Author: Abdullah MuhammadISBN-10:...

Gen-K is a rough, heartless gang of young killas and gang bangers who are ignoring all the old rules of the game and re-writing them in blood.Scientific a reputable O.G from Oakland and Gen-K's 19 year old leader Young Gunnz have a bond being...

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...

Ross Susans and Luke Moffat live on opposite sides of London, and opposite sides of the personality spectrum. Ross is intelligent, driven and committed, whilst Luke is chaotic, aggressive and reckless, but they have the same demons. Ross has dreams of getting into Harvard...

The Ladies of MHB are all together again and ready to take their newfound success to the next level, but with success comes more haters and rivals who are shooting at the team on top. After living through the largest shootout in downtown Charlotte's...

2011 Reprint of 1922 First Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The Martino Reprint is a exact facsimile of the original 1922 Edition published in Paris by Sylvia Beach in 1922. One of the most important works...

Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer. It was first serialized in The Pacific Monthly magazine from September 1908 to September 1909 and published in book form by Macmillan in...

When CHOPPA's jealousy boils over, JULZ finds herself in the middle of the cold, dark woods, staring down at a grave he has dug for her. With a loaded gun in his hand, he threatens to kill her, himself or them both. If Julz...

Grieving and on the way to his mother's funeral, DAMAR KING receives a disturbing phone call that threatens his family's drug empire. When Damar refuses to bow to the caller's extortion attempts, he gets touched where it hurts the most-not in the pocket but...

This book examines and dialogues with six major ideologies which threaten faithful Christian doctrine and practice. While some appear subtly synchronistic, and others blatantly anti-Christian, each ideology is personified and engaged with a fictional character to demonstrate how these beliefs impact and interact with...

Welcome to Compton where life is similar to Baghdad. Take a peek inside the lives of three childhood friends and journey with them through adult hood. Who dies? who goes to prison? who falls in love? who makes it out? you'll have to read...

He watched as she screamed and yelled with every strike that the man, made to her face. From her mouth, she spit blood that was rolling down her face. He continued to watch the 6'2" dark skin man repeatedly hit and kick the woman...