Fiction - Urban & Street Lit

She was born JASMINE NICHOLS and given the nickname "RICHES" because that was her destiny. Her beauty made her the envy of most women and the weakness of many men, while the lies she told and the secrets she kept hidden caused many to...

When the impossible happens, the game changes, and the Walker sisters, FREEDOM, ANGEL and DESTINY are out to make the world shiver at the sounds of their heels clicking and their guns clacking. FATHER GOD was larger than life. He was thought to be...

After everything YASEER had been through over the past two years, he woke up every day expecting trouble, gunfire and bloodshed to come his way. He was good with that because him and his team's weapons were always cocked and locked and ready to...

Lawrence is an awkward, bookish man. He'd been a grad student with a notion to write his thesis about a connection between Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nathanael West. That was before a nervous breakdown interrupted his studies and left him homeless. He finds himself on...

Tanisha Hopkins a.k.a. Tiny dreams of living the glamorous life by any means necessary. A bona fide, certified, authentic material girl in every sense of the description, Tiny is Feenin to live life fast and furious and has found the perfect man to make...

There's more to 24 year-old Sdia Mitchell than looks. This native Washingtonian has brains and brawn to match, but not without baggage. She was sexually abused as a child, which is more than a load for this beauty to carry. Just when Sdia begins...

Decide to fall in love with an Outlaw for the final time... Janelle's lack of experience with the street life has created a rift between her and Luke. But the more she thinks about all the changes that have come about after becoming his...

Menace and Speedy are two local dope slingers with much in common, but two things in particular. They're both young, and hungry. Business... is booming, and while most people in their position would be satisfied Menace and Speedy aren't, "most people." They want to...

Ghetto Dogs is a biracial love story seen through the violent prism of dogfighting and drug dealing. While on his way to apply for a teaching job in Harlem, Vincent DeRosa saves a young boy from being mauled by a runaway pit bull. Looking...

For a twenty-eight-year-old young man who returned from the army several years ago but has yet to reacclimatize to ordinary life, every step, gesture, word, and vision is a revelation, which takes him back to the beginning, to a time when reality had lost...

Tehran is Iran's most secular and liberal city. It is a city that is so much more than the usual chaotic maze of concrete and traffic jams thick with air pollution. This is the beating heart of Iran, a creative tour de force and...

In Darkest London is a social documentary of the East End in the 1880s. It was originally published in 1889, as Captain Lobe: A Story of the Salvation Army by John Law. Margaret Harkness, who wrote under the pen name of John Law, is...

Miracles can come in byte-sized packages.Instead of celebrating the return of Tal and Roark to the fold, the Exceptionals are instead in mourning. The only one not reacting as expected is James. His secret is about to send everyone into action to perform a...

Parallel Realities Kola and Peaches palace lifestyle in Colombia comes crashing down when the Federales kick in Eduardo's front door. Forced to flee South America with her niece and return to New York, Kola feels lost without her twin sister. Things begin to turn...

Hoes In Da Hood, take you through the lives, and everyday struggles of women, who's seeking love, attention and a free meal ticket out of the hood, when it comes to their wants they will stop at nothing to get it, whether it's betraying...

Pontiac's streets are paved with desperation and desire. Welma, a woman in her mid-40s, is craving a new thrill in her life. She finds it in the form of JC, a young thug in his early 20s who knows exactly how to satisfy her...

JENNIFER is out for revenge against her ex-lover and his family. Using every ounce of her power and persuasion, she is determined to bring them all down to their knees, but one mistake just might turn the tables against her. After learning of Jennifer's...

Your favorite DC couples are back. After the baby shower blow-up and the loss of her favorite cousin, Keisha is confused and angry about her life. Hearing that the love of her life got another chick pregnant may make her revert to her old...

THUG GIRL is a vivid coming of age saga about the intertwined paths of five best friends. These friends are born into the cesspools of drugs, sex and violence and these are their stories of surviving the twenty-first century at the Wild West edges...

Formerly Titled Under "He Almost Had Me" Have you ever had a flashback over your entire life and thought about every horrible decision you have ever made? How different your life could have been if only you had made the right decisions? This is...

Greed one of the seven deadly sins is one of my very first books. It is an urban fiction about several characters whose stories intertwine into one to make an interesting novel. I'm excited to finally share it and I hope you all enjoyAuthor:...

Looks can be deceiving, and love can cover a multitude of sins. On the outside, McKinley appears to have it all - a fly crib, a closet full of clothes, money to blow and a man who is every woman's wet dream. However, lonely...

Summer Jones is a beautiful twenty-three-year-old woman, who is a well- educated entrepreneur. Devastation hit home early, having lost her mother to breast cancer when she was just a young child. Fortunately, her over-protective, loving and former pimp, father, Sonny, raised his only child...

BLACK BUTTERFLY "The Original" (soon to be a movie) "Black Butterfly," the debut novel by former television producer Dante' Feenix is the first of a series based on true life accounts. "This urban drama gives you much more than just drama in an urban...

Hip-hop fiction fans eager for more can feast on the second volume of this well-loved series. Featuring short stories from Genieva Borne, Camo, Endy, Brooke Green, Kineisha Gayle (the queen of hip hop lit), Carolyn McGill, Vanessa Martir, Princess Madison, Keisha Seignious, and a...

When Infinity suddenly shows up offering Tanisha her forgiveness, yet asks explicit details about Tanisha s previous affair with her husband, Roscoe, Tanisha has every right to be suspicious. Despite her gut feeling, she accepts Infinity s friendship. As the women try to bury...

Baby Gangster hopped out of the driver's seat with his 501 Levis creased to the Tee. His one-inch cuff had a split on the side that made his jeans easily lay over his blue Fila shoes. His crisp new white Pro Club shirt hung...

The lives of the urban desperate in their unending struggle to keep afloat in an always dangerous environment circumscribed by racism and poverty. "Extraordinary stories, told in a powerful voice."--Los Angeles Times Book Review Wanda Coleman wrote as a witness, whether as a poet,...

"Motherland Hotel is a startling masterpiece, a perfect existential nightmare, the portrait of a soul lost on the threshold of an ever-postponed Eden."--Alberto Manguel, author of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A BiographyZeberjet, the last surviving member of a once prosperous Ottoman family, is the...

In the age of Occupy, An Army of Lovers reasks the question, what is the relationship between poetry and politics?Author: David Buuck, Juliana SpahrISBN-10: 0872866297ISBN-13: 9780872866294Publisher: City Lights BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2013Pages: 150Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 6.40h x 4.50w x 0.50dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 08/12/2013

In 1858, two black women meet at a restaurant and begin to plot a revolution. Mary Ellen Pleasant owns a string of hotels in San Francisco that secretly double as havens for runaway slaves. Her comrade, Annie, is a young Jamaican who has given...

Already a celebrated performance artist, vocalist, poet, playwright, and visionary, Carl Hancock Rux now presents a brilliant debut novel--a profound and lyrical portrait of urban life that will take its place among the classics of American literature. Racine is a reserved young man, but...

Envy was more than familiar with hard times and it seemed as though she couldn't catch a break. Out of options, and out of time, she accepts an indecent proposal in hopes of a little financial stability. Her money-making body and mesmerizing curves, takes...

Who are you pretending to be? Savannah thought that running away from her past would change her life. And for about fifteen years, she was right. Until her happy marriage goes down the drain and she's left with no one but herself to blame....

A half-lesbian half-Jewish FedEx driver in 1990's Seattle befriends the Scandinavian mother of twins, an "Oakland black" restaurant manager, a kiki Mexican pal of a famous rapper and an old-money pixie in glittery Santa-drag. Colliding over Christmas dinner, the cultural rebels shock the two-stepping...

Arthur Nersesian's underground literary treasure is an unforgettable slice of gritty New York City life. This is the darkly hilarious odyssey of an anonymous slacker. He's a perennial couch-surfer, an aspiring writer searching for himself in spite of himself, and he's just trying to...

The Lonely Child is a riveting saga, and a heartfelt story of a young male growing up in South Central Los Angeles, California. Eugene was brought into this cruel world after several hours of hard labor. The circumstances surrounding him being ushered into existence...

Ricky Walters grew up in the gritty streets of San Diego California. Upon quitting his security job, he meets an ex pimp name Trust who teaches him everything about the pimp game. Ricky ends up turning out a young asian girl name Yuki, changes...

Every girl wants to live the lavish life, but at what price? Nothing in Sweetz's life is normal when she falls in love with Smooth, the infamous leader of the Hot Boyz. Taking her out the shelter and giving her the taste of the...

When Lenny, a.k.a. Low/Lowdown's father is murdered during a hit he did for the Mafia, his death leaves his blood flowing through his son. For the murder, Lenny's father was going to be placed amongst the elite within the crime family's organization, while also...

BRUISED, battered and set on Revenge Vasthai was brutally raped at the tender age of sixteen and was a mother nine months later. After putting her life back together with the help of her husband...she is devastated when her son, Tyrone was sent to...

In this Pygmalion tale of a novelist turned bond trader, Martha McPhee brings to life the greed and riotous wealth of New York during the heady days of the second gilded age. India Palmer, living the cash-strapped existence of the writer, is visiting wealthy...

Hijinks galore among the deliriously funny ad men and women in this electronic epistolary novel e's wickedly hilarious crew from the Miller Shanks Ad Agency is back with more office shenanigans. The staff has moved on to Meerkat360, a sleek and self-consciously hip boutique...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Man on Earth comes a delicious new novel about a young woman's dreams of finding grand romance and success in the big city--and her schemes to make both come true....What's a girl to do...

America in the 1920s was a country alive with the wild fun of jazz, speakeasies, and a new kind of woman--the flapper. Vera Abramowitz is determined to leave her gritty childhood behind and live a more exciting life, one that her mother never dreamed...

The bestselling author of the Richard Jury novels delivers a razor-sharp and raucously funny send-up of the cutthroat world of publishing. And the praise is pouring in: "A hilarious and wicked caper-adventure on the evils of the book business."--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"Does laughing uncontrollably on a...

One of the hottest new writers in urban fiction, award-winning author Kia DuPree has been hailed for her heart-wrenching storytelling and unforgettable characters. Now she takes you to Washington, D.C.'s most notorious neighborhood, where a young woman has one chance to escape-and too many...

Starring Adam Sinclair, of British television and Van Wilder 2, Kristin Kreuk of Smallville, Billy Boyd of Lord of the Rings, and Irvine Welsh in a cameo, Ecstasy is cult-classic ready. Director Rob Heydon draws his plot from Welsh's novella "The Undefeated: An Acid...

Tiffany has vowed to get revenge on her half-sister and her boyfriend for killing her father Shon and her long-time lover Saliq. But first, Tiffany has to stay low until the dust settles. Tired of being slept on and disrespected, she meets Rasheeda, one...

Wasuan Wells has two loves--one is his beautiful girl of two years, Enychi Carter, and the other is his love for dice. Rollin' dice is an everyday hustle for Wasuan, and he's one of the best the hood has ever seen. No one can...