Fiction - Urban & Street Lit

In Caterina, Claudia Durastanti presents us with a Cleopatra for our times - no exotic queen courted by two lovers with the fate of an empire in their hands but a young would-be ballet dancer who now works in as a cleaner in a...

The hustle doesn't stop...it simply keeps going. That adage is put to the test when Lorenzo Watson sinks knee-deep in the everyday struggle of life. The bills pile up and Lorenzo is pushed to his limits to stay legal. He feels the lure to...

Lake City has a lot of heavy weather, and it's not just in the air. Eduardo "Vince" Negron has a regular table at a bar-restaurant in Pigsville called El Perro Negro, from where he runs El Manojo, a motley assortment of hoodlums. Negron is...

THE REDEMPTION: PURGATORY (Volume 3)Purgatory is the third volume in Matthew Pagan's Redemptionseries. His search for Redemption is incomplete. Still mourning Trav's death, Matt is faced with the gripping reality that everybody is dying around him. He is being hunted by Naomi and Tony;...

Son of a black gangster and an Italian mother with ties to a high profile mobster, the deadly mixture allows Spaz to become the most ruthless gangster in the City of Brotherly Love. What starts off as a plot to move his mother out...

Allison, "Al" for short, has finally found her true passion in life after recently being discharged from the United States Navy. With her newly found career as a personal trainer, she enjoys helping people reach their fitness goals. She loves her husband, Jeffrey, and...

No matter the effort that Bromise Balducci put forth early on to undermine his passion to kill, he'd fall weak to the seducer of power over again. Initially, it was only his mentor and grandpa, Brisco, that basked in the joy of Bromises frequent...

What do you get when the baddest chick and four cold blooded killers enter a Newark, New Jersey strip club strapped with Mac 11s? You get a nasty body count and the lick of a lifetime Not only do Charisma, GQ, Shamar and Crook...

"A celebration of life on the streets, shared in gritty dirty glory by those too often ignored and unseen." Lesann Berry"You will come to care about this deeply flawed but charming cast of outsiders - like family." Lesann Berry, author of Passing Judgement, Alternate...

Welcome to North Harbor High...where a girl can get bullied to death.Sheridan Alexander moves to her fifth foster home since kindergarten. Her two goals are to graduate and exit the system without any more trouble. That is until she is assigned locker 572 and...

This bittersweet chronicle about how a working horse finally gains his freedom was inspired by a real animal and true events, yet its underlying theme is about the universal value of friendship. The hero is a sturdy draft horse: old, eccentric, and irritable. His...

When rock's former biggest rebel loses everything, he's forced to call in favors from all the rock star royalty whom he'd burned his entire career. With a trashed comeback tour, creditors on his ass, no record deal, a health issue he doesn't even know...

Erica Flynn never expected to die in a car crash just minutes after a fight with her husband, Dominic. But then, a modern, down-to-earth skeptic like Erica never expected to end up in an afterlife somewhere between Greek mythology and quantum theory gone haywire....

Demons. We all have them. They take various forms and affect us in different ways. Some are obvious like drugs and alcohol. Loneliness and depression and self-doubt are not so apparent if that is all you've known until college. In Holmes on the Range,...

The lost classic 'Angry Young Man' novel. A clash of two temperaments. An artist and an industrialist grow up in the same smoky town and attend the same local school. In adult life each drives fiercely towards success in his own sphere, as much...

This bittersweet chronicle about how a working horse finally gains his freedom was inspired by a real animal and true events, yet its underlying theme is about the universal value of friendship. The hero is a sturdy draft horse: old, eccentric, and irritable. His...

"I have spent years going over our past, untangling memories from dreams, trying to pinpoint the exact moment when fate sealed. The easiest place to start is with the most blatant mistake: our mother, Jenny, kept the matchbooks in the junk drawer." So begins...

About a cat - in the city. "Boo" Van Den Pelt might figure that he has it made. That is, if he ever bothered to reflect on his life of luxury as the pampered pet of a wealthy Park Avenue dowager. When his cozy...

No matter the effort that Bromise Balducci put forth early on to undermine his passion to kill, he d fall weak to the seducer of power over again. Initially, it was only his mentor and grandpa, Brisco, that basked in the joy of Bromises...

The Book of Khalid is a novel that was written in 1911 by the Arab author Ameen Fares Rihan. He wrote in English and described the perilous journey of immigrants to America. This was the first book to paint a picture of immigration, and...

Fat Tah is a criminally involved teenager growing up in the rough streets of Camden, New Jersey. During the summer before his senior year of high school, his best friend Rodney is mysteriously killed inside of a crack house. Fat Tah begins to experience...

Chelmsford, Essex; it's not the sort of place you'd normally associate with vigilantes and gangland killings, but, when self-confessed sociopath, Owen Thomson, witnesses the savage murder of one of his few remaining friends, it proves to be a turning point. Unable to go to...

Here is a collection of 10 stories by seasoned writer Robert Flanagan. The title story "Story Hour" takes you into the life of an older man seeking to reconnect with his life after his wife's passing. These are human portraits, tough and real, from...

The Quisling is a contemporary action thriller that follows the story of psychiatrist Dr. Zack Scarlatto who becomes involved with a volatile and violent Mexican drug cartel. It's dangerous to be even remotely associated with the gang, and to make matters worse, Zack falls...

Chrome served a nine-year sentence. Before being released, he plotted on his girlfriend's friends, knowing it was an easy come up. He was not thinking of all the pros and cons of this street game, but in the midst of it all, he thought...

Taken aback by Harlem's amateur decision-making skills and Zeema's revelation, Enzo is left with a broken spirit. For so long, he had his mind set on gaining Harlem's trust back, yet she became the one thing he despises the most; a liar. With both...

The Hemingway Game is the first novel from Russian playwright and performer of his own plays, Evgeny Grishkovets. The Hemingway Game is an urban romance which depicts the life of a shirt over the course of one day (worn in the morning and taken...

Lydia's Funeral Video is a one-woman play written and performed by Sam Chanse, a playwright and performer based in New York and California. In this apocalyptic satire, devout bank clerk Lydia Clark-Lin has 28 days to terminate an unplanned pregnancy, shoot her own funeral...

All it takes is one irresistible moment for marriages and friendships to start unraveling leading to betrayal, envy, lust, and murder. The truth has its consequences and someone has to answer for them.Author: Jawanza BurtonISBN-10: 1727168518ISBN-13: 9781727168518Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/22/2018Pages: 86Format:...

When Michael Donaldson the head of The Brotherhood the most powerful African American crime family decides to retire and turn his number running gambling empire over to his underlings it triggers a series of events pitting the most powerful members of the Organization against...

After witnessing her father beat and degrade her mother, over and over again, until he finally did the unforgivable, QUINN promised herself she would never give an abusive man a single moment of her time. In fact, love wasn't even on her mind, as...

ZURI finds herself enraptured by the rugged, hardcore ways of proverbial bad boy BRICK, and their hot, explicit sex only adds to his appeal. Despite Brick's dangerous lifestyle, Zuri loves him with all of her heart. But there's something very troubling that she doesn't...

Rahmique Jamingson Jr., a.k.a Rah, is a young boy born and raised from Camden, New Jersey, trying to figure out his way through life but hits some tragic struggles along the way. He is raised by a mother who struggles with a drug addiction...

Tee's life on the streets wasn't just any other lifestyle to be lived because he had to walk through a constant battle without his parents. Tee was led to a life of crime by one of his best friends in his neighborhood. Afterwards, Tee...

You would think that every woman wants a man that works hard, pays the bills, and still manages to be a good father and take care of her needs. Right? Shonte' had all of that, but it still wasn't good enough for her. Being...

Blueface Dreams is a tale of four childhood friends whose dreams are to have a piece of underground's pie. When everyone around you is hood-rich and you're in rags when compared, you begin to contemplate change. Black, the savage of the comrades, plants a...

"Love is a drug I never wanted to take. But now I have and it's too late. I'm addicted to you."Legend is on a mission and it happens to be one he can't speak about. Always a man of little words, keeping things close...

Detectives are hot on the trail of a psycho killer that seems impossible to catch; meanwhile the body count continues to rise. With the killer loose to run the streets of California targeting women over 40, it seems the older the woman, the more...

This is one of the first novels written by Harry St. Gabriel (AKA) Professor Thomas E Vesce, a seasoned scholar of Medieval and Renaissance literature. This title, which takes its cue from the 19th century French Human Comedy, explores somde of the myriad facets...

Beautiful, selfish, and brainless are just some of the words used to describe Roxanne. Everything she's ever been through, she's been partially to blame for it. Although she excels in high school, with above average grades, she fails to use the common sense portion...

Tatters of crime scene tape fluttered from the door frames at that end of the building; large padlocks secured the doors. Winston directed the guys to an entrance into the other half of the building. The metal sheeting behind a pile of pallets would...

After a 15-year bid, Randy reunites with his old crew, who helped him gangsta his way to the top of a huge business enterprise. Though Randy promises them a lot in return, he finds himself too busy with business to cash in on his...

A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker's short stories The Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations, One-Way Street and The Arcades Project....

Janiece is finally settled with her husband, Isaiah, after a whirlwind of drama with her ex-lover, K.P., and his wife. She is ready to live happily ever after, but Isaiah is called back to duty and has to serve eighteen months in Iraq. Janiece...

Being Kennedi Kramer, the main girl of drug Lord Sharrod Jones, has its ups and downs. The jewels, cars, and furs were a way of life until tragedy struck, destroying their empire and landing Kennedi in an unlikely situation. Soon, she decides to leave...

When you look into someone's eyes, do you truly understand who's looking back at you? Whether they have good intentions or bad? Do you know if they want to hug you...or eat you? No, you didn't read that wrong, I wrote "EAT" you. Well,...

Drugs turn out to be a way of life for Rich, a powerful, sexy Drug Lord hailing from Washington, DC. His desire for fast money and the extravagant things that it brings puts his family in harms way. Soon, his ego forces him to...

Drugs turn out to be a way of life for Rich, a powerful, sexy Drug Lord hailing from Washington, DC. His desire for fast money and the extravagant things that it brings puts his family in harms way. Soon, his ego forces him to...

FBI agent Tilo Adams is still reeling from her involvement with the now-annihilated Mendoza family in this gripping sequel.Left for dead, Tilo's lover, Victia Mendoza, now wants revenge on the woman that broke her family ... and her heart. Victia is ready to avenge...

The prequel to the critically acclaimed Antebellum tells the powerful story of what happens when a man in modern society is possessed with the spirits of dead slaves. Nathan Freeman and Xavier Turner are two African American men leading two very different lives. One...