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21) Kings of vice
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, Marcus "Crush" Casey was the leader of the Vicetown Kings, the most powerful crime syndicate in New York City. Then he was betrayed by his second-in-command and sent to prison.
Now he's back on the streets and he has a lot more on his mind than just getting even.
He needs to take back everything he lost: Find the friend who betrayed him and killed his only son, keep the cops at bay, and resist the one woman he knows he can't have....
22) In the blood
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"In this modern day riff on The Scarlet Letter, Hester La Negrita, a homeless mother of five, lives with her kids on the tough streets of the inner city. Her eldest child is teaching her how to read and write, but the letter "A" is, so far, the only letter she knows. Her five kids are named Jabber, Bully, Trouble, Beauty and Baby, and the characters are played by adult actors who double as five other people in Hester's life: her ex-boyfriend, her...
23) La familia 2
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Sammy and Mouse were once best friends with an up and coming career as the rap duo Vixen Chaos. When both of them got pregnant by the same man, however, things fell apart. Now Rico, their babies' father, is in jail, and both women are new mothers with great responsibilities and plenty of problems.
After she is kicked out of a family shelter for fighting, Mouse has no choice but to prostitute herself to survive. When she meets Tango, a hardcore thug...
24) On a mission
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Life ain't never been fair in the treacherous street game. When you play it, you can't forget there never was and never will be any true honor amongst thieves. It's do or die. To make major moves and hustle out in the streets, you have zero choices if you want to win. The blueprint is simple: RISE, GRIND, SHINE, and, of course, stay the hell out the way! Between the struggle of avoiding the opposition, law enforcement, and sometimes your own people...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Ta-Nehisi Coates' debut is an infectious, reflective memoir-a lyrical saga of surviving the crack-stricken streets of Baltimore in the '80s. Son of Vietnam vet and black awareness advocate Paul Coates-a poor man who set out to publish lost classics of black history-Ta- Nehisi drifts toward salvation at Howard University, while his ominous brother Big Bill finds his own rhythm hustling.
27) Hood rat
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Hood rat: a woman of questionable repute, one who has been known to "get around" in the 'hood. Yoshi is young, fine, and larcenous. She lives her life playing on men's hearts as well as their pockets. But she learns the hard way that all that glitters isn't gold. Billy, a former high school basketball star, is at the end of her rope with the opposite sex. To her, all men are dogs, so she secretly seeks comfort in the arms of women-until she meets...
28) Eldorado Red
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Kensington trade paperback printing.
Language
English
Description
"Tragic revenge is the theme when a crime kingpin is betrayed by his own son."--Cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Mitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood in America's whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the '90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. In his commanding autobiographical novel, Mitchell writes what it was to come of age in that time and place, with a break-out voice that's nothing less than extraordinary."The Residue Years" switches between the perspectives of a young...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The OG godfather of urban lit lays it all on the line with the epic, action-packed conclusion to Kenyatta's quest to reclaim his streets . . .For Kenyatta, the bullet-proof street legend himself, the take-no-prisoners war is far from over. With new recruits bolstering his hardened army, he's ready to take down the drug pushers and their relentless, spreading infestation. This time the battle is moving out of the streets and heading west, where he...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Since the early 20th century, city sidewalks have become runways where idiosyncratic modes of dressing are presented, consumed, and exported. Their messages include resistance, solidarity, subversion, social transformation, or musical affiliation, and a group of like-minded individuals can create a powerful sartorial force. Organized by continent and with 600 color images, The World Atlas of Street Fashion examines street style in all its global...
36) Stone pillow
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The great Lucille Ball plays an elderly bag lady struggling to survive on the streets of New York City. When approached by a young social worker, both women discover a new perspective on their lives.
39) Salaam Bombay!
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Limited edition.
Language
Hindi
Description
"The boy Krishna is abandoned by his mother at the Apollo Circus and she tells him that he can only return home when he can afford 500 rupees to pay for the bicycle of his brother that he had trashed. Krishna is left behind by the circus and he takes a train to Bombay. Krishna is called Chaipau by the street children of Bombay and he works delivering and selling tea for Chacha, who owns a street bar. Krishna befriends the heroin addicted Chillum that...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"If you're visiting the flying city of Amperstam without the latest printing of The Lurker's Guide, you might as well be lost. This one-sheet is written, edited, and printed by Ashe, a girl raised on the streets of the flying city, and is dedicated to revealing its hidden treasures and deepest secrets-- including many that the overcontrolling government doesn't want anyone to know. The stakes are raised when Ashe accidentally uncovers the horror of...
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