Author: Brad V. Cowan
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 1459404513
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
"It's spring break and Cale Finch's only plans involve skateboarding and hanging out with the guys in the Seven Stair Crew. It's a week-long adventure filled with gnarly tricks, late-night rides, rival crews, and a Street Kings skate contest. Through it all, Cale has to prove that he's got what it takes to roll with the best"--P. [4] of cover.
Street Kings
Author: Brad V. Cowan
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 1459404513
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
"It's spring break and Cale Finch's only plans involve skateboarding and hanging out with the guys in the Seven Stair Crew. It's a week-long adventure filled with gnarly tricks, late-night rides, rival crews, and a Street Kings skate contest. Through it all, Cale has to prove that he's got what it takes to roll with the best"--P. [4] of cover.
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 1459404513
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
"It's spring break and Cale Finch's only plans involve skateboarding and hanging out with the guys in the Seven Stair Crew. It's a week-long adventure filled with gnarly tricks, late-night rides, rival crews, and a Street Kings skate contest. Through it all, Cale has to prove that he's got what it takes to roll with the best"--P. [4] of cover.
Dangerous King
Author: Sienna Snow
Publisher: Sienna Snow
ISBN: 1948756218
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
I’m the one she should have stayed away from. The thief, the hustler, the boy without a past or a future. A kid forged by the rules of the streets. She sees into my darkest depths and doesn’t blink an eye. She’s my dream, my peace from a place I can never escape. Then one day, she’s gone, whisked into a world I refuse to taint with my touch. Fifteen years later, she’s back in my life, needing a favor only I can provide. The street rat she once knew is now king of an empire, where every favor comes at a price. A price, she says she is more than willing to pay. But the cost is all of her...body, mind, and soul. "Holy childhood friends to lovers! Nik and Danika are here to introduce you to the deliciously powerful world of the Street Kings—and will leave you breathless as they do! Dangerous King is perfect for readers who like their intrigues and sizzling melt-your-ereader scenes all in one fast-paced, pulse-pounding book!" -- USA Today bestselling author Sierra Simone “Sienna Snow mastered this book. Bravo! Once I started, I couldn't put it down. Dangerous King is a captivating read that I recommend to all.” - Alta Hensley, USA Today bestselling author "DANGEROUS KING is an explosive, sexy powerhouse of a book! I rooted for the hardened Nik and badass Danika to find their happy ending." - Skye Warren, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Dark Multi-cultural Romance, Forbidden Love, Underground fight clubs, Espionage, Spies, Trinidad, India, America, Carnival, Playing Mas, hackers
Publisher: Sienna Snow
ISBN: 1948756218
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
I’m the one she should have stayed away from. The thief, the hustler, the boy without a past or a future. A kid forged by the rules of the streets. She sees into my darkest depths and doesn’t blink an eye. She’s my dream, my peace from a place I can never escape. Then one day, she’s gone, whisked into a world I refuse to taint with my touch. Fifteen years later, she’s back in my life, needing a favor only I can provide. The street rat she once knew is now king of an empire, where every favor comes at a price. A price, she says she is more than willing to pay. But the cost is all of her...body, mind, and soul. "Holy childhood friends to lovers! Nik and Danika are here to introduce you to the deliciously powerful world of the Street Kings—and will leave you breathless as they do! Dangerous King is perfect for readers who like their intrigues and sizzling melt-your-ereader scenes all in one fast-paced, pulse-pounding book!" -- USA Today bestselling author Sierra Simone “Sienna Snow mastered this book. Bravo! Once I started, I couldn't put it down. Dangerous King is a captivating read that I recommend to all.” - Alta Hensley, USA Today bestselling author "DANGEROUS KING is an explosive, sexy powerhouse of a book! I rooted for the hardened Nik and badass Danika to find their happy ending." - Skye Warren, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Dark Multi-cultural Romance, Forbidden Love, Underground fight clubs, Espionage, Spies, Trinidad, India, America, Carnival, Playing Mas, hackers
Pretty Girls Love Street Kings
Author: D. Gamblez
Publisher: Sullivan Group Publishing
ISBN: 1637181671
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Audriana Escobar, aka Audi, is the 18-year-old leader of the Gucci Girlz−a crew made up of her closest friends. Growing up in poverty, their only current goal is to find a way out of the poor town of Aetna and achieve a life of happiness, love, and luxury. When they cross paths with another crew named the Tru Aetna Boyz, all of their wants and desires seem to be coming true. DeAndre, aka Dre, leads the team that includes his friends Raheem, Devonte and Lyrical and, together, they make up one of the most dangerous gangs in their hometown. With their intentions set on gaining money, status, women and fame, meeting a group of women with the same goals in mind seems like the best kind of luck. Sparks fly almost immediately and, together, they quickly become a force that totally dominates the street game without competition or resistance... until they catch the eye of police sergeant, Naomi Mills. Pursuing money and love always comes with its own set of troubles, which the Gucci Girlz and Tru Aetna Boyz eventually realize on their own. As they begin to step into the lives that they always envisioned for themselves, everything is turned upside down when they become the trophy for a sergeant with a chip on her shoulder. Will they be able to step into their dream of luxury and true love?
Publisher: Sullivan Group Publishing
ISBN: 1637181671
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Audriana Escobar, aka Audi, is the 18-year-old leader of the Gucci Girlz−a crew made up of her closest friends. Growing up in poverty, their only current goal is to find a way out of the poor town of Aetna and achieve a life of happiness, love, and luxury. When they cross paths with another crew named the Tru Aetna Boyz, all of their wants and desires seem to be coming true. DeAndre, aka Dre, leads the team that includes his friends Raheem, Devonte and Lyrical and, together, they make up one of the most dangerous gangs in their hometown. With their intentions set on gaining money, status, women and fame, meeting a group of women with the same goals in mind seems like the best kind of luck. Sparks fly almost immediately and, together, they quickly become a force that totally dominates the street game without competition or resistance... until they catch the eye of police sergeant, Naomi Mills. Pursuing money and love always comes with its own set of troubles, which the Gucci Girlz and Tru Aetna Boyz eventually realize on their own. As they begin to step into the lives that they always envisioned for themselves, everything is turned upside down when they become the trophy for a sergeant with a chip on her shoulder. Will they be able to step into their dream of luxury and true love?
Ruthless Heir
Author: Sienna Snow
Publisher: Sienna Snow
ISBN: 1948756285
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
I’m the player, the gambler, the one without a heart or soul. There isn't a risk I won't take and a challenge I won't meet. Then she came into my world, melting the ice in my veins and showing me a life a man like me never deserved. But it was all a lie. She chose a safer, easier path, not realizing it was riddled with chains. Now she's trapped, needing escape, and I'm the only one who can set her free. I'm not the hero from the storybooks, but the devil betrayed from birth. With the cards stacked in my favor, I will use any means necessary to take my empire and my queen...even if it means, burning it all to ash.
Publisher: Sienna Snow
ISBN: 1948756285
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
I’m the player, the gambler, the one without a heart or soul. There isn't a risk I won't take and a challenge I won't meet. Then she came into my world, melting the ice in my veins and showing me a life a man like me never deserved. But it was all a lie. She chose a safer, easier path, not realizing it was riddled with chains. Now she's trapped, needing escape, and I'm the only one who can set her free. I'm not the hero from the storybooks, but the devil betrayed from birth. With the cards stacked in my favor, I will use any means necessary to take my empire and my queen...even if it means, burning it all to ash.
Vicious Prince
Author: Sienna Snow
Publisher: Sienna Snow
ISBN: 1948756242
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
I'm not a good man. I'm the darkness, the danger, the enforcer behind the empire. No one sees me unless I want them to. Then one day, she found me, showing me a life beyond the shadows of the streets. Until one wrong turn and our fairytale shattered, leaving me back in darkness. In a place I can only reach her by destroying her world. So, I wait. But waiting isn't something she is willing to do. She's forging a new life without me, in the path of our enemies. Now the monster in me is forced out of the shadows, ready to fight for what belongs to me. She will learn that protecting her is my mission and a life without me isn't an option.
Publisher: Sienna Snow
ISBN: 1948756242
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
I'm not a good man. I'm the darkness, the danger, the enforcer behind the empire. No one sees me unless I want them to. Then one day, she found me, showing me a life beyond the shadows of the streets. Until one wrong turn and our fairytale shattered, leaving me back in darkness. In a place I can only reach her by destroying her world. So, I wait. But waiting isn't something she is willing to do. She's forging a new life without me, in the path of our enemies. Now the monster in me is forced out of the shadows, ready to fight for what belongs to me. She will learn that protecting her is my mission and a life without me isn't an option.
Deceptive Knight
Author: Sienna Snow
Publisher: Sienna Snow
ISBN: 1948756269
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
I am a liar, a deceiver, a devil in the dark. I will hunt you, steal your secrets, and use them against you. You will never see me coming. Then I met my match. She cut out my heart, left me bleeding, without a backward glance. But, she made one mistake...she stepped back into my world, trying to run from her past. She's mine, and she will soon learn there is no escape when fate says she belongs to me.
Publisher: Sienna Snow
ISBN: 1948756269
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
I am a liar, a deceiver, a devil in the dark. I will hunt you, steal your secrets, and use them against you. You will never see me coming. Then I met my match. She cut out my heart, left me bleeding, without a backward glance. But, she made one mistake...she stepped back into my world, trying to run from her past. She's mine, and she will soon learn there is no escape when fate says she belongs to me.
Street Kings
Author: Brad V. Cowan
Publisher: Lorimer
ISBN: 1459404505
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Cale Finch's plans for Spring Break? EAT, SLEEP, SKATE. Cale's determined that this time he'll successfully ollie the set of seven stairs that mark initiation into the Seven Stair Crew, a group of older, junior-high skaters. But Cale soon finds that not all local skaters are welcoming to grommets (new skaters) like him. He has to find his voice, learn to stand up for himself, and believe in his own ability to skate in order to find his rightful place in this youth subculture.
Publisher: Lorimer
ISBN: 1459404505
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Cale Finch's plans for Spring Break? EAT, SLEEP, SKATE. Cale's determined that this time he'll successfully ollie the set of seven stairs that mark initiation into the Seven Stair Crew, a group of older, junior-high skaters. But Cale soon finds that not all local skaters are welcoming to grommets (new skaters) like him. He has to find his voice, learn to stand up for himself, and believe in his own ability to skate in order to find his rightful place in this youth subculture.
King of the Streets
Author: C. L. Lowry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781946897602
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Christopher "Cashflow" King is the son of one of the most successful drug dealers ever to walk the streets of Atlanta. As Cash tries to keep his organization from crumbling at the hands of treason, he must also do what he can to beat a possible life sentence. #KOTS is an addictive street tale that will have readers yearning for more.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781946897602
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Christopher "Cashflow" King is the son of one of the most successful drug dealers ever to walk the streets of Atlanta. As Cash tries to keep his organization from crumbling at the hands of treason, he must also do what he can to beat a possible life sentence. #KOTS is an addictive street tale that will have readers yearning for more.
L.A. Confidential
Author: James Ellroy
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455528749
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
L.A. Confidential is epic "noir", a crime novel of astonishing detail and scope written by the bestselling author of The Black Dahlia. A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law. And three lawmen are caught in a deadly spiral, a nightmare that tests loyalty and courage, and offers no mercy, grants no survivors. (124,000 words)
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455528749
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
L.A. Confidential is epic "noir", a crime novel of astonishing detail and scope written by the bestselling author of The Black Dahlia. A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law. And three lawmen are caught in a deadly spiral, a nightmare that tests loyalty and courage, and offers no mercy, grants no survivors. (124,000 words)
The Last Kings of Shanghai
Author: Jonathan Kaufman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735224439
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
"In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe "Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it also reveals the contingencies and ironic twists of fate in China's modern history."--LA Review of Books An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist The Sassoons and the Kadoories stood astride Chinese business and politics for more than one hundred seventy-five years, profiting from the Opium Wars; surviving Japanese occupation; courting Chiang Kai-shek; and nearly losing everything as the Communists swept into power. Jonathan Kaufman tells the remarkable history of how these families ignited an economic boom and opened China to the world, but remained blind to the country's deep inequality and to the political turmoil on their doorsteps. In a story stretching from Baghdad to Hong Kong to Shanghai to London, Kaufman enters the lives and minds of these ambitious men and women to forge a tale of opium smuggling, family rivalry, political intrigue, and survival.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735224439
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
"In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe "Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it also reveals the contingencies and ironic twists of fate in China's modern history."--LA Review of Books An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist The Sassoons and the Kadoories stood astride Chinese business and politics for more than one hundred seventy-five years, profiting from the Opium Wars; surviving Japanese occupation; courting Chiang Kai-shek; and nearly losing everything as the Communists swept into power. Jonathan Kaufman tells the remarkable history of how these families ignited an economic boom and opened China to the world, but remained blind to the country's deep inequality and to the political turmoil on their doorsteps. In a story stretching from Baghdad to Hong Kong to Shanghai to London, Kaufman enters the lives and minds of these ambitious men and women to forge a tale of opium smuggling, family rivalry, political intrigue, and survival.