Author: Shontaiye Moore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Cole Hart Signature's new author, Shontaiye Moore debuts her new series, The Rise Of A Dope Boy Chick. This gripping, African American Urban drama will leave you speechless...Every girl wonders what it's like to be a dope boy's girl. From the money and cars, to the glitz and glamour; being in love with a dope boy is a hood fairy tale. It was all fun and games for twenty-one-year-old Asia until the heartbreaking losses started piling up. Mitch was her ticket away from her family and into the good life, or so she thought. After several years of carefree living, he is snatched up and handed a devastating thirty-year prison sentence; life immediately changes for her. She quickly finds herself penniless, all alone and back at home with a baby to care for.With her rare beauty, it doesn't take long before Asia catches the eye of an up-and-coming hustler named Waleek. He quickly snatches her up and returns her to her accustomed lifestyle. Although Waleek takes away all her financial worries, he replaces them with a different set of burdens. Between his crazy baby mama and the secret he's keeping that can dismantle his budding drug empire, their relationship seems destined to fail from the start. Can they survive and beat the odds stacked against them?Just when things with Waleek get crazy, Mitch sends one of his associates to help Asia create the life she's always dreamed about for her son. Under Mitch's guidance, she's learning to stand on her own, but also finding that she's feeling more than friendship for the person he sent to help her. With her heart torn between the men, can she keep it together and play the game by the rules?This explosive, fast-paced, initial installment will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. Despite the losses and setbacks, nothing can stop The Rise Of A Dope Boy's Chick!
The Rise Of A Dope Boy Chick
Author: Shontaiye Moore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Cole Hart Signature's new author, Shontaiye Moore debuts her new series, The Rise Of A Dope Boy Chick. This gripping, African American Urban drama will leave you speechless...Every girl wonders what it's like to be a dope boy's girl. From the money and cars, to the glitz and glamour; being in love with a dope boy is a hood fairy tale. It was all fun and games for twenty-one-year-old Asia until the heartbreaking losses started piling up. Mitch was her ticket away from her family and into the good life, or so she thought. After several years of carefree living, he is snatched up and handed a devastating thirty-year prison sentence; life immediately changes for her. She quickly finds herself penniless, all alone and back at home with a baby to care for.With her rare beauty, it doesn't take long before Asia catches the eye of an up-and-coming hustler named Waleek. He quickly snatches her up and returns her to her accustomed lifestyle. Although Waleek takes away all her financial worries, he replaces them with a different set of burdens. Between his crazy baby mama and the secret he's keeping that can dismantle his budding drug empire, their relationship seems destined to fail from the start. Can they survive and beat the odds stacked against them?Just when things with Waleek get crazy, Mitch sends one of his associates to help Asia create the life she's always dreamed about for her son. Under Mitch's guidance, she's learning to stand on her own, but also finding that she's feeling more than friendship for the person he sent to help her. With her heart torn between the men, can she keep it together and play the game by the rules?This explosive, fast-paced, initial installment will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. Despite the losses and setbacks, nothing can stop The Rise Of A Dope Boy's Chick!
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Cole Hart Signature's new author, Shontaiye Moore debuts her new series, The Rise Of A Dope Boy Chick. This gripping, African American Urban drama will leave you speechless...Every girl wonders what it's like to be a dope boy's girl. From the money and cars, to the glitz and glamour; being in love with a dope boy is a hood fairy tale. It was all fun and games for twenty-one-year-old Asia until the heartbreaking losses started piling up. Mitch was her ticket away from her family and into the good life, or so she thought. After several years of carefree living, he is snatched up and handed a devastating thirty-year prison sentence; life immediately changes for her. She quickly finds herself penniless, all alone and back at home with a baby to care for.With her rare beauty, it doesn't take long before Asia catches the eye of an up-and-coming hustler named Waleek. He quickly snatches her up and returns her to her accustomed lifestyle. Although Waleek takes away all her financial worries, he replaces them with a different set of burdens. Between his crazy baby mama and the secret he's keeping that can dismantle his budding drug empire, their relationship seems destined to fail from the start. Can they survive and beat the odds stacked against them?Just when things with Waleek get crazy, Mitch sends one of his associates to help Asia create the life she's always dreamed about for her son. Under Mitch's guidance, she's learning to stand on her own, but also finding that she's feeling more than friendship for the person he sent to help her. With her heart torn between the men, can she keep it together and play the game by the rules?This explosive, fast-paced, initial installment will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. Despite the losses and setbacks, nothing can stop The Rise Of A Dope Boy's Chick!
The Rise Of A Dope Boy Chick 2
Author: Shontaiye Moore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Cole Hart Signature's new author, Shontaiye Moore debuts the sequel to, The Rise Of A Dope Boy Chick 2. This gripping, African American Urban Romance drama will leave you speechless...Asia's back, but this time, she has a whole new set of troubles. She is now faced with the harsh reality that she needs to make a choice between the two men that she loves. Accustomed to someone else solving her problems; she soon learns that this time, that won't suffice, and no one will guide her. As she struggles to be a mother, run her business, and keep her sanity; more problems are added to her plate. Muff is back ... and this time, it's with a vengeance.With Mitch's appeal under way, he's now home and ready to dive back into the drug world. Unfortunately, things don't go according to plan. The streets aren't the same anymore and neither are his connections. He soon finds the pressure mounting, as his lawyer fees pile up; right along with the headaches at home. Asia has changed, and he's not sure whether it's for the good or the bad.Thrust in the center of a love triangle, Josiah soon learns that all good things must come to an end, and that proves accurate in all aspects of his life. Mitch returning to the scene disrupts his love life; while law enforcement disturbs his business. A new threat now lingers in the air; however, the problem is Josiah doesn't even know it's there. What he thinks is his biggest problem, is actually, far from it.This explosive, fast-paced, second installment will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. Despite the losses and setbacks, nothing can stop The Rise Of A Dope Boy's Chick 2!
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Cole Hart Signature's new author, Shontaiye Moore debuts the sequel to, The Rise Of A Dope Boy Chick 2. This gripping, African American Urban Romance drama will leave you speechless...Asia's back, but this time, she has a whole new set of troubles. She is now faced with the harsh reality that she needs to make a choice between the two men that she loves. Accustomed to someone else solving her problems; she soon learns that this time, that won't suffice, and no one will guide her. As she struggles to be a mother, run her business, and keep her sanity; more problems are added to her plate. Muff is back ... and this time, it's with a vengeance.With Mitch's appeal under way, he's now home and ready to dive back into the drug world. Unfortunately, things don't go according to plan. The streets aren't the same anymore and neither are his connections. He soon finds the pressure mounting, as his lawyer fees pile up; right along with the headaches at home. Asia has changed, and he's not sure whether it's for the good or the bad.Thrust in the center of a love triangle, Josiah soon learns that all good things must come to an end, and that proves accurate in all aspects of his life. Mitch returning to the scene disrupts his love life; while law enforcement disturbs his business. A new threat now lingers in the air; however, the problem is Josiah doesn't even know it's there. What he thinks is his biggest problem, is actually, far from it.This explosive, fast-paced, second installment will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. Despite the losses and setbacks, nothing can stop The Rise Of A Dope Boy's Chick 2!
Purple Reign
Author: Barbie Amor
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The glitter, the glam, and the fame only means one thing; big egos and heartbreak. For Reign Paul, that's exactly what it is. As a troubled teen, all she wants to do is escape her mother's abuse. She pours her heart out in the windowpane of her bedroom and sings gracefully into the air. For Reign, this is her therapy, but Angela has bigger things in store. After nearly being raped by her mother's boyfriend, Reign is thrown out of her mother's home and left in the cold world to fend for herself. With a beautiful voice that tranquilizes the patrons of The Cabana, one night changes her entire life. The man she desires, with an impeccable smile and street persona, steps into Reign's world. After hearing her sing, Truth is mesmerized by the BBW who he has seen around the hood. With belief, Truth sees something in her she never knew existed. After making Reign a star, she falls in love with not only Truth, but the gritty fame, and everything begins to turn for the worst. Ride with Reign in this love saga as the star on the rise is sucked in by the fame, leaving Truth with a broken heart and Reign with a ego as big as the world
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The glitter, the glam, and the fame only means one thing; big egos and heartbreak. For Reign Paul, that's exactly what it is. As a troubled teen, all she wants to do is escape her mother's abuse. She pours her heart out in the windowpane of her bedroom and sings gracefully into the air. For Reign, this is her therapy, but Angela has bigger things in store. After nearly being raped by her mother's boyfriend, Reign is thrown out of her mother's home and left in the cold world to fend for herself. With a beautiful voice that tranquilizes the patrons of The Cabana, one night changes her entire life. The man she desires, with an impeccable smile and street persona, steps into Reign's world. After hearing her sing, Truth is mesmerized by the BBW who he has seen around the hood. With belief, Truth sees something in her she never knew existed. After making Reign a star, she falls in love with not only Truth, but the gritty fame, and everything begins to turn for the worst. Ride with Reign in this love saga as the star on the rise is sucked in by the fame, leaving Truth with a broken heart and Reign with a ego as big as the world
Geek Love
Author: Katherine Dunn
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307794482
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
National Book Award Finalist • Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities—with the help of amphetamines, arsenic, and radioisotopes. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious—and dangerous—asset. As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307794482
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
National Book Award Finalist • Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities—with the help of amphetamines, arsenic, and radioisotopes. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious—and dangerous—asset. As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.
The Committed Side Chick
Author: Tina Marie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Bestselling author Tina Marie returns with a riveting romance, The Committed Side Chick, a new series unlike any other. For the McKenzie men, being on top in the streets came easy. But when it came to finding love, they were not so lucky.Remee McKenzie, the oldest of the McKenzie boys, has been with the love of his life Rumor since high school. However, his constant infidelities and wild ways have devastating consequences destroying the relationship between the two.Rumor has literally been through hell and back with Remee only for him to walk away and be with someone else. Except even when he is supposed to be out of her life it's like he never left. Tired of living in a painful cycle with Remee, Rumor takes breaking up with him into her own hands. Will Remee lose the people he loves the most for good or will he find a way to make things, right?Sire McKenzie, Remee's younger brother met Arabella at a time in her life when she needed him most. Unfortunately, they are torn apart by outside forces. Their time together even though brief leaves a lasting impression on them both. When they meet again years later, Sire barges his way back into Arabella's life, causing her to fall in love all over again. All while leaving out secrets that will break her heart.Arabella has moved on from her horrific past and is now happy. Even though she doesn't have much, she can give her son a stable life and that is all that matters. At least until Sire walks back into her world. Now her heart wants a man who has always been out of her league. Will she last in his world or lose him once again?Cahir McKenzie, a cousin to the McKenzie brothers, is the definition of a damaged thug. He is a king in the streets and the one who took his family out of the slums. Yet his attitude toward the opposite sex is vicious and degrading, at least until he meets Eternity. She began to unfreeze his ice-cold soul, but it only makes him want to hurt her before she can hurt him. When he says the unthinkable, will Eternity ever forgive him?Eternity is a single mother who works double-time to give her son the life he deserves. Meeting Cahir was never a part of the plan. Seeing more to him than just a killer in the streets, Eternity's heart begun to yearn for Cahir. However, his actions showed her that they could never be. Will she give up on loving a bad boy or put up a fight?Will these couples' journeys finally end in true love? Or will it all come tumbling down, in the end, leading straight to disaster?
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Bestselling author Tina Marie returns with a riveting romance, The Committed Side Chick, a new series unlike any other. For the McKenzie men, being on top in the streets came easy. But when it came to finding love, they were not so lucky.Remee McKenzie, the oldest of the McKenzie boys, has been with the love of his life Rumor since high school. However, his constant infidelities and wild ways have devastating consequences destroying the relationship between the two.Rumor has literally been through hell and back with Remee only for him to walk away and be with someone else. Except even when he is supposed to be out of her life it's like he never left. Tired of living in a painful cycle with Remee, Rumor takes breaking up with him into her own hands. Will Remee lose the people he loves the most for good or will he find a way to make things, right?Sire McKenzie, Remee's younger brother met Arabella at a time in her life when she needed him most. Unfortunately, they are torn apart by outside forces. Their time together even though brief leaves a lasting impression on them both. When they meet again years later, Sire barges his way back into Arabella's life, causing her to fall in love all over again. All while leaving out secrets that will break her heart.Arabella has moved on from her horrific past and is now happy. Even though she doesn't have much, she can give her son a stable life and that is all that matters. At least until Sire walks back into her world. Now her heart wants a man who has always been out of her league. Will she last in his world or lose him once again?Cahir McKenzie, a cousin to the McKenzie brothers, is the definition of a damaged thug. He is a king in the streets and the one who took his family out of the slums. Yet his attitude toward the opposite sex is vicious and degrading, at least until he meets Eternity. She began to unfreeze his ice-cold soul, but it only makes him want to hurt her before she can hurt him. When he says the unthinkable, will Eternity ever forgive him?Eternity is a single mother who works double-time to give her son the life he deserves. Meeting Cahir was never a part of the plan. Seeing more to him than just a killer in the streets, Eternity's heart begun to yearn for Cahir. However, his actions showed her that they could never be. Will she give up on loving a bad boy or put up a fight?Will these couples' journeys finally end in true love? Or will it all come tumbling down, in the end, leading straight to disaster?
Free Burning
Author: Bayo Ojikutu
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307495582
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Tommie Simms was supposed to be the community hope, the young man from the neighborhood who made good. He attended a state university, married a respectable woman, and landed a position at a white-collar insurance firm. Watching over Chicago from the thirty-third floor of his company’s downtown high rise, Tommie ignores the gnawing sense that he doesn’t belong on this path—and that in a blink of an eye, he could stray from its given destination. And then he does . . .Soon Tommie is laid off, and he begins to see himself as just another faceless entity on the city’s fringes. After each fruitless job interview, Tommie’s wife withdraws from him further, and in the mirror he faces the reflection of failure his family never intended for him. Stymied by rejection and mounting debt, Tommie is seduced into peddling dope as his best opportunity to define himself and to provide for those he loves. But a corporate job is no preparation for hustling, and when Tommie finds himself on the wrong side of a crooked cop, everyone wants a piece of him: his street-hustling cousins, the police, friends, loan sharks, even a panderer from his white-collar past. In order to break free, Tommie must find a way to dig himself out of a deepening hole, before the city buries him.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307495582
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Tommie Simms was supposed to be the community hope, the young man from the neighborhood who made good. He attended a state university, married a respectable woman, and landed a position at a white-collar insurance firm. Watching over Chicago from the thirty-third floor of his company’s downtown high rise, Tommie ignores the gnawing sense that he doesn’t belong on this path—and that in a blink of an eye, he could stray from its given destination. And then he does . . .Soon Tommie is laid off, and he begins to see himself as just another faceless entity on the city’s fringes. After each fruitless job interview, Tommie’s wife withdraws from him further, and in the mirror he faces the reflection of failure his family never intended for him. Stymied by rejection and mounting debt, Tommie is seduced into peddling dope as his best opportunity to define himself and to provide for those he loves. But a corporate job is no preparation for hustling, and when Tommie finds himself on the wrong side of a crooked cop, everyone wants a piece of him: his street-hustling cousins, the police, friends, loan sharks, even a panderer from his white-collar past. In order to break free, Tommie must find a way to dig himself out of a deepening hole, before the city buries him.
The Rise and Fall of a Ghetto Celebrity
Author: Shaheem Hargrove
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456859005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456859005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
The Royal Family
Author: Levi John Gladstone
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664127194
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
In the height of the gang epidemic, meet Dennis "Menace" Williams Jr and his crew The Royal Family from the St Nicholas projects. After Dennis' father takes a fall for a murder rap, it is up to him and his baby brother Major to hold down the family. With his brother and their crew on the come up they find themselves in some deep shit when a murder changes their whole lives.... In 1996, the streets of Harlem is buzzing with crime and cliques trying to show and prove that they can hang with the big dogs. With the creation of the East Coast Blood Gang in the city each crew tries to hold their own, but only one crew can hold the throne in Harlem. Meet Shadow, the head of the Westside Diamond crew. With the help of the Dark Clan they have a vice grip on the borough. When the Dark Brothers set their eyes on the Royal Family its up to Major to build a team to help them in the war against the real kings of Harlem. A task that will be more than what they bargained for as they find themselves caught up in a domino effect. As the tide turns for the worst and The Royal Family find themselves in some very serious situations it will take more than just Menace and Major to fight off the mighty Dark Clan. Welcome to one of the greatest eras in New York City's history and watch as the Royal Family makes sacrifice after sacrifice and go all out for what they believe is rightfully theirs. But who will be the ones left sitting on the throne?
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664127194
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
In the height of the gang epidemic, meet Dennis "Menace" Williams Jr and his crew The Royal Family from the St Nicholas projects. After Dennis' father takes a fall for a murder rap, it is up to him and his baby brother Major to hold down the family. With his brother and their crew on the come up they find themselves in some deep shit when a murder changes their whole lives.... In 1996, the streets of Harlem is buzzing with crime and cliques trying to show and prove that they can hang with the big dogs. With the creation of the East Coast Blood Gang in the city each crew tries to hold their own, but only one crew can hold the throne in Harlem. Meet Shadow, the head of the Westside Diamond crew. With the help of the Dark Clan they have a vice grip on the borough. When the Dark Brothers set their eyes on the Royal Family its up to Major to build a team to help them in the war against the real kings of Harlem. A task that will be more than what they bargained for as they find themselves caught up in a domino effect. As the tide turns for the worst and The Royal Family find themselves in some very serious situations it will take more than just Menace and Major to fight off the mighty Dark Clan. Welcome to one of the greatest eras in New York City's history and watch as the Royal Family makes sacrifice after sacrifice and go all out for what they believe is rightfully theirs. But who will be the ones left sitting on the throne?
Pigeon English
Author: Stephen Kelman
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408815680
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the second best runner in Year 7, races through his new life in England with his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him. Newly-arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister Lydia, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of city life, from the bewildering array of Haribo sweets, to the frightening, fascinating gang of older boys from his school. But his life is changed forever when one of his friends is murdered. As the victim's nearly new football boots hang in tribute on railings behind fluorescent tape and a police appeal draws only silence, Harri decides to act, unwittingly endangering the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to keep them safe.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408815680
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the second best runner in Year 7, races through his new life in England with his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him. Newly-arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister Lydia, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of city life, from the bewildering array of Haribo sweets, to the frightening, fascinating gang of older boys from his school. But his life is changed forever when one of his friends is murdered. As the victim's nearly new football boots hang in tribute on railings behind fluorescent tape and a police appeal draws only silence, Harri decides to act, unwittingly endangering the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to keep them safe.
Shadow Girl
Author: Gerry Schmitt
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698197488
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The brutal murder of a business tycoon leaves Afton Tangler and the Twin Cities reeling, but that’s just the beginning of a gruesome crime spree... Leland Odin made his fortune launching a home shopping network, but his millions can’t save his life. On the list for a transplant, the ailing businessman sees all hope lost when the helicopter carrying his donor heart is shot out of the sky. Now with two pilots dead and dozens injured, Afton Tangler, family liaison officer for the Minneapolis Police Department, is drawn into the case. As she and her partner investigate family members and business associates, whoever wants Leland dead strikes again—and succeeds—in a brazen hospital room attack. The supposedly squeaky clean millionaire has crossed the wrong person—and she’s not finished exacting her revenge. The case explodes into an international conspiracy of unbridled greed and violence. And as Afton gets closer to unearthing the mastermind behind it, she gets closer to becoming collateral damage...
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698197488
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The brutal murder of a business tycoon leaves Afton Tangler and the Twin Cities reeling, but that’s just the beginning of a gruesome crime spree... Leland Odin made his fortune launching a home shopping network, but his millions can’t save his life. On the list for a transplant, the ailing businessman sees all hope lost when the helicopter carrying his donor heart is shot out of the sky. Now with two pilots dead and dozens injured, Afton Tangler, family liaison officer for the Minneapolis Police Department, is drawn into the case. As she and her partner investigate family members and business associates, whoever wants Leland dead strikes again—and succeeds—in a brazen hospital room attack. The supposedly squeaky clean millionaire has crossed the wrong person—and she’s not finished exacting her revenge. The case explodes into an international conspiracy of unbridled greed and violence. And as Afton gets closer to unearthing the mastermind behind it, she gets closer to becoming collateral damage...