Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Urban & Street Lit

Clifford and Riley are brothers, born only one year apart, who live in a neighborhood on the south side of Queens, New York. Riley is more levelheaded than his older brother. He's mild-mannered but street-smart, which leads him on a pursuit of knowledge regarding his family history and current social issues. Clifford, on the other hand, is full of bravado and impressionable. Hip-hop culture quickly draws him in, and he automatically gravitates toward the negative aspects of the scene and the wrong crowd within it.

Follow these boys as they grow up before your eyes and find their place...

John Patrick and Martin Joseph are two teens born in the dusty, poor neighbourhood of Huruma in Nairobi. Raised by single unemployed mothers, they turn to scavenging for valuables in the city's middle-class neighbourhoods to survive the harsh life of Huruma. City residents have labeled them " Chokora, " a derogatory term to describe human scavengers. And they use this effectively. For them, the " Chokora " facade is a camouflage as the two youths go about their exploits, including stealing from unsuspecting residents. As fate would have it, the duo ends up in a police cell to face the...

"Secrets of a Small Hotel" is the on-going story of adventures taking place in the Hotel Marcel in Paris near the Eiffel Tower, a sequel to the original There's a Small Hotel, published in 2014.

The narrator, an attractive American widow in her 60s, returns to find much has changed, not only in the lives of apartment residents across the street, but within the Hotel Marcel itself. She encounters a deceptive English woman involved in art fraud; a young African-American in search of his father; even a violent murder, partially seen by the narrator from her balcony. She also finds an...

"Secrets of a Small Hotel" is the on-going story of adventures taking place in the Hotel Marcel in Paris near the Eiffel Tower, a sequel to the original There's a Small Hotel, published in 2014.

The narrator, an attractive American widow in her 60s, returns to find much has changed, not only in the lives of apartment residents across the street, but within the Hotel Marcel itself. She encounters a deceptive English woman involved in art fraud; a young African-American in search of his father; even a violent murder, partially seen by the narrator from her balcony. She also finds an...