Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> African American & Black - Urban & Street Lit

An urban coming-of-age tale about a promising teenage girl whose life takes a turn after discovering she's pregnant.

Screenwriter and new voice to fiction Jeff Farley delivers a nostalgic Brooklyn coming-of-age tale about finding love, holding on to dreams, and learning to forgive.

It's 1992, Brooklyn, New York. All of the girls had bamboo earrings--at least two pair. Charisse Hawkins, adored and admired by her best friends and one of the smartest and most sought after girls in high school, has dreams of becoming a doctor. Her mother, who works tirelessly to support her,...

New in the ever-popular, titillating anthology series, erotic short stories written and handpicked by New York Times bestselling author Zane.

Zane Presents serves up its eighth Eroticanoir.com anthology, an impressive compilation of short stories by twenty-five up-and-coming writers of erotica plus Zane, who dishes out a tale about a town that once visited will leave memories that last forever. Busy Bodies is filled with erotic escapes and sexy scenarios. From the student in a faraway place who encounters a mysterious man with a supernatural attraction, to a boyfriend who...

The Cartel has come full circle with this fast-paced, groundbreaking novel, the finale to the hit series by New York Times bestsellers Ashley & JaQuavis. Miamor is fighting for her life in the belly of the beast. She's been kidnapped, and she's staring death in the eye. Is the reign over for the head of the Murda Mamas? Carter is in federal custody and leaves the Diamond Empire to Zyir and Mecca. When the past comes back to haunt Mecca and the truth finally comes to light, will The Cartel rise or fall? Breeze is in the clutches of the crazed Ma'tee, and she desperately searches for a way out....

The inimitable Wahida Clark delivers the latest installment of her best-selling high-octane urban drama series Payback, filled with the glamour, sex and danger that fans of the series can't get enough of and that new readers will rush to.

Picking up where the suspenseful ending of Payback With Ya Life left off, we're plunged back into the hip hop drama, where the men are hot and dangerous, the women know their shoes from their Choos, and will stop at nothing to get what they want. In a game of power and intrigue where the stakes are high and the rewards are dazzling, the losers are gonna...

In this collection of six gritty tales from the underground, Iceberg Slim creates a tribute to the streets and those forced to try to survive them. Iceberg Slim's story is now depicted in a major motion picture distributed worldwide. Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp shows Slim's transformation from pimp to the author of 7 classic books.

From slick con men, classic tales of revenge, to a heist gone awry, Robert Beck, the man many know as Iceberg Slim, brings us on a ride through the terrifying urban streets. With the same unforgettable and distinctive prose, Airtight Willie & Me is further...

"Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It on the Mountain, originally published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery one Saturday in March of 1935 of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefront church in Harlem. Baldwin's...

Sexually misguided as a youth, Dylasia grows up to be an independent young woman. She is scared of true love because of the mental and physical abuse she has suffered. When she finally decides to trust a very close friend, she is betrayed and forced to fall into the arms of a man that she sees only as a 'boy-toy'. His name is Trent and he is willing to be there for her through thick and thin. Will Dylasia be able to let her guard down and trust again, or will she turn cold and payback everyone that has ever hurt her? Turn the pages of this intriguing read to find out

America is downtown earth and will not be ignored. Yet the question lingers: the last best hope of earth or the land that Satan blessed? 3 American Cranks takes you on a satirical roller coaster tour of the best and worse of the Land of the Free and the Homeless and, when that breathless ride comes to a sudden stop and you wobble away, you will be primed to give forth an opinion of your own on the matter, if you are not too dizzy.

Three eccentric American outsiders bare their souls and air outlandish opinions about personal sanity in today's America gone haywire. An...

America is downtown earth and will not be ignored. Yet the question lingers: the last best hope of earth or the land that Satan blessed? 3 American Cranks takes you on a satirical roller coaster tour of the best and worse of the Land of the Free and the Homeless and, when that breathless ride comes to a sudden stop and you wobble away, you will be primed to give forth an opinion of your own on the matter, if you are not too dizzy.

Three eccentric American outsiders bare their souls and air their outlandish opinions about personal sanity in today's America gone haywire. A...

Hell bent on upping her body count, Nikki takes Nicole on a psychotic rampage against her will. After a life full of devastation, crazy thoughts invade Nicole's head and she can no longer save Jeremy or herself from what she's about to endure. Burning flesh, cracking skulls, and the taste of blood are the only things that excite her. Dating Jeremy Bland comes with the heavy price of dealing with Nikki and ultimately a slow and gruesome death. BEWARE

Locked in the game and addicted to a drug dealer's lifestyle, Short Dog learns that the fast life comes with many hard sacrifices. When forced with the ultimate decision to choose between family and fast money, Short Dog quickly realizes that the dope game is not worth losing those around him who love him most. He thought escaping the streets would be easy....he was dead wrong

The Last Cry, The Continuation The Unwanted Don is part II of my first book The Last Cry published on August 29, 2011.

In this final book in the popular Double Dippin' series, Misty comes out of a coma to discover she has the gift of prophecy--or so she says. Does she truly want to help others, or has the self-indulgent diva found herself a new hustle?

Misty awakens from a coma and announces that she now can communicate with the spirit world. Soon after, she undergoes cutting-edge surgery that restores her beauty and mobility. With legions of cult-like followers who are willing to pay top dollar to attend Misty's seminars and retreats, she is living the opulent lifestyle she's always coveted.

And with...

Divorce is the end of the world Said no determined woman, EVER What happens when three fifty-year old women are blindsided by divorce? They start their own business, that's what. After battling their wealthy husbands in court, they are left struggling to pull their lives back together and devise a way to get back on her feet. Meeting, by chance, at a local group for recently divorced women, they become best friends and business partners. They start an underground sex business, with one specialty. Fifty-one year old Simone Mills, Fifty-five year old Luna Fiore, and Fifty-year-old Gigi Marcel...

What would you do if, in one moment, you learned your entire life was a lie? "I did it." These three words, uttered by Brianna's father, changed her life forever. Confident in her father's innocence, Brianna had been convinced that the jury had made a mistake. Instead, with her father's admission of guilt, everything she believed to be true is suddenly called in to question. Heartbroken and confused, Brianna sets out to find out the truth about her past. But what she discovers is more than she could have ever imagined. From the aunt who helped raise her to the new love in her life, it seems...

Lillian Carter is eighteen, and a month out of high school, when she finds out she is pregnant. She tells her boyfriend Jarvis Davis, a college football star, and he encourages her to have an abortion. Lillian is not the type to run away from her problems, however in the face of adversity that is exactly what she does. She packs her car, tells her baby sister goodbye, and runs away from her grandmother's home without looking back. She becomes Nicolette Cotter, but doesn't realize that by running away she may have just run into her destiny...

True friends are hard to come by, and even when you find them, it can be an all-or-nothing situation. Jada battles with being the glue that holds her group together, and she finds herself continuously stuck in the middle of her four girlfriends' family and relationship drama. Together, the girls witness life and death, sticky situations, and the pros and cons of relationships. Their true dedication to their friendship is tried again and again, but there's only so much a chick can take. Once each girl has reached her boiling point, there's no telling who will get burned.