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Author
Series
Midnight series (Sister Souljah) volume 2
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
613 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
Powerful and sensual, Midnight is an intelligent, fierce fighter and Ninjutsu-trained ninja warrior. A devout Muslim, he takes sixteen-year-old Akemi from Japan as his wife, but their tumultuous teenage marriage is interrupted when Akemi is kidnapped and taken back to Japan by her own father, even though the marriage was consummated and well underway. To find her, Midnight must travel across three countries and numerous cultures, and meets people...
Author
Series
Curtis Black novels volume 14
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The new novel in Kimberla Lawson Roby's beloved New York Times bestselling Curtis Black series. Raven Black is bouncing back after her very public divorce from Dillon. He's done everything he can to discredit her, but she's learned from her mistakes and him. In fact, she's become her ex-husband in more ways than one and is slowly but surely leading those connected to her down a terrible path of destruction. Playing with the lives of innocent people...
3) Jumped in
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Sixteen-year-old Rasheed is smart, tough and a survivor. In his neighborhood, he has to be. The streets are run by a gang called the E Street Locals, and they've been trying to jump him in since he was a child. So far, he's managed to escape their clutches. But the gang is not his only problem. Rasheed's sister, Daneeka, was paralyzed in a drive-by shooting, and now she's confined to a wheelchair, mentally frozen at the age of nine. His mother is...
4) Black buck
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother's home-cooked meals. All that changes when a chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, the silver-tongued CEO of...
Author
Publisher
Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Raised in one of the few well to do areas left in metro Detroit, Morgan's parents spoiled their daughter with the most lavish life they could afford and placed her on a pedestal of greatness. With dreams of her becoming a top-tier businesswoman working in the newly revised Downtown Detroit district, her parents were shocked when their daughter ran off with Javon Bates, one of the most dangerous thugs in the city. He’s better known as Always...
Author
Series
Family business volume 1
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
A scientific researcher and a disgraced chemist become pawns in a power grab by a billionaire contraband smuggler targeting Paris Duncan and her family, a situation that is further complicated by an assassin lover's return from the dead.
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Heir to the Duncan and Zuniga crime family fortunes, Nevada Duncan must attend the world's most elite school for the children of underworld figures where he learns the importance of friendship as an enemy who wants what Nevada has lurks in the shadows.
Author
Series
Midnight series (Sister Souljah) volume 3
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
535 pages ; 24cm.
Description
Handsome, young, Muslim, and married to two women living in one house along with his mother, Umma, and sister, Naja: can Midnight manage? He is surrounded by Americans who don't share or understand his faith or culture, and adults who are offended by his maturity, intelligence, or his natural ability to make his hard work turn into real money. He is calm, confident, and cool, Ninja-trained and powerful, but one moment of rage throws this Brooklyn...
10) Nightcrawling
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Appears on list
Description
Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison. But while Marcus clings to his dream of rap stardom, Kiara hunts for work to pay their rent-which has now more than doubled-and to keep the 9-year-old boy next door, abandoned by his mother, safe and fed. What begins...
11) Influence
Author
Series
Influence (Carl Weber) volume 1
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 24 cm
Description
When he graduates with his law degree, handsome and charismatic Langston Hudson is ready to hit the ground running as a lawyer with his family's firm, but a routine traffic stop during a night out with his friends quickly derails his plans and turns his world upside down. Langston and his friends are arrested after officers find half a million dollars' worth of drugs in his car. When Jacqueline Hudson learns of her son's arrest, she immediately begins...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Before they were torn down in 2007, the Stateway Gardens public housing projects on Chicago's South Side were known as a hot-bed of poverty, drugs, gangs, and crime. But for some, like Tracy, the shy, intelligent young boy at the center of this enthralling collection of linked stories, they are simply home. Set in the mid-1980s and taking readers up to the point of the destruction of the infamous Cabrini Green housing projects--similar to the Stateway...
13) Skagboys
Author
Series
Trainspotting volume Prequel
Publisher
W W Norton
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
658 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Mark Renton's life seems to be on track: university, pretty girlfriend, even social success. But, in this prequel to Trainspotting, after the death of his younger brother, Rent falls apart and starts hanging around with his old pals, including Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie, and being drawn irresistibly into their wacked-out plans.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers--an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals At the center of Jonathan Lethem's superb new novel stand two extraordinary women. Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist and mercurial tyrant who terrorizes her neighborhood and her family with the ferocity of her personality and the absolutism of her beliefs....
Publisher
Laguna Productions
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (DVD)(90 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rogelio se debate entre su familia en el hogar y su pandilla en la calle. Su tío intenta ayudarle a seguir el camino correcto siguiendo sus sueños de ser luchador, pero por otro lado decide continuar con su pandilla consumiendo drogas, asaltando casas y atacando a quien se le pusiera enfrente.
Rogelio is torn between his family at home and his gang life. He is conflicted between the advice from his uncle who is trying to get him to follow his dreams...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
324 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 25 cm
Description
"Sayon Hughes longs to escape the volatile Bristol neighborhood known as Ends, the tight-knit but sometimes lawless world in which he was raised, and forge a better life with Shona, the girl he’s loved since grade school. With few paths out, he is drawn into dealing drugs alongside his cousin, the unpredictable but fiercely loyal Cuba. Sayon is on the cusp of making a clean break when an altercation with a rival dealer turns deadly and an expected...
Author
Series
Coldest Winter ever volume 1
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 21 cm
Description
After a black drug dealer goes to jail in Brooklyn, his ruthless 17-year-old daughter takes over his empire. A look at the mores and manners of the black underclass, this one with money. First novel by a hip-hop artist, author of No Disrespect.
18) White sister
Author
Series
Shane Scully novels volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Frantically searching for his wife, Alexa, who vanished after a night out at L.A.'s Parker Center, Shane Scully investigates the execution-style murder of an African-American gang member found in Alexa's car.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Never one to play by any rules, Yoshi Lomax is determined to make good at an internship with one of Manhattan's most prestigious law firms. She's being mentored by the brilliant twin brother legal lights who are her parents’ friends. And with her unexpected knack for helping the city's wealthy, powerful clients finagle their way out of major trouble, even she is surprised at how bright her future shines, until Yoshi discovers the firm uses any means...
20) The archived
Author
Series
Archived novels volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2013, ©2013
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"When an otherworldly library called the Archive is compromised from within, sixteen-year-old Mackenzie Bishop must prevent violent, ghost-like Histories from escaping into our world"--
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