Download or read book A Ghetto Love Story written by Percy Levy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A GHETTO LOVE STORY Just because a person is a crack smoker doesn't mean they have to be treated like "Pookie" from New Jack City. With that fact in mind, A Ghetto Love Story makes sure that OG Black responds to the slightest hint of disrespect with extreme violence. By living this way he manages to maintain a comfortable existence on the streets of Seattle as a small time drug hustler. That is until his 18-year-old daughter (who has been in foster care since she was a child) forces herself into his life with some questions that need to be answered. A Ghetto Love Story is the story of what happens when a young girl raised up in the suburbs gets rudely introduced to the darker side of existence. Not only does Tia go looking for her father at the wrong time (in the middle of a bloody street war), but she also winds up becoming emotionally attached to a young gang leader in a way that will without doubt change her life forever. This book should not be confused with other current Urban/Street Lit books on the market. A Ghetto Love Story is intended to be a very realistic look into the pain and misery of the African-American street culture. Although the story line contains hard language and extreme violence-which is simply part and parcel of street life-it likewise contains an underlying message of love and hope.
Download or read book City of Broken Dreams written by Ghetto Scribe and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hanif “Neef ” Shabazz and Damion “Dame Raw” Jackson did there 10 year stretch of hard time inside infamous New York Prisons. Now they back on the street, cruising around N.Y in foreign cars: Neef drives a black “drop top” Porsche Carrera and Damion drives a green CL 600 Mercedes Benz. On the wrong side of the law – major players in the drug game – seemingly successful. But everything goes horribly wrong when their partner, Jose “Butter” Sanchez is murdered. A dangerous drug war is just beginning! Meanwhile, Neef is falling for a young, sexy college student, on the hunt for a man with means. Enter Dana, a beautiful young seductress with a sordid past. Does Dana truly love Hanif? If “Neef ” can stay alive long enough to reveal the truth, he will fi nd out. But he’s marked for death by enemy’s who never forgives, never gives up and are motivated by greed. City of Broken Dreams depicts how even in the underworld of New York,loyalty, respect and love have their place. From the first page “Dreams” pull the reader into a world of danger, steamy sex and a touch of romance. A “ghetto love story” that will gladden the heart of all readers.
Download or read book A Pimp and a Prostitute written by Trina Cleveland and published by Remember to Thinkpink Publications. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Shades of Ghetto Meet Lavish-A sexy yellow-boned man with charm, good looks, and swag. Growing up in a home with a dad who was a Pimp, it was inevitable that the whores of his childhood would groom him into becoming an heir to the Pimp throne of his father. Although Lavish was a Ghetto Celebrity, he had dreams that surpassed the streets. In love with his prostitute Jade, could he break the Pimp code and make her his wife? Meet Jade- A beautiful hood chick with a not so beautiful past. After becoming accustomed to the many touches she'd received from her mother's boyfriends, Jade learns the secrets of her femininity and grew up selling herself to the highest bidder. It wasn't until she met Lavish that she realized she had been settling for crumbs when she could've had steaks. Jade uses her anger and resentment of the past to become a highly paid dominatrix and is so good at what she does, even political figures fall under her prowess. After falling madly in love with Lavish Jade takes death defying risks to be his one and only. Can their love withstand the test of time? Or will it die by the code of the streets?
Download or read book Ghetto Cowboy written by G. Neri and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A street-smart tale about a displaced teen who learns to defend what's right-the Cowboy Way. When Cole’s mom dumps him in the mean streets of Philadelphia to live with the dad he’s never met, the last thing Cole expects to see is a horse, let alone a stable full of them. He may not know much about cowboys, but what he knows for sure is that cowboys aren’t black, and they don’t live in the inner city. But in his dad’s ’hood, horses are a way of life, and soon Cole’s days of skipping school and getting in trouble in Detroit have been replaced by shoveling muck and trying not to get stomped on. At first, all Cole can think about is how to ditch these ghetto cowboys and get home. But when the City threatens to shut down the stables-- and take away the horse Cole has come to think of as his own-- he knows that it’s time to step up and fight back. Inspired by the little-known urban riders of Philly and Brooklyn, this compelling tale of latter -day cowboy justice champions a world where your friends always have your back, especially when the chips are down.
Download or read book Soul Ties written by Wjuanae and published by Urban Renaissance. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soul Ties is a story of love, loyalty, and betrayal. Will Chance and Nina be able to escape this web of deceit unscathed? Will their love be able to withstand yet another trying test, or will they watch everything they built crumble before them? True love and loyalty are hard to come by. Chance McKnight and Nina Singleton have just that. Nina, a multifaceted beauty, and Chance, an ambitious hustler, are two lovers from Charlotte, North Carolina, whose souls aligned at a young age. Together, the couple amassed $5 million of dirty money over the years and finally set their sights on beginning a new life in Atlanta. On the day of their move, the couple is ambushed by a foe from their past. Dire circumstances compel Nina to start a new life in Atlanta without Chance by her side. Nina meets a mysteriously handsome stranger, Yasin, who quickly takes an interest in her. A few months later, the same enemy from Nina's past threatens her life, and she is rescued by the person she least expects: Chance. Secrets and lies tear Nina and Chance apart yet again. Nina remains in Atlanta and begins a family of her own, while Chance sets up shop in Miami, where a bigger threat lurks. Years later, Nina shows up on Chance's doorstep with a secret that will not only reunite the two lovers but also put a target on their backs.
Download or read book 28 Days written by David Safier and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by true events, David Safier's 28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto is a harrowing historical YA that chronicles the brutality of the Holocaust. Warsaw, 1942. Sixteen-year old Mira smuggles food into the Ghetto to keep herself and her family alive. When she discovers that the entire Ghetto is to be "liquidated"—killed or "resettled" to concentration camps—she desperately tries to find a way to save her family. She meets a group of young people who are planning the unthinkable: an uprising against the occupying forces. Mira joins the resistance fighters who, with minimal supplies and weapons, end up holding out for twenty-eight days, longer than anyone had thought possible.
Download or read book Every Love Story Is Beautiful But Ours Is Hood written by Jessica N. Watkins and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From birth, the Savage brothers were taught by their father, Deuce, that life is like a sandwich; any way you flip it, the bread comes first. They were taught to get money, not fall in love, so they left a wreckage of broken hearts on their road to getting money. Yet, now, as mature men, they realize that you're not rich until you have something that money can't buy. And money certainly cannot buy the women that have stolen these brothers' hard and stubborn hearts. Taye "City" Savage and Akira White's love story started in the projects. Ten years ago, they met when Akira was only a young girl and City was a grown man getting his hustle started. City and Akira's bond was strong, and their fate was inevitable, so they thought. However, before their bound could be sealed, life happened. They were torn apart by unimaginable circumstances, and they never saw one another again until a decade later. Yet, by that time, both City and Akira were involved, but they weren't so loyal to Nova and Davion that they could ignore the passion in their hearts that they still harbored for one another. The only thing that ever mattered to Keandre "Money" Savage was the hustle. He had never fallen in love, not even with his girlfriend of five years, Zoe Moore. Money and Zoe had the typical hood love that involved lots of fussing, fighting, and other women. Yet, Zoe was the only one in the relationship that was in love. Money only kept her by his side because she was the last woman standing. Along the way, he had ruined Zoe with every woman that he cheated on her with, and every lie he told. Now, Money is finally ready to shed his immature ways and settle down. Yet, Zoe finds herself in a desperate state of mind when she realizes that she is not the woman that Money has chosen to settle down with. Shamar Savages' only love has been his love for art. When his brothers financed his baby, Savage Ink, his only focus was his tattoo shop. Yet, he soon realizes that despite not even wanting it, he was falling for his friend and frequent dip, Taraji Green. However, Taraji had the same mindset as Shamar. Her only focus was becoming the baddest hair stylist in Chicago; not love. The last thing she wanted was a committed relationship with anyone, not even one of the infamous Savage brothers. Sometimes, the last thing a person wants to do is fall in love, but love sucks them in any way. That is exactly what happens with these Savage brothers and the women that adore them. As life always has it, love ain't that easy to obtain, especially when loving a man that was raised by the streets and whose first love is the hustle. In yet another urban tale by Jessica N. Watkins, death, sex, and chaos leads to unforeseen tragedy and unexpected love.
Download or read book Beyond the Ghetto Gates written by Michelle Cameron and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When French troops occupy the Italian port city of Ancona, freeing the city’s Jews from their repressive ghetto, it unleashes a whirlwind of progressivism and brutal backlash as two very different cultures collide. Mirelle, a young Jewish maiden, must choose between her duty—an arranged marriage to a wealthy Jewish merchant—and her love for a dashing French Catholic soldier. Meanwhile, Francesca, a devout Catholic, must decide if she will honor her marriage vows to an abusive and murderous husband when he enmeshes their family in the theft of a miracle portrait of the Madonna. Set during the turbulent days of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Italian campaign (1796–97), Beyond the Ghetto Gates is both a cautionary tale for our present moment, with its rising tide of anti-Semitism, and a story of hope—a reminder of a time in history when men and women of conflicting faiths were able to reconcile their prejudices in the face of a rapidly changing world.
Download or read book American Pictures written by Jacob Holdt and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1971 to 1978 the author, a Dane, hitchiked across more than 100,000 miles of America. This volume, written at the journey's end, contains some 700 of the photographs he took, and describes his odyssey.
Download or read book Hustlen Sex Lies Cheaters written by Elohim Bey and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hustlen, Sex, Lies, & Cheaters By: Elohim Bey Hustlen, Sex, Lies, & Cheaters describes a young Asiatic male growing up in search of something. Although he has a family, they are strict on him, and that forces him to be on his own. He is a licensed medic herbal physician, until he loses his job, so he becomes a street pharmacist. He wants a family so bad to call his own, so he gets his money together as he puts together a tight team that he calls his family. This story is bittersweet. But don’t miss the message. Love yourself first, no matter what the challenges are in life. Be grounded, stay focused, stay committed to who you are, no matter if no one believes in you. Trust that the force within you will guide you.
Download or read book The Book of Dirt written by Bram Presser and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘An immense work of love and anger, a book Bram Presser was born to write.’ Joan London They chose not to speak and now they are gone...What’s left to fill the silence is no longer theirs. This is my story, woven from the threads of rumour and legend. Jakub Rand flees his village for Prague, only to find himself trapped by the Nazi occupation. Deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, he is forced to sort through Jewish books for a so-called Museum of the Extinct Race. Hidden among the rare texts is a tattered prayer book, hollow inside, containing a small pile of dirt. Back in the city, Františka Roubíčková picks over the embers of her failed marriage, despairing of her conversion to Judaism. When the Nazis summon her two eldest daughters for transport, she must sacrifice everything to save the girls from certain death. Decades later, Bram Presser embarks on a quest to find the truth behind the stories his family built around these remarkable survivors. The Book of Dirt is a completely original novel about love, family secrets, and Jewish myths. And it is a heart-warming story about a grandson’s devotion to the power of storytelling and his family’s legacy. Bram Presser was born in Melbourne in 1976. His stories have appeared in Best Australian Stories, Award Winning Australian Writing, The Sleepers Almanac and Higher Arc. His 2017 debut novel, The Book of Dirt, won the 2018 Goldberg Prize for Debut Fiction in the US National Jewish Book Awards, the 2018 Voss Literary Prize and three awards in the 2018 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards: the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing and The People’s Choice Award. ‘The lyrical, impassioned and culturally rich prose of The Book of Dirt, and its moral force, bears echoes of such great Jewish writers as Franz Kafka (Presser inherited his grandfather’s copy of The Trial), Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Cynthia Ozick...It is a major book, and one for the times: while I was reading it, neo-Nazis in America brought fatal violence to Charlottesville, and, in Melbourne, neo-Nazis placed posters in schools calling for the killing of Jews to be legalised...The Book of Dirt is a courageous work, as necessary for us to read as it was for Presser to write.’ Saturday Paper ‘A beautiful literary mind.’ A.S. Patrić ‘Meet Bram Presser, aged five, smoking a cigarette with his grandmother in Prague. Meet Jakub Rand, one of the Jews chosen to assemble the Nazi’s Museum of the Extinct Race. Such details, like lightning flashes, illuminate this audacious work about the author’s search for the grandfather he loved but hardly knew. Working in the wake of writers like Modiano and Safran Foer, Presser brilliantly shows how fresh facts can derail old truths, how fiction can amplify memory. A smart and tender meditation on who we become when we attempt to survive survival.’ Mireille Juchau ‘The Book of Dirt is a grandson’s tender act of devotion, the product of a quest to rescue family voices from the silence, to bear witness, drawing on legend, journey and history, and shaped by extraordinary storytelling.’ Arnold Zable ‘A remarkable tale of Holocaust survival, love and genealogical sleuthing...A beautiful tale that will stay with the reader long after the book’s end.’ Books+Publishing ‘It’s hard not to be captured from the opening epigraph...[A] magnificent ode to all that is lost.’ Longin to Be ‘It is difficult to convey the breadth and nuance of this extraordinary work. It is a book about how history is made—and about who is allowed the privilege to remake it. There are echoes here of Sebald’s biting honesty and Chabon’s long and rewarding vignettes. An absolute pleasure to read.’ Readings ‘As in Sebald’s prose narratives, Presser’s novel inhabits and the dynamic region between fiction and non-fiction.’ Australian Book Review ‘An impressive and captivating story of remembrance, a journey into the past for the sake of deciphering our present.’ Dasa Drndic ‘In The Book of Dirt the fractured lines of memory create a gripping story of survival and love.’ Leah Kaminsky ‘I found Bram Presser’s The Book of Dirt impossible to forget. Penetrating, soulful, and surprisingly welcoming, it reminded me of my own ancestors and how easy it is to sidestep the past.’ Barry Scott, Australian Book Review, 2017 Publisher Picks ‘Presser blurs the boundaries of fact and fiction in a compelling way...A wonderful and original book, told in rich, lyrically beautiful prose that is laden with history and cultural meaning.’ Good Reading ‘A combination of homage, mystery, family history and a sepia-toned love story...The Book of Dirt is magnificent.’ ANZ LitLovers ‘A heartfelt and original attempt to bridge the ever-growing gaps between history, memory and silence...Its heart beats so earnestly, and so loud...What Presser has produced is a meditation on the ethics of storytelling, of the duties we owe to the people whose stories we tell, and to the people whose stories we don’t.’ Australian ‘Always surprising and beautifully complex, and both deft and sensitive in its handling of its intertwined narratives and materials. It is an incredibly affecting book, one that lingers long after reading—and a remarkably assured debut.’ Age ‘A gripping tale of survival and an absorbing novelisation of his family’s extraordinary lives...Presser fills in the gaps in his grandfather’s story with vivid character studies; together with poignant black and white snapshots, he brings them evocatively to life. His poetic narrative is a perfect foil for the silences of his forbears.’ Toowoomba Chronicle ‘The Book of Dirt is both a loving, honest portrayal of lives that would have been erased, and an incorporation of the broader lessons of their experience into contemporary mythology. It keeps the discussion about trauma, memory, and intergenerational acts of transfer alive for those generations that follow, that risk forgetting. It is a potent achievement for a debut novel.’ Sydney Review of Books
Download or read book A Deeper Love Inside written by Sister Souljah and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural-born hustler Porsche Santiaga refuses to accept her new life in juvenile detention after her family is torn apart and fights to regain what she has lost.
Download or read book Hood Love written by Shantel Johnson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamina's childhood revolved around one person, her best friend Markus. Ever since he moved across the street she had been fascinated by him. They played ball together, went to school together, and hung out at the corner store all the time. Everyone at school would say they were together, but Markus never said anything. Tamina wanted to be with him even if it was against her mother's wishes. Markus' father was a big time gangsta but Tamina was sure Markus was nothing like him, until she came home from school one day and saw him getting put in the back of a police car. Years later, Tamina still hasn't heard from Markus. She had moved on with her life surrounding herself with good friends and spending as much time as she could in her college text books. One night, her and her girls decided to kick it at a club, trying to take a break from life. There, Tamina meets Dante, a suave, smooth, and sophisticated young man and makes her lose her breath. He just might be the one to make her forget all about Markus.
Download or read book Faith and Trust written by Blake Karrington and published by Urban Renaissance. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faith and Trust are a couple who seem to have everything right at their fingertips but losing faith and trust in one another may just be the cause of their ultimate downfall… Faith often feels that her man has way too much money for the small legal endeavors that he tells her about, but she chooses to believe in him—that is until the feds kicks in her door one day. She doesn't know if she has it in her to be a ride or die. Putting her belief in Trust may give her an everlasting love or cause her to lose what she loves most. Trust is a natural born hustler. When it comes to getting money, he’s strategic and thorough. He likes his money fast and plentiful. For obvious reasons, he has to keep that between him and his partners. But living a double life isn't easy. His main objectives are to stay free and to protect his future wife. When Trust has the chance at the biggest score of his life, he doesn’t hesitate to risk it all.
Download or read book Carlos Cassidy written by Celeste Moore and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-06-12 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-three-year-old Cassidy Wells is young, beautiful, and full of ambition. Her life was going exactly how she wanted. She managed to hold down a full-time job while also attending school full-time as a criminal justice major. Just when she thought that she was on top of the world, everything came crashing down. Due to the pandemic, her job terminated her employment. Feeling hopeless, Cassidy's struggles began as the hustle within her emerges. Refusing to feel defeated, she does whatever it takes to keep a roof over her head, and her classes paid for; including, committing robberies with her cousin, Dawnae. Carlos Dugan is a man who has it all. Not only does he run a successful trucking business, but he also happens to be one of the biggest drug dealers in Texas. Women would kill to be with the young and sexy hustler. However, Carlos isn't impressed at how they throw themselves at him. Instead, the hopeless romantic inside of him desires to be with one woman. When Carlos meets Cassidy for the first time, he believes that he's finally found what he's been looking for. However, he'll soon find out that there's more to Cassidy than her sweet and timid demeanor.
Download or read book Fundamism written by Paul Long and published by L1fe, Incorporated. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HOW DO YOU IMPROVE YOUR OWN LIFE? You find a way to deal with the challenges life throws your way... which is always easier said than done. A favorite quote of mine, by George Bernard Shaw, explains a lot of why I feel we struggle in life: "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." Which is why I wanted to write this book. To share how incorporating more FUN into our lives will ultimately allow us to deal with any challenging moments that come our way. Take a moment right now and think about someone you know who is consistently upbeat, optimistic, and appears to be troubled by nothing. On the surface, they look like they enjoy life and have a lot of FUN. Ever wished you could be more like them? Wished you could approach life the same way, letting things just roll off your back like water off a duck's back? YOU CAN! By reading Fundamism: Connecting to Life Through F.U.N. you're one step closer to feeling more joy and fulfilment in your life. You're one step closer to feeling good and looking like the person you recalled above. We all desire happiness and minimal stress but life doesn't always work out the way we want it to. Throughout this book, you'll learn how to improve self-esteem, deal with life challenges, overcome fear... ultimately, this book will help you to change your life. Using 10 FUNdamentals, you'll quickly learn how easy it is to add more fun to your life and those around you. What are you waiting for? It's time to jump on the F.U.N. train (all aboard!) and smile, laugh and have more fun... all you have to do is buy Fundamism: Connecting to Life Through F.U.N. to get started!
Download or read book Pen Luv written by Loyalty Mccall and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pen Luv is the story of Rahmil and Chyna. When Rahmil goes to prison for her, will time and distance separate them or pull the couple together stronger?
