Download or read book Durty South Grind written by L. E. Newell and published by Strebor Books. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate and revealing exploration of kindred spirits forever linked through love and devotion, even as they travel through a maze of deceit and mischief. A debut novel that screams sex, thrills, and crime From the sandbox to the grave—that’s the motto for Johnny Ivey, Johnny Dobbs, and Larry “Sparkle” Stith. In the mean red-light district of Atlanta, the lifelong friends and partners are known as the Three Amigos. One for all and all for one. Newly released from jail, Sparkle is ready to lead a life free of crime and violence. His lover, Beverly Johnson, is now the city’s police chief. But she is battling her own personal demons in search of peace while secretly protecting her friends and her political career. Meanwhile, Sparkle’s dream of reform is cut short when vengeful adversaries go on a mission to take over his friends’ turf, drawing him back into the streets he was trying to escape. The three must navigate a labyrinth of trickery in order to keep their territory, their sanity, and their lives.

Download or read book The Grind Don t Stop written by L. E. Newell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Larry Stith (a.k.a. Sparkle), the 41-year-old street hustler, is again teamed with his main partner Johhny Dobbs (a.k.a. Rainbow), a lifetime pimp, drug dealer and scam artist. They are joined by Beverly Johnson (a.k.a. Bevy), Sparkle's secret lover and a corrupt police chief, as well as Asian beauty Mercedes and Aunt Rose, who knows the ins and outs of rival Black Don's business. Lifelong friends and their associates roam through the underbelly of Atlanta's glitter and glitz in a maze of whodunit.

Download or read book Grit and Grind written by Kat Addams and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grit and Grind is book 1 in the Dirty South series. It can be read as a stand-alone contemporary romantic comedy.

Download or read book Dirty South Series written by Kat Addams and published by Kat Addams. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grit and Grind Being a best-selling romance author doesn’t make falling in love any easier … Christopher Kaiser’s books were taking the romance genre by storm. Rumor even had it that his sexy stories had actually been inspired by personal experiences. But the notorious Southern playboy wasn’t ready for a stand-alone relationship. What would happen to his writing if Christopher settled for just one muse? He was about to find out … Aspiring author Klara Woods found herself lacking inspiration. A string of bad relationships and a meet-cute gone wrong had left her with empty sheets … in more ways than one. Taking matters into her own hands, Klara decided to jump-start her career by attending a writer’s workshop in her hometown of Memphis. But it was her love life that was about to get a rewrite in the city of grit and grind. Nashvegas Nights What happened backstage didn’t always stay backstage … in Nashvegas. Music Row star Jason Jones loved three things—his dog, ice-cold beer, and gorgeous redheads. His life sounded like a country song … and he had the baggage to prove it. One minute, he was onstage, crooning to a flame-haired goddess, and then he was backstage, giving her an encore she’d never forget. Neither would he … Hot-mess express Dorothy Elizabeth Prudence was a nurse by day and lonely by night. With a name like that, she never got laid. That was about to change, thanks to her wingwoman bestie. Hitting Nashville’s Music Row for a wild night had seemed like an excellent idea. She was only looking for a good time but found a lot more than she’d bargained for. They both did … Mr. Big Ego Finding love in The Big Easy is a gamble … especially when he’s your new boss. Event planner Samantha Masson had sworn off alpha men after a nasty divorce. The last thing she was looking for was a man with an ego bigger than his bank account. Too bad that was exactly what she found when she spent a wild night in the arms of a masked stranger. Planning a Halloween masquerade gala for the infamous Victor Beaumont made a nice addition to her reputable portfolio. She just hadn’t planned on becoming a notch on his bedpost … or falling for him in the process. But there was more to the man behind the mask … Millionaire Victor Beaumont owned the largest rum distillery in New Orleans. He had power, wealth, and all that came with it, including the crushing weight of responsibility. He would gladly walk away from everything for a chance to be his own man, but tradition wouldn’t allow it … and neither would his pride. As a skilled actor, he had everyone fooled with his arrogance and charming wit. Until he met the infuriatingly talented and beautiful Samantha, who saw right through him. From rendezvous to romance, he couldn’t keep his hands off of her. To keep her, he would have to take his mask off once and for all … Keywords: small town romance, HEA, romance books, funny love books, romantic comedy, romantic comedy books, romcom books, rom-com, new adult romance, new adult, happily-ever-after, student teacher romance, college romance, romantic novels, love stories, southern romance, humorous fiction, funny romance, enemies to lovers, second chance romance, billionaire romance, boss romance, workplace romance

Download or read book Dirty South written by Ben Westhoff and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rap music from New York and Los Angeles once ruled the charts, but nowadays the southern sound thoroughly dominates the radio, Billboard, and MTV. Coastal artists like Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, and Ice-T call southern rap &“garbage,&” but they're probably just jealous, as artists like Lil Wayne and T.I. still move millions of copies, and OutKast has the bestselling rap album of all time. In Dirty South, author Ben Westhoff investigates the southern rap phenomenon, watching rappers &“make it rain&” in a Houston strip club and partying with the 2 Live Crew's Luke Campbell. Westhoff visits the gritty neighborhoods where T.I. and Lil Wayne grew up, kicks it with Big Boi in Atlanta, and speaks with artists like DJ Smurf and Ms. Peachez, dance-craze originators accused of setting back the black race fifty years. Acting both as investigative journalist and irreverent critic, Westhoff probes the celebrated-but-dark history of Houston label Rap-A-Lot Records, details the lethal rivalry between Atlanta MCs Gucci Mane and Young Jeezy, and gets venerable rapper Scarface to open up about his time in a mental institution. Dirty South features exclusive interviews with the genre's most colorful players. Westhoff has written a journalistic tour de force, the definitive account of the most vital musical culture of our time.

Download or read book The Dirty South written by James A. Crank and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dirty South examines the shifting significances of the South as a constructed, fantasized region in the American psyche, particularly its frequent association with tropes of dirt that emphasize soil, garbage, trash, grit, litter, mud, swamp water, slime, and pollution. Beginning with iconic works from the 1970s such as Deliverance and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, James A. Crank traces the image of a “dirty” South into the twenty-first century to explore the social, political, and psychological effects of the region’s hold on the imaginations of southerners and nonsoutherners alike. With a focus on media forms through which southern identity gets articulated and questioned—including horror movies, Swamp Thing comics, and popular music by artists such as Waylon Jennings and OutKast—The Dirty South probes the sustained fascination with southern dirtiness while reflecting on its causes and consequences since the end of the civil rights era. Highlighting the period from 1970 to 2020, during which the South began to represent several new possible identities for the nation as a whole and for the area itself, Crank considers the ways that southerners have used depictions of dirt to create and police boundaries and to contest those boundaries. Each chapter pairs prominent literary or cultural texts from the 1970s with more contemporary works, such as Jordan Peele’s film Get Out, which recycle similar investments or, critically, challenge the inherent whiteness of the earlier images. By historicizing fantasies of the region and connecting them to the first decades of the twenty-first century, The Dirty South reveals that notions about southern dirtiness proliferate not because they lend authenticity or relevancy to the U.S. South, but because they aid so conspicuously in the zombified work of tethering investors (real and imagined) to a graveyard of ideas.

Download or read book Dirty South written by Phillip Thomas Duck and published by Kimani Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College is a big adjustment—but not if you're Kenya Posey. Even at a Southern school far from her Jersey turf, she's the one the girls envy and the boys want. Kenya's the star of a hot singing/dancing troupe, her high-school BFF Lark is on campus—could things get any better? For Lark, the answer is yes. While she's flunking socially, life is one big episode of Everybody Loves Kenya—and Lark barely gets a walk-on role. Kenya's too self-absorbed to see beyond her fabulous new life. But with Kenya's brother Eric and his rapper friend Fiasco bringing drama right to her door, all that's about to change….

Download or read book The Dirty South written by John Connolly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John Connolly returns with a prequel that goes back to the very beginning of Private Investigator Charlie Parker's astonishing career with his first terrifying case"--

Download or read book The Dirty South written by Alex Wheatle and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brixton, twenty years after the race riots. Teenager Dennis Huggins drifts into the easy, dangerous life of the shotta - or drug dealer - and discovers that, hard as the struggle for respect on the streets is, the struggle for love is harder still. At least Dennis has involved parents looking out for him; too many of his friends drift through life with no positive influences or moral code; their only 'family' their fellow dealers. Wheatle brilliantly evokes the temptations of the thug life for young black men growing up in London's 'Dirty South' - this is a fast, compelling novel that offers no easy answers, but refuses to shy away from asking the difficult questions.

Download or read book Soul Food Recipes From The Dirty South written by Kimball Hopson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the unique flavors of the South here at "Soul Recipes From The Dirty South". ... There's a little something for everyone, so why not come visit and explore our kitchen! ... A collection of some of the most world famous southern and soul food recipes in one book. Complete with some of the Hottest diets around and Healthy eating tips

Download or read book The Bohemian South written by Shawn Chandler Bingham and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the southern influence on nineteenth-century New York to the musical legacy of late-twentieth-century Athens, Georgia, to the cutting-edge cuisines of twenty-first-century Asheville, North Carolina, the bohemian South has long contested traditional views of the region. Yet, even as the fruits of this creative South have famously been celebrated, exported, and expropriated, the region long was labeled a cultural backwater. This timely and illuminating collection uses bohemia as a novel lens for reconsidering more traditional views of the South. Exploring wide-ranging locales, such as Athens, Austin, Black Mountain College, Knoxville, Memphis, New Orleans, and North Carolina's Research Triangle, each essay challenges popular interpretations of the South, while highlighting important bohemian sub- and countercultures. The Bohemian South provides an important perspective in the New South as an epicenter for progress, innovation, and experimentation. Contributors include Scott Barretta, Shawn Chandler Bingham, Jaime Cantrell, Jon Horne Carter, Alex Sayf Cummings, Lindsey A. Freeman, Grace E. Hale, Joanna Levin, Joshua Long, Daniel S. Margolies, Chris Offutt, Zandria F. Robinson, Allen Shelton, Daniel Cross Turner, Zackary Vernon, and Edward Whitley.

Download or read book The Dirty South written by John Connolly and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Addicted to a Dirty South Thug written by Shan and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the life of the Prince brothers. Come feel what it's like to be Addicted to a Dirty South Thug. Khian "Khi" Prince is a certified boss with what seems to be the weight of the world on his shoulders. His job is to ensure that he and his brothers maintain their status in the streets, along with caring for his two baby mamas and the kids he shares with them. After failing twice at love, Khi's not ready to give up on finding his queen just yet, and after running into Cuba Lance, he's certain he has finally gotten it right. When Cuba mends his heart only to shatter it all over again, will Khi give up on love once and for all, or will he fight to keep the woman who has everything he's been looking for? Daelan "Dae" Prince is the ultimate bad boy with pretty-boy looks and a no-nonsense type of attitude. He's feared by many men and lusted after by plenty of women. With Amber, the love of his life, and his 5-year-old son by his side, Daelan could have a happily-ever-after ending--except that he can't seem to stop messing up. Usually his loved ones are there to pick up the shattered pieces, but what happens when Daelan makes a decision that put the lives of everyone around him in danger? Kaedee Prince is known in the streets because of his brothers, but he's also known in the courtroom as one not to be messed with. With his wife Deonna by his side, they run the most sought-after law firm in the city. Kaedee knew his law degree would come in handy for his brothers, but he never expected that his wife would one day need his services. Hit with money laundering charges, Deonna learns that your past doesn't always stay behind you. When her ex shows up in her husband's office, Deonna finds herself in love with two men at the same time. She's forced to choose, but when that decision lands someone in a grave, are the Prince brothers ready for a war?

Download or read book Down in the Dirty South written by Maso Sapp Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Down In the Dirty South written by Maso Sapp and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an urban novel written by Maso Sapp. He takes you through some of the meanest city streets of Raleigh, North Carolina that the rest of the world didn't know Raleigh had. As you flip through the pages you will learn that there are lots of killing, drug dealing, betrayal, and sexual behavior taking place throughout this book from the beginning to the end; which happens to be a ground breaking thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat and eager to flip to the next page. Tony, Dee, Shon, and E are four close friends that grew up together in the city of Raleigh, but as kids they got into the life of crime, trying to escape the poverty of life that they were left with by having broken families. But after Dee go to prison for murder, Tony, Dee, and E meets Fernando, who helps them take their drug organization to a much larger scale. But when their old supplier by the name of Jose find out what they have done, he brings chaos to them and Tony who happens to be the most intelligent and intellectual one of the three started having mixed feelings and was starting to want out of the life of crime he was living before something tragic happens and he lose the love of his life, Beyonka.

Download or read book Plays Puzzles and Poems written by Christine Gaylord Johnson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My inspiration comes from my alumni at The University of Virginia, along with my six sisters: Bernita, Gail, Donna, Venus, DeNichole and last but not least, Wanda! Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Download or read book Enter Brotherhood written by Dana Jamar Mask and published by . This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel follows the life of a gifted young man who plunges into a life of sorcery after being corrupted by an evil spirit. The themes of free will and the ability to choose are reflected in the fight against the unknown forces influencing the attitudes of fraternal organizations.