Download or read book Bitch We Can Share written by Chenette Whitfield and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet four female best friends:Sequoia Birmingham-Wallace, Zikhya Palmer,Menijah Jones,and Raleigh McDowell. These girls were like sisters and didn't dare let anything or anyone come in between them. Sequoia's husband,Morton Wallace a.k.a. Mo-T in the streets dissaprove of his wife's choice of friends. Sequoia refuses to choose between the people whom she love the most in the whole world.Due to his own infidelities,he fears that her friends will suck her into the life of betrayal,lies,and deceit. Selfishly,Morton comes up with a plan to destroy the girls' friendship forever. Read how selfishness,jealousy,and betrayal put a life long relationship and friendship on the line. This time,will they survive the tragedy?

Download or read book Vibe written by Corey J. Miles and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where exactly does the South begin and end? Current maps are too rigid to account for the ways Black people have built the South while being simultaneously excluded from it. Drawing from the different ways Black artists in the 2-5-2 area code in North Carolina use "vibe" as a mode of knowing and communication, author Corey J. Miles illustrates how Black feeling and unfeeling offer entry points into the contemporary South that challenge static and monolithic notions of the region. Placing the local artists in conversation with other southern cultural creators such as 2 Chainz, Rod Wave, and Rapsody, these ethnographic narratives demonstrate that there are multiple Souths, with overlapping and distinct commitments to working through pain, sound, and belonging. In Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South, Miles narrates how southern Black sound, feeling, and being is constantly policed, surveilled, and criminalized. In doing so, he re-narrates the region as the "carceral South," to capture the ways people in the South and beyond can feel the emotional weight of the criminalization of Blackness. Pain music, a subgenre of trap music, is used to take the listener to moments of violence to allow them to hear the desires, anger, and silences that bind Black life in community. Through conceptions of ratchet, hood, and ghetto, Black artists turn away from respectable images and unmap the South. In trap music, they move the South to a space where multiple modes of being find respect and care.

Download or read book Carl Weber s Kingpins Raleigh Durham written by Treasure Hernandez and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treasure Hernandez takes readers on a captivating, headlong plunge into the depths of the streets of Raleigh, North Carolina. It will leave you feenin' for more. With the skills of Michael Vick and the looks of Tyreese, Andrew “Amir” Davis, a.k.a. Amir, is destined to be a star. But in the streets of Raleigh, North Carolina, NFL dreams can quickly vanish, and a black man can either go with the flow or become another name added to the local obituaries. Amir has the whole hood behind him. He’s a beacon of hope for young men who feel they’ve been discarded by society. North Carolina is breeding him to be their star, but he has other plans in mind. Amir wants to be like his daddy, a hustler with principles who keeps his enemies close and treats his friends like family. Death Before Dishonor is his motto. When his childhood friend ends up in prison with a nine-year bid, Amir is true to the game and holds him down. He adheres to the code of the streets, but will that be enough to keep his crew together? Will Amir be able to forgive one of his childhood friends for being unfaithful to the game that made him the man he is today? Sometimes, a big booty and a smile can bring a soldier to his knees, but there are consequences for violating the code of the streets. Once a vow is taken, there’s no turning back.

Download or read book Street Legal written by Rafi Zabor and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A righteously satisfying read of a thriller, metaphysical novel, and screwball comedy, from the author of The Bear Comes Home. With the twists, turns, and smash-ups of a thriller, the sudden depths of a metaphysical novel, and the fizz of a screwball comedy, Street Legal is high entertainment and a righteously satisfying read, from the author of the greatest novel ever written about a saxophone-playing bear. Street Legal features an old-time skunk dealer, sniffing the new breezes, wants to open an Old-Time Grass Business Theme Park with rides and a disco. His foot soldier, a strapping, confused kid who might be on the spectrum. A frustrated cop who isn't allowed to collar anyone important because the town needs the business who consoles himself by trying to make a last-chance bust and grab some of the action. A slick, unsettling stranger buying up properties under cover for a major tobacco company but really out for himself. A Tibetan Buddhist lama from New Jersey who sounds like Tony Soprano when discoursing on the dharma who finds his disciple, a wry, reticently sexy earth mother wracked with concern for the wayward young man who is her son.

Download or read book Firebreak written by Nicole Kornher-Stace and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New Liberty City, 2134. Two corporations have replaced the US, splitting the country's remaining forty-five states (five have been submerged under the ocean) between them: Stellaxis Innovations and Greenleaf. There are nine supercities within the continental US, and New Liberty City is the only amalgamated city split between the two megacorps, and thus at a perpetual state of civil war as the feeds broadcast the atrocities committed by each side. Here, Mallory streams Stellaxis's wargame SecOps on BestLife, spending more time jacked in than in the world just to eke out a hardscrabble living from tips. When a chance encounter with one of the game's rare super-soldiers leads to a side job for Mal - looking to link an actual missing girl to one of the SecOps characters. Mal's sudden burst in online fame rivals her deepening fear of what she is uncovering about BestLife's developer, and puts her in the kind of danger she's only experienced through her avatar."--Publisher's description

Download or read book From the Deep written by Adam Chaon Harris and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When nuclear war blackened the sky and scorched the earth, humanity fled the surface to the depths of the world’s oceans. Almost a century later, entire civilizations exist thousands of feet down in specially made self-contained environments, carrying on in hopes of one day returning home. At one of these places, in the middle of nowhere, a mysterious and deadly incident occurs, threatening the lives of the more than four hundred people within. With no choice but to survive any way they can, tensions rise as the situation worsens and trust in one another degrades, pushing these people to the absolute limit. Trapped at the bottom of the ocean, there’s nowhere to run from the terrors that come from the deep.

Download or read book Like Candy Part One written by Candy Jackson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get money and break hearts, thats Candys motto. Every man shes ever met has been nothing but a means to an end for her until Loon sweeps her off her feet, and she falls in love with everything about him. Hes a thug and a gentleman and, in her eyes, the perfect match. But after he crosses her, she instinctively turns cold and tries her best to ruin his life while hers flourishes. Unfortunately for Candy, Loon is not one to be played with.

Download or read book Jude written by Lane Hart and published by Editor's Choice Publishing . This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One little secret will be his downfall. MMA cage fighter Jude Malone leads a simple life - eat, sleep and train. His older brother Jax is a legend in the octagon, and while Jude's had his fair share of recent losses, he's better than his record. He just needs a chance to prove it. When Jude is suddenly offered the fight of a lifetime by his head coach, there is only one tiny string attached. He decides to go for it, but that little string just might turn out to be the one that unravels him completely. Sadie Briggs is a quiet, introverted tomboy. She was raised by a single father and grew up in his MMA training gym with dozens of sweaty, aggressive men. They only think of her as their sweet little sister, not as a woman who is getting ready to go off to college. That all changes when her longtime crush, Jude Malone, becomes her knight in shining armor after her boyfriend dumps her the week before her senior prom. Jude feels like he's been sucker punched when Sadie's unexpected Cinderella transformation forces him to actually see her as a woman for the very first time. Overwhelming lust, jealousy and passion turn out to be the right combination to finally unlock Jude's cocky alpha fighter inside and out of the cage. Only one thing stands in the way of him winning the world championship welterweight title and a gorgeous girl. The truth.

Download or read book Three Part Harmony written by Holley Trent and published by Carina Press. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes three is deliciously better than two Raleigh McKean has borne witness to every conceivable way one person can take advantage of another. He sees it all the time in his job as a book publicist, especially working alongside his boss’s daughter. Everley Shannon would be amazing if she wasn’t such a pain in his ass. All Raleigh wants is something real. But when the captivating stranger he agrees to go home with turns out to be Bruce Engle, the elusive rock star, it’s a harsh reminder that users are everywhere. Raleigh’s his route to a book deal, nothing more. What Raleigh doesn’t realize is that the brooding musician is also searching for something real—and it’s possible he’s already found it in Everley’s arms. But is there room in those arms for one more? With Everley’s own dream of getting out from under her father’s shadow crumbling into chaos, it feels like the perfect time to embrace something new. But when Raleigh’s insatiable attraction to both Everley and Bruce makes it impossible to keep his distance, there’s only one obvious solution…assuming they can learn how to share. This book is approximately 75,000 words One-click with confidence. This title is part of the Carina Press Romance Promise: all the romance you’re looking for with an HEA/HFN. It’s a promise!

Download or read book I Say a Little Prayer written by E. Lynn Harris and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A USA Today, New York Times, Washington Post BestsellerChauncey Greer, the suave and successful owner of the Cute Boy Greeting Card Company, never wants for the attention of guys just as hot as he is. After a couple of bad dates Chauncey finds himself in church, where the minister’s message inspires him to return to the singing career he had launched as a teenager. Things heat up when Chauncey’s rediscovered singing talent lands him in the middle of a protest over homophobia in the black church, and Chauncey’s old singing partner–and former lover–makes a dramatic and unexpected entrance.

Download or read book The Truth About Cheryl written by Douglas Dunlap and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Truth about Cheryl By: Douglas Dunlap The Truth about Cheryl explores the greed of rich men involved with commercial real estate. It is interesting because it educates about the intricate details of land development, government processes, and what makes a successful commercial development. In addition, it is a highly erotic exploration of a young woman's insatiable appetite for sexual adventure, love, and anonymous erotic encounters. The message is relevant because of the increased public interest in women protesting sexual advances, by supervisors, others that may have power over them—the "Me Too" movement.

Download or read book Cherished By a Thug 2 written by Natisha Raynor and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there are such things as cocaine gods, they're blessing Problem left and right. His clientele and his riches are growing by the day, but so are his troubles. Cherish is growing tired of hardly ever spending time with her man, and Problem has to take the good with the bad. Along with mo' money, comes mo' problems. He's seeing a part of the game that he never wanted to see, including people being gunned down right in front of him. He isn't the only one with the love for a dollar and the determination for a come up, but when his mother's life is put in danger and his daughter is violated, another side of Problem is unleashed and he's out for blood. Cherish is confused and angered by the hold that Italy has over her best friend Brit. What baffles Cherish, is the fact that Brit knows Italy is poison, but she still can't seem to let go. Fed up with watching her best friend spiral out of control, Cherish dishes out some tough love, but it's an act that she will later regret. After suffering a loss that brings back the same pain she felt when she lost her brother, Cherish becomes broken. Cherish and Problem are both going through hell and rather than coming together, they seem to cope by pushing each other away. Lives are lost and some relationships will never be the same. Who will survive in this explosive finale?

Download or read book The Complete Last Call Series written by Sawyer Bennett and published by Big Dog Books, LLC. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 1212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The drinks are cold but the nights are scorching hot at The Last Call! Things in the Outer Banks are heating up as these friends find love in a series of sexy standalone books—friends who become more, a second chance for a wrongly convicted felon, a dark past filled with tragedy, an undercover mission that blurs professional lines, a woman who has sworn off relationships and the man who proves her wrong. Get it all and more in The Last Call series! The Complete Last Call Series includes the following standalones: * On the Rocks * Make It a Double * Sugar On the Edge * With a Twist * Shaken Not Stirred

Download or read book Idris Wisdom written by Natisha Raynor and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-11 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wisdom Washington is a twenty-two year old college student trying to find her way in life after her parents died suddenly. Grieving the loss of her parents has her going through a wildin' out phase that causes her to make some poor choices. Under the guidance of her close friend, Shiheem, Wisdom becomes caught up with making fast money, and partying. The young woman meets Idris Simms and falls fast, but Idris isn't liking what he's seeing. He can tell that Shiheem is no good for her, but is he any better? Idris is getting fast money himself and with the eyes of everyone in the city on him, he doesn't have much room to preach to Wisdom, when he's lost himself. America's opioid epidemic has crept its' way into the hood of Raleigh, NC and making Idris a very rich man. With his hood riches, come the groupies, haters, jack boys, and the police. Idris is trying to juggle it all, along with the feelings that he has for Wisdom. He loves her, but is he truly ready for love when the streets get all of his time and attention? Two young people experiencing love for the first time can be one heck of a roller coaster ride but when it happens in the middle of the most savage summer ever, all types of chaos and madness will occur making the relationship's chance of surviving slim to none.

Download or read book Bad Beat written by Rob Hart and published by Polis Books. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Ash McKenna and Pete Fernandez Joint When beloved college football star Raleigh "The Gun" Davis is suspected of shaving points, sports reporter Pete Fernandez is tasked with digging up all the dirt that's fit to print. Mired in his own mounting personal problems and drinking himself blind, Pete slams into an unexpected brick wall: Ash McKenna, an amateur private investigator with a very bad attitude. Both are looking for the AWOL QB, but their goals run counter to each other—Ash is trying to help an old friend, while Pete is looking to redeem his once-promising journalism career. What they find is more than they bargained for—and more than they can handle alone. Can the unlikely duo find common ground in time to bust a dangerous crime ring? Or will they get tangled up in their own egos and agendas? Acclaimed crime writers Rob Hart and Alex Segura pair up for a unique adventure that brings together their series characters Ash McKenna and Pete Fernandez for an untold tale of vice, double-crosses and the back alleys of suburban New Jersey. Before NEW YORKED and SILENT CITY, there was BAD BEAT.

Download or read book Miles Apart written by Tamika Melvin Williams and published by NCM Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamia Mia Miles is a Southern girl from North Carolina who always dreamt of doing two things; having a career in fashion and getting married. Mia thought once she did these things she would be living the life she always dreamed about. That was until the love of her life, Saquan Say Miles decided to get into the fast life and put her last. Mia loves her husband so much she stays with him despite the countless hurts and life threatening pains she encounters. Then one day Mia learns the unthinkable of her husband and her life is tested. Will Mia finally get enough and put her feelings first, and leave Say or... will she forgive and forget as usual let s see......

Download or read book Handling Sin written by Michael Malone and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Ides of March, our hero, Raleigh Whittier Hayes (forgetful husband, baffled father, prosperous insurance agent, and leading citizen of Thermopylae, North Carolina), learns that his father has discharged himself from the hospital, taken all his money out of the bank and, with a young black female mental patient, vanished in a yellow Cadillac convertible. Left behind is a mysterious list of seven outrageous tasks that Raleigh must perform in order to rescue his father and his inheritance. And so Raleigh and fat Mingo Sheffield (his irrepressibly loyal friend) set off on an uproarious contemporary treasure hunt through a landscape of unforgettable characters, falling into adventures worthy of Tom Jones and Huck Finn. A moving parable of human love and redemption, Handling Sin is Michael Malone's comic masterpiece.