Download or read book Gucci Girls written by Jasmin Oliver and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marina, Frankie and Sinead share an apartment while they attend fashion school, and they each pursue their own passions and desires.
Download or read book Hot Girl written by Dream Jordan and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's summertime in Bed-Stuy "Do or Die" Brooklyn, and Kate is feeling down in the dumps. Not only is she tired of her raggedy, tomboy image, but she's also missing her best friend, Felicia, who's away for the summer. Lonely and not exactly getting along with her new foster mother, Lynn, Kate so badly wants to be out and about, twirling pretty, and partying---and maybe catching the attention of her longtime crush, Charles. Opportunity knocks one hot summer day when fly-girl Naleejah struts her stuff straight up to Kate and takes a seat. Full of smiles, Naleejah tells Kate that she remembers her from school, but Kate can't remember ever having such a fabulous chick trying to befriend her. Kate's suspicion turns to trust once Naleejah gives her a much-needed makeover. Now a brand-new Kate suddenly has the attention of her dream boy. But is Naleejah checking for him, too? Against Kate's better judgment, she ignores the warning signs, and continues to let Naleejah lead her down a treacherous path. Soon, what seems like a fun and exciting summer ends up being a harsh reality check. Now Kate must decide how to get back on the right track . . . or is it already too late?
Download or read book Girls From da Hood 6 written by Ashley and published by Urban Soul. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling superstar author Ashley & JaQuavis and the talented McCall spin the sixth gritty street drama in this popular series, where fast cash, love, and tragedy drive a trio of fast-paced stories.
Download or read book Gucci Girls written by Tye Mease and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone wants the magnificent life filled with luxury. Jinger a beautiful, bold, and daring young lady chases the splendor dream of the glamorous life. Her strong sex appeal, style, and manipulative ways gets her the finer material things but at a cost. She constantly puts herself in compromising situations and without realizing it leads a bloody trail that comes knocking at her front door. Love and loyalty will be tested. Bonds will be broken, no one is safe.
Download or read book Gucci Girls written by Jasmine Oliver and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Black Queer Work of Ratchet written by Nikki Lane and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book enters as a corrective to the tendency to trivialize and (mis)appropriate African American language practices. The word ratchet has entered into a wider (whiter) American discourse the same way that many words in African American English have—through hip-hop and social media. Generally, ratchet refers to behaviors and cultural expressions of Black people that sit outside of normative, middle-class respectable codes of conduct. Ratchet can function both as a tool for critiquing bad Black behavior, and as a tool for resisting the notion that there are such things as “good” and “bad” behavior in the first place. This book takes seriously the way ratchet operates in the everyday lives of middle-class and upwardly mobile Black Queer women in Washington, DC who, because of their sexuality, are situated outside of the norms of (Black) respectability. The book introduces the concept of “ratchet/boojie cultural politics” which draws from a rich body of Black intellectual traditions which interrogate the debates concerning what is and is not “acceptable” Black (middle-class) behavior. Placing issues of non-normative sexuality at the center of the conversation about notions of propriety within normative modes of Black middle-class behavior, this book discusses what it means for Black Queer women’s bodies to be present within ratchet/boojie cultural projects, asking what Black Queer women’s increasing visibility does for the everyday experiences of Black queer people more broadly.
Download or read book Love Me or Miss Me written by Dream Jordan and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-in-one edition of the critically acclaimed Hot Girl and Bad Boy by Dream Jordan. What's a Brooklyn Girl to do when her best friend is away for the whole summer? Don't ask Kate, because she has no idea. Aimless, and unhappy with her new foster mother, Kate falls into the hands of a stylish, "It Chick" who whips her into fashionable shape. Armed with new confidence, and a game plan to get her man, Kate quickly falls under her new bestie's bad influence. And she becomes reckless in her pursuits. Can Kate get her life back on the right track--or is it already too late? One year later, Kate's fantasy life of having the perfect family comes to an abrupt end when she is suddenly forced to return to the group home, a place she's fought so hard to avoid. Alone and vulnerable, Kate falls for the ever so gorgeous Percy who treats her well at first, but soon a cycle of controlling and abusive behavior begins. Kate finds herself trapped and unable to be the strong, independent girl she's tried to be her whole life. Will she be able to escape Percy's clutches? Told through Kate's witty, fearless point of view, Hot Girl and Bad Boy are powerful stories from an important voice in young adult fiction.
Download or read book Urban Girls written by Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors present a portrait of low-income, urban American adolescent girls based on fact rather than stereotype, aiming to fill the gap in research about adolescent girls. They explore girls' attitudes and alternatives in areas such as identity, family and peer relationships, sexuality, health, and career development, often allowing the girls to speak for themselves. For undergraduate and graduate students in psychology, sociology, economics, and women's studies, as well as policymakers. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Urban Girls Revisited written by Bonnie J. Leadbeater and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-02-12 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban girls are marginalised by poverty, ethnic discrimination, and stereotypes suggesting that they have deficits compared to their peers. This book explores the diversity of urban adolescent girls' development and the sources of support and resilience that help them to build the foundations of strength that they need as they enter adulthood.
Download or read book Pretty Girls Love Street Kings 2 written by D. Gamblez and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DeAndre Harris aka Dre is an 18-year-old black male and the leader of the Tru Aetna Boyz−which includes Raheem, Devonte and Lyrical. Dre and his friends are just ordinary teenagers growing up on the streets of one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the city of Gary, Indiana: Aetna, a poverty-stricken area where drugs, shootouts, police corruption, gang activity and murder run rampant on a daily basis. The Tru Aetna Boyz are determined to gain money, status, women, and fame in order to achieve the rare lifestyle of ghetto fabulousness. Even if it means selling drugs...or committing murder to do so. Audriana Escobar aka Audi is an 18-year-old Mexican/Armenian female and the leader of the Gucci Girlz−which includes twins Coco and Makita, and Cherish. Audi and her friends also live in the Aetna area, and their only goal is to find a way out of the poor town and to achieve a life of happiness, love, and luxury, and Audi believes that the first step to her fulfilling that dream is by finishing school and working part-time at the local grocery store. Naomi Mills, a police sergeant out of the Gary Police Department, is emotionally conflicted when it comes to protecting and cleaning up the streets of G.I. When she and her team of detectives run across a murderous group of masked assailants known only as the Death Dealers and whose sole purpose is to terrorize the streets of G.I., Naomi is determined to bring the killers to justice, but when the Death Dealers suddenly target her and her loved ones, she suspects police corruption in her own department and realizes that the elusive killers may be much closer to her than she’d like, putting her at a crossroads; arrest the masked assailants...or kill them all? When the Tru Aetna Boyz and the Gucci Girlz cross paths, all of their wants and desires seem to be coming true. But when Sergeant Naomi Mills and team of detectives are thrown into the mix, emotions run high, rivalries explode, loyalties are tested, and distrust is sown. Will the Tru Aetna Boyz achieve their goal of becoming “ballers” or will they fall to the usual woes that accompany street life? Will the Gucci Girlz’ search for happiness, love and luxury become attainable, or will their dreams turn out to be nothing more than that of a teenage girl’s false hope? And can Sergeant Mills and her team catch the merciless Death Dealers and protect the streets of G.I. from murder and mayhem? Or will all their efforts prove futile and they, too, realize that it’s too late to save a dying city from a lifetime of Hustle & Heartache?
Download or read book Pretty Girls Love Street Kings written by D. Gamblez and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audriana Escobar, aka Audi, is the 18-year-old leader of the Gucci Girlz−a crew made up of her closest friends. Growing up in poverty, their only current goal is to find a way out of the poor town of Aetna and achieve a life of happiness, love, and luxury. When they cross paths with another crew named the Tru Aetna Boyz, all of their wants and desires seem to be coming true. DeAndre, aka Dre, leads the team that includes his friends Raheem, Devonte and Lyrical and, together, they make up one of the most dangerous gangs in their hometown. With their intentions set on gaining money, status, women and fame, meeting a group of women with the same goals in mind seems like the best kind of luck. Sparks fly almost immediately and, together, they quickly become a force that totally dominates the street game without competition or resistance... until they catch the eye of police sergeant, Naomi Mills. Pursuing money and love always comes with its own set of troubles, which the Gucci Girlz and Tru Aetna Boyz eventually realize on their own. As they begin to step into the lives that they always envisioned for themselves, everything is turned upside down when they become the trophy for a sergeant with a chip on her shoulder. Will they be able to step into their dream of luxury and true love?
Download or read book Street Credit written by Andre Farr and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in an abusive home, De Angelo Little One Little decides hes fed up. After confronting his mother about leaving the situation, he realizes shes not going anywhere, so he decides its time he left. Meeting up with a classmate named Darius DJ Jackson who offered him a place to live in, the two of them enter into the world of drug dealing led by DJs brother Red. Then a mistake by DJ costs Red his life, which leaves the boys at a crossroad. Low on money, the boys are willing to do whatever it takes to keep their street credit even if it costs them their lives. Bringing in his sister and her friend, Little One soon finds out that he and DJ arent the only ones with get-rich-quick ambitions. Well written; crafty, and insightful. As you travel through the twists and turns of Street Credit, your path is bombarded with crossroads that lead to Deceit + Deception Ruthlessness + Brutality Treachery + Betrayal Envy + Jealousy Revenge + Retribution Creditability + Disbelief (Street Creditor).
Download or read book The Journey of Uncovery written by Abiyah Reinha Alexanda de Carvalho and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-03-19 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of a major part of a born young Angolan women life, who believes in freedom and independence, contrary to what she grew up having living under her parents authority alike; every child. A child is brought up by its parents or guardian who determine how much and what type of free the child should have however; unlike the normality of a childhood, hers and her siblings was very abnormally controlled by her father although, she also had privileges which; is handful summoned by GOD out of His grace. Therefore, the privileges that she saw and lived she believes to have fully been the handwork of GOD, every thing she ever had and how life was like before becoming a refugee, but even that; she believes it to be GOD’s plan. Trusting GOD to the fullness of her life, heart and soul and spirit, is a her only way to have had to deal with everything she has gone through, and with the writings of her life and family story she hopes that; somebody, somewhere will read and have hope, courage and look for their divine purpose in life “We are not here in vein, but to serve a divine purpose”; says Abiyah. Especially that we are in the end we should watch and pray harder, and with our faith being the key “Jesus Christ is coming back, he is on the way, so do not give up now and never do give up.”
Download or read book Snatched from the Fire written by Dr. Lois E. Charles and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of the story in this book is to bring out the examples of what happens when we drift away from obedience to God as well as our parents. It is an earthly story with a heavenly meaning. Its a very high price to pay in life when our weaknesses become overwhelming to the point of disaster in our lives. You will see how the choices we make in life can really determine how we live. You will feel the heartbeat of mothers who want the best for their children. You will see how much we owe to the influence of godly parents, especially godly mothers. You will see through the eyes of mothers who, regardless of the age of her children, still have that bosom care in her heart. Your child will see how trouble is easy to get into but hard to get out of. If all our children would think of the consequences before their actions, it can make a big difference in the outcome of many situations. It is sad to say that parents are out living their children. The younger generation is to produce to carry on the next generations, the elderly cannot. We are at a breach of a fruitless world.
Download or read book Prostitution and Sex Work in Global Cinema written by Danielle Hipkins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together international scholars to engage in the question of how film has represented a figure that for many is simply labelled ‘prostitute’. The prostitute is one of the most enduring female figures. She has global historical resonance and stories, images and narratives surrounding her, and her experiences, circulate transnationally. As this book will explore, the broad term prostitute can cover a variety of experiences and representations that are both repressive and also have the potential to empower women and disrupt cultural expectations. The contributors aim to consider how frequently 19th-century narratives of female prostitution—hence the label ‘fallen women’—are still recycled in contemporary visual contexts, and to understand how widespread, and in what contexts, the destigmatization of female sex work is underway on screen.
Download or read book Discover Your True Worth written by Lindsay Roberts and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s time to Discover Your True Worth. Join Lindsay Roberts as she invites you to step into your God-given purpose and become all that He has called you to be. Before his death, Oral Roberts commissioned his daughter-in-law Lindsay with what he believed to be a mandate from God: Lindsay was called to help women discover who they are in Christ, establish them in their powerful identity in Him, and help them become the women God created them to be—women of true worth. Since that day, Lindsay has made it her mission to share that powerful message with women around the world. She believes that as women, we must discover who we are and what we’re made of in order to move forward in all God wants us to become—in business, in the church, in our families, in our communities, and beyond. Within the pages of Discover Your True Worth, Lindsay will empower you to: Embrace God’s grace to turn the pain of your past into the stepping stones of your future Welcome your God-given calling with confidence and courage Become a force for God and play a part in preparing His kingdom here on earth This book is for any woman who has ever feared, fallen, failed, prayed, hoped, loved, lost, been discouraged, risked a dream, or wondered if she matters. Are you ready to Discover Your True Worth? Praise for Discover Your True Worth: “I see the message in Discover Your True Worth as a similar handbook [to Woman, Thou Art Loosed], one that will guide women who are on the journey to becoming all that God created them to be and to making a difference in every facet of life and every sphere of influence.” —Bishop T.D. Jakes, New York Times bestselling author “As a child of God, we must understand our worth. Lindsay encourages us to discover who we are, who we are made in the image of, and what our useful purpose is! So many of us, myself included, have struggled to find our place in the ‘big scheme of things’ because we get sidetracked by our failures and mistakes. We think there’s no way God could use a broken vessel like me in His mighty work. That’s what Lindsay shows us: His power is made perfect in our weakness, misfortunes, mistakes, and mishaps.” —Miss Kay Robertson, matriarch of the Robertson family, author, speaker, flawed but favored
Download or read book Gettin Lucky written by Micol Ostow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for love in Las Vegas... Cass Parker is a big believer in luck, fate, and all things cosmic. So she's devastated when she walks in on her supposed best friend macking with Jesse, the guy she's in total "like" with. Talk about bad karma. Vegas is just full of cheaters, Cass concludes -- even the locals. Cass refuses to sulk. She finds new friends and even gets invited to their weekly poker night -- totally casual and not-for-profit, of course. They seem pretty chill, and Cass definitely needs to get out more. So after consulting her horoscope, she gets in the game. But when Jesse turns up for a final showdown, it turns out that Cass isn't so good at bluffing -- not when it comes to matters of the heart....
