Download or read book Sideline Ho written by C. J. Domino and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do men cheat? That's the million dollar question, to which most women reply, "Because they can " Let me school you on the real reason. Men cheat because of women like me, women who give them the opportunity. Game recognizes game. With just one flirtatious glance, he knows that I'm the woman who will, when you won't. I am that pretty young thing with a big behind. I grin in your face while freaking your man on the side. Sometimes I'm a stranger, but usually I'm your friend. Don't take it personal, ladies. It's not about love, just the come up at the end. Meet Nikole Freeman, a best friend's worst nightmare. Follow along in outrage as she bounces from one unstable relationship to the next. Will Nikole learn a valuable life lesson before it's too late, or will her disgraceful life decisions finally catch up with her?

Download or read book Sustaining Black Music and Culture during COVID 19 written by Niya Pickett Miller and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustaining Black Music and Culture during COVID-19: #Verzuz and Club Quarantine argues that Instagram is a premier digital leisure space to celebrate and promote Black American culture and identity, particularly evidenced during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic as the United States grappled with mandated shelter-in-place orders. Club Quarantine (CQ) and Verzuz emerged as highly successful Black music-listening events streamed on Instagram Live, collectively ushering Black (techno)culture through a once-in-a-generation pandemic and beyond. Contributors to this collection explore the communicative and cultural significance of these events as respite from social isolation and as a rearticulated space for Black cultural engagement in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and increased racial tensions in the United States.

Download or read book I Don t Want to Die Poor written by Michael Arceneaux and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of NPR’s Best Books of 2020 One of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 From the New York Times bestselling author of I Can’t Date Jesus, which Vogue called “a piece of personal and cultural storytelling that is as fun as it is illuminating,” comes a wry and insightful essay collection that explores the financial and emotional cost of chasing your dreams. Ever since Oprah Winfrey told the 2007 graduating class of Howard University, “Don’t be afraid,” Michael Arceneaux has been scared to death. You should never do the opposite of what Oprah instructs you to do, but when you don’t have her pocket change, how can you not be terrified of the consequences of pursuing your dreams? Michael has never shied away from discussing his struggles with debt, but in I Don’t Want to Die Poor, he reveals the extent to which it has an impact on every facet of his life—how he dates; how he seeks medical care (or in some cases, is unable to); how he wrestles with the question of whether or not he should have chosen a more financially secure path; and finally, how he has dealt with his “dream” turning into an ongoing nightmare as he realizes one bad decision could unravel all that he’s earned. You know, actual “economic anxiety.” I Don’t Want to Die Poor is an unforgettable and relatable examination about what it’s like leading a life that often feels out of your control. But in Michael’s voice that’s “as joyful as he is shrewd” (BuzzFeed), these razor-sharp essays will still manage to make you laugh and remind you that you’re not alone in this often intimidating journey.

Download or read book Hustlin Divas written by De'nesha Diamond and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book of a fierce new series, meet Memphis's hardest ride-or-die chicks as they fight along with their infamous men to lock down the Dirty South. Memphis is the crime capital of America, and no one knows that better than the women born and raised on its mean streets. It's put sisters Ta'Shara and LeShelle on opposite sides of the street game, where blood means nothing and loyalty doesn't last long. It's also got Yolanda, an ambitious drug mule, and Melanie, a police detective, caught up with the same man--the notorious hustler Python. These four women think they've got the game figured out, but the one man they have in common will have them living double lives and wondering who will come out on top. Forget what you heard about East Coast/West Coast, 'cause real vendettas are born in the Dirty South. "Diamond's ear for street talk comes across loud and clear. . .a violent and profane tale, which launches a gritty new series. The divas here are realistic characters, and the pacing zooms. . .one of the best constructed street lit stories of 2010." --Library Journal "A nonstop, hard-hitting page-turner." --Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker

Download or read book juici couture the suga hill gang written by kenny attaway & g. english rock and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: juici couture & the suga hill gang is a cinematic street tale of six victims from various regions of the world coming together as one "the suga hill to get back and retaliate against their oppressors in ways none of the hood/world would ever forget. Led by their cold hearted and unforgiving leader Juici Couture and sidekicks Sweets (Sweet & Low) and others not only go on a major string of deadly payback, but gets involved in a knee deep of organized and not so organized crime; including money laundering racketeering, prostitution, murder and drug smuggling/selling. The Suga Hill Gang were very successful with first five successful retaliations on their "oppressors' but the sixth and seventh (and supposedly last) the gang stumble on the emotions of love verses hate and the deadly elements that make up HATE/REVENGE; resentment, a broken heart, confused admirations and misguided secrets that possibly separate the gang forever. A must read novel on how and why revenge is never that sweet & how wishing one a better life than yours is the key to true happiness...

Download or read book My Crowning Glory written by Shawneda and published by GiG PowHer Press. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hairnanigans. Big Dreams. Friendship. Anisa Links is on a fast track to success, love, and happiness. Preparing to take her professional and personal life to the next level she attends a hair care and style symposium. She walks away inspired to explore a new hairstyle. No one in her life responds to her curiosity the way she expects. Changing her hair threatens to slow down her progress or free her to blaze her own trail. The Natural Sistahs series is by an African American author whose chosen to wear natural hair since 1998. While one of many indie published black authors, she considers her books appropriate for the women's fiction category. This series would be shelved in the black fiction, black books, African American women's fiction, black women's fiction section in most mainstream physical bookstores. #Free #freeEbook

Download or read book CANDY the Novel written by Beatrice Obianwu and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-10-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zanya and her three best friends are Diva's in every sense of the word - divine, intelligent, vivacious and articulate. Zanya, Coco, Makeda and Kyhia live and work in Harleywood, North West London, not too far from Harlesden. At only twenty three the girls are holding down their own beauty joint called the Candy bar, it could be said that Neyo's song miss independent can help to describe Zanya and her feisty girls but like all good friends they find ease in depending on each other when life throws them situations that make you just want to want to crawl up in bed and pretend that time has stopped. Come into the crazy world of friendship, love and dreaming big.

Download or read book The Clique written by Brandie and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aside from the fact that they are all inmates in the grimy Walsh Facility for Women, three young women have something else in common: His name is Spencer, and each one has had a baby by him. Still, their lives are on the line in prison, and they have no choice but to form a clique to survive. Once they're released, they still can't seem to stay out of trouble. Spencer can't stay faithful to just one woman, and his womanizing ways set in motion more drama than the law should allow. Follow the women of The Clique as they band together to try to do right by their children. Brandie is also the author of Don't Hate the Player. She resides in Atlanta, Georgia.

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 On the Run with Love written by J.M. Benjamin and published by Urban Renaissance. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freddie Holmes could've written the book on how to be a player. With his good looks, gift of gab, his Jersey swag, and his ability to put it down in the bedroom, his only source of income is the women he manipulates. After meeting Simone, however, he is ready to hang up his womanizing gloves, or so he says. Slug is a stick-up kid/hustler from the Dirty South. After losing his drug connect, he uses his trip to New Jersey for a funeral as an opportunity to link up with his cousin Freddie, in hopes of finding a new supplier. Freddie wants to show his cousin a good time, Jersey style, while he's visiting, only he chooses the wrong place and the wrong time to do so. At the end of the night, two people are left in their own blood. One is the younger brother of a known drug dealer; the other is a cop. Freddie is forced to make some quick decisions. To evade his situation, he takes his cousin up on his offer, relocates to North Carolina, and changes his profession, but not without his soon-to-be-wife Simone. She gives up everything to go on the run with her man, all in the name of love, and soon gets a dose of reality. She has no idea what she had signed up for until she takes a good look at her life with Freddie. See how Freddie Holmes learns the hard way that you can run, but you can't hide forever.

Download or read book Dope Dough and a Dream written by Thomasina . and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Exposed written by E.I. Davis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex. Rape. Betrayal. Mystery Evelynn Vaughn hasn’t always had relationship problems but that seems to be her new pattern and having a distinctive disability while obsessing over her ex boyfriend certainly doesn’t make things Better. But when everything in her life takes an unexpected turn, Evelynn is left the victim of a brutal attack with her sly ex boyfriend and her best friend as the key suspects. Will she be able to find out the truth and get her life back on track?

Download or read book Ex Boyfriend written by Teresa D. Patterson and published by Teresa D Patterson. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Terrence James is Vicki Holiday's ex-boyfriend. Rejected for the majority of his life, he refuses to accept rejection again, even though it was his doggish ways that caused the split. Vicki tries to ignore Terrence when he begins following her around. No matter where she goes, Terrence is guaranteed to show up and cause a scene. The last straw is when he breaks into her apartment and is confronted by her new love interest. Will someone end up in a body bag?"--Page 4 of cover

Download or read book On the Flip Side written by Nikki Carter and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living your dreams is the hard part . . . Sunday Tolliver has a mega-smash album up for major awards--and her first few months as a college freshman are everything she hoped for. But juggling all this and her long-distance romance with boyfriend Sam is taking drama to mad-crazy levels. Hot up-and-coming video star DeShawn isn't letting Sunday's relationship keep him from getting close. And relentless online gossip is seriously shaking Sunday's trust in Sam. On top of that, her jealous diva cousin, Dreya, just won't stay out of Sunday's face--especially now that she's in the running for the same music awards. The only way Sunday can stop the madness and get back on track is to trust her instincts--and get a little help from her friends. . . "This series is poised to ‘blow up'. . ." --Kirkus Praise for Nikki Carter ". . .plenty of reality show-type drama." --Romantic Times on Doing My Own Thing "Nikki Carter is a fresh, new voice." ?ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Essence® bestselling author

Download or read book Dirty Little Secrets written by L.A. Lewis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-10-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when life as you know it gets a little dirty? Schoolteacher Holly James is living the life most women only dream about-until her husband reveals a secret that turns her world upside down. In an effort to cope, Holly decides to get away from it all and winds up creating a few secrets of her own. Trying to be the perfect wife ultimately takes its toll on Holly, and she finds herself engaged in the fight of her life-to save not only her marriage but to find herself. Can she survive life after the pain, or will her dirty little secrets come back to haunt her?

Download or read book Bad as in Good written by J. Lovelace and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teeming with dramatic plot twists and wickedly delightful erotic frills, a passionate story about two lovers struggling with heartbreak, heartthrobs, and self-fulfillment. Many of us fall into unrelenting cycles that lead us to inevitable heartbreak—a knee-weakening, nearly unbearable period of withdrawal where we curse our indiscretions and promise to do better next time. But why? Why do we do this to ourselves? That’s the question Erin is constantly asking herself. Along for the ride is Tariq, a young man battling his past as well. While their romantic lives intertwine, they find it almost impossible to break free of the merciless beast that is love and its ugly stepsister, heartbreak. At first, Erin’s attraction to Tariq is like a drug addiction she can’t ignore, but as drama ensues and the ugly past comes back to visit, both Tariq and Erin realize how bad—as in good—love truly is.

Download or read book Dark Decisions written by Cam Johnson and published by Page Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brianna Godfrey is a beautiful and well-educated meeting planner from Richmond, Virginia. Like the weather in one week in Richmond, her life begins to change without any notice. Who knew that from a secret partnership at her place of employment and a harmless night out with her girlfriends, nothing going forward would be the same. Are her girlfriends Angel, Tamika, and Phoebe truly her ride-and-die friends, or will one of them show their true colors? Brianna had fought to get over the loss of her first relationship, but now the past is haunting her with a vengeance. Allan Jones, her sexy fraternity man, wants her down the aisle—but on his terms. Maxwell King, whose locks falls across his chiseled chest down to his sexy waist, is a double threat. He is street-smart, well-educated, and multilingual, but more importantly, he cannot get over Brianna. That love is causing major problems! It's causing everyone in Brianna's circle love, pain, and betrayal, which leads to making Dark Decisions.