Download or read book Tatted on My Neck written by Nique Roberson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PART ONE of a TRIPLE FEATURE filled with music, tattoos, tears, brawls, vengeance and love, nothing is as real as your ink. Ride back with the class of 1997 and see the crazy things we do in the name of love...and hate. CHANTAL's a Philly songbird longing for the love she never got at home. The neighborhood slut, she gets caught sleeping with a married teacher, and is sent to California to get some tough love from her brother. Former model SHALONDA was born to have the best. Her baby boo CHRIS---a multi-talented, tatted-up, NFL superstar-to-be---is her key to the good life. Their four-year relationship has been rocky, but he does everything she wants just to keep her smiling. Once in L.A., hooking up is the last thing on Chantal's mind, but the minute she steps on campus, girls violently threaten her, thinking she wants every chick's boyfriend. After one threat too many, Chantal gives them all something to be mad about! Rumors about Chantal and Chris fly overnight, but Shalonda's not about to lose her ticket to fortune. She uses every trick her mama taught her to keep her man, even if that means getting another man on the side. But Chantal isn't looking for love. She just finds the friendship and family she's always wanted in Chris. The more her own family shuts her out, the more he lets her in. And as lies and jealousy threaten to destroy his future with Shalonda, Chris turns to the very woman he should be running away from. They all fight it, but what Chris and Chantal share is as real as the tattoos on their backs, and it runs deeper than ink. But Shalonda vows, there's no way she's going to be the only one left in tears. PART TWO...COMING SOON!

Download or read book Born to Fight written by Jorge Masvidal and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this inspiring rags-to-riches memoir, UFC star Jorge “Gamebred” Masvidal reveals how he went from a poor son of immigrants on the streets of Florida to one of the most successful athletes in the world, and how you can use the same principles to achieve success in your life. When an older bully pushed the smaller Jorge Masvidal to the ground in second grade and tried to steal his bike, something snapped inside him. A “skinny kid with a big head,” Jorge grew up in a tough Miami neighborhood, raised by a single mom while his Cuban refugee father was in and out of jail. Jorge reacted in the only way he knew how: a flurry of punches and kicks fueled by red-hot rage that sent the bully to the ground. Over the years, Jorge “Gamebred” Masvidal channeled rage into discipline and used his fists to go from feared street scrapper to one of the world’s greatest professional fighters. But his influence isn’t limited to the cage. Jorge channels his discipline and work ethic in every endeavor, getting involved in politics, social causes, and business. Now, in Born to Fight, Jorge brings his inspiring story to life and proves that every person has the capacity to reach their full potential and achieve the American Dream.

Download or read book All In written by Ro Ro and published by Jaechanel Production LLC. This book was released on with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After six years in prison, Boobie, a Watts Native, returned home to the Imperial Courts Housing Projects. His life exemplified what the saying, "We All Taught To Survive” (Watts) truly meant. Boobie was ready to hit the streets with his Day 1 Lucky. By any means, they were gonna get the bag. Boobie had a main and side chick who held down their positions. Bre was his “Stunna,” the type of woman he needed. Nickie was his project vibe, the kind he wanted. Shit got real after only one lick. All bets were off, and gunplay was soon to sever family ties. Bridges burned, lines were crossed, secrets came out, and betrayal and envy were at the audacity. With everyone’s life on the line, it soon narrows down to who remains All In.

Download or read book I Should Be Dead By Now written by Dennis Rodman and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2013-03-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary and polarizing sports personality details his struggles since leaving the NBA, including the breakup of his marriage to Carmen Electra and his problems with alcohol.

Download or read book Tatted Cowboy written by Kasey Millstead and published by Kasey Millstead. This book was released on with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA Today Bestselling Author, Kasey Millstead, comes the fourth instalment of the #1 Bestselling Down Under Cowboy Series. Tatted Cowboy Laura & Luke One moment was all it took for my entire life to shatter. One moment. I had everything . . . and then, I had nothing. When all you’re left with are the pieces of your broken heart, there’s nothing you can do, except try to rebuild. So, that’s what I did. One moment was all it took for me to feel the first flutter of hope I’d had in a long time. One moment. He barrelled into my life, covered in tattoos and surrounded by an aura that enraptured me, determined to be the glue that held every broken piece of me together. I wanted to push him away, because I was scared to lose anyone else I loved. But, I wanted to hold him close because without him, my life was empty. While each story in the Down Under Cowboy series can be read as a standalone, the author strongly encourages they be read in order. Reading Order Cowboy Town (Edie & Jackson) - Available Now! Sky Cowboy (Ava & Jeremy) - Available Now! Cowboy Dreams (Jules & Clay) - Available Now! Tatted Cowboy (Laura & Luke) - Just Released! Rogue Cowboy (Sienna & Zeke) Coming Soon!

Download or read book On the Come Up written by Angie Thomas and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestseller · Seven starred reviews · Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book “For all the struggle in this book, Thomas rarely misses a step as a writer. Thomas continues to hold up that mirror with grace and confidence. We are lucky to have her, and lucky to know a girl like Bri.”—The New York Times Book Review This digital edition contains a letter from the author, deleted scenes, a picture of the author as a teen rapper, an annotated playlist, Angie’s top 5 MCs, an annotated rap, illustrated quotes from the book, and an excerpt from Concrete Rose, Angie's return to Garden Heights. Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri’s got massive shoes to fill. But it’s hard to get your come up when you’re labeled a hoodlum at school, and your fridge at home is empty after your mom loses her job. So Bri pours her anger and frustration into her first song, which goes viral . . . for all the wrong reasons. Bri soon finds herself at the center of a controversy, portrayed by the media as more menace than MC. But with an eviction notice staring her family down, Bri doesn’t just want to make it—she has to. Even if it means becoming the very thing the public has made her out to be. Insightful, unflinching, and full of heart, On the Come Up is an ode to hip hop from one of the most influential literary voices of a generation. It is the story of fighting for your dreams, even as the odds are stacked against you; and about how, especially for young black people, freedom of speech isn’t always free. Don't miss Concrete Rose, Angie Thomas's powerful prequel to her phenomenal bestseller, The Hate U Give!

Download or read book Ride or Die written by A. J. Lape and published by A. J. Lape. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is the third book in A.J. Lape’s hilarious and action-packed new Darcy Walker Investigations series—an evolution of teenage heroine to pizza delivery driver to police officer on the streets of LA. Darcy Walker is a rookie police officer working the nightshift in the Los Angeles Police Department. A job tailor-made for adrenaline junkie Darcy, but one thing her new position entails is following the rules. Barely thirty days in and she fights the itch to go rogue when a Vegas mobster named Fat Tony sends someone to kidnap her and a reality television star winds up dead on her watch. Against orders, Darcy bloodhounds Fat Tony behind her sergeant’s back and secretly runs her own vice op inside a TV series to find a murderer. But what she sees as going above and beyond the call of duty, detectives take as interference in their cases. She’s on thin ice, and they let her know she's about to get wet. Can Darcy stay in her lane and leave investigations to those in the suits, or will Fat Tony kidnap her and it won’t even matter? For fans of Stephanie Plum, Veronica Mars, Fortune Redding, and other mystery-thriller heroines, Ride or Die will leave you laughing one minute…then hiding under your bed the next.

Download or read book 5 Pounds of Pressure written by A. J. Lape and published by A. J. Lape. This book was released on 2021-07-11 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being the hero is her job. It also comes at a price. Darcy Walker is settling into life walking a beat. But when she delivers a warrant off the clock, her life changes in an instant, giving her a deadly lesson she won’t soon forget. Going back to her roots for a temporary change of scenery, she can’t escape the reality that life has gone on without her—her father might have a girlfriend, her aunt has secrets, and her little sister dresses like a stripper in her prime. Choking on a pang of guilt that she followed her dreams, one thing that hasn’t changed is the relationship between her and her mentor, Kellan Sutherland, AKA, Jaws—king of the underbelly of Cincinnati. Six years later, Darcy still doesn’t know the real man behind the proverbial mask...and she’s tired of the subterfuge. Determined to uncover the mystery, she discovers information that leaves her gobsmacked. Sucker-punched. And doubting her skills as an investigator. When she gets involved with a case involving a missing YouTuber while dodging the antics of a mobster who's placed a bounty on her head, she and her loved ones just could pay the ultimate price. 5 Pounds of Pressure is the electrifying fifth novel in the Darcy Walker Crime Thriller series. If you like shock-a-minute twists and heroines who won't quit, then you’ll love AJ Lape's intense mystery. Buy 5 Pounds of Pressure for a front row seat to the action today!

Download or read book Tatted written by Renee LaRuse and published by ReneeRomance Books. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Cop Meets Bad Boy... What would you follow? Your Heart or The Law? Life paths that crossed momentarily in a Miami high school converge once more, ten years later on the Miami streets, when Officer Misha Barrett, daughter of a fallen cop, arrests Mark "Nello" Giovanello, an ex-con and the son of a drug addict. This time, the pull of lust, curiosity and admiration keeps these paths entwined. Soon there is no fighting the profound love that binds them together. Both, however, will find themselves fighting for their very lives.

Download or read book I Choose You written by Diamond Johnson and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Ka’lani Brown, better known as Lani, who is married to the one and only Tyrone Brown. They have been married now for two years but that’s been her man since she was in the 6th grade. Lani has already gone through her share of fighting sideline chicks over her man. After all these years of being together, things for them are fine because Ka’lani has made it clear that she will not play about Tyrone! Now meet Tisha Monroe. Tisha was a woman who has been scorned for years due to her previous relationship with her ex Mike. That all changed when she finally gave Otis Jackson a chance. She worships the ground that man walks on. She loves her man and he loves her back. Along with loving him comes a price to pay. There are a few chicks lurking, determined to do anything to take Tisha’s spot, but there just happens to be one in particular that is willing to do anything to have Otis on her side. What happens when other females try to get in the middle of what you and your man are building? Do you let them take him? Do you give up? Or do you still choose him? In this book relationships are tested and you end up asking yourself “Am I making the right choice?” Take a ride with the hood's hottest couples Ka'lani and Tyrone and Tisha and Otis, and their two best friends Tamika and Kyla for a tale filled with drama, thug love, sex, and a little bit more drama.

Download or read book 3 the Hard Way written by Gary Phillips and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm Cavanaugh Bleekston, MC Bleak, McBleak, enjoys hobnobbing with the one percenters and stealing from them. In The Extractors, he puts his life on the line to take a greedy man’s gain while wondering if his girlfriend sees through his façade. Ned “Noc” Brenner is a drifter with an unusual skill set — he’s an extreme athlete good at whatever he does be it MMA fighting to riding a motorcycle off a mountaintop. After winning in an all-night poker game, this sets in motion a series of events in The Anti-Gravity Steal where Noc must use all his abilities to prevent wholesale destruction. Part Shaft and part Batman sans the cowl, Luke Warfield, a philanthropist with a black ops background, the Essex Man, goes on the trail in 10 Seconds to Death of the villain who killed his foster father and uncovers not only ghosts from his past, but must stop a deadly plan of mass slaughter in his own backyard. Includes a bonus Essex Man short story, “Murder by Remote Control.” Praise for 3 THE HARD WAY … 10 Seconds to Death: ” … it’s filled with more sex and violence than novels tenfold the length. Author Gary Phillips knows how to pile on the action. This is definitely a homage to the spin rack novels of the 1970s.” — Timothy Mayer, Z7’s Headquarters The Anti-Gravity Steal: “Mr. Phillips has taken the men’s action adventure pulp genre of the thirties adding 21st century sensibilities and amping the energy level to 11. Doc Savage is the template for Ned “Noc” Brenner.” — Amazon customer review

Download or read book Blood Trails written by R.M. Yeager and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As worldwide law enforcement's facial recognition software improved by leaps and bounds, criminal cartels around the globe scrambled to find a solution to defeat the new and improved identity system. One cartel, in particular, using an unlimited pool of resources, designed a foolproof way to give the underworld a new face. Or so they thought. Until a pair of twins and a small California high desert police department pulled the thread that would unravel their well-oiled machine. A gruesome murder would lead to a hidden surgical suite where missing migrants were used as tissue donors for clandestine facial reconstruction surgery. A manhunt through the sage and cactus of the high desert would lead three detectives to a final showdown with a pair of ex-military butchers hired by the cartel. At least they thought the case was closed. However, the greed from within the organization would ultimately ignite a new flashpoint with the cartel's head man sending in a team of assassins and a beautiful woman hacker to erase both people and secret files. Files kept of the cartel's surgical clients as they were before and after facial reconstruction. It then became a race against time. If the encryption on each file were broken and the files sent to Interpol, then the cartel itself would become a worldwide target to every criminal with a new face.

Download or read book What Goes Around Comes Around written by Joshua Levi Brown and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guaranteed nonstop thriller. What Goes Around Comes Around is a perfect, powerful page-turner. It will keep you laughing. Very exciting and on the edge. Wild and suspenseful. A nail-biting must-read. It will draw you deep into the story and trigger your emotions. Like a good movie, you will think you are the character. Turned up with sex, passion, and revenge! Promise, you will love and enjoy. This is a book that will be talked about forever!

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Download or read book Nuthouse Love written by Kenny Attaway and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuthouse Love, the one and only spin off of Kenny Attaway's novel Slum Beautiful, is a critical, up front; passionate oozing documented real life experiences of Rasheeda "Sade" Griffin and her three best friends Mesh, Bay and Nika plight to find true and meaningful love. But in their plight of finding true love the young girls' then woman engages in physical, emotional, spiritual, financial and social abuse shared by themselves, other woman and the men they become in unisome with. Unluckily throughout the sails in the winds of love self worth they discover not only the harsh reality of hurt, pain and agonies of domestic abuse, but they slip and fall in the egg yolk of their imperfections and insecurities. Regardless of the unforgettable mishaps of her close friends, others involved in her life; including supporting confidants Monica, Mrs. Cent and college friends and herself, she continues her voyage to the point of no return. Nuthouse not only details the experiences, trials and tribulations of many of the woman, but the harsh realism of the black man's fears, misguidance social and emotional troubles and enigmas as he/their boyfriends take them through at first hand experience that they'd refer to as the "nuthouse" and nuthouse love. The "nuthouse" term becomes symbolic for not only the feelings emerged from type of men the woman date and become evolved with, but a nickname for an actual place several of the characters visit in the impatient facility for abused woman Love Lockdown. Rich in detail, filled with angelic landscapes of unforgettable real life realities and mournful endings-Nuthouse Love is a must read.

Download or read book Within the Skin written by Zara West and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as El Toro, street artist Alba Vargas is on the cusp of fame and fortune. Winner of a prestigious award, she is the toast of the New York City art scene. Or at least she will be, once she figures out how to act like a woman after living disguised as a boy for six years. If she is lucky, she might even attract the attention of the tattoo artist she has long loved from afar. Tattoo artist Fernando Pharaoh has betrayed everyone who ever cared about him, including El Toro, the street-wise graffiti artist who saved his life when all looked bleak. Depressed, he turns from his friends and becomes ensnared in a criminal enterprise run by a former enemy. Then the crime boss kidnaps Toro’s younger brother, Hanger. Blaming himself, Pharaoh sets out to rescue him, resolving to do one good thing in his life. But Toro has her own desperate plan to save her brother—one that will not only break Pharaoh’s heart—but will also destroy every hope and dream she has ever had.

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