Download or read book The Streets Chose Me written by Myia White and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter what you do in this world it's always said that we have a choice, but do we really? What happens when the choice is made for you and the only thing you can do is rock with it? At a young age, Gerald 'Ghee' Wells is a father and the keeper to his family. With six siblings to help take care of and twin boys of his own Ghee knows all about making a way out of no way. Easy money is the only way to go when you have eight mouths to feed. Falling in love with money & the glitz & glamour of the street he forms a crew called 'The Jokers'. With the crew name like Jokers the first thing an enemy might do is laugh; only down fall to that is laughing will be the last thing they're able to do. Ghee isn't a one man army and The Jokers isn't a one man team. With a bright future a head of him Chosen 'Problem' Wells finds his way into the street life side by side with his older brother. The money is alluring to him but of course with more money comes more problems. His life starts spiraling out of control when truths are revealed and his temper starts to fly. With the weight of the world on his shoulders Camden Barnes turns to The Jokers to help with the problems in his personal life. Wanting nothing more than to fix the hurt & pain his family suffers from he takes on a life he never thought he would have to live. Will following the path of easy money help him or will it destroy him and all the bonds he holds dare to his heart? Onyxx Williams knows nothing about having an easy life and knows everything about the struggle. With a streak of bad luck Onyxx is struggling to find her place in the world. Needing a shoulder to cry on she relies on her best friend Camden to help her throw the dark times. With Camden going through his own issues Onyxx is left to fight her own way into the light. The Streets Chose me is the blueprint for making it out the hood. Ghee, Problem, Camden & Onyxx were all dealt a bad hand. Will the streets be right in their choice to choose these four or will they regret allowing the streets to make the choice for them?
Download or read book The Streets Chose Me an Atl Love Story written by Myia White and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being sent to jail, Cam is now dealing with more than he can handle. his mother is ill, money is running short, & being away from the love of his life is killing him. With everything coming his way at once he's not sure if he can keep up. When his loyalty is tested Cam is left realizing he has more than a few things to over come. Problem is tired of the old game and wants something more out of life. The game he started playing is no longer worth it leaving him to look for change. When he's ready to walk away he is hit with a rude awaken when he realizes someone is standing in his way. Ghee is more arrogant than ever and because of his cocky ways mistakes seem to follow him. Trying to hide a secret can only last but so long. Just when he thinks he has life figured out the devil comes out to play. Onyxx is in pure bliss because she's finally with the love of her life. Being down to ride comes at a price and Onyxx soon finds out the price isn't cheap. Even with a new found relationship, she still has some issues in her life that she has to over come. Will she be able to stand the rain? In this finale of deadly actions and consequences. These individuals fight to make a way out of the struggle. During their fight, they find out everything isn't what it seems. Sometimes people have to understand why the streets chooses them.
Download or read book An Atlanta Love Story written by Mo Howard and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People say that God gives his strongest soldiers the toughest battles, and seventeen-year-old Monica Edwards knows that to be true. Born and raised in Atlanta, Monica is familiar with living the good life because her father is one of the biggest kingpins that the city has ever seen. When her life suddenly changes, she is forced to leave behind the life she’s known and is forced start over in Douglasville. She isn’t looking for love when she meets Eddie Miller, but she can’t ignore the undeniable attraction she has to him. Eddie Miller is the co-founder of the infamous S.D.C gang, and he has no plans of slowing down. He’s focused on building an empire that will allow him to step out of his father’s shadow, but from the moment he meets Monica, he knows that he has to have her. Eddie is used to getting any woman he wants. His good looks and charming personality make it hard for most women to resist, but Monica is different. In this twisted love story, Monica and Eddie will discover that everything isn’t what it seems. Their love will be put to the ultimate test.
Download or read book An Atlanta Love Story 2 written by Mo Howard and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strength is defined as the quality or state of being strong. When Monica Edwards’ life turns upside down, the only thing she has is her strength. With both of her parent’s being killed by a man she considered family, Monica isn’t sure if she can take life anymore. Eddie, the love of her life, tries to keep her encouraged, but he can only do so much. Will an unexpected twist of events break Monica down, or will she use her strength to keep on going? The beautiful Olivia Gold is stuck in a dead-end relationship. After leaving her family to be with her prince charming, she finds out that the man of her dreams is really the man who causes her the most pain. When Casper, a wealthy financial advisor, enters her life, she jumps at the chance of being with him, but is she truly ready? Will she have the strength to leave everything she knows and take a chance on a handsome stranger? The finale of an Atlanta Love Story is not your ordinary love story, so expect the unexpected.
Download or read book Power Beauty written by Tip 'T.I.' Harris and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hip-hop artist Tip "T.I." Harris has received every acclaim the music world has to offer. Now, working with bestselling celebrity collaborator David Ritz, T.I. applies all his talent and experience to the world of fiction by creating the epic love story of Power and Beauty. After the death of his mother, Charlotte, Paul “Power” Clay allows himself to be guided by Slim, a local businessman. Slim always has the best of everything, and Power is sure that if he learns Slim's ways, he'll make something of himself--and perhaps be worthy of Tanya “Beauty” Long. From Chicago to Miami to New York, through drugs, women, and violence, Power makes the difficult transition from boy to man and, in doing so, begins to question if those who have taught him--including Slim--truly have his best interests at heart. Beauty has always known that the only person she can rely on is herself. After her mother died when she was eleven years old, she was adopted by close family friend Charlotte Clay. But with Charlotte's death, Beauty knows she's no longer safe and protected--especially as Power gets sucked into a new kind of life. As soon as she can, she turns her back on Atlanta--and the growing love she feels for Power--for a chance to make it in the Big Apple. With a successful fashion career on the horizon, Beauty takes New York by storm with her wit, business savvy, and breathtaking good looks. But she's never forgotten those she left behind. And when it becomes clear that Power needs her, Beauty will risk everything to save the man she loves.
Download or read book Rap Capital written by Joe Coscarelli and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From mansions to trap houses, office buildings to strip clubs, Atlanta is defined by its rap music. But this flashy and fast-paced world is rarely seen below surface-level as a collection not of superheroes and villains, cartoons and caricatures, but of flawed and inspired individuals all trying to get a piece of what everyone else seems to have. In artistic, commercial, and human terms, Atlanta rap represents the most consequential musical ecosystem of this century so far. Rap Capital tells the dramatic stories of the people who make it tick, and the city that made them that way."--
Download or read book Searching for Lydia written by B.H. Arias and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lightly based on a true story, a trip through one man's descent into insanity as he attempts to come to grips with the gorgeous ghost who has invaded his mind and will not let him go. A tale told in a loosely connected poetic, and romantic style during several deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan in diary-like vignettes as the author struggles to define this Love, wrapped within the folds of a paranormal romance.
Download or read book The Beautiful Ones written by Prince and published by One World. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time, in his own words—featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death NAMED ONE OF THE BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND THE GUARDIAN • NOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD Prince was a musical genius, one of the most beloved, accomplished, and acclaimed musicians of our time. He was a startlingly original visionary with an imagination deep enough to whip up whole worlds, from the sexy, gritty funk paradise of “Uptown” to the mythical landscape of Purple Rain to the psychedelia of “Paisley Park.” But his most ambitious creative act was turning Prince Rogers Nelson, born in Minnesota, into Prince, one of the greatest pop stars of any era. The Beautiful Ones is the story of how Prince became Prince—a first-person account of a kid absorbing the world around him and then creating a persona, an artistic vision, and a life, before the hits and fame that would come to define him. The book is told in four parts. The first is the memoir Prince was writing before his tragic death, pages that bring us into his childhood world through his own lyrical prose. The second part takes us through Prince’s early years as a musician, before his first album was released, via an evocative scrapbook of writing and photos. The third section shows us Prince’s evolution through candid images that go up to the cusp of his greatest achievement, which we see in the book’s fourth section: his original handwritten treatment for Purple Rain—the final stage in Prince’s self-creation, where he retells the autobiography of the first three parts as a heroic journey. The book is framed by editor Dan Piepenbring’s riveting and moving introduction about his profound collaboration with Prince in his final months—a time when Prince was thinking deeply about how to reveal more of himself and his ideas to the world, while retaining the mystery and mystique he’d so carefully cultivated—and annotations that provide context to the book’s images. This work is not just a tribute to an icon, but an original and energizing literary work in its own right, full of Prince’s ideas and vision, his voice and image—his undying gift to the world.
Download or read book Be Sweet written by Roy Blount, Jr. and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-02-13 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the book his laughing and loving readers have been waiting for, our generation's master of full-hearted humor lays open the soul of his life story. Roy Blount Jr.--Georgia boy turned New York wit, lover of baseball and interesting women, bumbling adventurer, literary lion, salty-limerick virtuoso and impassioned father--journeys into the past and his psyche (also all the way to China, sixty feet underwater and to various Manhattan hot spots) in search of the answers to three riddles that have haunted him intimately: One: the riddle of "the family curse." Two: the riddle of what drives him (or anyone) to be funny. Three: the riddle of what so cruelly tangled his unseverable bond with the beguiling, beaten orphan girl who became the impossible mother who raised him to Be Sweet. Roy Blount's memoir is sardonic and sentimental, hilarious and grieving, brazen and bashful, tough and tender--sometimes by turns and sometimes all at once. Almost harshly honest, yet sportively wayward, Be Sweet resonates with the complex but bouncy chords of a whole man singing, clinkers and all.
Download or read book A Little Life written by Hanya Yanagihara and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Download or read book Atlanta written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlanta magazine’s editorial mission is to engage our community through provocative writing, authoritative reporting, and superlative design that illuminate the people, the issues, the trends, and the events that define our city. The magazine informs, challenges, and entertains our readers each month while helping them make intelligent choices, not only about what they do and where they go, but what they think about matters of importance to the community and the region. Atlanta magazine’s editorial mission is to engage our community through provocative writing, authoritative reporting, and superlative design that illuminate the people, the issues, the trends, and the events that define our city. The magazine informs, challenges, and entertains our readers each month while helping them make intelligent choices, not only about what they do and where they go, but what they think about matters of importance to the community and the region.
Download or read book Atlanta written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlanta magazine’s editorial mission is to engage our community through provocative writing, authoritative reporting, and superlative design that illuminate the people, the issues, the trends, and the events that define our city. The magazine informs, challenges, and entertains our readers each month while helping them make intelligent choices, not only about what they do and where they go, but what they think about matters of importance to the community and the region. Atlanta magazine’s editorial mission is to engage our community through provocative writing, authoritative reporting, and superlative design that illuminate the people, the issues, the trends, and the events that define our city. The magazine informs, challenges, and entertains our readers each month while helping them make intelligent choices, not only about what they do and where they go, but what they think about matters of importance to the community and the region.
Download or read book Trouble Triumph written by Tip "T.I." Harris and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammy Award-winning hip-hop artist, producer, and actor T.I. proved himself a powerful storyteller as well with the publication of his debut novel Power & Beauty. Now he follows up with his second riveting street-lit epic, Trouble & Triumph. T.I.’s explosive sequel picks up the story of Paul “Power” Clay and Tanya “Beauty” Long, as Power takes over his mentor-turned-arch-enemy’s street empire, looking to turn it legit, while Beauty rises ever-higher in a glamorous world of fashion and celebrity. An authentic voice of the street, in the vein of Sistah Souljah and other successful authors of contemporary African-American commercial fiction, T.I. is a rap music legend who has lived at every strata of society, and whose hard life experience adds truth and fire to Trouble & Triumph.
Download or read book It s Like Heaven written by Dorothy H. Jordan and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1982 Dorothy H. Jordan founded Camp Sunshine to provide children with cancer a safe, normal childhood experience, to show them that others share their challenges, and to help them find community and support. In 1983 approximately forty campers between the ages of seven and eighteen attended the first summer camp, held in the north Georgia mountains. Thirty-five years later, more than four hundred campers attended the 2018 summer camp, and several hundred more children and family members participated in more than 150 additional recreational, educational, and supportive Camp Sunshine programs held throughout the year in metro Atlanta, Savannah, and other areas of Georgia. Today Camp Sunshine, a nonprofit organization, has hundreds of dedicated volunteers who help the leadership staff of the camp with its multiple year-round programs, as well as pediatric oncology nurses and other medical professionals who take care of the campers’ medical needs while they attend those programs. It’s Like Heaven documents the story of the first thirty-five years of Camp Sunshine through the voices of campers, their nurses, counselors, and other volunteers. Each chapter is a former camper’s first-person story about childhood cancer and the Camp Sunshine journey, followed by reflections on the camper’s experience by the camper’s nurse or another member of the camp community, creating a unique narrative of each camper’s struggle and path toward healing. Every story includes photos of both the camper and the camper’s mentor as well as several photos that illustrate the connections, bonds, and strength of community created through Camp Sunshine.
Download or read book Joshua Jones Jr Story written by Joshua Jones, Jr. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12-30 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning inside story of a man determined to overcome issues in relationships, family life, and homelessness; told from the perspective of a summer in Atlanta.
Download or read book The Unforgotten War written by Thomas Park Clement and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atlanta Chef s Table written by Kate Parham Kordsmeier and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-02-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serving up an eclectic mix of foods, Atlanta boasts a host of talented chefs along with a devoted foodie community. With several James Beard Foundation Award semifinalists, Atlanta continues to pioneer the South from casual comfort to the finer foods. Whether you're headed to downtown or to the ethnic mecca that is Buford Highway, you’ll find Atlanta’s best chefs innovating and continuing to redefine the culinary food scene in the big Peach. With 100 recipes for the home cook from Atlanta's most celebrated eateries and showcasing over 200 full-color photos featuring mouth-watering dishes, famous chefs, and lots of local flavor, Atlanta Chef's Table is the ultimate gift and keepsake cookbook for both tourists and residents alike.
