Download or read book Denim Diaries 6 written by Darrien Lee and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denim Mitchell is excited to learn that she's been selected to tutor students after school. Not only will this earn her extra credit in her honors classes, but it will also look good on her college applications. Fourteen-year-old Julius Graham enjoys working with his new tutor, but when he becomes the only witness to a horrific crime in his neighborhood, Julius shuts down emotionally. He hasn't told anyone what he saw, but with the detectives hanging around his house asking questions, he fears that it's only a matter of time before the murderer comes looking for him. Withdrawn and scared, Julius realizes that he has to tell someone his secret, but at what cost? Will Denim become his voice of reason and convince him to do the right thing, or will his secret put not only his family at risk, but Denim as well?

Download or read book The Denim Diaries written by Laurie Boyle Crompton and published by Zest Books TM. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laurie Boyle Crompton’s coming of age in rural Pennsylvania and the New York City area in the 1970s and 1980s was anything but idyllic. In moving verse accompanied by diary-esque sketches, Crompton takes you along as she navigates relationships, plays the happy family at church despite discord at home, manages her mother’s ambitions and her father’s alcoholism, struggles with her self-image, and desperately tries to fit in at school by squeezing into too-tight designer denim. Both heartwarming and heartbreaking, The Denim Diaries follows Crompton’s journey through disordered eating and sexual assault to acceptance and recovery. Her vivid poems recall the highs and lows of a life filled with hardship and joy alike. At times both harrowing and humorous, this memoir brings new perspective to the importance of self-love and finding hope in the darkest of times.

Download or read book Denim Diaries 1 16 Going on 21 written by Darrien Lee and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel exploring the lives of two 16 year olds, Denim and Andre, who have shared a sizzling attraction since they were kids. Denim yearns to date Andre but her parents are doing everything in their power to keep the heat between the two under wraps. Dre, a rising basketball star and budding artist, has a glorious future ahead of him. Unfortunately, rumour has it that he's involved in activities that could ruin his chance of ever hooking up with Denim or making his dream of going to college and the NBA a reality.

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Download or read book Where There is Smoke written by Terra Little and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trying to put his past as a drug dealer behind him, Alec runs into one of his old clients, now a successful businesswoman, who asks for his help in stopping their teenage son from becoming a drug addict.

Download or read book Gangsta Twist 2 written by Clifford "Spud" Johnson and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Network and its affiliates used to be one of Oklahoma City's most organized crews. No one knew exactly where they got the money to buy up businesses and real estate, but everyone on the streets respected them. Their criminal enterprise is unraveling quickly, though, as member loyalty is challenged and betrayal becomes the name of the game. Taz is dealing with almost more than he can handle now that his crew is falling apart. Cliff is still consumed by a desire for revenge against Taz, and the two of them are locked in an epic battle for Tazneema's heart. Meanwhile, a vital member of Taz's team ends up dead. This calls for a gruesome retaliation, but when Taz discovers the killer's identity, he'll have some serious choices to make. Now Taz's leadership is being questioned by his once loyal crew. Does he have what it takes to stay on top, or is all this heat enough to make him want to leave the streets alone? Clifford "Spud" Johnson delivers an action-packed tale of betrayal, murder, and revenge that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.

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Download or read book The Prada Plan 3 Green Eyed Monster written by Ashley Antoinette and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovering from a fire that wounded both her and Leah, YaYa heals under the eye of a woman ready to put her back on top, but before she can move on and live happily with Indie, YaYa decides that Leah needs to be removed from the picture.

Download or read book Flip Side of the Game written by Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny, passionate, and straight from the soul, Vera Wright-Turner thinks she has it all under control, until she meets and greets herself. Born on the flip side of the hustler's game, she is the child of a fifteen-year-old drug addict who placed her in a trash dump with a note that read: Please forgive me. My mother’s only fifteen. Well, that is of little consolation to Vera as she lives her gold-diggin' life full speed ahead. Everything comes to a crashing halt when she realizes that she can run, but she can’t hide. Facing up to the Flip Side of the Game is the only way she will survive.

Download or read book Powder Blu written by Brandi Johnson and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when you have to choose between true love and the love of money? Blu thinks she knows all there is to know about the dope game. She's watched her momma serve out of the same place they lay their heads since she was a little girl. Then her brother's best friend, Budz, steps up and shows her that there is more to the game than just selling drugs. With love, loyalty, and wealth on her side, what more could she want? Blu quickly finds out when she is introduced to Black, a mysterious, sexy Trinidadian who is every girl's dream. Blu is determined to make him her reality. Torn between two men who have secrets and motives of their own, Blu has no idea what she's gotten herself into, but she knows there is only one way out.

Download or read book The Day the Streets Stood Still written by JaQuavis Coleman and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bailey thought she had left a deadly robbery-gone-wrong in her past, but when her new man looks into and is facinated by her history, she realizes that misfortune has caught up with her.

Download or read book David Sedaris Diaries written by David Sedaris and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable illustrated volume of artwork and images selected from the diaries David Sedaris has been creating for four decades In this richly illustrated book, readers will for the first time experience the diaries David Sedaris has kept for nearly 40 years in the elaborate, three-dimensional, collaged style of the originals. A celebration of the unexpected in the everyday, the beautiful and the grotesque, this visual compendium offers unique insight into the author's view of the world and stands as a striking and collectible volume in itself. Compiled and edited by Sedaris's longtime friend Jeffrey Jenkins, and including interactive components, postcards, and never-before-seen photos and artwork, this is a necessary addition to any Sedaris collection, and will enthrall the author's fans for many years to come.

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