Download or read book Son of a Dope Fiend written by Renta and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MESSIAH didn't choose the streets, the streets chose him. Being the SON OF A DOPE FIEND didn't make life easy for him, but his drug addicted mother definitely schooled him on the ways of women. The rest of the game was taught to him by MAXWELL, a street savvy hustler with supreme knowledge of life. Equipped with the mind of a hustla and the heart of a savage, all it took for the youngin' to soar was a boss chick by his side. The moment he met JUSTICE, a Trinidadian beauty who knew her worth, nothing could deny Messiah his rightful place in the game. As the soulmates ascend to the top, money, women, and jealousy shake their foundation. Can their bond survive the missteps that comes with the griminess of the streets? Will Messiah remain true to the one who is true to him? Or will Justice be driven to cross him? When his high level of success brings about many dangerous adversaries, Messiah must react with intelligence and cold-blooded finality in order to protect his assets and his kingdom. But will he have enough power to withstand the heavy artillery that's been mounted up to bring him down?
Download or read book Son of a Dopeboy written by 2-Low Da Snowman and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Son of a Dopeboy, follows the lives of three (3) kids who come from different walks of life, but all have one thing in common - Growing up without a Father. 'Kokaine,' is cursed at birth after his Father names him after the drug that's made him a fortune. 'Rey'elle Da Diva,' is a Daddy's girl, until her father is suddenly killed. Rey'elle’s mom is a "SELF-MADE," career driven woman who spoils Rey'elle and her older sister Tasani with all the worldly things their hearts desire. However, gifts can only go so far, will the loss of Rey'elle's Father be the death of her? The story picks up with 'Pablo', a half Black, half Spanish boy who never knew his father. Pablo looks to his uncles, Juan and Miguel for guidance. In return they teach him the ins and outs of their 'Business.' But will Pablo's thirst for success ultimately be his downfall? Turn the page and enter a world filled with drugs, money and power! See if 'Kokaine' can live up to his Father's legacy, without falling victim to the Dope Game himself!"--Amazon.com.
Download or read book The Dopefiend written by JaQuavis Coleman and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 2 of the Dopeman's Trilogy, JaQuavis Coleman chillingly chronicles the life and crimes of Harlem resident Hazel Brown, as she rises to the highest highs and spirals into an inevitable, devastating downfall. Hazel has nothing and no one in her life; the only thing she "owns" is an insatiable addiction to heroin. Her addiction brings her to the slums, where she quickly learns the tricks of surviving—of hustling and getting her street smarts. She'll do anything to feed her habit, even if that means robbing and conning and selling her own body. Yet no matter how much heroin she does, the pain that's cut so deep within her never goes away in this story so intimate and compellingly written, you'll feel like you're walking in her shoes.
Download or read book Zoo Station written by Christiane F. and published by Zest Books ™. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This incredible autobiography of Christiane F. provides a vivid portrait of teen friendship, drug abuse, and alienation in and around Berlin's notorious Zoo Station. Christiane's rapid descent into heroin abuse and prostitution is shocking, but the boredom, longing for acceptance, thrilling risks, and even her musical obsessions are familiar to everyone. Previously published in Germany and the US to critical acclaim, Zest's new translation includes original photographs of Christiane and her friends.
Download or read book Dopefiend written by Donald Goines and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terry and Teddy's relationship crumbles and they go in separate directions as they become heroin addicts and seek their dealer's favor in order to feed the addiction.
Download or read book From Dope Fiend 2 Son of a King written by Bryon L Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, you will travel the road to redemption in the experience of a young male who was destined to fail from birth. You will witness trauma that turns into triumph in the face adversity when God decides to introduce himself to a person struggling in addiction with limited education, resources and hope. This book will inspire all who dare to read it to know that all things are possible to them that believe. Upon completion of this book, every soul will find their inner giant, strength and courage to do the impossible by the power of the Holy Spirit who resides in every believer.
Download or read book The Miseducation of America written by Deborah Day Aikens and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the consciousness of Americans as it relates to drugs and other addictive behaviors. Other sources have presented the incidence of said behaviors in a fragmented format, thereby fostering denial and condemnation of a few. In contrast the following material concisely connects seemingly unrelated realities which illuminate our destructive patterns which are insidiously destroying our spirits. Dr. Fernando Cabrera, New York City Councilman The hypocrisy of the American psyche will surely reap the seeds of their destruction. We condemn drug lords but at the same time stand by as pharmaceutical companies recruit unscrupulous doctors to peddle new drugs. Both prescribe by the profit motive: Business 101, supply and demand, the first one is always free; with little regard for safety or life. The tobacco industry, the ultimate weapon of mass destruction, kills more Americans than the sum total of all drugs. Our children are inundated with drug innuendoes through mediums of indoctrination such as music, movies, and the media. Our daughters and sons are inserting vodka soaked tampons into their vagina and rectum, and DWIs continue to soar at alarming rates, yet we deny that alcohol is a drug. Powder cocaine is glamorized and sniffing heroin is sheik, but if we smoke crack and shoot dope we are a crack head or a dope fiend. Condemnation of some equals the inevitable destruction of all. Miseducation: Like a Trojan horse it stands before us; consuming us, spewing invisible rays of destruction and death. We are at war America: It appears to be a war against drugs. In reality its a war not against, but for our spirits. We are loosing our ground because we have become disconnected from our inner strength. We are so comfortable with the immediate gratification of the here and now: we have become so allured by the anesthetization of the pain of our past and of our present, that we have resigned ourselves to self defeating behavior. America is plagued with a pandemic of addictive behaviors. The only way we will win the war is to reclaim our spirit and hold steady to our natural inclination of self preservation. The countless souls who are lost share a commonality in spirit and grace. There is No Such Thing as a ?ÇÿCrack Head or a ?ÇÿDope Fiend: only your mother, my father, his son, their daughter. We are all in some way interconnected. Our spirits bind us to a power greater than ourselves. Americans must get honest: We must take a stance. Enough is enough: Stop the madness. From this day forward our mantra will be, I will no longer allow the ill promises of drugs and other self defeating behaviors that allow me to transcend this place and time consume me. I reclaim my spirit; right here, right now.
Download or read book The Dopeman s Wife written by JaQuavis Coleman and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the streets pull you in, they own you. Or at least that's the way it's been for Nautica. Growing up in the ‘hood, all she's ever known is the fast life—fast money ill-gotten through scandals and relentless scheming. But when a big scam nearly finishes her off, she decides to seek more out of life than the "hustle" and tries to make a new life for herself on the East Coast. It isn't long, though, before she falls in with Manny, a drug kingpin, who sweeps her off her feet. He promises to marry her and make her "Queen of the Street." Then everything falls apart. As their relationship unravels, both of their dark secrets are uncovered, pitting them against each other in this exciting tale of love and deception.
Download or read book Long Day s Journey Into Night written by O'Neill, Eugene and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American classic—as you’ve never experienced it before. This multimedia edition, edited by William Davies King, offers an interactive guide to O’Neill’s masterpiece. -- Hear rare archival recordings of Eugene O’Neill reading key scenes. -- Discover O’Neill’s creative process through the tiny pencil notes in his original manuscripts and outlines. -- Watch actors wrestle with the play in exclusive rehearsal footage. -- Experience clips from a full production of the play. -- Tour Monte Cristo Cottage, the site of the events in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and Tao House, where the play was written. -- Delve into O’Neill’s world through photographs, letters, and diary entries. And much, much more in this multimedia eBook.
Download or read book Novel 11 Book 18 written by Dag Solstad and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant novel by the Norwegian master Dag Solstad Bjorn Hansen, a respectable town treasurer, has just turned fifty and is horrified by the thought that chance has ruled his life. Eighteen years ago he left his wife and their two-year-old son for his mistress, who persuaded him to start afresh in a small, provincial town and to devote himself to an amateur theater.In time that relationship also faded, and after four years of living alone Bjorn contemplates an extraordinary course of action that will change his life forever. He finds a fellow conspirator in Dr. Schiotz, who has a secret of his own and offers to help Bjorn carry his preposterous plan through to its logical conclusion. But the sudden reappearance of his son both fills Bjorn with new hope and complicates matters. The desire to gamble with his comfortable existence proves irresistible, however, taking him to Vilnius in Lithuania, where very soon he cannot tell whether he’s tangled up in a game or reality. Dag Solstad won the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for Novel 11, Book 18, a concentrated uncompromising existential novel that puts on full display the author’s remarkable gifts and wit.
Download or read book The Book of Drugs written by Mike Doughty and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the addiction and recovery of the world-renowned solo artist and former lead singer and songwriter of Soul Coughing.
Download or read book In Case We Die written by Danny Bland and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2013-09-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danny Bland’s fictional prose novel about a doomed junkie couple is given depth by his first hand experiences in the ’90s grunge rock scene. “It wasn’t the pounding headache or the all too familiar taste of blood in my mouth that woke me that morning, but the stink of cat piss. They all have cats. Cats and bad tattoos and mops of dyed black hair that reek of cigarettes and watermelon Bubblicious.” This debut novel by veteran Seattle musician Danny Bland follows a pair of outsiders who find themselves locked in the palpable, dizzy grunge-rock scene of early-’90s Seattle. Vulnerable to the high relief of heroin addiction, Bland’s characters ― Charlie Hyatt and Carrie Finch ― are unapologetic protagonists whose epiphanies are as blinding as their weaknesses. Finch, 21, beautiful and dangerous, drowns out the voices in her head and the consequences of a misled life with electric guitars, booze and petulant misbehavior. Her single abiding faith takes the form of an unlikely savior ― ’60s psychedelic musician Roky Erikson. At the ripe old age of 28, Hyatt attempts to make sense of the cards he has been dealt: a miserable job in a porn shop, a drug habit he cannot afford and the wildly unstable woman he had chosen to love. Two damaged people can balance a seesaw for a long time, even finding the illusion of safety; but when one gets off unannounced, the other will fall. As Finch finds sobriety, her sanity and her relationship with Hyatt falter until an inevitable event brings the two back together a decade later.
Download or read book Heaven Got a Ghetto written by Renta and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ghetto is a maze that so many have tried to escape, and in that same breath, so many have become lost within. Heaven has always been a destiny that so many seek to enter, yet, so many will never see. So, what happens when a street dude named GHETTO finds HEAVEN, a soft-hearted woman? Two very different people, a dangerous love affair, and a treachery that makes Satan smile. Could this turn out to be a crooked tale of deception, evil, mixed with good intentions? Is the deck already stacked against this forbidden union? Or perhaps Ghetto will draw a blank card that he can write his own destiny upon. Either way, his fate will be determined, good or bad. Conversely, can the right woman change the fate of a hood gangsta gone wrong? Walk with them through the rugged streets, the cemeteries, and the ups and downs of the game as we find out if HEAVEN GOT A GHETTO. And if she does, will the Devil claim their souls?
Download or read book Righteous Dopefiend written by Philippe I. Bourgois and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: a theory of abuse -- Intimate apartheid -- Falling in love -- A community of addicted bodies -- Childhoods -- Making money -- Parenting -- Male love -- Everyday addicts -- Treatment -- Conclusion: critically applied public anthropology.
Download or read book Leaving Dirty Jersey written by James Salant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-04-22 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with heartbreaking insight and wicked humor, "Leaving Dirty Jersey" chronicles Salant's descent from wealth and privilege into a year of crystal meth addiction and crime.
Download or read book B More Careful written by Shannon Holmes and published by Teri Woods Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up on the cold, mean, inner city streets of Baltimore is Netta, leader of an all-girl clique called the Pussy Pound. With no father and a dope fiend for a mother, Netta learns at an early age how to use beauty and her body to get the things she wants, money, cars, and jewelry. Chasing the almighty dollar, Netta meets Black, a local drug dealer with a deep-seated hatred for new Yorkers, who falls head over heals in love with her. With a broken heart, Black discovers that Netta is only after his money, and he seeks the ultimate revenge against her life.
Download or read book Freedomland written by Richard Price and published by Delta. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1998, Richard Price returned to the gritty urban landscape of his national bestseller Clockers to produce Freedomland, a searing and unforgettable novel about a hijacked car, a missing child, and an embattled neighborhood polarized by racism, distrust, and accusation. Freedomland hit bestseller lists from coast to coast, including those of the Boston Globe, USA Today and Los Angeles Times; garnered universally rave reviews; and was selected as the Grand Prize Winner of the Imus American Book Award and as a New York Times Notable Book. On May 11, this highly lauded bestseller is available in paperback for the first time. A white woman, her hands gashed and bloody, stumbles into an inner-city emergency room and announces that she has just been carjacked by a black man. But then comes the horrifying twist: Her young son was asleep in the back seat, and he has now disappeared into the night. So begins Richard Price's electrifying new novel, a tale set on the same turf--Dempsey, New Jersey--as Clockers. Assigned to investigate the case of Brenda Martin's missing child is detective Lorenzo Council, a local son of the very housing project targeted as the scene of the crime. Under a white-hot media glare, Lorenzo launches an all-out search for the abducted boy, even as he quietly explores a different possibility: Does Brenda Martin know a lot more about her son's disappearance than she's admitting? Right behind Lorenzo is Jesse Haus, an ambitious young reporter from the city's evening paper. Almost immediately, Jesse suspects Brenda of hiding something. Relentlessly, she works her way into the distraught mother's fragile world, befriending her even as she looks for the chance to break the biggest story of her career. As the search for the alleged carjacker intensifies, so does the simmering racial tension between Dempsey and its mostly white neighbor, Gannon. And when the Gannon police arrest a black man from Dempsey and declare him a suspect, the animosity between the two cities threatens to boil over into violence. With the media swarming and the mood turning increasingly ugly, Lorenzo must take desperate measures to get to the bottom of Brenda Martin's story. At once a suspenseful mystery and a brilliant portrait of two cities locked in a death-grip of explosive rage, Freedomland reveals the heart of the urban American experience--dislocated, furious, yearning--as never before. Richard Price has created a vibrant, gut-wrenching masterpiece whose images will remain long after the final, devastating pages.
