Download or read book The Streets Don t Love Nobody written by Tranay Adams and published by Tranay Adams. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the death of his mother and his father being strung out on heroin, MENACE took to the streets at a very young age. Being focused on his money and his grind, he didn’t have time for love. That is until, he falls for the beautiful SHATIRA. Shatira lives the life of a ghetto Cinderella, being treated like a second class citizen by her evil stepmother, DELORES, and her wicked twin sons, LEVON and LERON, until Menace rescues her from her world of torment and nightmares. While on the run, a hood romance blossoms between Menace and Shatira and they find themselves madly in love. But trouble invades their paradise when FLOCKA, Menace’s best friend, runs afoul of a crime boss, setting off a chain of events that guarantees death for the lovely young couple. During this time, Menace realizes there’s a thin line between friend and foe, and that sometimes your woman is the realest nigga on your team. But more importantly he’ll come to understand that THE STREETS DON’T LOVE NOBODY.
Download or read book The Streets Don t Love Nobody 2 written by Tranay Adams and published by Tranay Adams. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stolen duffle bags of money and the word of a disloyal friend pits the goons of a reputable crime boss against a do-or-die duo in an egregious battle that leaves countless dead bodies behind. MENACE and SHATIRA go up against FLOCKA and BUMPY, two of South Central’s most cold-hearted killas. The opposition thought the ride-or-die couple would be easy prey, but surprisingly Menace and Shatira prove that their war tactics and murder games rival their own. However, with a hood millionaire like BIG MEAT funding Flocka and Bumpy’s bloody war, the tables begin to turn in their favor, and Menace and Shatira find themselves in grave danger. Will Menace and Shatira’s gangsta reign supreme, or will they be obliterated? Find out in the conclusion to this epic saga, THE STREETS DON’T LOVE NOBODY 2!!!
Download or read book The Coldest Winter Ever written by Sister Souljah and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times and USA TODAY Bestseller “50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years.” —Essence Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read The instant classic from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Life After Death brings the streets of New York to life in a powerful and utterly unforgettable novel. I came busting into the world during one of New York’s worst snowstorms, so my mother named me Winter. Ghetto-born, Winter is the young, wealthy daughter of a prominent Brooklyn drug-dealing family. Quick-witted, sexy, and business-minded, she knows and loves the streets like the curves of her own body. But when a cold Winter wind blows her life in a direction she doesn’t want to go, her street smarts and seductive skills are put to the test of a lifetime. Unwilling to lose, this ghetto girl will do anything to stay on top. Twenty-five years and over one million copies later, The Coldest Winter Ever is a bestseller and a national treasure, a classic handed down from one reading generation to the next. Whether you are reading it for the first time or have cherished it for years, you will never forget this Winter’s tale.
Download or read book Love Don t Love Nobody written by Denise Ingram and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After building a barrier around her heart to protect what was left of it. Stormy swore she would never love again, but she has no idea that Steve has different plans in mind for her. Finally, convincing Stormy to meet his parents, Steve quickly sweeps Stormy off her feet and whisks her away to his homeland Maui Hawaii, the beautiful capital of Paradise. Although Stormy's very skeptical of love, what girl can resist five-star Romance in Paradise. Now! This may be a hard task for Steve as he attempts to break through the barriers that Stormy has built up around her heart. But is it worth it? Is Love in the air? Will Stormy allow Steve in? Or will Steve find out that love don't love Nobody?
Download or read book In Love With A Certified Street King written by Dejah Rice and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The one thing that drives us the most can be the one thing that destroys us. Yet, we can't live without it. It's our heart that always seems to get in the way of things. But, when we're carrying the heart of someone else... our love knows no boundaries. As a single mother, Fayja has always put herself last but when Pharaoh comes in the picture, his desire is to put her first. When she falls for him, she knows that he's bound to give her a taste of a lifestyle she's never experienced, however, the fact that he's also a boss in the streets sends her headfirst into many situations that she hadn't prepared for. When love is in the picture, it's hard to let go and Fayja learns this firsthand when she falls in love with a certified street king.
Download or read book The Sister Souljah Collection 1 written by Sister Souljah and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 1488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Volume I of this special collectors’ edition, visit the first three unforgettable novels by New York Times bestselling author Sister Souljah: The Coldest Winter Ever, Midnight: A Gangster Love Story, and Midnight and the Meaning of Love. THE COLDEST WINTER EVER In The Coldest Winter Ever, internationally known author, activist, and hip-hop artist Sister Souljah brought the streets of New York to life in a powerful and unforgettable first novel. Beautifully written, raw, and authentic, this novel firmly established Sister Souljah as the mother of all contemporary urban literature and the author of the first classic of the genre. MIDNIGHT: A GANGSTER LOVE STORY Sister Souljah, the hip-hop generation's number one author and most compelling storyteller, delivers a powerful story about love and loyalty, strength and family. In her bestselling novel The Coldest Winter Ever, Sister Souljah introduced the world to Midnight, a brave but humble lieutenant to a prominent underworld businessman. Now, in a highly anticipated follow-up to her million-selling masterpiece, she brings readers into the life and dangerously close to the heart of this silent, fearless young man. MIDNIGHT AND THE MEANING OF LOVE Sister Souljah, the New York Times bestselling author of The Coldest Winter Ever and Midnight, delivers her most compelling and enlightening story yet. With Midnight and The Meaning of Love, Souljah brings to her millions of fans an adventure about young, deep love, the ways in which people across the world express their love, and the lengths that they will go to have it.
Download or read book Ain t No Love in the Bean written by Jaron O'Bannon, Shongi Fernandes and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trapped in a life of crime in the streets of Boston, on Christmas Eve 1992, Troy Jenkins, an upcoming drug lord with a notorious reputation, and his wife, Karen Jenkins, are murdered by Troy's main comrade, Crook, over greed and jealousy, leaving his son, Jerome Jenkins, shell-shocked. News spread quickly about the murders, causing turmoil in the streets, and a lot of people sought revenge. Having close relations to Troy's father, Roy Barros, a rising detective in the Boston police force, is determined to find the perpetrator, only to find himself caught in the cross fire. Angel, Troy's protégé, slowly starts to put the pieces together about his mentor's death but decides to take revenge into his own hands before revealing to Jerome who took his parents off the face of the earth. He soon finds out Crook is a different force of nature. Jerome grows into a man only to follow into his father's footsteps with one goal in life: to kill the people responsible for the loss of his parents. Along his way, he finds love with a beautiful young lady named Mercedes, and he decides to introduce her to his guardians only to later find out Mercedes is the daughter of Crook! This complicates the hell out of the situation because he is still unaware that Crook took his parents away from him. Trapped in a triangle, Jerome is forced to choose between hurting the only person he loves and avenging the deaths of the only bloodline he once had. Running out of time, Angel is forced to act sooner then he thought, but his plans backfire on him only to cost him his own life. An all-out war breaks out in this city, causing the truth and blood to spill on the streets of Boston.
Download or read book He Doesn t Deserve My Love written by Ashley Cruse and published by Urban Renaissance. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dollie and Corey are the couple that have everything stacked against them. They are the epitome of the expression “Opposites attract.” Dollie works as a secretary for a top-notch lawyer, and Corey spends his time in the streets, running a low-key drug operation. Dollie stands by her man in spite of his flaws, while he does time in jail. When he gets out, he lets his true colors show, leaving Dollie hurt and confused. Tenosha has been lying back in the cut, waiting for her turn with Corey. When the opportunity arises to make her move, she gets rid of the father of her kids to get to the man she really wants. She thinks Corey needs a girl who will play her position in the D-boy life he’s chasing, and she’s sure she is the perfect match for him. As the tale of drugs, lies, drama, and deceit unfolds, one woman will have a decision to make: When she’s no longer able to change a situation, will she be willing to change herself?
Download or read book Hood Life and Love It Is What It Is written by Shay Jonez and published by Urban Era Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of hood life and love. Annette Brooks is an easygoing girl from the hood. She starts nothing she can't finish and never loses the fight. She is known for being a bookworm, so when she finds herself in the middle of a deadly battle, all things hood become a reality. Annette is soon faced with old enemies and new ones, while she struggles to balance school, first love, family, and the demands of the streets. When things don't go as planned, she finds herself in a few fight-or-flight situations. The incidents to follow will change her life forever. Christian James thrives in trouble, but when he sets his sights on Annette, he decides to keep her. He does not know the journey they will have. He didn't plan on loving her, after all, he lived for the streets. Christian feels like she is his peace and with her, anything is possible. Even getting out of the hood. When an attempt to make some easy money goes wrong, and strange incidents around them happen, he realizes he will protect her at all costs. Together, they stand in the face of many enemies. They battle jealousy, temptation, and hate. In the wake of it all, they find comfort in friends that will follow where ever they lead and cross off names on an ever-growing list of foes. While trying to survive, loyalties will be forgotten, and love is a question in their relationship. All the while, all they want is out, but, the streets always call them back. Will they make it out or just accept that It Is what it is.
Download or read book Oakland Noir written by Jerry Thompson and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wonderfully, in Akashic’s Oakland Noir, the stereotypes about the city suffer the fate of your average noir character—they die brutally.” —San Francisco Chronicle In the wake of San Francisco Noir, Los Angeles Noir, and Orange County Noir—all popular volumes in the Akashic Noir Series—comes the latest California installment, Oakland Noir. Masterfully curated by Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller (the “Czar of Noir”), this volume will shock, titillate, provoke, and entertain. The diverse cast of talented contributors will not disappoint. Oakland Noir offers stories by Nick Petrulakis, Kim Addonizio, Keenan Norris, Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder, Katie Gilmartin, Dorothy Lazard, Harry Louis Williams II, Carolyn Alexander, Phil Canalin, Judy Juanita, Jamie DeWolf, Nayomi Munaweera, Mahmud Rahman, Tom McElravey, Joe Loya, and Eddie Muller. “From the Oakland hills to the heart of downtown, each story brings Oakland to life.” —San Jose Mercury News “Oakland is a natural for the series, with its shadowy crimes and disgruntled cops.” —Zoom Street Magazine “San Francisco’s grittier next-door neighbor gets her day in the sun in 16 new stories in this tightly curated entry in Akashic’s Noir series. The hardscrabble streets of Oakland offer crime aplenty . . . Thompson and Muller have taken such pains to choose stories highlighting Oakland’s diversity and history that the result is a volume rich in local culture as well as crime.” —Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book Life written by Royal Chanel and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About life, from struggle to domestic violence and living in a cold world. And how you have to stay strong and thrive not letting anyone get in your way.
Download or read book In Love With A Certified Street King 2 written by Dejah Rice and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Fayja is shot it leaves everyone speechless and brings secrets face to face with one another. Hearts are racing and bloody moves have to be made. Who do you go after when you don’t know the face behind the shooter? Or do you simply go after any and everyone who you feel has something to do with it? In Pharaoh’s case, the latter of the two is always the way to go, as long as you move smart about it. Pharaoh is either going to get some answers or everyone in the streets is going to have to feel his wrath. Making the city bleed is something he hasn’t had to do in a while as the boss of the streets, but now he feels as if his hand has been forced and he won’t sleep until he has the shooter’s head on a silver platter. When a ghost from the past pops up with a vendetta and dirty secrets are revealed, things are only bound to be turned upside down and a helping hand will be needed more than ever. But who can you turn to for help when you don’t know who to trust? The only thing Fayja’s son wants to be able to do is welcome her home. With his own problems brewing, he finds himself tripping off the one person he knows he’s forbidden to be with. Traumatized by the effects of living a life in the streets, everyone has no choice but to choose their destiny and the route they truly want to take. The only thing is, will they be on a road trip to love or destruction? Love may not be meant for a thug, but is it meant for a Boss?
Download or read book His Thug Love Got Me Weak written by B. Love and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birds of a feather flock together, and in Kenya and Valentina’s case, that is definitely true. Both women have had their fair share of heartache and pain in their relationships. Both women have sworn off love out of fear. Kenya, the softer of the two, refuses to date. She wants to take no chances with her heart... until she meets Reign. Reign has his own scars because of love – literally – and he promises to protect her heart. But Kenya isn’t so sure if she can trust him. If he was reckless with his own heart, how could she trust him with hers? Valentina on the other hand has no problem dating. She just refuses to commit. She refuses to love. She refuses to give another man the chance to disappoint her. She succeeds at this for years... until she is forced to spend the weekend with Reign’s best friend, Ace. Valentina doesn’t deny her attraction towards him, but the fact that Ace has made it perfectly clear that he wants a wife and children has Valentina dead set on avoiding him at all costs. Will Valentina succeed, or will Ace make her weak for his love? Will Kenya continue to allow her fear of love to keep her from committing and staying with Reign, or will she surrender to her weakness and place her heart in the hands of a man who has a proven track record of loving and living recklessly?
Download or read book Dollar Bill written by Joy and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dareese "Dollar Bill" Blake is one of those bad guys that women love to hate. In an effort to escape the hood life and dabble in the good life, Dollar quickly grows from a small pup to a big dawg. After carefully critiquing the game, he chooses a concrete type of hustle that he's sure will offer him an early retirement from the workforce. If you ask his home girl, Thomasena, she'd say it's been nothing but love for Dollar since day one. In Dollar's eyes, however, Thomasena is just one of the boys, so it's no surprise that he tends to overlook her for every other piece of tail that wags by him. When Dollar calls on Thomasena to help him in the ultimate come-up, will she be able to put her feelings of rejection on the back burner, or will Dollar get burned?
Download or read book Lovin a Virginia Bad Girl written by Racquel Williams and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever experienced that good old hood love that makes your insides shiver? The three main characters in Raquel Williams’ raw Urban drama do. Follow along as Nyesha, Kymani, and Yohan get caught up in a messy, page-turning love triangle… Nyesha has been through hell, both physically and mentally. After being abandoned by her first love, Yohan, she turns to the streets for comfort. She gets into the drug game as a way to provide for her children, oblivious that the streets are cruel and have no room for a trap girl. With no one to turn to, she falls for one of Richmond’s hottest dope boys. Then, Yohan pops back into the picture, determined to get back the love of his life. But first, he must prove his love. Kymani isn’t your typical dope boy. He’s a smooth talker with a dark past and deadly intentions. Anyone who crosses him or the people he loves will definitely be dealt with. His weakness for a bad female will have him drawing for this young, sexy, money-getting chick. However, he has his problems with a love triangle, thugs trying to kill him, and the police trying to send him away for good. Take a ride as this couple fights to keep their love alive. Will they allow all the drama brewing around them break up everything they’ve worked so hard to build, or will they fight to hold on to their love and their freedom?
Download or read book Carl Weber s Kingpins Raleigh Durham written by Treasure Hernandez and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treasure Hernandez takes readers on a captivating, headlong plunge into the depths of the streets of Raleigh, North Carolina. It will leave you feenin' for more. With the skills of Michael Vick and the looks of Tyreese, Andrew “Amir” Davis, a.k.a. Amir, is destined to be a star. But in the streets of Raleigh, North Carolina, NFL dreams can quickly vanish, and a black man can either go with the flow or become another name added to the local obituaries. Amir has the whole hood behind him. He’s a beacon of hope for young men who feel they’ve been discarded by society. North Carolina is breeding him to be their star, but he has other plans in mind. Amir wants to be like his daddy, a hustler with principles who keeps his enemies close and treats his friends like family. Death Before Dishonor is his motto. When his childhood friend ends up in prison with a nine-year bid, Amir is true to the game and holds him down. He adheres to the code of the streets, but will that be enough to keep his crew together? Will Amir be able to forgive one of his childhood friends for being unfaithful to the game that made him the man he is today? Sometimes, a big booty and a smile can bring a soldier to his knees, but there are consequences for violating the code of the streets. Once a vow is taken, there’s no turning back.
Download or read book Plugged 4 Life written by Timothy Threats and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-06-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The teachings of life come through experiences and the chances we take. This story follows four young friends trying to find their passage in life by sticking to the script and holding each other down. With Ms. Vicks being the voice of reason by providing her wisdom along the way, the friends are able to have some balance in their lives after the streets took hold of them. Chayne, who is in love with one of the friends "Rayson", only wanted him to promise her one thing. Find out how the four friends encounter life from all angles as their losses become their gain and their defeat strengthens them in more ways than one.