Urban & Street Lit
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Airtight Willie & Me: The Story of the South’s Black Underworld
$17.99 Add to cart“Iceberg Slim breaks down some of the coldest, capitalist concepts I’ve ever heard in my life.” –Dave Chappelle, from his Netflix special The Bird Revelation In this collection of six gritty tales fr… [more below]
- Author: Slim, Iceberg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1936399156
- Language: English
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Gangsta Twist 2
$18.00 Add to cartThe 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 re
- Series: Gangsta Twist #2
- Author: Johnson, Clifford “Spud”
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2011
- ISBN10: 160162459X
- Language: English
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Jakob Von Gunten
$16.95 Add to cartThe Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a range of short stories, e… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback) #10
- Author: Walser, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 30 1999
- ISBN10: 0940322218
- Language: English
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Coke Kings 5
$14.95 Add to cartOn a murderous mission to dominate the dope game with extreme caution and intelligence, KAMMRON goes at the remaining kingpins of New York with no regard or mercy, leaving behind piles of gun shells a
- Author: Edwards, T. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 10 2021
- ISBN10: 195527066X
- Language: English
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Carl Weber’s Kingpins: West Coast
$15.95 Add to cartAll hail to the West Coast, where its natural resources of breathtaking beaches, smokable trees, and beautiful women are unlimited. From the freezing top of Mt. Denali in Alaska to the fly-ass archite… [more below]
- Author: Pittman, Raynesha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1645562050
- Language: English
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Dirty Tricks
$16.00 Add to cartSTAY SCHEMING
KIKI SWINSON
Karlie Houston is broke, betrayed–and running from a bounty on her head. Turns out the real owners of the payday loan office she ripped off weren’t cool with her idea of em… [more below]- Series: Schemes #2
- Author: Swinson, Kiki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1617739456
- Language: English
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The Way It Works
$10.95 Add to cartWalter Davis is young, handsome, intelligent, dynamic, personable and homeless.
The product of a bi-racial marriage but abandoned by his father as a young child, he prides himself on three things: his
- Series: Rapid Reads
- Author: Kowalski, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1554693675
- Language: English
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Born in the Grave
$14.95 Add to cartStuck in the belly of the beast, Q struggles to regain his freedom. Once his feet touch ground in the outside world and he returns to the toughest hood in Richmond, Virginia, Q must take advantage of
- Author: Tay, Self Made
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: July 18 2022
- ISBN10: 195811135X
- Language: English
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Snow Queen
$22.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-Winning Author of The Hours
Michael Cunningham’s best novel in more than a decade.-Megan O’Grady, Vogue
It’s November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through C- Author: Cunningham, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 1250067723
- Language: English
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Della: The Ballerina and The Billionaire
$19.99 Add to cartDella: perfectionist token-black ballerina…
Miles McKinnon: black-sheep billionaire…
The chemistry: unlike anything either has ever felt…
Disoriented by a week in Paris and a tough proposition, the
- Author: Palmer, Rod
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986428246
- Language: English
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Debt to Pleasure
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel and a New York Times Notable Book, John Lanchester’s The Debt to Pleasure is a wickedly funny ode to food.
Traveling from Portsmouth to the south of- Author: Lanchester, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0312420366
- Language: English
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Detroit City Mafia
$8.99 Read moreIndia, known for her gritty Urban tales, returns with a riveting new drama about one woman who plays a risky game to say alive…
After being left for dead by her mother, dissed by her peers, held res- Author: India
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1645562905
- Language: English
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Ride
$15.99 Add to cartRide is for those caught in the grip of addiction and for the ones who love them, desperate to understand.
Ride possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality that’s heartbreaking and authentic at t
- Author: Lafleche, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1989266274
- Language: English
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Street Kings 2: Dreams and Nightmares
$14.95 Add to cartSouth Los Angeles street legends, NOODLES and FILIPINO, are up against their strongest test to date. Numerous shooters from the notorious hood, Crenshaw, are gunning for their heads. Will Noodles and
- Series: Street Kings #2
- Author: Rich, Hood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: August 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1951081226
- Language: English
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Coke Kings: Fast Money and Gunsmoke
$14.95 Add to cartThe dark, seedy, and grimy trenches of Harlem, New York is no playground. But KAMMRON and BONKERS are out to make it theirs by cooperation or force. Those that ride with them are offered prosperity in
- Series: Coke Kings #1
- Author: Edwards, T. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1949138976
- Language: English
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A Gangsta’s Empire: Heir to the Throne
$14.95 Add to cartTHE COMBS are one of the most revered and feared drug families there ever was, but when their leader is murdered in cold blood, all hell breaks loose.
The most notorious gangster Los Angeles has ever s
- Series: A Gangsta’s Empire #1
- Author: Adams, Tranay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: May 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1949138879
- Language: English
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Everyday People: The Color of Life–A Short Story Anthology
$17.99 Add to cart“A delight and highly recommended.” —Booklist
“Showcases the truth and fullness of people of color.” —Book Riot In the tradition of Best American Short Stories comes Everyday People: The Color of- Author: Baker, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1501134949
- Language: English
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Harlem
$8.99 Read moreIn the five boroughs of New York City, there are turf wars and rival gangs, but at the top are five families that run things, cooperating with their rivals whenever it means they will all make more mo… [more below]
- Series: Carl Weber’s Five Families of New York
- Author: Phillips, C. N.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1645562832
- Language: English
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Cubana
$8.99 Read moreThis dark, suspenseful tale by New York Times bestseller JaQuavis Coleman is an urban love story with an unforgettable conclusion.
A man’s quest to escape his past life is an uphill battle. After see- Author: Coleman, Jaquavis
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1645562824
- Language: English
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Kings County
$17.00 Add to cartA Brooklyn love story, set to music: Kings County “crystallizes how it feels to be young and in love in New York City” (Stephanie Danler).It’s the early 2000s and like generations of ambitious young p… [more below]
- Author: Goodwillie, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1501192140
- Language: English
