Urban & Street Lit
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Drama Queen: 20th Anniversary Edition
$16.95 Read more#1 Essence(R) bestselling author La Jill Hunt presents Drama Queen, a hilariously funny, fast-paced novel that will drag you away from your own problems and bring you into someone else’s.
Kayla Hopki- Author: Hunt, La Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1645564991
- Language: English
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Push (Revised)
$17.00 Add to cartA new 25th anniversary edition of the instant classic that inspired the major motion picture and Sundance Film Festival winner Precious: Based on the Novel ‘PUSH’ by Sapphire, whose power and ferocity… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Sapphire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 0593314603
- Language: English
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The Night Fire
$19.99 Add to cartHarry Bosch and LAPD Detective Ren? Ballard come together again on the murder case that obsessed Bosch’s mentor in this New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year and Los Angeles Times Book Prize fin… [more below]
- Series: Ren? Ballard and Harry Bosch Novel #22
- Author: Connelly, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1538733722
- Language: English
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Super Gremlin 2
$16.95 Add to cartMARKIO EARL has $5 million in cold hard cash that belongs to a Chicago heroin kingpin, and his refusal to return it has led to a deadly string of shootings that leaves local police and federal agents
- Author: Rio, King
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: June 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1960993224
- Language: English
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Black Buck: A Read with Jenna Pick
$16.99 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
“Askaripour closes the deal on the first page of this mesmerizing n
A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize- Author: Askaripour, Mateo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0358627982
- Language: English
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Who Do I Run to Now?
$8.99 Read moreJaniece is finally settled with her husband, Isaiah, after a whirlwind of drama with her ex-lover, K.P., and his wife. She is ready to live happily ever after, but Isaiah is called back to duty and ha
- Author: Black, Anna
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1645565459
- Language: English
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Fair Warning
$19.99 Add to cartThe hero of The Poet and The Scarecrow is back in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. Jack McEvoy, the journalist who never backs down, tracks a serial killer who… [more below]
- Series: Jack McEvoy #3
- Author: Connelly, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1538736330
- Language: English
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On a Mission
$16.95 Read moreJoin Essence(R)-bestselling authors Ms. Michel Moore and T.C. Littles, along with Novelist Blacc Topp, as they each give you heart-racing, gritty tales of what being On a Mission on the block ultimate… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1645565416
- Language: English
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Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
$26.00 Read moreWINNER of the Gotham Book Prize * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award, and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence * Longlisted for the Story Prize
Named a BEST BOOK OF- Author: Fofana, Sidik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1982145811
- Language: English
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The Bachelorette Party
$18.99 Add to cart‘Sharp writing… great plot’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NetGalley Reviewer
‘[I] couldn’t put it down. A twisty read [and] I had no clue’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NetGalle
- Author: Lynch, Carissa Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 000855143X
- Language: English
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Lover’s Island
$17.95 Add to cartLove and loss aren’t unfamiliar territory to Nyimah Deveraux.
She’s learned to live after losing the love of her life and found the courage to love again. The man she moves on with keeps her pockets l- Author: Wjuanae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 20, 2024
- ISBN10: 1645565904
- Language: English
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Beijing Sprawl
$17.95 Add to cartStories of friendship, failure, and survival from Xu Zechen, author of “some of the most exciting and energized writing coming out of China now.” (Paul French)
Muyu, a seventeen-year-old from a small v… [more below]- Author: Xu, Zechen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: June 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 1949641325
- Language: English
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Brown Girl, Brownstones
$12.95 Add to cartAn unforgettable novel, written with pride and anger, with rebellion and tears. — Herald Tribune Book ReviewPassionate, compelling . . . an impressive accomplishment. — Saturday ReviewRemarkable for… [more below]
- Author: Marshall, Paule
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0486468321
- Language: English
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Dopefiend
$15.95 Add to cart“Machiavelli was my tutor, Donald Goines my father figure.”
–Tupac Shakur
The true Black voice of his generation, Donald Goines wrote novels that nailed the harsh realities of the urban experience dee… [more below]- Author: Goines, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 27, 2021
- ISBN10: 1496733290
- Language: English
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American Gunner
$16.95 Read moreImaginatively rendered and a gripping debut, a young man’s dance with the criminal underworld lands him in international hot water and left vying for his life in this crime thriller mash-up of America… [more below]
- Series: Gunner
- Author: Clark, Eddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 9798985594119
- Language: English
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The Tortilla Curtain
$18.00 Add to cartT.C. Boyle’s tragicomic, award-winning novel about assimilation, immigration, and the price of the American dream
Topanga Ca
“A masterpiece of contemporary social satire.” –The Wall Street Journal- Author: Boyle, T. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 1996
- ISBN10: 014023828X
- Language: English
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Less Than Zero
$17.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The timeless classic from the acclaimed author of American Psycho about the lost generation of 1980s Los Angeles who experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early a… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Ellis, Bret Easton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 30 1998
- ISBN10: 0679781498
- Language: English
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L.A. Woman
$16.99 Add to cartSoon to be a TV show on Hulu Eve Babitz is a writer like no other–she “is to prose what Chet Baker is to jazz” (Vanity Fair)–and she has influenced a generation of writers and readers with her sophi… [more below]
- Author: Babitz, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 27, 2015
- ISBN10: 1501132725
- Language: English
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Open Water
$17.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD
A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION 5 UNDER 35
WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTIONA stunning first novel about two young Black artists in London falling in an
- Author: Nelson, Caleb Azumah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0802157947
- Language: English
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The Faithful Side Chick
$16.95 Read moreAn unsuspecting wife finds herself in a love triangle that threatens her safety when her husband’s side chick decides she wants
Brooklyn is a fierce, no-nonsense woman who is about
her out of the way.- Author: Williams, Racquel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1645564789
- Language: English
