Urban & Street Lit
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Ask the Dust
$18.00 Add to cartAsk the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the e
- Author: Fante, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 07, 2006
- ISBN10: 0060822554
- Language: English
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August Blue
$27.00 Read moreNamed a Best Book of the Year by TIME, Vulture, The Guardian, BBC, The Week, and Publisher’s Weekly
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw Ev- Author: Levy, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0374602042
- Language: English
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Nightcrawling: A Novel (Oprah’s Book Club)
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK – A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system. This de… [more below]
- Author: Mottley, Leila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0593312600
- Language: English
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
$16.00 Add to cartOne of the most brilliant and provocative American writers of the twentieth century chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy’s spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention in this “truly extraord
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 12, 2013
- ISBN10: 0375701877
- Language: English
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Invisible Man
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator tells his story from the basement lair of the Invisibl… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Ellison, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 14 1995
- ISBN10: 0679732764
- Language: English
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Silence
$16.95 Add to cartA gritty, intense novel set on Detroit’s mean streets, featuring a much-feared deaf killer known as “The Silent Assassin,” who’s fresh out of prison and on a mission to avenge the murder of the man wh
- Author: Crown, Zaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 27, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496741900
- Language: English
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Hollywood
$17.99 Add to cartFrom iconic tortured artist/everyman Charles Bukowski, Hollywood is the fictionalization of his experience adapting his novel Barfly into a movie by the same name.
Henry Chinaski, Bukowski’s alter-ego,
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 31, 2002
- ISBN10: 0876857632
- Language: English
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The Homewood Trilogy
$33.00 Add to cartFrom “master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman, a reissue of the revered trilogy that launched his career–two novels and story collection all set in Wideman’s own hometown.
Damball- Author: Wideman, John Edgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982148888
- Language: English
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Passing
$6.95 Read moreNella Larsen’s fascinating exploration of race and identity–the inspiration for the Netflix film directed by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga.
This Signet Classics edition of Passi… [more below]- Author: Larsen, Nella
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0593437845
- Language: English
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Sweetbitter
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A thrilling novel of the senses and a coming-of-age tale, following a small-town girl into the electrifying world of New York City and the education of a lifetime at one of the m… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Danler, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1101911867
- Language: English
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Wifey’s Next Twisted Fate
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Between the betrayals, lies, and relentless body drops, everything is on the line in national bestselling author and urban lit superstar Kiki Swinson’s explosive new series set in South Beach and fea- Author: Swinson, Kiki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 26 2023
- ISBN10: 149674358X
- Language: English
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You Make Me Feel
$17.95 Add to cartA socialite and a cautious introvert try to make a love connection, but their differences might be more than they can overcome.
Kinisha Jordan has always been a socialite, treating society like her pe- Author: Walters, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 20, 2024
- ISBN10: 1645565882
- Language: English
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Journey’s Revenge: A #1544 Novel
$16.95 Add to cartA traumatic accident changed everything. After a chilling encounter, Journey Salazar and her father, Ty Carter, will never be the same. Ty Carter has to come to grips with reality . . . his trouble is
- Author: Kelly, Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1645565351
- Language: English
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Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
$17.99 Add to cartWinner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
In this “dangerously hilarious” novel (Los Angeles Times), a trans woman reenters life on the outside after more than twenty years in a men’s prison, over on- Author: Hannaham, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0316286281
- Language: English
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I’m Not Superwoman
$17.95 Read moreAtlanta, Georgia, is the hub of the black college experience. Nia Scott, a gifted pre-med student at Clark Atlanta University, is focused on one goal: becoming a doctor. With her Superwoman mentality,… [more below]
- Author: McCaulsky, Marlon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1645565483
- Language: English
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Carl Weber’s Kingpins: Penthouse View
$16.95 Add to cartSelling weed and then running her own robbing crew that targeted drug dealers was how Tori Phillips gained her entry into the Atlanta drug market. Their motto was, “Why buy drugs when you can steal th
- Author: Zari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 1645564398
- Language: English
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The Tangled Web
$16.95 Add to cartAlmost ten years of marital bliss and every day seemed like a dream with Maria and Malcolm. They had a love others could only hope for, and their lives were close to perfection. They had a mansion-lik… [more below]
- Author: Ro, Hazel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 164556522X
- Language: English
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A Dark Place
$17.95 Add to cartWhen poor babies wind up missing, no one seems to care.
A Dark Place is a chilling story about the untold struggles of the disenfranchised that inspiringly illustrates how one man cannot turn his back- Author: Hunter, Travis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 23, 2024
- ISBN10: 1645565475
- Language: English
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The Best of Everything
$21.00 Add to cartRona Jaffe’s beloved novel about 1950s NYC women in the workplace that paved the way for the #MeToo movement and iconic cultural touchstones like Sex and the City and Mad Men, now for the first time i… [more below]
- Author: Jaffe, Rona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 014313731X
- Language: English
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Promise Kept
$19.99 Read moreIn this stunning sequel to Promise Broken, K’wan spins a pulse-pounding story about surviving, thriving, and the consequences of love.
Promise and her best friend Mouse have fled Newark and are hiding
- Series: Promises #2
- Author: K’Wan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1
- Publish Date: March 19, 2024
- ISBN10: 1799961435
- Language: English
