Urban Violence

Nikki Turner, Queen of Hip-Hop Lit, is back with one of her gutsiest female characters yet, a glamorous chick with a high-end hustle that can rival any man’s game. As the respected, renowned concierge for a luxury hotel chain, Beijing Lee caters to the wealthy and famous. Whether it’s securing a dinner reservation, a fleet of limos, or a record deal, or protecting her clients from the paparazzi, there’s nothing Beijing can’t do. She’s stacked up an impressive pile of IOUs from the world’s elite - and one day she decides it’s time to start cashing in.

Rhylee King is one hustling ass female. But it wasn’t always that way. Trying to heal herself from childhood wounds that involved the death of her mother by the hands of her father. When she was young, the abandonment for Rhylee is real. Silence, her boyfriend, is supposed to be helping with that, but in the midst of helping him fight his own demons, Rhylee is losing herself as well. Even with all the money he has trafficking drugs throughout the city, Silence isn’t happy, and he doesn’t have to say anything for Rhylee to figure that out. He’s not perfect, but in Silence’s eyes, ...

Four action packed, urban stories in one grand collection. Whatever It Takes Cash rules everything around us and that’s not excluding the rent. Quay stepped into the strip game not by choice, but because she didn’t have any other options. After her good-for-nothing man puts them in a bind that could get her and her daughter thrown out in the harsh, rough streets of Jacksonville, Florida, Quay makes a decision to cross the ultimate line. When her brash plot to get deeper in the game puts her life on the line, Quay has to do whatever it takes to survive. Diggin’ Gold There's not a woman...

Synopsis OG Lexi is back and now the QueenPin of All Atlanta. She was fueled by greed and filled with rage since the death of her play brother Dennis. She had all of the world’s finest things in life. Cars, houses, jewelry, clothes you name it she had it. Money and revenge were always the mission, but nothing could prepare her for the betrayal she will endure at the hands of the people she loves the most. But hell has no furry once you’ve felt Lexi’s wrath, there will be hell to pay for those who crosses her. The city of Atlanta was a war zone led by a psychotic woman not afraid of ...

Love me til I'm up Love me til I'm down Love me til I'm hurt Cover me Beat me Slap me Kick me Punch me Do all the things you can to hurt me Put me down Pick me up Torcher me til I break But love me til Im Bleu All of these things I have endured in my relationship and im still here... I am Bleu Burris..

Vanity Madonna Brown was a beautiful smart girl until her innocence was taken away by the very people that were supposed to protect her. She could not count on the crack addicted mother that she once loved, the junkie grandmother whom she had barely seen sober, or the drug dealing uncle that she looked up to. All that she had was her three cousins, who were more like her siblings. Vanity's life brightens when she meets Carlos. Will Carlos be her savior or will he contribute to her downfall? While this series is fictional, the story contained within is not. This is someone's story. This ...

At a time when Google Maps can take you on a virtual tour of Yosemite's remotest trails and cell phones double as navigational systems, it's hard to imagine there's any uncharted ground left on the planet. In Unruly Places, Alastair Bonnett goes to some of the most unexpected, offbeat places in the world to reinspire our geographical imagination. Bonnett's remarkable tour includes moving villages, secret cities, no man's lands, and floating islands.

Respect My Gangsta Part Two: Get'em Girl Respect My Gangsta 2 Get'em Girl Continue into the life of Sorrow aka Queen Black Panther Never have a Ho's hustle, always have a Nigga's Hustle - that was the lesson ingrained in Sorrow by her brothers. The weight of their teachings became apparent when Duke thrust them into a life-or-death situation, forcing Sorrow to summon her courage. With determination fueling her, she immersed herself in gangster mode, her senses heightened as she embarked on a mission to retrieve Duke's money, settle his debts, and liberate him from the relentless hustle. ...

A sweeping history of cities through the millennia - from Mesopotamia to Manhattan - and how they have propelled Homo sapiens to dominance.

When Ashley first met Keon, she thought she had met the love of her life. It wasn’t long after she cut herself off from all of her family and friends that Keon revealed his true abusive nature. Ashley quickly went from being the target of his affection to the target of his strikes and stomps. It’s not until Keon’s big move into the drug game goes tragically awry that he realizes the usefulness for Ashley again. The problem is, if he can’t get his plan to work, they all could end up dead.

Cash rules everything around us and that’s not excluding the rent. Quay stepped into the strip game not by choice, but because she didn’t have any other options. After her good-for-nothing man puts them in a bind that could get her and her daughter thrown out in the harsh, rough streets of Jacksonville, Florida, Quay makes a decision to cross the ultimate line. When her brash plot to get deeper in the game puts her life on the line, Quay has to do whatever it takes to survive.

Eddie's father, two uncles, and best friend are all dead, and it's a struggle for him not to end up the same way. Violence makes Fresno wallow in tears, as if a huge onion were buried beneath the city. Making an effort to walk a straight line despite constant temptations and frustrations, Eddie searches for answers—and discovers that his closest friends may actually be his worst enemies.

Chronicling Andrew Solomon's stint on the barricades in Moscow in 1991, when he joined artists in resisting the coup whose failure ended the Soviet Union; his 2002 account of the rebirth of culture in Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban; his insightful appraisal of a Myanmar steeped in contradictions as it slowly, fitfully pushes toward freedom; and many other stories of profound upheaval, this book provides a unique window onto the very idea of social change.

Iesha never dreamed of falling in love again after escaping her abusive relationship with Vaughn… until she meets Jamaica. The two of them start off strong and loving, but it doesn’t take long for their relationship to take a turn for the worse. Vowing to never let another man abuse her, Iesha decides to fight back. But when push comes to shove and they go their separate ways, one takes it better than the other and that’s when things really get interesting.

Bobbi has survived an abusive marriage with the son of a Senator. This as well as an attempt on her life when she decided that enough was enough. Now, she's happily married with a son of her own. Life should be blissful. Except for the memories, flashbacks and emotional trauma left by not just him, but others who were supposed to care for her. Follow Bobbi on her journey of healing from abuse. Kelvin, Bobbi's husband knows that something is not right. His wife isn't sleeping, eating or being herself. She has changed since the shooting that nearly took both of their lives and ended in the ...

Danielle is young, sexy and ambitious. She is moving forward with the speed of light when the pursuit of love changes her plans. Danielle falls victim to a crime of passion that ultimately leads to heartache, abandonment and manslaughter. As she sits in a tiny jail cell she asks herself, “What have I done? How did I get here?” By the grace of God she was returned to society when others served a life sentence for the same crime. Counting her blessings or is she? Even in jail she continues to make the same choices. Being involved with man after man when the man she should have been ...

Sixteen-year-old Sarah can't draw. This is a problem, because as long as she can remember, she has "done the art." She thinks she's having an existential crisis. And she might be right; she does keep running into past and future versions of herself as she wanders the urban ruins of Philadelphia. Or maybe she's finally waking up to the tornado that is her family, the tornado that six years ago sent her once-beloved older brother flying across the country for a reason she can't quite recall.

In the 18th century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only briefly in historical records. Combining fragmentary sources with interdisciplinary methodologies that include black feminist theory and critical studies of history and slavery, Dispossessed Lives demonstrates how the construction of the archive marked enslaved women's bodies, in life and in death.

A rogue master vampire hits town, and Anita gets caught in the middle of an undead turf war. Jean-Claude, the Master Vamp of the city, wants her for his own - but his enemies have other plans. And to make matters worse, Anita takes a hit to the heart when she meets a stunningly handsome junior high science teacher named Richard Zeeman. They're two humans caught in the crossfire - or so Anita thinks

We are living in a time of uprisings that routinely involve physical confrontation—burning vehicles, barricades, vandalism, and scuffles between protesters and authorities. Yet the Left has struggled to incorporate rioting into theories of change, remaining stuck in recurring debates over violence and nonviolence. Civil resistance studies have popularized the term “strategic nonviolence,” spreading the notion that violence is wholly counter-productive.