Donald Goines
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From one of the most revolutionary writers of the twentieth century comes the uncensored and gritty novel that inspired today's street lit and hip-hop culture.
After my ninth birthday, I began to really understand the meaning of my name. I began to understand just what my mother was doing for a living. There was nothing I could do about it, but even had I been able to, I wouldn't have changed it.
Whoreson Jones is the son of a beautiful black
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"Almost since the day she was born, Sandra had to fend for herself on the streets of Detroit. Crime and pain were her closest companions. Then someone she had no business believing in waltzed onto her life-- a man willing to watch her back and show her how to make easy money. But when Chink gets caught, Sandra commits the ultimate act of love to keep her man out of jail. For a black girl lost, murder was always in the cards..." --
3) Dopefiend
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"Teddy finally got the girl of his dreams. Together, Teddy and Terry filled people with admiration wherever they went. Young, gifted, and black, the future was theirs for the taking. But Teddy had a small little addiction. Then Terry had a taste. Then life took a wrong turn into the darkest, vilest back alleys. Drawing from years of his own addiction to heroin, Goines holds nothing back in this graphic, unflinching tale of lives destroyed by...
4) Death list
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Kenyatta has it good. He's got the ladies, the clubs, and the guns. The only problem is the shady dealers who are running the drugs in Detroit. It's time to get them out, even if it means upping the ante and making a deal with the men in blue. Once the plan is in place, nobody's safe, everyone's a target, and the streets are about to flood with blood.--Back cover.
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Kenyatta series volume 4
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"The voice of the ghetto itself." -The Village Voice
The godfather of urban lit is back with the graphic, thrilling conclusion to Kenyatta's quest to reclaim his streets . . .
For Kenyatta, the living urban legend, the war is far from over. With new recruits bolstering his army, he's ready to take down the drug pushers destroying his. This time the battle is moving out of the streets and heading west, where he faces off with his arch enemy in a...
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"If you want to rule the streets, you can’t get bum rushed-a stone-cold fact Kenyatta’s learned through brutal firsthand experience. He’s got the guns and the soldiers, a street-smart army raised on desperation and injustice and ready to fight the power by any means necessary. But the cops have located Kenyatta’s hideout-and they’re coming in armed to the teeth. Kenyatta is not giving up without a fight. The time is now: man up, go to war,...
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Barely out of his twenties, Chester Hines knows the score. He's just another bug crawling through the streets of Detroit, waiting to be squashed under the heel of a system meant to keep a brother down. But with his old lady on his back, his only options are on the wrong side of the law. He didn't need a fortune-teller to tell him that sooner or later he'd end up in a system more brutal than the one that forced him there. Prison life is raw. But it's...
11) Black gangster
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The story of the shocking underworld of black organized crime and the fledgling black "godfather" who goes from teenage ganglord to powerful Detroit mobster. Like the gangsters of the 1920s, he begins with bootlegging and branches out into every known crime.
12) Crime partners
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Prison buddies Billy Good and Jackie Walker made time pulling small jobs here and there. Not a bad living if you liked scraping by. The thing to worry about was the next fix. Nothing else mattered. When Billy and Jackie fell in with Kenyatta, a ghetto lord ready to take back the streets, they thought they'd hit the big time. Dealing with drug pushers and crooked cops in the name of justice sure felt good, but in a world where "kindness was the sweetest...
13) Daddy Cool
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To his clients, Larry Jackson is known as "Daddy Cool." Nobody's better at what he does. Nothing knocks him off his game. With ice in his veins, he'll pull the trigger or stick a knife deep. All that matters is he gets paid--and that his teenage daughter, Janet, stays clear of the streets. But when Janet is lured into the stable of a young, smooth-talking pimp, Daddy Cool sees red--and goes into action deadly cold and unstoppable.--Publisher's description....
17) Whoreson
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Born and bred to the violent life of ghetto prostitution, the son of a beautiful Black prostitute and an unknown John, Whoreson Jones thinks he has it all figured out--until his self assurance is shaken by betrayal.
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"As a teenager, Foxx made the tragic mistake of experimenting with drugs. By the time Foxx became an adult, he was consumed with a habit and greed. Unfortunately, his inability to make the right decisions allowed his friends in the underworld to lead his life further into self-destruction. Sometimes the most dangerous decision you can make is whom you associate yourself with. Fortunately, with his faith in God and family, he was able to become The...
19) Never die alone
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King David is a cunning and charismatic leader of the streets who returns to his home turf in Los Angeles after a 10 year absence seeking redemption, but finds only brutal retribution. An aspiring reporter becomes seduced by the culture of drugs and violence that he is supposed to be reporting about. Together, the two become mixed up with ruthless gangsters and a cold-blooded killer seeking revenge.