#Urban#Street Literature #Sequel epic of best friends Power and Beauty.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Novel of Power and Beauty

Grammy Award-winning hip-hop artist, producer, and actor T.I. proved himself a powerful storyteller as well with the publication of his debut novel Power & Beauty. Now he follows up with his second riveting street-lit epic, Trouble & Triumph.

T.I.'s explosive sequel picks up the story of Paul "Power" Clay and Tanya "Beauty" Long, as Power takes over his mentor-turned-arch-enemy's street empire, looking to turn it legit, while Beauty rises ever-higher in a glamorous world of fashion and celebrity. An authentic voice of the street, in the vein of Sistah Souljah and other successful authors of contemporary African-American commercial fiction, T.I. is a rap music legend who has lived at every strata of society, and whose hard life experience adds truth and fire to Trouble & Triumph.

Trouble and Triumph

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Colorado

The Goat Justice League's Guide to Backyard Goat Keeping

Time Magazine [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1914991-1,00.html] calls author Jennie Grant the, "godmother of goat lovers."

Jennie Grant is your average 40-something mother with a bungalow in Seattle's leafy Madrona neighborhood, a happy middle-school child, a tolerant husband, and a pug named Eddie. She also happens to keep chickens and two milking goats, Snowflake and Eloise, and is regionally known as the passionate founder of theGoat Justice League [http://www.goatjusticeleague.org].

Since Grant began keeping milking goats several years ago, she has learned firsthand the remarkable benefits and beauty of keeping goats -- how much healthier and easier to maintain a yard with goats can be, the tolerance levels of neighbors, the health benefits of non-industrial foods, and how interacting with goats inspires a connection with nature.City Goats: The Goat Justice League's Guide to Urban Goat Keeping is her step-by-step guide to raising a pair of dairy goats in your urban or suburban backyard, from learning city zoning requirements and selecting goats to setting up your yard, building a goat shed, feeding and caring, kidding, and milking.

Practical and at times comical (just like a goat!), connected both to nature and the city, and slightly rebellious --City Goats: The Goat Justice League's Guide to Urban Goat Keeping is a book for gardeners, people committed to eating locally, and anyone who has ever pondered joining the backyard goat revolution.





City Goats

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A coming of age story set in Brooklyn NYC. Sisters and family relations. Kind of a slow start but picks up. #africanamericanwomen #urban #NYC #paperback #westindian 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Brown Girl, Brownstones

California

A Novel

When Pru Steiner met and married Spence Robin she thought she knew what she was signing up for. But thirty years later, when Spence develops early-onset Alzheimer's, the peaceful (if ambivalent) life Pru has built for herself begins to crumble. Further complicating things is Arlo, Spence's son from an earlier marriage, who feels he has never lived up to his father's expectations

Morningside Heights

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#hardcover #urban #contemporarywomen #africanamerican #christan #triangles

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

A Curtis Black Novel 

"Two years ago, to everyone's surprise, Dillon Whitfield Black, the secret son of Reverend Curtis Black, boldly moved back home, married a woman named Raven, decided he was going to become a minister and then founded a church right in the center of his living room. Today he's pastor of an 1000-plus-member congregation, and new members are joining weekly. Sadly, behind closed doors, Dillon is far from being a saint. Dillon has become more like the man his father was thirty years ago consumed with money, power and lots of women. His family may have forgiven him, but they continue to keep their distance. Not Alicia, though. This daughter of Curtis Black joins Dillon's congregation, leaving her father's church behind. The family has forgiven Alicia for marrying Levi Cunningham, the former drug dealer she had an affair with, but once Alicia realizes they will never fully accept Levi, she decides to see her family less and less. But when Raven decides she wants a higher position in the church and Alicia hides a devastating secret, the entire family is affected in ways they don't see coming. In the end, no one will be able to trust anyone and for very good reason. "--

A Sinful Calling

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"Do you really think she rides with us, Lucie? I mean, when we want to win so bad we can taste it in the back of our mouths and our throats go dry? Is Mama watchin' over us when it's our turn at the gate?" Annie Sharon and Lucie-Marie, daughters of two African-American rodeo stars, have been raised by their loving but remote father, Tie-Down, since their mother, Twanda, was killed by an out-of-control horse. The girls feel their mother's absence terribly, especially now that they are beginning to get older, but Tie-Down misses her too much to talk about her. Now Tie-Down has started dating Cassie, and the girls resent her intrusion into their lives. But after a close call at the rodeo, it is Cassie who finally brings this family together.

Daddy Says

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Missouri

Marisol Rivera barely survived being abused with nowhere to turn. So there's nothing she won't do to keep her Lower East Side women's health clinic open and give disadvantaged women new lives. Running an exclusive escort service for New York City's rich and powerful one percent is the perfect way to bankroll her business - not to mention the perfect cover for robbing corrupt CEOs. And when times get even tougher, pulling a heist on a mega-billionaire will secure the clinic's future for good. Marisol's a smoking hot, modern-day Robin Hood.

Uptown Thief

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A Novel 

From award-winning author Kia DuPree, hailed for her emotionally complex characters and breakneck pacing, comes a propulsive and compelling novel about a young girl navigating the dangerous underbelly of the foster care system. 



Kiki's world is turned upside down when her partially deaf mother loses custody of her children, sending Kiki and her siblings into foster care. After running away with a friend, the two run straight into the arms of a pedophile in disguise, who lures the two girls into a life far too mature for their twelve-year-old minds. Held in captivity for months, the girls are finally set free when a neighbor exposes them. But what should have been a happy moment for Kiki actually sends her on a life path that quickly spirals out of control.

 

Shattered

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North Carolina

Love, Betrayal and Loyalty on the Streets of Harlem

Daruis, a.k.a. Rio, the only child of a singer turned alcoholic, feels he has nothing to hold on to except the idea of escaping the ghetto. Years ago, he took a gun charge for a friend and did some prison time. Unable to find a job when he gets out, Rio turns to hustling as a way out. In the meantime, Rio finds escape in the arms of his soulmate, Trinity.

When Trinity's mother died, her abusive father looks to her to play the role of house wife and bedmate. Trinity finds strength to endure in Rio's arms. Together they vow to do whatever it takes to make it out of the ghetto. But soon they find their backs against the wall when the streets come to claim their due.

Street Dreams

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Who wants that perfect love story anyway.....Despite growing up in the ghetto, the beautiful Shontay Baker has still managed to make the right decisions in life. With a fresh start in life and a promising new career, she's excited about her future. Her only mistake is that she fell in love with a madman.Bugsy 2 Gunz is a stone-cold killer. As grimey as he is ruthless, he will do anything for a dollar -including bringing the love of his life, Shontay, in on a caper. All seems well until the love until the cops show up at Shontay's door. What happens next, sets off a chain of events that threaten to destroy both of their lives, as Shontay learns, firsthand, what it's like to be on the other side of the law."Outlaw Chick is a fast paced thriller packed with sex, money and murder, told in the intricate details of an Al-Saadiq Banks banger. A harrowing journey of two people bound by love, determined to beat the odds, this sizzling page-turner will have you on the edge of your seat until the climatic end leaves you breathless.....

Outlaw Chick

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When she accompanies her high-powered lawyer husband to his native New Orleans to solve a murder mystery, Bernadette learns about her spouse's dark past.

Lawless

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#1 Essence bestselling author K'Wan returns withThe Diamond Empire, the explosive, hard-hitting follow-up novel to the street love storyDiamonds and Pearl.

It's about to be an all-out war. While an ambitious rival has taken over Diamonds's crew, Diamonds lies in wait in exile, carefully planning his next move to comeback and reclaim his position as king of the streets of New York for good. But when an unexpected enemy from the past one-ups Diamonds and beats him at his own game, Diamonds needs to dig deep into his bag of tricks--and make an unlikely alliance--in order to climb back to the top.


After opening her heart to Diamonds and then having him disappear, Pearl lives her days in a very dark place. But when her father's empire is toppled and a gaping power vacuum needs to be filled, Pearl is drawn into the very life her father so desperately wanted to shield her from. Pearl needs to fight tooth and nail to become queen of her father's kingdom, as Diamonds claws his way back to Pearl.

The Diamond Empire

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Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

They say that good girls like bad boys, and this was especially true for Pearl Stone. A child born of privilege to a drug baron and reputed killer known in the streets as Big Stone. Although the flashy, fast-paced nature of the streets calls to Pearl, she's been brought up to look but not touch. But when a young hustler named Diamonds crawls up from the swamps of Louisiana and sets up shop in New York City, everything Pearl was taught flies out the window. Raised in the wild and schooled on the mean streets of New Orleans, Diamonds is no stranger to hard times and is willing to do whatever it takes to stay above the poverty line, including kill. When a robbery turned mass murder goes wrong, Diamonds is forced to flee New Orleans and lands in New York where he meets Pearl, and for the first time finds something he craves more than wealth and power...love. As the stakes get higher, Diamonds has to push away his past if he's to grab hold of his future--but by doing so, will he show Pearl that all that glitters isn't gold?

Diamonds and Pearl

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Visions of an Urban Planet

Stunning satellite images of one hundred cities show our urbanizing planet in a new light to reveal the fragile relationship between humanity and Earth Seeing cities around the globe in their larger environmental contexts, we begin to understand how the world shapes urban landscapes and how urban landscapes shape the world. Authors Karen Seto and Meredith Reba provide these revealing views to enhance readers' understanding of the shape, growth, and life of urban settlements of all sizes--from the remote town of Namche Bazaar in Nepal to the vast metropolitan prefecture of Tokyo, Japan. Using satellite data, the authors show urban landscapes in new perspectives. The book's beautiful and surprising images pull back the veil on familiar scenes to highlight the growth of cities over time, the symbiosis between urban form and natural landscapes, and the vulnerabilities of cities to the effects of climate change. We see the growth of Las Vegas and Lagos, the importance of rivers to both connecting and dividing cities like Seoul and London, and the vulnerability of Fukushima and San Juan to floods from tsunami or hurricanes. The result is a compelling book that shows cities' relationships with geography, food, and society.

City Unseen

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Examines different cities from all over the world and looks at their physical, economic, social, and political structure, as well as their relationships to each other and where future urbanization might be headed.

Atlas of Cities

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Back cover has some bend creases. #english #language #school #blackculture #teaching #rap #urban #paperback 

Breaking down the Barriers

A look at how to move African American children from black English to standard English.

Black Communications (signed first edition)

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

When her best friend ends up dead after being caught in the crossfire of the strong-arm tactics of the De Nardis, one of the most powerful drug suppliers in the city, during their attempt to take over control of Harlem, Eve Panelli, a young woman whose only family is the infamous Twenty-Gang, launches her own campaign to seek revenge on those responsible. By the author of Street Dreams. Original. 50,000 first printing.

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#paperback #gift #art #sketching #watercolor #drawing #city #urban #artist #painting

New York

A Guide to Drawing, Painting, and Storytelling in Color

A guide that shows painters, drawers, doodlers, and urban sketchers how to bring their drawings to life with colorful, bold, yet accessible painting methods.

COLOR YOUR LIFE

Bring new energy to your sketches of urban scenes with this fresh and simple approach to watercolor painting. Whether you're an amateur artist, drawer, doodler, or sketcher, watercolor is a versatile sketching medium that's perfect for people on the go--much like pen or pencil. Accomplished designer and illustrator Felix Scheinberger offers a solid foundation in color theory and countless lessons on all aspects of watercolor sketching, including:

Fundamentals like wet-on-wet, glazes, and washes
Materials and supplies to bring on your travels
Little-known tips and tricks, like painting when water
isn't handy and seeking out inspiration

Vibrant watercolor paintings grace each page, and light-hearted anecdotes (why do fish make great subjects to paint, you may be wondering...) make this a lively guide to the medium. With an open mind and sketchbook, you will be ready to capture the moments around you in luminous color with confidence, creativity, and ease--no matter what your skill level may be.

Urban Watercolor Sketching

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Love always comes with a price. After the murder of a dirty Los Angeles detective, St. Louis 'Lou-Loc' Alexander finds himself a hunted man. Trying to stay one step ahead of the gas chamber, he flees to New York to try to pick up the pieces of his life. Fate throws him a curve ball when he meets Satin Angelino and falls head over heels in love. Satin is young, fine and keeping a secret that could cost him his life.

Gangsta

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•2005 First Edition Hardcover
•Good Condition- This book is in good condition with some light wear to the dust jacket. The book looks great with no markings inside or outside. The pages are all very crisp and clean. See photos.

 #fantasy #series #mythology #urban #scifi #humor #adult #magicalrealism #contemporary #firstedition

Virginia

Anansi Boys American Gods #2

Ohio

The Moneychangers

A HoodRat Novel

Only the strong survie on the streets of Brooklyn. And while Dena Jones definitely has what it takes not only to survive but to succeed, she wants out. And she's determined to make it out of Crooklyn. She's determined to make it out of Crooklyn by any means necessary and doesn't have a problem manipulating men to get what she wants. Just ask her boyfriend Lance, or his girlfriend Michelle.
True has finally made it. His debut album has the streets going crazy and is threatening to spill over into the mainstream. After the murder of his group, his jump off and almost his dreams, True's life is finally starting to look up, until karma catches up with him. Somebody wants him dead and he doesn't know why, or does he?
Jah and Yoshi's was supposed to be a romance straight out of a story but there are no such things as fairy tails in the ghetto. Her position as a stylist keeps her in the mix and in the company of some industry heavyweights. Jah tries to be understanding but he can't help but to wonder just how much he can trust his girlfriend. He had promised to love her regardless of her past but in addition to wondering whether his girlfriend is creeping with her clients Jah has got a bigger problem. Someone is trying to kill True and its his job to make sure that doesn't happen.

Still Hood

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A Hood Rat Novel

When three young friends, Porsha, Frankie and Sahara, decide to sublease an apartment from a mutual acquaintance, life becomes one big party for the girls. But the party comes to an abrupt end when they find out they've been fleeced for their money and an eviction notice is taped to their door. They have seventy-two hours to come up with the money or be tossed into the streets by the city marshals. Armed with various schemes, they set out to try and stop the eviction and find themselves caught in the crossfire of a bloody war between the Notorious Clark family and a new player in the game.

Meanwhile the police are still searching for the killer known only as The Animal, while his former lover Gucci tries to put the pieces of her life back together. When all is said and done, all parties involved will discover something about Animal and his abduction that no one was prepared for.

There goes the neighborhood, again!
One of Library Journal's Best Street Lit Books of 2011

Eviction Notice

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After he finds fame and fortune as a recording artist in Texas, Animal returns home to his girlfriend, Gucci, bringing with him a hidden agenda that will have life-altering consequences, while Malika meets the man of her dreams, who happens to be married, and bad-blooded Jada Butler meets her match. By the #1 Essence best-selling author of Section 8. Original.

Tip "T. I." Harris; David Ritz

Trouble and Triumph

Jennie Grant

City Goats

Paul’s Marshall

Brown Girl, Brownstones

Joshua Henkin

Morningside Heights

Kimberla Lawson Roby

A Sinful Calling

Ntozake Shange

Daddy Says

Aya de León

Uptown Thief

Kia DuPree

Shattered

K'wan

Street Dreams

Saadiq Banks

Outlaw Chick

K'wan

Lawless

K'wan

The Diamond Empire

K'wan

Diamonds and Pearl

Karen C. Seto

City Unseen

Paul Knox (Editor)

Atlas of Cities

Evelyn B. Dandy,

Black Communications (signed first edition)

K'wan

Eve

Felix Scheinberger

Urban Watercolor Sketching

K'wan

Gangsta

Neil Gaiman

Anansi Boys American Gods #2

Arthur Hailey

The Moneychangers

K'wan

Still Hood

K'wan

Eviction Notice

K'wan

Welfare Wifeys