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4) Haiku
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Late one night, Michael--an addicted gambler who has lost everything, including himself--spots a woman in a white Rolls-Royce throwing something into the river. Convinced that the woman is a perfect blackmail target, he attempts to recruit a band of homeless outcasts to search for her. But news that a building is slated for demolition turns this halfhearted effort into a serious mission to find the ultimate problem-solver: money, and with it a new...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
What Jonathan Lethem did for Brooklyn, Matt Burgess does for Queens in this exuberant and brilliant debut novel about a young drug dealer having a very bad weekend.
Alfredo Batista has some worries. Okay, a lot of worries. His older brother, Jose—sorry, Tariq—is returning from a stretch in prison after an unsuccessful robbery, a burglary that Alfredo was supposed to be part of. So now everyone thinks Alfredo snitched on his...
Alfredo Batista has some worries. Okay, a lot of worries. His older brother, Jose—sorry, Tariq—is returning from a stretch in prison after an unsuccessful robbery, a burglary that Alfredo was supposed to be part of. So now everyone thinks Alfredo snitched on his...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen year old Nalah leads the fiercest all-girl crew in Mega City, but when she sets her sights on giving this life up for a prestigious home in Mega Towers, she has to prove her loyalty by hunting down the Ashe Ryders gang, and begins to have serious doubts about what is really important." --
8) Olivia Twist
Author
Publisher
Blink
Language
English
Formats
Description
Olivia Brownlow, born in a workhouse and raised as a boy among thieving London street gangs, is as tough and cunning as they come. Taken in by her uncle after a caper gone wrong, she's now a debutante in high society. But she can't forget the teeming slums where children still scrabble to survive. Jack MacCarron, once known as the Artful Dodger, became the adopted "nephew" of a society matron. He and his "aunt" are robbing society blind every chance...
9) Dark eyes
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Adopted from a Russian orphanage by a wealthy New York family then growing into a rebellious street youth, fifteen year-old Wally resolves to find the birth mother who stole a fortune from her murderous, dark-eyed father.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 406 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
11) Public enemy #1
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A former journalist with a knack for unraveling dirty secrets, Khloé Mercer figures if she's going to risk her life, she might as well make big money as a private investigator. But this reckless newbie needs a major case to make her name - and really show she can handle Norfolk, Virginia's toughest streets ... When a narcotics detective's widow needs someone to investigate her disgraced husband's so-called suicide, Khloé jumps at the lucrative...
12) True to the game
Publisher
GVN Releasing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A charismatic drug lord tries to start a new life after he falls for a young woman from Philadelphia.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Mitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood in America's whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the '90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. In his commanding autobiographical novel, Mitchell writes what it was to come of age in that time and place, with a break-out voice that's nothing less than extraordinary."The Residue Years" switches between the perspectives of a young...
Author
Publisher
G-Unit Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First G-Unit/Pocket Books paperback edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 194 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Achieving success with her beauty salon after a long stint in prison, Sunni despairs of finding a healthy relationship, while Trill, having served five years for a crime he did not commit, dreams of revenge and winning the lifestyle his model girlfriend craves.
Author
Publisher
Cityfiles Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
207 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Since her death in 2009, Vivian Maier has become a photographic phenomenon. Her story--thousands of photo negatives and prints found in a storage locker and sold for pennies at auction--has stirred millions around the world. Maier was a painfully private woman who now speaks powerfully through the photographs she took only for herself. This new collection offers readers a chance to follow Maier as she travels the world, including images of France,...
16) Paris
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
While waiting for a heart transplant that could save his life, Pierre reunites with his sister and her lively children. This rediscovery of his family and observation of the teeming streets outside his window give Pierre hope, and a new sense of how he might spend the time still left to him. A story about the middle-class and bourgeois, immigrants and students, fashion models and the homeless, and all the lovers and strangers whose paths could cross...
Author
Publisher
PowerHouse Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
123 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A good street photographer must be possessed of many talents: an eye for detail, light, and composition; impeccable timing; a populist or humanitarian outlook; and a tireless ability to constantly shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot and never miss a moment. It is hard enough to find these qualities in trained photographers with the benefit of schooling and mentors and a community of fellow artists and aficionados supporting and rewarding their efforts. It...
Author
Language
English
Description
On the streets of 1970s Brooklyn, a daily ritual goes down: the dance. Money is exchanged, belongings surrendered, power asserted. The promise of violence lies everywhere, a currency itself. For these children, Black, brown, and white, the street is a stage in shadow. And in the wings hide the other parents; cops; renovators; landlords; those who write the headlines, the histories, and laws; those who award this neighborhood its name. The rules appear...
19) Know your place
Author
Series
Publisher
Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
viii, 294 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Their stint at the Branch Avenue Boys' Youth Institute taught Ricky, Derrick, and Jamal to unite when the going got tough... and things are really tough right now. Arrested during a raid, Ricky must inform on D.C's drug king pin, Dolla Dolla-- and find the woman who loved and betrayed him. One of Institute head Derrick's students is hiding Dolla Dolla's major stash, and attempt to do the right thing will have shattering consequences. Jamal's backroom...
20) Odd man out
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
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