The Ballad of Buckett


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High-top-fade security guard hero Buckett Collins goes in search of a beloved comrades murderers, fights to save a child abuse victim, and evades a belligerent former love interest amid self-doubt, hostility, and the insanity and street violence of 1989 South Central Los Angeles.




The Legend of Step To


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Marvin “Step To” Baker is crushed by two untimely personal tragedies. A drunk driver kills his beloved cousin Tim. The chance and glory of Tim and Step To winning an Olympic gold medal, a long-held dream of theirs, is destroyed forever. Step To (an inner-city term which meant to boldly assert one’s self, be courageous, go forth and face challenges with direct action and disregard the risks and results) is left an angry, broken-hearted, ornery and rebellious black man without hope and purpose in his life. He later becomes encouraged and enlightened to help the black community by Elaine, a militant community activist who falls in love with him. In a fit of dispair, however, Step To ends up joining a drug trafficking gang. But when the gang abducts Elaine and holds her and some of her allies hostage, Step To becomes a crusader, hellbent on saving the woman he loves and the black/brown community amidst both violent crime and racial turmoil in 1980 Compton, California.




The Downlow Saga


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Abuser and loser Eugene Downlow Colston is left with tormenting, bitter defeatism and relentless despair as a total failure, brokenhearted and frustrated by his fed-up former fiance. She beat him badly during a spat and, later, legally, in a court case against her. She broke their engagement and his nose, tossed his engagement ring in his female-battered face, and then walked out on him forever. Now all alone, plagued by racism, driven to liquor in a fruitless effort to drown his inner hellish pain, disrespected, ridiculed, and rejected as a miserable, worthless, no sexgetting, low-down black ghetto scumbag, Downlow finds redemption and purpose in armed security guard work. The Compton man also finds himself amid a wave of terrorist suicide bombings and street violence waged by the vicious Tammerack Tigers gang. Downlow manages to inspire both the black community and his fellow security officers to stand up for what is right in the face of the warring, fanatical criminal gangs bloody reign of terror in 1989 South Central Los Angeles.




Make Tracks


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A cruel past, bourne of frustration, racism, abuse, womanizing, violence and hearbreaks, torments former high school and college champion sprinter, distance runner and fencing great Gilbert “Make Tracks” Courtney. He especially grieves the abortion of his unborn son by an embittered, vengeful ex-fiancee with a long grudge. The troubled Make Tracks channels his swirling, unbridled rage and emotions over her evil act into helping an inner-city community youth athletic center. Through his self-unaware charisma and leadership drawn from his past athletic successes, as a law student in college and a few tough years in a big city law firm, Make Tracks inspires his pupils with much-needed bravery, fortitude, confidence, self-worth and hope amid a rash of armed robberies and drive-by shootings in early 1990s South-Central Los Angeles.




Man Up


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Hi-top fade security protectionist hero Buckett Collins summons all his courage (man up, in African-American urban parlance) and battles to protect his beloved daughter, Becky, from the clutches of Bane, the sinister, hell-bent leader of the Rocky Ensergent terrorist gang. Becky witnessed Bane murder Bucketts friend during a gang assault upon a group of black community activists. Enraged and filled with revenge, the homicidal Bane is determined to rape, kill, and stop Becky from reporting his deadly crime to the police. Amid a savage blood feud between Banes mob and their hated, equally bloodthirsty rivals, the Satans Guerilla gang, Buckett and Becky struggle to gain justice within the ghetto terrorism of 1990s South-Central Los Angeles.




There's a Hole in My Bucket


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Read and sing along with the song no one can resist! There's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza,There's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, a hole.Then fix it, dear Henry, dear Henry,Then fix it, dear Henry, dear Henry, fix it! When Henry the goat discovers a hole in his bucket, Liza the duck offers a series of solutions to fix it. But as each solution brings a new problem, Henry and Liza compete in a riotous back-and-forth that continues to escalate. Can this unruly pair find a way to get along... fix the bucket... AND enjoy the catchy refrain? With hilarious illustrations from Jenny Cooper and a rousing country treatment from singers the Topp Twins, this dynamic book and CD package brings the delightfully addictive, oh-so familiar infinite loop song to uproarious life!




There's a Hole in the Bucket


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A humorous folk song in which Liza instructs Henry how to fix a hole in the bucket and Henry gives her all the reasons why he can't do it.







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There's a Hole in My Bucket


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A humorous folk song in which Liza the goose instructs Henry the goat how to fix a hole in his bucket, and Henry gives her all the reasons why he cannot do it.