Book Description
A collection of stories featuring outlaw women who take revenge seriously includes tales penned by such writers as Niyah Moore, India, and N'Tyse.
Author : N'Tyse
Publisher : Urban Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 164556083X
A collection of stories featuring outlaw women who take revenge seriously includes tales penned by such writers as Niyah Moore, India, and N'Tyse.
Author : R. Rivera
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 38,17 MB
Release : 2003-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1403981671
New York Puerto Ricans have been an integral part of hip hop culture since day one: from 1970s pioneers like Rock Steady Crew's Jo-Jo, to recent rap mega-stars Big Punisher (R.I.P.) and Angie Martinez. Yet, Puerto Rican participation and contributions to hip hop have often been downplayed and even completely ignored. And when their presence has been acknowledged, it has frequently been misinterpreted as a defection from Puerto Rican culture and identity, into the African American camp. But nothing could be further from the truth. Through hip hop, Puerto Ricans have simply stretched the boundaries of Puerto Ricanness and latinidad.
Author : N'Tyse
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1476744505
In classic street grit of profane tales, disloyalties, and vendettas, are four novellas featuring cold-hearted women who get ahead in America’s grimiest underworld. Twisted Loyalty by Kai Tandra is a professional cleaner hired by the lords of the city’s underbelly to clean crime scenes and eliminate evidence, including eyewitnesses. When her employee has a slipup and divulges the details of a murder scene, it jeopardizes not only Tandra’s life, but the lives of everyone involved. Three the Hard Way by C.J. Hudson After beating the rap on a murder charge when the star witness is murdered, Jasmine Turner can now go back to her job as a crook. As the leader of the Get Money Bitches, she and her crew of thuggettes do whatever it takes to get paid, but a problem arises when a member of her crew becomes involved with a mysterious woman. The Face of Death by Brandie Davis Death comes in many forms, but the most memorable goes by Bobbi. With numerous surgeries performed on her face, beauty is a thing of the past. Bobbi finds herself running the East Coast drug trade handed to her by her husband, but when she falls for a plastic surgeon, a street war between husband and wife ensues. Chasers by N’Tyse When a carefully planned lick goes awry, best friends Shinette and Tierra walk away from the scene as cold-blooded murderers. Unsettled over the mess they’re in, Tierra confides in her boyfriend, hoping it will somehow bring her comfort. Little does she know, it could be the biggest mistake of her life. “From the very first page, readers are drawn into Gutta Mamis like they never imagined. These stories, chronicling the lives of powerful, ruthless and cunning women, are sure to have everyone breathless with anticipation as the stories move from scene to scene. A MUST-READ!” –Tracy Brown, national bestselling author of White Lines.
Author : Tato Laviera
Publisher : Arte Público Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 17,48 MB
Release : 2014-11-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1611928699
“I think in Spanish / I write in English / I want to go back to Puerto Rico / but I wonder if my kink could live / in ponce, mayagúez and Carolina.” Born in Puerto Rico but raised in New York City, Tato Laviera’s poetry reflects his bilingual, bicultural Nuyorican existence while celebrating the universality of the human condition and his European, indigenous and African roots. Tato Laviera explores identity, community, urban life, oppression and much more in these multi-layered pieces that spanned his too-short life. Many deal with themes specific to the immigrant experience, such as the sense of alienation many feel when they are not accepted in their native or adopted land. In “nuyorican,” he writes about returning to his native island, only to be looked down upon for his way of speaking: “ahora regreso, con un corazón boricua, y tú / me desprecias, me miras mal, me atacas mi hablar.” Music and dance, an integral part of Puerto Rican life, permeate Laviera’s verse and pay homage to the Caribbean’s African roots. “i hear merengue in French Haiti / and in Dominican blood, / and the guaracha in yoruba, / and the mambo sounds inside the plena.” Including all of his previously published poems and some that have never been published, these are bold expressions of hybridity in which people of mixed races speak a combination of languages. He skillfully weaves English and Spanish, and frequently writes in Spanglish. The importance of language and its impact on his identity is evident in poems entitled “Español,” “Bilingüe” and “Spanglish.” Known for his lively, energetic poetry readings, Bendición represents an internationally recognized poet’s life work and will serve to keep Tato Laviera’s words and the issues he wrote about alive long after his death.
Author : Jasmine Williams
Publisher : Urban Books
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 13,23 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1601626126
“Secure the bag” is their motto, and death before dishonor is their G-code, so when greed, disloyalty, and hidden agendas threaten their enterprises, these outlaw mamis exact revenge on a whole new level! Blood of My Blood by Jasmine Williams: Products of their environment, Naima and Cha-Cha are all too familiar with the street code, but when blood turns against blood, it sets off a chain reaction for retaliation and street justice! Watch the bodies fall in their chase to get money! Honor Among Boss Chicks by Niyah Moore: No hustle is too grand for JuJu and Tah. Being raised as troubled youth in the system and wards of the state, they can only depend on each other for survival, but will Tah’s latest masterplan threaten their friendship and blow their cover? Dishonorable by INDIA: Whoever said the dope game is only for men must’ve had no idea that women are some of the best players! Markita, Alexis, and Kenya stumble into Detroit’s rising drug trade, and using their street intel and hustle-hard mentality, they quickly rise to the top. The question is, how long will they stay? Mental by Brandie Davis: Tammy and her younger brother, Cory, solidified a desirable position harvesting organs in the black market. Their success inspires drug dealer Baldwin, and he’s desperate to eliminate his competition, even if it means catching a body. He’ll learn soon enough the lengths one will go to protect what’s theirs. One in the Chamber by N’TYSE: Carma Jenkins has had her fair share of run-ins with the law as a wild and rebellious teenager; however, after witnessing her parents’ brutal murder, she vowed to change her life for the better. Now the ambitious real estate broker is living her best life3⁄4until the past she deserted resurfaces to collect on the IOU.
Author : Heather Michelle Marsh
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 14,2 MB
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 145008883X
Angelia Zapata is about to learn that life is not a fairy tale. In her opinion, a quinceaera is a waste of money, but the fifteenth-birthday celebration that she has avoided for a year quickly becomes more than a fancy party and a pretty dress. When members of a local gang crash her party, Angelias eyes are opened to a dangerous world of territorial gangs and the threat of la migra, the immigration authority. She finds comfort in the arms of her first boyfriend, but her dream of college seems to be slipping from her grasp. Torn between her family, her faith, her boyfriend, and her future, Angelia tries to be true to all of them, but her efforts may jeopardize everythingeven her life.
Author : Ronald Grigor Suny
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 50,16 MB
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691202710
"This biography of the young Stalin is more than the story of how a revolutionary was made: it is the first serious investigation, using the full range of Russian and Georgian archives, to explain Stalin's evolution from a romantic and idealistic youth into a hardened political operative. Suny takes seriously the first half of Stalin's life: his intellectual development, his views on issue of nationalities and nationalism, and his role in the Social Democratic debates of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book narrates an almost tragic downfall; we see Stalin transform from a poor provincial seminarian, who wrote romantic nationalist poetry, into a fearsome and brutal ruler. Many biographers of Stalin turn to shallow psychological analysis in seeking to explain his embrace of revolution, focusing on the beatings he suffered at the hands of his father or his hero-worship of Lenins, or sensationalizing Stalin's involvement in violent activity. Suny seeks to show Stalin in the complex context of the oppressive tsarist police-state in which he lived and debates and party politics that animated the revolutionary circles in which he moved. Though working from fragmentary evidence from disparate sources, Suny is able to place Stalin in his intellectual and political context and reveal, not only a different analysis of the man's psychological and intellectual transformation, but a revisionist history of the revolutionary movements themselves before 1917"--
Author : E. Benjamin Skinner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,72 MB
Release : 2009-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0743290089
Based on four years of research in over a dozen countries across the globe, journalist Skinner provides a shocking expos of the inner workings of the modern-day slave trade. Maps.
Author : Niyah Moore
Publisher : Urban Renaissance
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 10,16 MB
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1622862589
Sometimes, it’s our secrets that define us… Sand Cove may be a beautiful secret haven tucked away from the city with picture-perfect residents, but what lies beneath the luxury is more than what meets the eye. Luca Moretti, thrice-divorced, is an award-winning movie director who has a reputation for bedding many of his co-stars, including his current wife, Tahira. When Tahira finds out, can he handle the tables being turned? Tahira Moretti is a London-bred actress who is unhappily married to the older Luca, who constantly criticizes her to mask his indiscretions. His lack of attention to her practically drives her into the arms of their neighbor, Alohnzo. Alohnzo Kelly is a very handsome bachelor who can have any woman he wants, but he only has eyes for one. He knows he must conceal his feelings for Tahira. Keeping secrets seems to be something that runs in his family. From the outside, Noble and Tru Mason appear to have the perfect marriage. Yet, the secrets they carry have the potential to destroy it . . . and them. When one of the residents turns up dead, almost everyone becomes a suspect, and the community will no longer be the same.
Author : Niyah Moore
Publisher : Urban Renaissance
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1645563243
The streets pump blood through Rocko’s heart, but his women are the electricity that spreads and causes it to contract. Though he’s madly in love with his fiancée, Troi, he can’t keep his past mistakes with other women from catching up with him. “Mistakes have the power to turn you into something better than you were before.” Troi is tired of his constant lies and cheating ways, while Heather and Mai find that being Rocko’s baby mamas comes with more than they bargained for. Troi discovers that she’s pregnant just when she’s wishing she could shake Rocko for the last time. When things seem as if they can’t get any worse, Rocko discovers he has yet another baby mama who hid his child from him. Trying his best to stay out of prison for a murder he didn’t commit, he keeps Troi out of harm’s way. While the streets want him, his children, and the women in his life dead, the only thing he wants to do is to marry Troi once and for all. Will Rocko be able to keep everyone safe and change his life for the better? Or will the street jury find him guilty and take everything away?