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Urban fiction

  • Author:
    Kalteis, Dietrich
    Summary:

    “If you like your crime hard and fast, Kalteis is for you.” — The Globe and Mail

    Set to the cranking beat and amphetamine buzz of Vancouver’s early punk scene, Zero Avenue follows Frankie Del Rey, a talented and rising punk star who runs just enough dope on the side to pay the bills and keep her band, Waves of Nausea, together. The trouble is she’s running it for Marty Sayles, a powerful drug dealer who controls the Eastside with a fist.

    When Frankie strikes up a relationship with Johnny Falco, the owner of one of the only Vancouver clubs willing to give punk a chance, she finds out he’s having his own money problems just keeping Falco’s Nest open. Desperate to keep his club, Johnny raids one of the pot fields Marty Sayles has growing out past Surrey, along Zero Avenue on the U.S. border. He gets away with a pickup load and pays back everybody he owes. Arnie Binz, bass player for Waves of Nausea, finds out about it and decides that was easy enough. But he gets caught by Marty’s crew.

    Johnny and Frankie set out to find the missing Arnie, but Marty Sayles is pissed and looking for who ripped off his other field — a trail that leads to Johnny and Frankie.

  • Author:
    White, Marlon P.S., Moore, Michel
    Summary:

    Not only is the city of Detroit bankrupt, it also has one of the highest murder rates in the country. When government-enforced power restrictions are applied, hell on earth becomes hotter in the already anything-goes, cutthroat city. Even the predators become prey. No loyalty, no respect, and no limits. It's now neighbor against neighbor, sister against brother, friend against friend, and people's true colors are tested and revealed by nightfall. 

  • Author:
    Camm, Meisha
    Summary:

    Isabel Preston loves nothing more than to be defiant towards her mother by refusing to attend college with a full scholarship. Instead, she spends most of her time running the streets with a crime lord named Bruce Tripson. After a bitter breakup, Isabel is left with nothing but the sweet cravings for the glamorous life. To regain her preferred way of living, Isabel becomes a gold digger who commands five thousand dollars for a day rate and ten thousand dollars for a night rate. After seven years of being someone else's toy, Isabel wonders whether she should settle for the simple life with just one man and seek out true love.

  • Author:
    Flowers, Catherine
    Summary:

    When her daughter is convicted of negligent homicide and goes to prison, Mavis is forced to raise her granddaughter, who is the result of her husband's betrayal.

  • Author:
    Kowalski, William
    Summary:

    This ebook bundle offers three gritty urban tales by William Kowalski. In The Barrio Kings, Rosario Gomez struggles to stay out of the gang life that killed his brother while finishing his high school diploma and preparing for the birth of his first son. But when his old friend Juan gets out of jail, his past returns to haunt him. In The Way It Works, A young bi-racial man who suddenly finds himself homeless, struggles to maintain his dignity and to make his own place in the world. In Something Noble, a single mom must try to convince a selfish drug dealer to donate one of his kidneys to his half-brother.

  • Author:
    Miller, John
    Summary:

    Paulette and Danni grew up miles apart — Paulette in Hamilton and Danni in North Toronto — but they might as well have been worlds apart. Paulette's family emigrated from Jamaica. Danni grew up Jewish in an affluent neighbourhood of Toronto. Now both women find themselves on the streets of Toronto, working in the sex trade. Paulette is a seasoned prostitute, working to support herself and her addiction. She acts as an unlikely and reluctant mentor and friend to Danni, who is new to the street and whose addiction has set her on a similar path to Paulette. Their paths intersect again and again over the course of a difficult and troubled friendship that sees Paulette begin to pull herself together while Danni manages to survive everything that comes her way. Will her luck run out? Has Paulette learned to make her own luck?

  • Author:
    Stewart, Natavia
    Summary:

    Siblings Royal, Corey, and Jamie are back. But when jealous exes can't let go and tragedy strikes, will any of them end up with a perfect love story?

  • Author:
    Stewart, Natavia
    Summary:

    The couples are back, fighting for love harder than ever! But when tragedy strikes, relationships and friendships are tested. Can love conquer all?

  • Author:
    Stewart, Natavia
    Summary:

    Royal, Jamie, and Corey are three brothers whose love affairs are rife with betrayal and secrets. Can their relationships survive exposure?

  • Author:
    Little, Terra
    Summary:

    Smoke used to supply Breanne with crack so she could block out an existence she couldn't escape from, and he was hungry enough to take anything she had to offer in exchange for his magic rocks. Fast-forward sixteen years, and Breanne is back to tell him he is the father of her sixteen-year-old son.

  • Author:
    Parks, Electa Rome
    Summary:

    A whole decade has passed since Baldwin, Brenden, Bria, and Christopher last saw each other. Now they are reunited in a small North Carolina town to attend the funeral of one of their own. Baldwin, the romantic, Brenden, the do-gooder, Bria, the wild child, and Christopher, the pretty boy, are all about to learn some truths about each other and about themselves over a few unforgettable and life-changing days. Secrets will be revealed, past hurts exposed, tears shed, and laughter shared, all in the name of friendship and love.

  • Author:
    Johnson, Brandi
    Summary:

    Mommy and Daddy foot the bills for their little girl, Kylee Hampton, but if they looked in her closet they'd know she's living larger than her allowance, and beneath the designer clothes, skeletons would be discovered.

  • Author:
    Banks, Kendall
    Summary:

    Cold-hearted Keema takes the world by storm as she navigates her way through every trick and scam she can pull off. With four kids in tow, living off the welfare system had become her life along with the extra cash, sex, and violence her gangsta boyfriend Dupree brought into her life. Soon, chaos erupts, causing Keema's secret past to become a problem. When the chips fall, they fall hard, leaving Keema willing to do whatever it takes to keep money in her pocket. She's willing to go that extra mile, even if it means selling her kids or setting up her man.

  • Author:
    Benjamin, J. M.
    Summary:

    In Las Vegas, Nevada, also known as Sin City, anything goes. This is why the Double G's have chosen to set up shop here. Starrshima Fields, aka Starr, is a young, bodacious, and bold beauty. She is also the leader of the Double G's, a powerful and ruthless social club of plus-sized women. Starr is guided by Queen Fem, the founder of the Double G's. Queen Fem set up the group of professionals-by-day, gangster-biker-chicks-by-night to prove that this isn't just a man's world. The Double G's put the squeeze on their primary targets: men of power and privilege. Blackmail and manipulation are their choice of weapons, and they are skillful in both. Agent McCarthy has been tracking the Double G's since the founder was at the helm of the organization. For years, he could not infiltrate the group of female radicals, but he has finally managed to plant a seed that could possibly lead to the destruction of the Double G's when the young Starrshima Fields becomes the new face of the group. As the temperature increases in Las Vegas, so does the pressure the Double G's apply. No man is safe from the Double G's and their manipulative tactics, and anyone who tries to stop them is putting his life in danger. These women are on a mission, and they believe the only way they can accomplish it is by keeping the game and the players in a chokehold!

  • Author:
    Levy, Jerry
    Summary:

    Jerry Levy’s gritty, urban tales are driven by arresting prose and engaging human drama. Urban Legend is psychologically intense with characters attempting to overcome personal loss in peculiar ways. In “Paris is a Woman” a man hopes that, by escaping to Paris, he will learn to manage his uncontrollable emotions; devastated by the death of his fiancée, a man in “The Golem of New York” enlists the aid of a rabbi schooled in Kaballah to help him erect a golem in her image; the protagonist in “Stolen Words” uncovers a trove of unpublished literary works that he hopes will result in fame and fortune; and, in “Phoenix Rising” a sculptress about to commit suicide rescues a cat from a busy highway and instantly gains notoriety.

  • Author:
    Leon, Aya De
    Summary:

    In this sexy, heart-stopping tale, one smart, sizzling mami robs the rich and protects the exploited-until one heist too many puts everything at stake... 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 1 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-and her gorgeous crew's-for good... There's just one problem: Marisol didn't anticipate bad news even more dangerous than her curves. A seductive ex-cop who's too close for comfort, and a powerful thug with a score to settle, are turning Marisol's precise planning and seductive fail-safes into insidious traps. Now this beautiful modern-day Robin Hood will have to play some lethal wild cards without rules or limits to save those she loves-and live to steal another day...

  • Author:
    Folkes, Nurit
    Summary:

    Natalia Foles, a gorgeous, educated, and intelligent heiress, lives the life of dreams. With a handsome, adoring fiancé well on his way to the heights of Wall Street, a fabulous career as a motivational speaker, and enough wealth to afford her a life of luxury, Natalia seems to have it all until one day when a powerful and dangerous drug lord abducts her from her Long Island home and holds her captive as he decides her fate.

  • Author:
    Weber, Natalie
    Summary:

    Carla's search for her lost sister, Serenity, begins poorly, but her love for her sister drives her. When her suspicions turn into actions, she unknowingly triggers a chain of explosive events that threaten both of them.

  • Author:
    Hunt, La Jill
    Summary:

    Paige Michaels and her no-nonsense friends search for love. Paige finally broke loose from her no-good man, and she's loving the single life--until Quincy Westbrooke shows up.

  • Author:
    Johnson, Clifford
    Summary:

    Papio and Special's love has withstood the drama, but their thirst for the dollar has once again set them on a crash course for mayhem. They have accumulated a long list of enemies, and now it's time to do battle.

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