K'wan
1) The fix 2
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Urban Books
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English
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As she tries to fix her life after a nearly deadly cocaine addiction, Persia receives a call that threatens to pull her back to the streets, while her childhood friend Li'l Monk is making a name for himself as a ruthless gangland killer.
2) The fix 3
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Urban Books
Language
English
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Persia is drug free and has gotten her life back on track. Meanwhile, Chucky is determined to make Persia his again.
3) The fix
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Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Language
English
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Persia Chandler doesn't know the meaning of the world struggle. After the arrest of her notorious father, she is whisked away from Harlem, the only place she has ever called home, to be raised in an affluent neighborhood in Long Island City. Her mother and stepfather shower her with the best that life has to offer. During her senior year in high school, she convinces her parents to let her transfer from Catholic school to attend public school. That...
4) Black lotus
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English
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In order to avoid an Internal Affairs investigation, Detective Wolf must hunt down the "Black Lotus Killer," a pursuit that leads to a cold case from his past.
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English
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It's been months since Kahllah El-Amin hung up her pistols and retired from the murder-for-hire business, leaving behind her days of dealing in death and espionage in favor of a quiet desk job. After so many years of searching, Kahllah has finally found peace. But when a police officer is murdered and a familiar flower is left at the crime scene, all signs point to it being the work of the Black Lotus. Someone is trying to frame her! The case is handed...
6) Road Dawgz
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Publisher
Triple Crown
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
''It's the penthouse or the morgue.'' This is the philosophy adopted by Keshawn Wilson, a.k.a. ''K-Dawg,'' self-proclaimed lord of the streets. Keshawn is the youngest of five kids and one of only two that doesn't belong to his mother's husband. As a little boy he feels the distance between he and his stepfather, and life becomes increasingly difficult for him as the years pass. His childhood and young adult years are spent in a home for boys and...
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Series
Promises ; 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After Promise's mother dies in a tragic car accident, it leaves a void in Promise's life that she is yearning to fill. This titular novel finds Promise spiraling into a life of crime and drug affiliation by the company she chooses to keep. Also coping with abandonment and a lifelong broken commitment from her biological father, Promise ultimately has two goals: to graduate from high school and to be loved. But can she find the love that she seeks...
8) Wrath
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Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From the neighborhood bullies to the stepfather who uses him and his siblings as punching bags, Jonas "Wrath" Rafferty's life has been one battle after another. Rogue homicide detective Louis "Lou" Ceavers offers him a bargain that will change the course of his life, and Jonas goes from errand boy and street muscle to one of the most dangerous young men in the city. Then Alex, his childhood crush, comes home on break from college and gives him a...
9) Animal
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Series
Publisher
Cash Money Content
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Three years after narrowly escaping a one way trip to the gas chamber, the fugitive known only as Animal finds himself drawn back to the scene of the crime: Harlem. Throughout his entire time in exile, the only thing that kept Animal going was the thought that he would one day be reunited with his soul mate, Gucci--but one bullet changed everything. When his enemies tried to murder Gucci, they crossed the line, so he vowed to cross them all. While...
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English
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"The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with a glittering tale of love and longing as a young woman finds herself torn between two worlds--the WASP establishment of her father's family and George Zao, a man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with"--
On her very first morning on the island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao-- and instantly can't stand him. Especially when he kisses...
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English
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"Kevin Kwan, ... author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a ... new novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers her birthfather"--
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Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
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...
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Tionna learned from her on-and-off addicted mother how to live by her wits. Now, forced to start over in the same neighborhood she swore she'd never go back to, with her on-again/off-again boyfriend and father of her two sons in jail and everything seized by the government, she rediscovers her old life and wonders if she's cut out to ba a prisoner's wife.
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Series
Book of shadow ; 1
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Meet the Kings, one of the most influential families in New York City. In the power circles of the movers and shakers, they are regarded as modern-day royalty. A politically connected father, a socialite mother, and three promising children: they look every bit the all-American family...but every family has secrets. Some darker than others"--
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English
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The entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe to stake claim on the massive fortune of Su Yi, their matriarch. With each family member vying to inherit Tyersall Park-- a trophy estate on 64 prime acres in the heart of Singapore-- Nicholas Young's childhood home turns into a hotbed of speculation and sabotage. As her relatives fight over heirlooms, Astrid Leong is at the center of her own storm, desperately in love with her...
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English
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"Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel has a problem: the legendary Gresham Trust has been depleted by decades of profligate spending, and behind all the magazine covers and Instagram stories manors and yachts lies nothing more than a gargantuan mountain of debt. The only solution, put forth by Rufus's scheming mother, is for Rufus to attend his sister's wedding at a luxury eco-resort, a veritable...
19) Promise kept
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Series
Promises ; 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
20240319
Language
English
Description
"Promise and her best friend Mouse have fled Newark and are hiding out in New York City, wanted by the police—and the streets—for the death of B-Stone, leader of the Bloods. In the city, Promise has found work as a waitress at a hole-in-the-wall strip club. But one fateful night, she is forced to face her past when an up-and-coming rapper draws several shady characters into her orbit. Meanwhile, Asher has maneuvered himself into a position of...
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Publisher
Write 2 Eat Concepts
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"All he ever wanted to be was a Good Son Shai Clark was an all-American basketball player with aspirations of one day making it to the NBA, but that all changed when his father was viciously murdered and he found himself thrust into the role of the new head of his family's criminal enterprise. After waging a war on the streets of New York that lasts nearly three years, it seems like peace is finally being restored to the land and Shai can get back...