PAPA DON’T PREACH by Thomas Long

On the streets of Baltimore it don’t get any more gangster than Nigel Hawkins.

Nigel Hawkins sold drugs, pimped women, committed strong arm robbery all in the name of chasing that ultimate high. Fresh off a ten-year bid, Nigel comes home a new man after he found religion. However, he is confronted by his past demons when he finds out that his son, JR., is spiraling down the same path of drug addiction and crime. Nigel’s newfound faith is tested by the shortcomings he uncovers is his minister and NA sponsor, Rev. Johnnie Mitchell.

Can Nigel’s love for his son save him from doom and destruction, or will the temptations of his past reel him back into the living hell that he escaped from? Papa Don’t Preach is a real life heartfelt drama about the underworld of drug addiction and Black male relationships that will pull at your emotional strings.

Thomas Long once again brings us another nonstop drama that will tug at the readers’ emotional chords and serve as a ray of hope for those afflicted by the perils of substance abuse in the inner cities of America.

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GAME by Tracy Brown, Shannon Holmes, K’wan, and others

Enclosed is a walk through the city projects, ghettos, and streets. It’s a mind journey that puts life’s realities into words. This anthology is the first of its kind to take such an array of authors, and their true to life gritty tales, and allow their words to explode in one setting.

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CASH RULES by Thomas Long

From the author of the smash hit A Thug’s Life, B-More’s own Thomas Long brings you Cash Rules, a high energy ride through the streets of Baltimore to the wild and crazy world of the music industry. You’ve read other stories about life in Baltimore and seen it on TV in The Wire, but no one lays it down on paper like Thomas Long because he’s lived it. In Cash Rules, he introduces us to the Killin’em Softly Crew – known to their fans as the KS Crew – a female rap group ready to get outta the hood and take over the rap game like it had never been done before.

T Love, Luscious, and D Boogie had nothing but love for each other as they grew up as best friends on the rough streets of Baltimore. However, as they climb the slippery rope of the rap industry and the spoils of success rain down on them, their lives go through the series of ups and downs that they never planned on. Add in the jealousy, envy, and betrayal that comes along with being in the limelight, and what unravels is a tale that is sure to keep you captivated from the beginning to the end.

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AROUND THE WAY GIRLS 3: DOUBLE TROUBLE by Alisha Yvonne, Thomas Long, and Pat Tucker

There’s a saying that if you come from my part of town, that you’re from around the way. Around the Way Girls 3: Double Trouble is a look at the life of some street-smart women who think they know it all, but are about to get the lesson of their lives.

Sugar and Candy Cane are twenty-four-year-old identical twins from around the way. These ladies aren’t as sweet as their names imply, and people quickly come to know them as double trouble. The Cane twins have a love-hate relationship which keeps them at odds, but when all hell breaks loose, there’s no question as to whether they’ll have each others backs.

As the daughters of the infamous gangster, Timmy Barnes, it was only natural that Tamara and Tamia would follow in his footsteps. However, in their pursuit of the spoils of the fast life, a family secret is unraveled that may tear their lives apart.

Twin sisters, Paris and Porsha McCain have a score to settle. When their sister, Alex, is found brutally beaten and dead on the streets of South Central L.A. in stead of waiting for the police to catch the killer, Paris and Porsha set out to exact their own kind of justice.

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AROUND THE WAY GIRLS 2 by KaShamba Williams, Thomas Long, and LaJill Hunt

There’s a saying in Brooklyn that if you come from my part of town that you’re from around the way. Well Lyric, Juicy and Precious are all from around the way. They all live in Crown Heights, one of the most notorious sections of Brooklyn, but to them it’s just a place they call home. Around the Way Girls 2 like it’s predecessor Around the Way Girls is a fast paced look at the life of some street smart women who think that they know it all but are about to get the lessons of their lives.

Lyric Crenshaw has been playing the game so long that she’s mastered it. Her motto has always been to use what you got to get what you want. With a face and a body like hers, the possibilities are endless. But when a love struck co-worker teaches her otherwise and she meets a man that sees right through her, she may just have to open her eyes and see that winning the game ain’t everything.

If Juicy Brown were to die today, her obituary would read, “Another Welfare Recipient Bites the Dust,” but things have got to change. She may agree with some of the rumors buzzing around the neighborhood about her but one, is straight up scandalous! And she’s about to clear it up by any means necessary.

Precious Paine, a ghetto jewel haunted by memories of a troubled childhood. Her and her crew have the game on smash, but trouble lurks around her corner. Can the love of a good man make precious leave behind her hustle in the streets or will she become another victim of inner city life that’s marked for self destruction? These questions and many more will be answered in this high-energy urban street saga.

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