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Entries Tagged as 'Holloway House'

DRUG RELATED by Roy Glenn (Urban Books)

June 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Plot Overview (from the back of the book)

Roy Glenn, the master of urban suspense, has returned with his new, blazing hot street thriller, Drug Related.
When Mrs. Gabrielle Childers’ brother goes missing, the first person she suspects is her husband, Chilly, a major player in the drug game. Chilly, of course, denies any involvement in her [...]

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Tags: Drug Dealing · Gangs · Glenn, Roy · Goines, Donald · Holloway House · New York · Urban Books

Kensington Acquires Holloway House Backlist

February 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Kensington Publishing has acquired most of the publishing assets of Holloway House Publishing in Los Angeles, the original publisher of such classic black crime writers as Donald Goines, adding an historic trove of gritty African American popular literature to its publishing program. The acquisition includes about 400 backlist titles which will become part of a [...]

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Tags: Holloway House · Street fiction in the News

MIDNIGHT by Odie Hawkins

October 16th, 2007 · No Comments

Plot Overview (from the back of the book)
Midnight is one of Odie Hawkins’ finest and most sensitive works, a view inside the soul of a black man of the LA streets, a former gang leader, influenced by a man he meets in prison to search for his true identity outside the narrow confines of the [...]

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Tags: Africa · Gangs · Hawkins, Odie · Holloway House · Los Angeles · Old School