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Entries Tagged as 'Harlem'

LITTLE GHETTO GIRL by Danielle Santiago

April 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Plot Overview (from the back of the book)
After a successful life in the drug game, twenty-one-year –old Kisa Kane plans to retire – settle down, find a good man, and raise a family of her own. Done with the thug life, she has everything a ghetto girl would want: plenty of money, drop-dead gorgeous looks, [...]

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Tags: Atria Books · Drug Dealing · Harlem · Relationships · Santiago, Danielle

IT’S LIKE CANDY by Erick S. Gray

April 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Plot Overview (from the back of the book)
Sisters River and Starr flee their abusive home and their drug-addicted mother when they are only teenagers. And on the cold, hard streets they lose sight of each other as they find their own hustles in order to survive.
Beautiful River joins a stick-up-crew, but she doesn’t know that [...]

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Tags: Gray, Erick S. · Harlem · New York · Relationships · Robbery · St. Martin's Griffin

BLACK PEARL by Alvin Vincent Grimes

March 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Plot Overview (from the back of the book)
He stared at his hands, hands which had spilled so much blood and rubbed them together in a washing motion. Snake, intuitive as ever, placed a friendly hand on his shoulder and said, “The only thing that will make that damned spot go away is time, Jackson. Time [...]

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Tags: Gangs · Grimes, Alvin Vincent · Harlem · Old School