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Two Thin Dimes by Caleb Alexander

Daniel — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:23:41 +0000

A fresh voice in urban fiction spins a classic romance into a modern-day love story about sisterhood, faith, and overcoming obstacles.

This humorous tale of love and triumph ties two unlikely suitors together in a merry mix of plotting and gossip. On one side is R&B superstar, Jamaica, and on the other is the passionate, but impoverished Tameer. When the two are brought together in what is meant to be a temporary relationship — arranged by Jamaica’s best friend and personal assistant LaChina — both are surprised when true feelings burst onto the scene and disrupt everyone’s plans.

With Tameer’s drunken father, Jamaica’s socialite mother, and a band of super-ghetto, meddling friends all blended together, Two Thin Dimes becomes a hilarious, topsy-turvy fight for love in a world gone mad.

Going beyond the simple rich girl, poor boy tale, Caleb Alexander brings his popular style to a whole new level and draws his growing audience along with him as the story takes on social class, unexpected romance, loyalty to friends, and — most importantly — the cost of true love.

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Belly of the Beast by Caleb Alexander

Daniel — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:55:55 +0000

Caleb Alexander has woven his most explosive and provocative tale to date. Belly of the Beast takes the readers on a violent, gut wrenching, deeply emotional journey through the American prison system. A place where friends become enemies, and enemies band together for survival in a system that is designed for their destruction, and in a society that has written them off. Belly of the Beast is a straight forward look at racism, the prison industrial complex, and the nature of our humanity. Throw in racist prison guards, a former Grand Wizard of the KKK, Billionaire tax evaders, violent prison gangs, The Mafia, and one man’s struggle to make it back home to his woman and child, and you have a story that only Alexander can tell. Welcome to the Federal Prison System; welcome to the Belly of the Beast.

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EASTSIDE by Caleb Alexander

Daniel — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:11:34 +0000

Eastside is a coming-of-age tale set among the backdrop of inner-city gang violence in the early 90’s. Eastside is about mothers struggling and supporting one another as they march in a seemingly endless procession to the cemetery to bury their children.

Unrepentantly crooked police officers, violent gangland shoot-outs, blazing car chases, petty drug dealing, ruthless armed robberies, a psychotic seventeen-year-old albino gang member, and the haunting legacy of a long dead brother, complete with the complex panopoly that is Eastside.

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