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GRINDIN’ by Danielle Santiago

Daniel — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:29:43 +0000

After partying and grindin’ in Las Vegas and clearing more than $100,000 and a bag of stolen diamonds, twenty-two-year-old Kennedy Sanchez, a beautiful street-smart single mom, and her cousin Nina fly back home to New York. Later that night, Kennedy gets a call that Nina is being beaten up by her boyfriend – again. Kennedy rushes over to help, but it’s too late: Nina dies in Kennedy’s arms after making her promise to take care of her children.

Stepping up to the plate, Kennedy soon becomes the mother of three more kids and moves them into a Harlem brownstone. She knows she needs to refocus her life, and gets her chance when she meets Chaz, a successful hip-hop artist who sees star quality written all over her. She’s offered the chance to become a rapper and leave the streets behind – or at least shift to another kind of grind. But once in the music world, Kennedy realizes that the setting may have changed, but the hustle remains the same.

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DRUG RELATED by Roy Glenn

Daniel — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:43:35 +0000

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 brother’s disappearance, but Mrs. Childers is not convinced.

She hires Nick Simmons, former Army special operations officer turned private investigator. His investigation leads him back to a world of drugs and murder that was once his life. Nick gets so caught up, not only in the case but with Mrs. Childers, that it leads to his arrest and forces him to deal with his dark past that he left behind ten years ago.

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DONALD WRITES NO MORE by Eddie Stone

Daniel — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 21:13:38 +0000

Addict, Thief, Pimp, Pusher, Player…and Writer! Donald Goines was all of these things. He started as a kid, the product of a middle-class family. After high school, he joined the Navy, and discovered the heroin that would rule the remainder of his life. On the streets, he turned to writing when he was straight enough to keep at it. He used the language of the streets and wrote of the streets and its people. His success was immediate and exciting. But eventually the streets claimed him. He was murdered as he sat writing a new book. Here for the first time is his complete story.

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INNER CITY HOODLUM by Donald Goines

Daniel — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 21:10:32 +0000

Johnny Washington, a black teenager in Los Angeles, knows the freight yards like the back of his hand. He and his pals, Josh and Buddy, hit them often, stealing for a fence. They have to. They’re the sole support of their families. But when Josh is killed by a security guard (who gets his brains scattered by Buddy with nunchaku sticks), they are forced to look for other work. They find it with the underworld kings in Elliot Davis. But when Davis recruits Johnny’s sister for his stable and later OD’s her, Johnny and Buddy come on with a vengeance.

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KENYATTA’S LAST HIT by Donald Goines

Daniel — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:44:26 +0000

Kenyatta, the living black legend, concentrates his army’s ruthless forces to rid the black community of rampant drug traffic. With the help of Elliot Stone, a black football star and latest recruit to the army, Kenyatta discovers the identity of the fat-cat king of the drug pushers. The crack black and white detective team of Benson and Ryan follows Kenyatta’s trail of blood across the country… and to a final confrontation high atop one of Las Vegas’s most glittering hotels.

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KENYATTA’S ESCAPE by Donald Goines

Daniel — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:42:14 +0000

Kenyatta had two ambitions: cleaning the ghetto of all the drug traffic and gunning down all the racist white cops! But a black and white detective team, Benson and Ryan, is on his tail and has discovered the location of his army’s camp. Armed with tanks, they bring a bloody doomsday to his followers. In Kenyatta’s Escape, Goines continues his story of the bloody, brutal world of crime he began in Crime Partners and Death List. They’re all back for a coast-to-coast chase that spells gripping adventure.

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DEATH LIST by Donald Goines

Daniel — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:38:05 +0000

Donald Goines continues the gripping, gritty story of crime in the black ghetto begun in Crime Partners. They’re all back for blood: Kenyatta, the ganglord with an army of brothers to deal deadly with the crooked cops and dope dealers; Benson and Ryan, a black and white detective team, desperate in their fight to stop the black crime wave. It’s doomsday when Kenyatta joins them in a war against a secret list of drug pushers.

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CRY REVENGE by Donald Goines

Daniel — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:29:12 +0000

Young Curtis Carson doesn’t mean to rip off the Chicanos in his backyard crap games. He just rolls the dice better. But the Chicanos don’t see it that way, and when one of their brothers is brutally slaughtered in a barroom shootout because Curtis’ dealings with heroin pusher Fat George, the Mexicans cry revenge on Curtis, leaving his brother with a wrecked body that will forever prevent him from being a basketball star that he dreamed of being. Curtis swears vengeance, and the streets run red with black-Chicano warfare.

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CRIME PARTNERS by Donald Goines

Daniel — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:25:40 +0000

Goines’ powerful first novel lays bare the bloody, brutal world of crime in the black ghetto, where, as Goines put it, “kindness was the sweetest con of all.” Here is the gutsy and often shocking world of Billy and Jackie, prison buddies on the streets and hot on the trigger.

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NEVER DIE ALONE by Donald Goines

Daniel — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:05:47 +0000

King David never let anything stand in his way, as he clawed his way out of the mean streets. If it took busting an old lady’s head open with a Coke bottle for her last dollar, so be it. Mixing battery acid with cocaine to gain revenge was acceptable, too. Whatever it took. Then he made it big – only to find others had not forgotten, had no intention of forgiving. They came after him. He left behind a Cadillac and a diary, left it to a writer Donald Goines called “Paul Pawlowski.” Like all Goines’ novels, Never Die Alone is based on truth.

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SWAMP MAN by Donald Goines

Daniel — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:02:23 +0000

George Jackson was a “Swamp Man,” born and bred in Mississippi. He was a gentle young man who turned deadly as a water moccasin after he saw what the four hill boys did to his sister. They caught her soon after she got off the bus, home from he first year in college. When they were through with her, she let her mind shut down, fearing to remember. Slipping through the swaps like a ghost, George stalked them, one by one, two by two…

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ELDORADO RED by Donald Goines

Daniel — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:08:13 +0000

Again, based on his personal experience! When Donald Goines was discharged from the Air Force, he was addicted to heroin. To support his habit he staged the robbery of a local numbers house. And from that experience came Eldorado Red! It’s the vicious story of crooks who get richer with the dollars of the ghetto poor. He’s got it knocked; new cars, mellow women and plenty of money. Then he learns that treachery falls at the feet of his own son!

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DADDY COOL by Donald Goines

Daniel — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:05:25 +0000

Larry Jackson is better known to his clients as “Daddy Cool” – and they know he is the best. He can pull a trigger or toss a knife and never blink an eye. All that counts for is the bread – and his teenage daughter, Janet. But when Janet is enticed into his stable by a young, smooth-talking pimp named Ronald, Daddy Cool sees red – and goes into action with fearful vengeance!

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WHITE MAN’S JUSTICE, BLACK MAN’S GRIEF by Donald Goines

Daniel — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:02:12 +0000

Goines’ classic novel of prison life, it has been called “one of the most revealing books ever written about prison life and the bigotry built into our system.” This is the story of Chester Hines, who thought he was the baddest man to come down the street. Behind prison walls he was nothing more than fresh meat.

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STREET PLAYERS by Donald Goines

Daniel — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:08:56 +0000

In this, his fourth novel, Goines tests the tensile strength of a ghetto spawn who clawed his way to the top and fights like hell to stay there. He’s known as “Ear the Black Pearl,” and he’s left the homeboys behind – way behind. He’s cool, sharp as ice crystal, and it seems that no one can touch him. Until someone even higher up puts the heat on and his friends begin dropping like flies – of lead poisoning. That’s when Earl fights back…and all hell breaks loose!

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