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		<title>REVERSED by Gina West</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Beautiful Ones Always Smash The Picture. Kiante wants a paid hustler for her man, friends, and a pretty face. Instead she&#8217;s used for her body, has one friend and is considered unattractive.  It doesn&#8217;t help that her best friend Marissa&#8217;s sister Lucia, has all of the things she wants and more. Marissa&#8217;s boyfriend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Word on Street Lit &#8211; February (Library Journal)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This month’s column features novels that attest to that credo. Full of attitude and hands on hips, these are women’s stories that show urban women from all walks of life living and loving on their own terms and charting their own destinies. Along the way, they run across loves won and lost, friends cherished and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetfiction.org/the-word-on-street-lit-february-library-journal/</link>
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		<title>QUITA&#8217;S DAYSCARE CENTER by Gina West</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quita never pretended to run a professional center. So when her license gets revoked after a spiteful parent complains to the Office of Child Care Services, after her bad son Lil Goose is kicked out of the center, Quita feels relieved. Now she can offer cheap prices and beat the legal competition in her neighborhood. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetfiction.org/quitas-dayscare-center-by-gina-west/</link>
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		<title>DIRTIER THAN EVER by Vickie Stringer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following the phenomenal success of Essence bestsellers Dirty Red  and Still Dirty, Vickie M. Stringer takes readers on another bumpy ride in Dirtier Than Ever with Red, Bacon, and Q—the crazy love-hate triangle who makes the series a favorite among urban fiction fans. 
Q wished that Bacon had killed Red when he had the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetfiction.org/dirtier-than-ever-by-vickie-stringer/</link>
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		<title>CAUGHT &#8216;EM SLIPPIN&#8217; by Al-Saadiq Banks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Miranda Benderas, born to an infamous Cuban kingpin, and his trophy wife, an African American supermodel. Miranda grew up with all the luxuries that other girls could only dream of. Her daddy proved that crime does pay. But isn&#8217;t there always a cost to having it all? By age 13, Miranda&#8217;s father was sentenced to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetfiction.org/caught-em-slippin-by-al-saadiq-banks/</link>
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		<title>STICKS AND STONES by Eric Pete</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten years. A decade. Time enough for a high school graduate from a small, sleepy southern town to move on and become something. But what? And is it enough time to forget?
Trayce, an internet entrepreneur, has moved on. Chicago is where she dwells, where she has been hired to manage the very company she founded. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetfiction.org/sticks-and-stones-by-eric-pete/</link>
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		<title>SHATTERED SOULS by Dywane D. Birch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At first glance, Britton Landers, Indera Fleet, Damascus Miles, and Chyna Littles appear to be living their dreams. However, only Britton, a psychologist, knows the secrets lurking beneath each shiny façade. After he abandons his past for a seemingly carefree life in the Dominican Republic, he realizes that some memories will haunt you forever. Indera [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetfiction.org/shattered-souls-by-dywane-d-birch/</link>
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		<title>SNAPPED by Tracy Brown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the pampered wife of Frankie Bingham, Camille wants for nothing. After all Frankie and their life together are her whole world. So Camille tries not to be bothered by his closeness with his coworker and dear friend Gillian. But it soon becomes clear that Camille’s suspicions are correct. When his indiscretions become a public [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetfiction.org/snapped-by-tracy-brown/</link>
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		<title>UNZIPPED: AN URBAN EROTIC TALE by Noire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever had everything you love snatched from your hands in the blink of an eye? Do you know what it’s like to watch helplessly as those you cherish burn to a crisp? Have you ever heard a mournful cry for street justice and then realized that the only person left to heed the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetfiction.org/unzipped-an-urban-erotic-tale-by-noire/</link>
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		<title>Street Fiction on Clutch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out two articles from Clutch. Both offer great perspectives on the good and bad of street fiction.
Selling Ghetto by Alaina L. Lewis
Selling Truth: As Told By K’wan by Alaina L. Lewis &#8211; great interview with K&#8217;wan.
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