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  Cover Art: Girls from Da Hood 7 Redd Nikki-Michelle and Erick S. Gray. Girls from Da Hood 7 Redd Nikki-Michelle and Erick S. Gray.
The popular series returns, with the story of drug runners Candy and Raynail, and their evidence room product that is sullied by a dirty gun with Raynail'sprints on it.
2012
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Fatal Intentions : Sins of a Siren II : a Novel Alcutt, Curtis
Fatal Intentions : Sins of a Siren II : a Novel
Trenda Fuqua, ex-convict and former runaway teen, is out on parole, but when her old tendencies crop up she must navigate the criminal underworld in order to stay alive.
2012
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Prada Plan. 3 Green-eyed Monster Ashley
The Prada Plan. 3 Green-eyed Monster
Recovering from a fire that wounded both her and Leah, YaYa heals under the eye of a woman ready to put her back on top, but before she can move on and live happily with Indie, YaYa decides that Leah needs to be removed from the picture.
2013
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Beastmode 2. Blood in Awsum, Joe
Beastmode 2. Blood in
In a city where death lurked around the corner, the world's most notorious gangster, Tyler Scott, has been sitting in a prison cell for the past ten years. Scott and his psychopathic brother, his smooth talking nephew, and his daughter, kick off a mission full of deception, money, and gun play that will leave the city's cold streets flooded with blood.
2012
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Get it Girls : a Harlem Girl Lost Novel Blue, Treasure E.
Get it Girls : a Harlem Girl Lost Novel
After being released from prison, Jessica Jones returns to Harlem to find that crack dealers have taken over and starts a fight to reclaim the the neighborhood.
2011
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Clique Brandie
The Clique
The Clique ventures into the world of Mo, Royal, Emil, Pepper and Ascada; five young women who, after they have a violent altercation, are thrown into the grimy Walsh facility for women. Their lives are on the line to stay alive and they have no choice but to form a clique to survive.
2012
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Trust No Man. 3 Like Father-- Like Son : a Novel Ca$h
Trust No Man. 3 Like Father-- Like Son : a Novel
After his father was executed, Lil T vowed to seek revenge against every individual who played a part in Youngblood's downfall. By his side like a trustworthy glock is his beautiful but deadly ride or die chick, Kamora. Only one thing can break their bond as they rob, murder, extort, and inflict vengeance.
2012
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Payback Ain't Enough Clark, Wahida
Payback Ain't Enough
The author of the best-selling Thug series returns readers to the hip-hop scene of Payback With Ya, where sexy, dangerous men and fashion-savvy, seductive women navigate psychologically complex games of power and intrigue.
2012
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Gangsta Divas Diamond, De'nesha
Gangsta Divas
When the Cripettes, a new rival on the streets of the Dirty South, wage war on the Queen Gs and the Flowers, these gangsta divas take no prisoners for a chance to rule it all.
2013
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Outcast Ericson, Lewis
Outcast
Tirrell Ellis has always felt like an outcast. His loving grandmother takes him in after the death of his parents and his very existence becomes the source of much conflict between him and his half-brother.
2013
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Karma III : a Novel Eubanks, Sabrina
Karma III : a Novel
Lately, life has been a little rough for narcotics detective Lucas Cain. After his perfect love Justine is tragically taken away from him by a devious femme fatale, Lucas and his trusty partner Noah are assigned to take down the notorious Trinidad brothers. Things are not what they seem in this tangled tale of love, greed, and treachery.
2011
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Baby Momma Genovese, Ni'chelle
Baby Momma
Welcome to the fast paced high stakes world of Rasheed an anti-hero you'll love to hate much like Scarface. Caught up in a game of fast money, faster women, and a hustler's dream, Rasheed's secrets and lies threaten to completely sever his alliance with his baby's mother Michelle.
2012
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: MOB : a Street Saga Glenn, Roy
MOB : a Street Saga
When three friends find themselves laid off from their comfortable jobs, they decide to live by their own set of rules, beginning with "Money Over Babes," but when the lovely Me'shelle Lawrence appears, the trio's code may be broken.
2007
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Wifey : I Am Wifey Hilton, Erica
Wifey : I Am Wifey
After losing her man to a gold-digger, Mia tastes victory when her rival is locked up for murder. She feels Jasmine is getting what she deserved for crossing her. Now, playing the upper hand, she knows Nico will soon realize how much he needs her.
2012
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Kings of Vice Ice-T
Kings of Vice
Twenty years ago, Marcus "Crush" Casey was the leader of the Vicetown Kings, the most powerful crime syndicate in New York City. Then he was betrayed by his second-in-command and sent to prison. Now he's back on the streets and he needs to take back everything he lost and resist the one woman he knows he can't have.
2011
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Long White Con : the Biggest Score of his Life Iceberg Slim
Long White Con : the Biggest Score of his Life
Picking up where Trick Baby left off we dive into the world of Johnny O'Brien, better known as White Folks. After learning to use his fair skin to his advantage to rise to the top of the Chicago con game, Folks is back for the big money and the big stakes of the long con.
2012
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Dopeman : Memoirs of a Snitch JaQuavis
Dopeman : Memoirs of a Snitch
A young hustler, working undercover for the FBI, becomes immersed in a high-stakes world of drugs, money, and sex, where, he falls in love with the daughter of a well-known hit man, forcing him to make a difficult decision that puts many people's lives at risk.
2012
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: He Don't Play Fair Johnson, Clifford
He Don't Play Fair
When his drug-related conviction is overturned, Papio leaves prison after serving just three years of a thirty-year sentence and heads West, enjoying the best hotels, cars, clothing, and women that money can buy along the way.
2013
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Deceit and Devotion Johnson, R. M.
Deceit and Devotion
Resolving to help a girl who has relinquished custody of her baby, Monica reluctantly receives the attentions of the girl's lonely lawyer; while Caleb struggles to repay a loan shark and keep his son from falling deeper into crime.
2012
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Rise of an American Gangstress K., Kim
Rise of an American Gangstress
Born with a platinum spoon in her mouth thanks to her drug-dealing parents, Fancy is a young, spoiled princess. But when havoc enters the picture and the Feds seize her family's ill-gotten gains, the gravity of Fancy's situation causes her to crumble. Unwilling to stay down, Fancy realizes that she was born to hustle, and this American Gangstress is reborn. What emerges is a fierce contender the streets aren't ready for.
2012
Adult Fiction Book
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