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3) Olivia Twist
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English
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Orphaned at birth and living as a boy, Olivia Brownlow finds herself living as a debutante in high society after a caper goes wrong and encounters Jack MacCarron, a boy once known as the Artful Dodger.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
Description
After being left for dead by her mother, dissed by her peers, held responsible for her siblings, and forgotten by society, Murdonna Carter finds herself in one hell of a predicament. With no money, food, or electricity, she learns quickly how to survive. In the ghetto, you either kill or be killed, and grind or you starve! Tired of going to bed hungry, she realizes it's do or die. For the love of family, she puts her own life on the line and does...
6) Rubble kings
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2015.
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English
Description
From 1968 to 1975, gangs ruled New York City. An unrealistic rage lay beyond the idealistic hopes of the civil rights movement. Neither law enforcement nor social agency could end the escalating bloodshed. Peace came only through the birth of hip-hop culture, the most unlikely and courageous of events that would change the world for generations to come. RUBBLE KINGS, the most comprehensive documentation to date of life during this era of gang rule,...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
Description
"Before becoming executive chef and part owner of the California soul food restaurant Alta Adams in West LA, Keith Corbin had spent a quarter of his life in prison. Renowned as the best cook of crack cocaine in Los Angeles, Corbin more or less raised himself on the streets of Watts, learning to cook crack when he was only thirteen. He knew he was doing it right if it had the consistency of the roux his granny made for her gumbo. It was a violent business-one...
8) West Coast
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[2021]
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English
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Perhaps Temper's longing to escape [from the West Coast] is a result of being raised on a road less traveled in an area of South Central Los Angeles, where tourism is obsolete and gang banging and dope slanging reign supreme. Or maybe it's because of the widespread enigma of 'the only way out the hood is over a thirty-foot wall.' If this hood proverb is true, then being born half-black and half-Asian should've given her a ten-foot ladder as a head...
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©2011
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English
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Valli has always been afraid of the lepers living on the other side of the train tracks in the coal town of Jharia, India, so when a chance encounter with a doctor reveals she also has leprosy, Valli rejects help and begins an uncertain life on the streets.
10) True to the game
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Once upon a time, not too long ago, a young girl from the projects met Quadir, far from home in the middle of Harlem ... Now the story is told of how it all went down. True to the Game, the first novel of its time, is like no other story that can or will ever be written. The main character Gena finds herself in true blue love with Quadir, a millionaire associated with the Cartel. Quadir finds himself combating the art of extortion and interception...
11) New Jersey drive
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Two teens get involved in carjacking in Newark and the local police get tough in a way they didn't bargain for.
12) East side story
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Egypt James is a beautiful African American girl, who has attended private school all her life. In addition, she becomes a debutante and needs her father to dance with her at the cotillion ball -- The Father/Daughter Dance. But, her mother kicked him out of the house after she found out that he was part of the LD03, an organization actively engaged in the human trafficking business, and other illegal activities. Egypt wants to befriend William, a...
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Series
True to the game trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"True to the game II will pick up where True to the Game left off-- with one difference, Gena is now seeing a new guy named Jay. Little does Gena know that the man she has fallen in love with, so soon after Quadir's death, is his archrival, Jerrell Jackson. Unfortunately, Jerrell is determined to get his revenge against Quadir's crew and he'll start with Gena"--Amazon.com
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Series
The book of shadow volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
Description
"Meet the Kings, one of the most influential families in New York City. In the power circles of the movers and shakers, they are regarded as modern-day royalty. A politically connected father, a socialite mother, and three promising children: they look every bit the all-American family ... but every family has secrets. Some darker than others. Of all the children, Shadow is the least like the rest of the Kings. To call him soft wouldn't be quite accurate,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A memoir from Ta-Nehisi Coates, in which he details the challenges on the streets and within one's family, especially the eternal struggle for peace between a father and son and the important role family plays in such circumstances"--
As a child, Coates was seen by his father as too sensitive and lacking focus. Paul Coates was a Vietnam vet who'd been part of the Black Panthers and was dedicated to reading and publishing the history of African civilization....
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
Description
On the streets of 1970s Brooklyn, a daily ritual goes down: the dance. Money is exchanged, belongings surrendered, power asserted. The promise of violence lies everywhere, a currency itself. For these children, Black, brown, and white, the street is a stage in shadow. And in the wings hide the other parents; cops; renovators; landlords; those who write the headlines, the histories, and laws; those who award this neighborhood its name. The rules appear...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of streetwear. Authors King ADZ and Wilma Stone recount how a long line of subcultural movements have taken over both the high street and high-end fashion, and explore just how a revolutionary sartorial trend has evolved to encompass a vast range of disparate tribes, offering a powerful sense of belonging and identity to all. The story begins in 1972, in Jersey City, USA, with the birth of the first ever streetwear shop, Trash and...
Author
Series
True to the Game Trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The crooked cops are searching for the money and Gena's family members are now the target for Gena, who's hiding from everything and everyone, as the race is on for survival. Will Gena manage to keep the money? Can she get out of town and make a new life for herself? And will her family survive the maniacal killer that is hell-bent on tracking her down? Will Gena stay true to the game?
19) Sacred smokes
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
Description
"Growing up in a gang in the city can be dark. Growing up Native American in a gang in Chicago is a whole different story. This book takes a trip through that unexplored part of Indian Country, an intense journey that is full of surprises, shining a light on the interior lives of people whose intellectual and emotional concerns are often overlooked. This dark, compelling, occasionally inappropriate, and often hilarious linked story collection introduces...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
Description
"Part memoir, part travelogue, part love letter to the people who live and work on a magical street in Paris. Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. 'I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs,' Sciolino explains, as she celebrates the neighborhood's rich history and vibrant lives. While many...
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