Williams, Brittani
Summary: "From the day he was born, Martavious 'Tank' Young had to fight for what was his. No parents, no family, mentally and physically abused throughout his childhood. The challenges he endured only made him stronger and soon, the man who grew up with nothing had it all. Now, Tank is the man running the streets and the city, both legal and illegal. His money is long, his patience is short, and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Urban Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSwinson, Kiki
Summary: "A former journalist with a knack for unraveling dirty secrets, Khloé Mercer figures if she's going to risk her life, she might as well make big money as a private investigator. But this reckless newbie needs a major case to make her name - and really show she can handle Norfolk, Virginia's toughest streets ... When a narcotics detective's widow needs someone to investigate her disgraced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAFINA, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWIJuwayriyah, Umm.
Summary: Iman Johnson, an Muslim American left home a decade ago as a teenager to follow a street hustler who promised her the world. When that world became too much to endure, she returned to her mother's doorstep in Pittsburgh seeking refuge. Will her Muslim family and community welcome her back, or has too much time and too many secrets built up between them? Iman must find the strength to face her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: As Sabr Publications 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JUWK'wan
Summary: #1 Essence best selling author K'wan returns with the explosive fourth installment in the Animal saga. Animal, the gentle and kind-hearted family man, is still infamous for turning at any moment into a cold-blooded killer. Animal is the product of ruthless abuse and the unforgiving streets; he is the product of the world he (and everyone else) lives in. Is there anything that could push...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2016
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Van Alst, Theodore C.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of New Mexico Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANJackson, Mitchell S.
Summary: Mitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood in Americás whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the ́90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. In his commanding autobiographical novel, Mitchell writes what it was to come of age in that time and place, with a break-out voice that́s nothing less than extraordinary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACBurgess, Matt
Summary: Dreading the prison release of his violent older brother, who blames him for his imprisonment and for stealing his pregnant girlfriend, young drug dealer Alfredo struggles with cultural clashes in Queens while planning to steal a pit bull for a homecoming dogfight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURPolansky, Daniel.
Summary: In the forgotten back alleys and flophouses that lie in the shadows of Rigus, the finest city of the Thirteen Lands, is Low Town. It is an ugly place, and its champion is an ugly man. Disgraced intelligence agent. Forgotten war hero. Independent drug dealer. After a fall from grace five years ago, a man known as the Warden leads a life of crime, addicted to cheap violence and expensive drugs....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POLDybek, Stuart
Summary: From the prizewinning writer Stuart Dybek comes a major new work of fiction: a novel-in-stories, eleven masterful tales told by a single voice of remarkable narrative power. In I Sailed with Magellan, Dybek finds characters of irrepressible vitality in the stark neighborhoods of Chicago's South Side, where his hero, the restless Perry Katzek, transforms his daily experiences into lush,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DYBLangdon, Lorie
Summary: "Olivia Brownlow is no damsel in distress. Born in a workhouse and raised as a boy among thieving London street gangs, she is as tough and cunning as they come. When she is taken in by her uncle after a caper gone wrong, her life goes from fighting and stealing on the streets to lavish dinners and soirees as a debutante in high society. But she can't seem to escape her past ... or forget the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Langdon 2018Ice-T
Summary: 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-- find the friend who betrayed him and killed his only son; keep the cops at bay; and resist the one woman he knows he can't have.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ICETaylor, Theodore
Summary: Missing the city life, a young girl starts to feel a sense of belonging in her new town when she discovers vibrant graffiti splashed throughout the neighborhoods, proving street art can be found everywhere--as well as a sense of home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TAYVerde, Susan
Summary: Armed with pencils, paints, dreams, and Grandma Addy's memories of how beautiful the neighborhood once was, Angel and others paint the big wall that had been cold, empty, and cheerless.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018