The first installment in this exciting series followed Promise, Squeeze, and Show as they robbed, whored, and fought their way to adulthood on the mean streets of Brooklyn. Now, it's a year later. Promise is trying to get out of the gangsta life, but the streets have a powerful call. Squeeze and Show are making out like bandits with their hot new nightclub, the Brooklyn Café. Grindin' in the streets is no longer an option, but trouble still follows...

For a twenty-eight-year-old young man who returned from the army several years ago but has yet to reacclimatize to ordinary life, every step, gesture, word, and vision is a revelation, which takes him back to the beginning, to a time when reality had lost its shape, and turned into a new and imperceptible world. In his imagination, he embodies a number of different characters, he feels the presence of his girlfriend again, and remembers friends from...

Gabriella Guerrero has been independent ever since she was a little kid doing her best to care for her drug-addicted single mom. Her world changes when her mother dies, and her aunt takes her in. She has to learn everything all over again, especially how to trust her Aunt Isabel. She has to learn how to live with her aunt and her three cousins in the little house in East Los Angeles. They don't have much except for each other. Gabi does more than...

A domestic story told in numerous original and endearing voices. The story opens with Wesley, a tenth grader, and involves his two sets of parents (the mom and her second husband, a very thoughtful doctor; and the father who has become a major gay lawyer/activist and his fabulous "significant other" who owns a restaurant).Wesley is a fabulous kid, whose equally fabulous best friend Theo has just won a big school election and simultaneously surprises...

John Bonner is sure that anytime now he will recover from the sting of his recent separation from his wife. And he's begun to wonder if he truly wants to spend the rest of his days running the family scrap-metal business, an operation where his employees are likely to have made the very license plates they now shred. His sister, Octavia, has just returned to Ohio from Boston to nurture the pain of her own broken relationship, and she is more certain:...

Its summer in Pfounds small Appalachian town. The young man enjoys spending time with his pencil and sketch pad by the lazy river that winds through his deep river valley, but drawing isnt all there is. Hes part of the Clana group of ragtag youngsters, led by their ever-faithful German shepherd dog. The Clans days of motley adventure are interrupted when the Vagabond arrives in their little town and delivers a powerful, intriguing message the townspeople...

Lipstick Diaries offers what's best about the most brilliant female authors in the business. Hip Hop Literature is here to stay and the range of these stories varies from hood to hood. Woman to woman, all the stories are drama-packed with real characters and life-styles. Narrated in different voices, each story will fascinate readers from the start. These coming of age tales give insights on delicate experiences, tragedy and adult erotica. All captivating...

Pierre Longpré mène une existence heureuse avec sa femme Mylène, sur les bords du Richelieu. Mais à l'institut Jalbert o il travaille en tant que psychologue, l'influent psychiatre Eagle, en faveur d'un traitement exclusivement pharmacologique des maladies mentales, l'attaque et cherche à l'isoler, lui reprochant des tendances spiritualistes. Dans ce contexte tendu, le Dr Mathieu, directeur de l'institut, propose à Longpré de prendre en...

Cuando las personas se sienten inútiles, molestan a los demás. Siempre tratan de encontrar un lugar útil.

When Agape is left to the streets to learn how to fend for her herself after the passing of her aunt and coming out of a broken foster home, Agape has to learn how to decipher friends from foes and love from envy and to stay strong even when she is tested on just how strong she can be. Will she succumb to the turntables of the streets or make her way out of her depressing small city?