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1) Dough boys
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Told in two voices, thirteen-year-old best friends Simp and Rollie play on a basketball team in their housing project, but Rollie dreams of being a drummer and Simp, to impress the gang leader, Coach Tez.
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Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them all financially could leave them all bearing his responsibilities...
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"Dante 'Worlds' is fresh from the joint. Leaner, but more importantly--wiser. He's smart enough now to not get 'caught up' again. But also knows a life of crime is unsustainable. His main goal now is to return to the old game but with a few new tricks. Ones that will keep him off radar to the authorities. Once he's stashed away enough coin, it's the 'straight and narrow' for him"--Amazon.com.
5) Snitch
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Julia DiVino tries hard not to get mixed-up with the gangs at South Bay High School, but when Eric Valienté enters into her life, everything changes.
7) Scorpions
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After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun--until a tragedy occurs.
8) Dirty music
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When a rising star's reckless power grab ignites an industry war between a rap mogul and a leading R & B artist, a founder on the brink of becoming the world's biggest independent label resorts to extreme measures to maintain control.
9) King Reece
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Life couldn't get better for the Crescent Crew. With an exclusive Mexican pipeline, they've got the Southern drug trade on lock. Former founder Qwess is leveraging rap superstardom to break the music industry's commercial stranglehold. And former leader Reece is fresh off a five-year prison bid-and out to forever secure the Crew's dominance. But as Reece is working a brutal vendetta, a Crew mutiny will drag him back into all-out street war. Now, between...
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Love always comes with a price. After the murder of a dirty Los Angeles detective, St. Louis "Lou-Loc" Alexander finds himself a hunted man. Trying to stay one step ahead of the gas chamber, he flees to New York to try to pick up the pieces of his life. Fate throws him a curve ball when he meets Satin Angelino and falls head over heels in love. Satin is young, fine, and keeping a secret that could cost him his life.
11) Active memory
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"Even in a world where technology connects everyone's minds, it would seem that some secrets can still remain hidden. For all the mysteries teen hacker Marisa Carneseca has solved, one has always eluded her: When she was two years old, she was in a car accident in which she lost her arm and a mob boss's wife, Zenaida de Maldonado, lost her life. No one can tell her what she was doing in that car, or how it led to the feud between the Carnesecas and...
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"Tragedy is a normal part of 'the life.' But when mid-level gangster Fuzzy loses her lover and partner in crime to it, the pain is far deeper than anything she's ever felt before. But the hurt isn't enough to take her out of the game completely. In fact, Fuzzy is determined to honor his memory by picking up right where her deceased sweetheart left off. Aided by his apprentice LIl' Man. As a duo, their first battle for gangland supremacy will come...
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"Chicago's biggest drug trafficker J. Ross is fresh out of the pen, and looking to reclaim his spot atop the windy city's criminal hierarchy. But first, he concocts a deadly plan a revenge. Headed up by a vicious hired gun named Vudu. Vudu's marching orders are simple, travel to Milwaukee and obliterate the ones J.Ross holds responsible for his lengthy prison stint. Meanwhile, mil-town watches as its own gangland drama unfolds. Stepbrother and stepsister...
14) Street rap
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"For Reece and Qwess, being rap superstars was the dream, but in real life nothing moved without money. So they formed the Crescent Crew, and outfit of young, ruthless hustlers that locked the Southern drug trade in a stranglehold. They're at the height of their power when Qwess is offered a record deal from a major label. He accepts and makes plans for his whole crew to go legit, but Reece enjoys his position as king of the streets and has no desire...
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"When things go wrong do you ride for the man you love or keep it moving in order to steer clear of the drama that is sure to come? Drama who? Drama what? The girls of Killer Kisses welcomes it with open arms and are really about that life. For a while the kill had only been about the money; but now loyalty and devotion to the men that came into their lives and stole their hearts is the motivation. Since the first day Legend and Truth met their lives...
16) X: a novel
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Malcolm Little's parents have always told him that he can achieve anything, but from what he can tell, that's a pack of lies--after all, his father's been murdered, his mother's been taken away, and his dreams of becoming a lawyer have gotten him laughed out of school. There's no point in trying, he figures, and lured by the nightlife of Boston and New York, he escapes into a world of fancy suits, jazz, girls, and reefer. But Malcolm's efforts to...
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