GLITTER by Babygirl Daniels
Posted by Daniel on January 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Asia Smith walks through her life with a silver spoon in her mouth, thanks to her father, who spares no expense when it comes to his baby girl. But when he dies tragically, her extravagant lifestyle is brought down a notch. She struggles to adjust to her new life with Auntie Joy.
Asia thinks that entering [...]
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PATTERSON HEIGHTS by Felicia Pride
Posted by Daniel on December 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Avery Washington has spent his entire life in Patterson Heights, a Baltimore neighborhood with a mean rep. It’s a good place to grow up—it has heart and soul as well as a few street hustlers, and plenty of solid families just like his. Then one day, his older brother Rashid ends up in the wrong [...]
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SUMMER OF SECRETS by Paul Langan
Posted by Daniel on October 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment
A frightening ordeal at the end of the school year has turned Darcy Wills’s world upside down. With her ex-boyfriend miles away in Detroit and her beloved grandmother gone, Darcy is more alone than ever. Darcy turns to her remaining friends to discover one of them has an even bigger secret. Now, forced into a [...]
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JOSEPH by Shelia P. Moses
Posted by Daniel on September 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment
For Joseph Flood, life is tough. Tough because of Mama’s addiction to drugs and alcohol. Tough because daddy is away with the army fighting in Iraq. Tough because it looks like there’s no way out once you’re living in a homeless shelter in a North Carolina ghetto neighborhood. And tough because Joseph in enrolled in [...]
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ENAKO BLUE by Brenda Woods
Posted by Daniel on August 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Who was Enako Blue? She was beautiful and good-hearted. She was Monterey’s best friend. She was the only girl Jamal cared about, the one who saw through his player act. She was the one who understood the burden of Eddie’s family. She was the best singer anyone had ever heard, with a voice like vanilla [...]
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GRACE AFTER MIDNIGHT by Felicia “Snoop” Pearson and David Ritz
Posted by Daniel on August 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
In GRACE AFTER MIDNIGHT, Felicia Pearson, who plays Snoop in the HBO hit series The Wire, reveals her incredible, hard knock life story, one that dramatically parallels the life of her character on TV.
While Felicia Pearson is a brilliant actor in a truly chilling role, what’s most remarkable about Snoop is what she has overcome [...]
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RIKERS HIGH by Paul Volponi
Martin Stokes could hold his own in the tough New York City neighborhood where he grew up, but that’s nothing – nothing – compared to Riker’s Island. Martin’s been in the Riker’s Island jail for five months and counting, locked up for a crime he didn’t even mean to commit.
After his court date is delayed [...]
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Teri Woods Video: True to the Game (YouTube)
Posted by Daniel on July 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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