Augusts Urban Book Club
Join August's Urban Book Club for the latest reads! Discover this month's top urban book picks and connect with fellow literature enthusiasts.
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Bad Girlz
by Shannon Holmes
Bad Girlz takes readers into the mysterious and often dangerous lives of young women who turn to the streets and strip clubs as a means of survival. These are the girls who, along the way, suffer bad breaks and find themselves ripe for exploitation by men and women who pretend to be their saviours. Holmes tells a page-turning story of sex, money and murder in the name of survival and reveals the many ways that good girls, trying to get by in desperate situations, become Bad Girlz.
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Whoreson
by Donald Goines
The gripping story of Whoreson James, the son of a beautiful black prostitute and an unknown john. Corrupted by the violent Ghetto world, at the age of sixteen he is a fully fledged pimp: cold blooded and ruthless. A startling insight into the mean streets of the tough inner city by America's number one author of the genre.
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Crack Head
by Lisa Lennox
Lisa Lennox's debut novel transports us to the heart of the crack era: The South Bronx, New York, 1989. In the late 80s and early 90s, the crack epidemic swept through inner city communities like the plague. Mothers abandoned their children and took to the street for a hit. Fathers sold everything they owned to get a taste. The crackhead was rampant. Some neighborhoods were never the same. Enter Laci Johnson, a privileged, smart, beautiful teenage girl from across town, who teams up with The South Bronx Bitches, an infamous girl group known for chasing men and money. When the SBB becomes envious of Laci they devise a plan to destroy her life. Finding love in the most unexpected of places, Laci turns to a local drug dealer to help save her and heal the wounds of her new addiction.
