Money and Larissa have dealt with some of the fallout that comes with the street life. It seems like their relationship is doomed to fail before it even really gets started. Especially with more enemies mounting against them and Money's rise to power as a kingpin.In this second installment, follow the couple as they grow into their new roles and become the people they are destined to be. The question is whether or not they're better off together or apart. Will love and loyalty conquer and win out over those trying to tear the two apart? Or will the streets prevail?
Falling in love was never part of Larissa's plan, especially with a thug. Meet Larissa Bradshaw, a strong-willed hardworking girl. After her parents turn their backs on her she closes her heart to love and becomes determined to make something of herself despite her situation. She meets Messiah "Money" Lawson and everything changes. Messiah is an up and coming boss in the streets. He's a nigga that's respected and feared by all. From the moment he first sees Larissa he has to have her. The two share an instant connection and can't seem to get enough of each other. Messiah's lifestyle and desire for money brings jealousy, temptation, and violence threatening to ruin what he and Larissa are trying to build.Follow Larissa and Messiah on their journey of ups and downs as they fight for the love, loyalty and life they always wanted.
The whole gang is back in the highly anticipated sequel of It is What it is a Hood Love Story. Everyone has a past filled with secrets. The question is will the person you're with, love you the same when they find out your deepest and darkest secrets? This time around love will be entangled with hidden skeletons and everyone has them. Whose love is strong enough to overcome secrets and whose relationship will fall by the wayside? Carlos hasn't exactly been a choir boy; but no one can deny the love he has for Lucky. Is love really enough when his past indiscretions have left permanent scars on Lucky's heart that are now manifesting through distrust and insecurities? Can Lucky let his previous mistakes stay in the past or is she bound to let it ruin their future? When we last left off in an act of jealousy and mistrust Lucky set forward a chain of events that left both her and Los in handcuffs. Is this the last straw? Or can their love survive this test?Both Keema and Jah are living the life they'd always dreamed. Husband and wife are now parents to a bouncing baby boy and another blessing on the way. The newlyweds soon find out that life isn't as perfect as they thought it would be. When Keema is suddenly contacted by someone from her past, will she end up letting this individual sabotage her future?Ty and Nice are finally together and she couldn't be happier. With the honeymoon phase of their relationship over she's finding out that balancing her career and home life isn't all that easy. Especially, when outside forces seem to keep trying to pull them apart. With Mia creating Baby Mama drama in epic proportions and a dark secret threatening to ruin their relationship could their relationship survive?
Larissa is left fighting for her life yet again as a result of Money's street life. The pain and loss that she must go through will either make her stronger or break her completely.With Money's rise to power comes the constant worry for his family's safety. in order to keep his position as Kingpin and ensure that the people he loves remain unharmed, he will stop at nothing. The result ofhis ruthless actions may just be his undoing though.It's clear that the love Larissa and Money have for each other only grows stronger with time. But after everything that's happened, will love be enough to keep them together even with the enemies thatalways seem to be coming against them.In the finale of The Hood Love and Loyalty Series, truths will be revealed and loyalties tested more than ever before. Everything will come full circle for Money, Larissa, and the rest of the crew.Will Money and Larissa get their happily ever after? Proving that love and loyalty can beat all odds.
Faith and Trust are a couple who seem to have everything right at their fingertips but losing faith and trust in one another may just be the cause of their ultimate downfall… Faith often feels that her man has way too much money for the small legal endeavors that he tells her about, but she chooses to believe in him—that is until the feds kicks in her door one day. She doesn't know if she has it in her to be a ride or die. Putting her belief in Trust may give her an everlasting love or cause her to lose what she loves most. Trust is a natural born hustler. When it comes to getting money, he’s strategic and thorough. He likes his money fast and plentiful. For obvious reasons, he has to keep that between him and his partners. But living a double life isn't easy. His main objectives are to stay free and to protect his future wife. When Trust has the chance at the biggest score of his life, he doesn’t hesitate to risk it all.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
The follow-up to his bestselling memoir "Monster," Shakur's "T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E." is a vicious, heart-wrenching, and true-to-life novel that masterfully captures the violence and depravity of gang life.
"You gotta closely watch these hoes. The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and loyalty."-Aaliyah "When you are deserving, you get the career, the friends, and the niggaz you want. A beautiful, deserving woman attracts nothing less than the best. However, weak jealous hoes don't understand that, and they try to interrupt your happiness." -Tokyo Aaliyah and Tokyo Monroe are sisters. They're both doing their own thing as popular and successful women with bright futures, and they love it. However, when passion, lust, envy, and narcissist behavior shows its face the sisters are faced with drama and chaos. Tokyo can be the sister from hell and doesn't mind betraying others to get what she wants. Even her own sister. Aaliyah loves hard and will never believe the people she loves the most would hurt her. She's blinded by love, and unfortunately it will cause her downfall. Kash is the man and knows what he wants. Because of who he is, he always gets what he wants but some things are off limits. Jersey is the one in the hood who hides his secrets well. None of the homies would ever suspect that he's who he is. Saved By His Hood Love is supported by colorful characters and will have you entertained from beginning to end.
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
"Meet Ka'lani Brown, better known as Lani, who is married to the one and only Tyrone Brown. They have been married now for two years but that's been her man since she was in the 6th grade. Lani has already gone through her share of fighting sideline chicks over her man. After all these years of being together, things for them are fine because Ka'lani has made it clear that she will not play about Tyrone! Now meet Tisha Monroe. Tisha was a woman who has been scorned for years due to her previous relationship with her ex Mike. That all changed when she finally gave Otis Jackson a chance. She worships the ground that man walks on. She loves her man and he loves her back. Along with loving him comes a price to pay. There are a few chicks lurking, determined to do anything to take Tisha's spot, but there just happens to be one in particular that is willing to do anything to have Otis on her side. What happens when other females try to get in the middle of what you and your man are building? Do you let them take him? Do you give up? Or do you still choose him? In this book relationships are tested and you end up asking yourself "Am I making the right choice?" Take a ride with the hood's hottest couples Ka'lani and Tyrone and Tisha and Otis, and their two best fiends Tamika and Kyla for a tale filled with drama, thug love, sex, and a little bit more drama."--Provided by publisher.
