After handling an ancient beef and the likes of an obsessed female, Loco and Danielle enjoyed their time with his family and was back in Columbus Ohio to tie up loose ends and relocate to Augusta, Georgia. But, of course, that didn’t prevent the storms that came their way. Dealing with lies, envy, and infidelity eventually led to fights, kidnappings, and the ultimate; death. The moment tragedy hit so close to home, as usual, the couples pulled together to get through the loss of a loved one. And, like any other time that they’ve all been faced with chaos, Loco and Danielle, Daniel and Aliyah, and Dupree and Rabbit all had one another’s backs. Danyea and his boys were there through it all as well, although Danyea had his own drama. The mother of his daughter had returned with plans to have another baby with him, and she wasn't giving up easily. Meanwhile, Danyea was hit with some news that no one was prepared for...
The couples are back, and it seems that everyone has a bone to pick with them. One person in particular has been plotting on them for a long time now, hoping to get one of the Kings back for a heinous crime committed by their fathers. With enemies popping up on every corner, and jealous lovers refusing to be ignored, will any of them even be able to make it out alive? What do you do when people refuse to show you the respect you deserve, simply because they feel you can never live up to the legacy your father left behind? Will the Kings be able to keep the original King brothers undefeated title alive? Or will the legacy their fathers worked so hard to create crash and burn? Who knows, but one thing is for sure, these offspring wont go down without a fight.
In the second installment, Blocc is hit with the news of his sister being brought back to his life. With the heavy feud between Pops and his crew, more secrets and murders await. He has to shuffle through the hand that is given and take on the losses at the same time. When he loses one, he begins to gain another. Seeming as if he can never catch a break, Blocc gets the deal of a lifetime. What was supposed to be a welcoming reunion turned into chaos. Taking on the deal seems better than rotting away in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, but will Blocc see it that way? Being a proposed member of the Black Family Mob, he has to face sitting with the plug, but it was nothing how he imagined when Dime is on another man's arm. Drama, lies, and betrayal are enough to call it quits in this fast life, but when you have hood dreams, you’ll take on just about anything to get your piece of the pie.
Emotions are high after Danielle made a devastating decision to protect the love of her life. She was more than willing to stand up for the man who has had her heart since the moment she saw him, even if standing behind him meant spending years in jail. In everyone else's eyes, she's a fool, but to Danielle, she made the right decision and would do it all over again in a heartbeat. Guess one could say she was a fool in love. Dallas never wanted Danielle to get sucked up into his crazy lifestyle. With so many regrets weighing on him, the main one being how he couldn't protect Danielle when she needed it the most, Dallas does the unthinkable. Their relationship was rocky from the start, and now with the separation between the two, they will see there's always room for more to come between them. What happens when the man who was once your superhero turns out to be the villain? On top of her personal life drama, Danielle and her brother, Reggie, find out a devastating secret about their father that leaves them speechless. As more drama surrounds them, enemies are coming out of nowhere, relationships are ending, and unexpected relationships are growing. In this Epic part two, everyone learns something new about their life. The past can either mold you or make you fold, and in the end, only the strong will survive. Will love be enough to fight for, or will they leave love exactly where they found it, on the mean streets of the Westside of Chicago?
After successfully robbing and murdering her drug lord father, Shereen Hernandez, along with her boyfriend Carlyone Harris, finally got what they’ve each set out to gain in their own lives. Shereen wanting to be the ride or die wife to a kingpin just like her mother, and Carlyone wanting to be the kingpin. They form a bond stronger than the secret that they swore to take to the grave with them but they soon realize that everything that glitters ain’t gold. Introducing Nahmir Quinn, an ex-fling of Shereen’s who learns of Carlyone’s status and rank when Shereen reaches out to him for help after Carlyone is arrested. Ever since losing Shereen and moving away to Columbus, his mission was to get her back. Now, however, he wants her and her boyfriend’s wealth and the empire that he was building. But he has to get through Carlyone first. Breeze has always been loyal to Carlyone ever since they were young boys robbing and stealing together, so him being his right-hand soldier was expected. However, Remmiah, also known as Remmie, wants the man that she was forced to leave years prior and came back for to be the head nigga in charge so that she gets her rightful place on the city’s throne. She will stop at nothing to make sure Breeze, and not Carlyone, comes out on top. High school dropout Zavia Duncan’s only way out of the hood is using what she got to get what she wants. She loves the fast, easy money that comes with stripping but wants the even easier money that comes with being Carlyone’s Harris’ main bitch. She has her eyes set on no one but him. His current bitch was no competition for Zavia’s wild child, down for whatever ways and soon Carlyone falls into her trap. Will Shereen be able to save him or will Nahmir accomplish his mission and takeover Carlyone’s entire life as he knows it? And will Remmie succeed at putting her man on the throne? Open the cover and turn the pages of this street king’s wild love story.
"Goodbyes hurt the most, when the story was not finished." At a time where Kiarra should be celebrating the life she created, she was forced to mourn a life that was lost. Deontae's death came as a shock to everyone, and it turned Kiarra's life upside down. When she found out who was the cause behind her pain, it starts a war in the city that no one was prepared for, especially Church. After the smoke clears around her, can Kiarra put the pieces of her life back together, or will the heartbreak be too much for her to bear? After living in a nightmare for years, Kodi didn't think she could get away from her abusive situation until she finally broke free. Moving on, she's determined to put herself first, and straying away from love, until she met Gerald. Gerald showed Kodi how a queen should be treated, and nothing could make her come down from the high she got from being with him; not even her strained relationship with her mother. Can Kodi and her mother hash out their differences? Or does their heart to heart prove that sometimes it's better to love a person from a distance? "Fool me once, your loss, end of story." Lauren has never been the one to give second chances, and after Banks showed that he couldn't be trusted, he found out first hand just how unforgiving she was. Lauren swore she was done with relationships, and the headaches that they bring, until Adonis came along, and refused to stay in the friend zone. Will Lauren be receptive to a new love, or did her past ruin it for the future? Find out in the pages of this highly anticipated finale of Shorty Fell In Love With A Dope Boy.
Now hailed as a "proto-feminist classic" (Vulture), Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk's powerful coming-of-age novel about an ambitious young woman pursuing her artistic dreams in New York City has been a perennial favorite since it was first a bestseller in the 1950s. A starry-eyed young beauty, Marjorie Morgenstern is nineteen years old when she leaves home to accept the job of her dreams--working in a summer-stock company for Noel Airman, its talented and intensely charismatic director. Released from the social constraints of her traditional Jewish family, and thrown into the glorious, colorful world of theater, Marjorie finds herself entangled in a powerful affair with the man destined to become the greatest--and the most destructive--love of her life. Rich with humor and poignancy, Marjorie Morningstar is a classic love story, one that spans two continents and two decades in the life of its heroine. "I read it and I thought, 'Oh, God, this is me.'" --Scarlet Johansson
In a world full of stereotypes, why is it that a BBW can't have what she wants? Especially when what she wants is the love of a dope boy! In this book, you will find five short stories that revolve around a plus size woman finding love with a dope boy. See all the trials and tribulations they go through just because of what society deems acceptable. Take a ride with The ladies of Tyanna Presents and find out just how much Big Girls Love Dope Boys, too.
With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. When you're the same brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your bands--the little inconvenience of the look-alike corpse at your feet. And if you're into both survival of the fittest and being your brother's keeper--if you've promised your dying mother--then say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. Grab a book or a beer. Get used to Letterman's gap-toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the influence of random selection. Take it from a godless insomniac. Take it from the uncrazy twin--the guy who beat the biochemical rap. Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night), and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious: She holds a loose fist to her face to cover her defective mouth--her perpetual apology to the world for a birth defect over which she'd had no control. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother's watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother's gentle "bunny." From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness--and ultimately self-protection--in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. I was still afraid of his anger but saw how he punished weakness--pounced on it. Out of self-preservation I hid my fear, Dominick confesses. As for Thomas, he just never knew how to play defense. He just didn't get it. But Dominick's talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives. To save himself, Dominick must confront not only the pain of his past but the dark secrets he has locked deep within himself, and the sins of his ancestors--a quest that will lead him beyond the confines of his blue-collar New England town to the volcanic foothills of Sicily 's Mount Etna, where his ambitious and vengefully proud grandfather and a namesake Domenico Tempesta, the sostegno del famiglia, was born. Each of the stories Ma told us about Papa reinforced the message that he was the boss, that he ruled the roost, that what he said went. Searching for answers, Dominick turns to the whispers of the dead, to the pages of his grandfather's handwritten memoir, The History of Domenico Onofrio Tempesta, a Great Man from Humble Beginnings. Rendered with touches of magic realism, Domenico's fablelike tale--in which monkeys enchant and religious statues weep--becomes the old man's confession--an unwitting legacy of contrition that reveals the truth's of Domenico's life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his twin. Set against the vivid panoply of twentieth-century America and filled with richly drawn, memorable characters, this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying novel brings to light humanity's deepest needs and fears, our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, our struggle to survive at all costs. Joyous, mystical, and exquisitely written, I Know This Much Is True is an extraordinary reading experience that will leave no reader untouched.
