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Series
Low Town volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Drug dealers, hustlers, brothels, dirty politics, corrupt cops . . . and sorcery. Welcome to Low Town.
In the forgotten back alleys and flophouses that lie in the shadows of Rigus, the finest city of the Thirteen Lands, you will find Low Town. It is an ugly place, and its champion is an ugly man. Disgraced intelligence agent. Forgotten war hero. Independent drug dealer. After a fall from grace five years ago, a man known as the Warden...
In the forgotten back alleys and flophouses that lie in the shadows of Rigus, the finest city of the Thirteen Lands, you will find Low Town. It is an ugly place, and its champion is an ugly man. Disgraced intelligence agent. Forgotten war hero. Independent drug dealer. After a fall from grace five years ago, a man known as the Warden...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"She has brains, beauty, and she's eager to please. Krystal Davenport can be anything in life she desires. Well, at least that's what her teachers tell her. However, the brutal truth is that Krystal has one destiny, and that path defines who she is, who she was born to be. This conniving female is indeed her mother's child. Being Ms. Thang's offspring means Krystal is hood royalty. Her family is infamous in the game. They live and die by the code...
Author
Series
Public Enemy volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Hired to investigate the so-called suicide of a disgraced narcotics detective, Khloe Mercer, determined to make a name for herself, turns the toughest streets of Norfolk, Virginia, upside-down to uncover the truth, placing her life in the crosshairs.
4) Almost home
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Seven teens who live on the streets of Los Angeles and who each have their own hard-luck story, form their own dysfunctional family, complete with love and belonging, abuse and betrayal.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Sixteen year old Nalah leads the fiercest all-girl crew in Mega City, but when she sets her sights on giving this life up for a prestigious home in Mega Towers, she must decide if she's willing to do the unspeakable to get what she wants"--
6) Dark eyes
Author
Series
Dark eyes novels volume 1
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Adopted from a Russian orphanage by a wealthy New York family then growing into a rebellious street youth, fifteen year-old Wally resolves to find the birth mother who stole a fortune from her murderous, dark-eyed father.
7) Jumped in
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Sixteen-year-old Rasheed is smart, tough and a survivor. In his neighborhood, he has to be. The streets are run by a gang called the E Street Locals, and they've been trying to jump him in since he was a child. So far, he's managed to escape their clutches. But the gang is not his only problem. Rasheed's sister, Daneeka, was paralyzed in a drive-by shooting, and now she's confined to a wheelchair, mentally frozen at the age of nine. His mother is...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"In 1950s Glasgow, a household of women were found slaughtered in their beds. The father, William Watt, had a cast-iron alibi but police were convinced he was guilty. Determined to clear his name, Watt let it be known that he would pay for information. Step forward career criminal Peter Manuel, with compelling details only the murderer could know. Watt agreed to meet him. They spent twelve hours together, driving and drinking in Glasgow pubs and clubs...
9) Haiku
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Formats
Description
Late one night, Michael--an addicted gambler who has lost everything, including himself--spots a woman in a white Rolls-Royce throwing something into the river. Convinced that the woman is a perfect blackmail target, he attempts to recruit a band of homeless outcasts to search for her. But news that a building is slated for demolition turns this halfhearted effort into a serious mission to find the ultimate problem-solver: money, and with it a new...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020].
Description
Joey Diamonds is on the verge of being a "Made" man, with ice cold blue eyes that pierce through the hearts of women...and men. After being disowned by his mafia family, losing the love of his life, and realizing the world at large is his enemy, Joey throws extreme caution to the wind on his journey of self-debauchery in the name of fame and fortune.
Author
Series
Home Street Home volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"[After years of sexual abuse at the hands of her uncle, a young girl leaves home at sixteen.] Alone and helpless in the streets of North Philadelphia, she encounters more human predators who want to take over her life and devour her. About to hit rock bottom, Alessa manages to break away from her new tormentors and finds refuge in a shelter for homeless and abused women"--Amazon.com.
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When his volatile mother throws him out of the house and he loses contact with his two younger brothers, sixteen-year-old Dylan is forced to live on the streets and beg for money, yet through it all, he finds a way to survive. My fingers search the cardboard container, but I've finished the fries. I squirt ketchup on my fingers and lick it off. I'm never full. I think it was one of the reasons I had to leave, or, rather, my mother kicked me out. Jenna's...
Author
Series
Out for self novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Terrell wasn't raised in the corrupt streets of Detroit. After being abused and left for dead by his violent, psychotic father, he was raised by his aunt in uncle in a loving home in the suburbs. However, he never lost touch with his mother, whose selfish scheming sparked the fire that led to that fateful night when Terrell became disabled. Now that he's an adult, his tainted bloodline has other plans for the wheelchair-bound teenager. Throwing away...