Leandra 'LeLe' Wells was living the hood fairytale that all of her friends wished to have. Young, pretty, and living the fast life with the 'love of her life' Malik was what kept her going. However, LeLe soon learns that one night of being reckless would cause her a lifetime of pain when tragedy strikes forcing her into a dark world she knew nothing about and leaving a piece of her heart crushed forever. Abbey Daniels has the most carefree spirit in the world and she loves her best friend LeLe like no other. She spoke her mind and protected her friend at all cost but a secret she's been hiding could ruin their friendship. There was one girl code they vowed upon their circle and for that Abbey guards her secret with her life while ignoring her heart. Kimberley 'Kim' Laws has felt like the black sheep most of her life even up to feeling like she had to compete with her twin sister Karter. She loves her friends LeLe and Abbey but loyalty only runs but so deep with Kim. Battling with her own demons, jealousy issues and bitterness... Kim is trying to find herself and so badly wants to be loved. With all the secrets she's holding on to she may lose the few people who actually still care about her. Leon And Latrell Wells are the younger twin brothers of LeLe. Fine, smart, and athletes is what everyone saw on the outside. Inside they both battled between the streets, keeping up an image, and looking out for their families. Leon is torn between what he feels and what's real dealing with his love life, and he feared losing his brother forever if he didn't get it together. Latrell is the ultimate thug and rough around the edges. As much as he tries to ignore loving a female he's finding it to be harder. Especially when he's loving someone he's not supposed to love at all. Majestic Laws is the little brother of Malik and he has a chip on his shoulder. Most of the time he doesn't know if he's coming or going. He battles between revenge or letting go and letting God. Between the streets and taking care of his alcoholic mother... the last thing on his mind is loving any female although he's aware that's what he's missing. This crew has some secrets, demons, and real life issues. The men are on edge, and the women need prayer. In this series we'll find out if these thugs found love and just how a thug saved these womens hearts.

With the killing of Noble lingering over Lance's head, all his mind is focused on is revenge. He pushes everyone away, including his beloved son, Jamar. Taking to the streets, Lance has no heart, but he soon realizes this isn't him. Especially when a new person enters his life unexpected. However, Lance soon realizes it's someone close to home that's involved with Noble's murder. Justice will do any and everything to protect Naomi and his unborn seed, even send them states apart to assure they're safe. Will the distance apart make or break them? With Diamond still his client, Justice can't stand to be around her, but when he finds out what she's been hiding for years, will his heart soften? Indigo is in love and wants to shout it to the world. With her new man by her side, she feels invincible. The one thing in her life that isn't perfect is her boss/best friend, Lance. Indigo will do anything to assure Lance is straight, even murder. Diamond thought her life was over when Justice locked her out their house and after losing her best friend, but God had other plans. When God plants two angels in her life, will she see that she has to make a change? Is Kyson willing to let that happen? In this sequel, everything isn't what it seems. Follow these thugs down the road of trying to keep the love they found.

UPDATED 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION Offering an intimate and indispensable window onto the gifted and impassioned, yet vulnerable and uncertain human behind the hip-hop legend of Tupac Shakur, this collection of original poems, letters, and conversations from his time spent incarcerated in 1995 reveals the artist and activist as never seen before. With a new introduction and closing note from Angela Ardis, as well as a foreword by writer, activist, and television personality Kevin Powell In 1995, one year before Tupac Shakur was shot dead in Las Vegas, he was jailed for two months inside New York City’s notorious Rikers Island. While there, he received a letter from a stranger—Angela Ardis, acting on a casual bet with her friends. She included her photo and phone number . . . and soon found herself answering a call from Tupac himself. Remarkably, their near-daily contact grew into a complex kinship of souls that neither could define—and touched both in unexpected ways. Alive in letters and original poems—some available nowhere else—Tupac’s ever-relevant heart beats within these pages. Playful, sensual, and serious, he gives insightful observations on music, prison, and life’s uncertainties—and his dreams for a future that would soon be tragically cut short. In this moving, one-of-a-kind tribute, generations of fans can experience a profound connection to the mind and unbroken spirit of a passionate, unpredictable musical icon.

A way of entertaining while education adolescents about the things that really matter.

Michelle has fallen deeply in love with Daniel. But now Daniel must leave Hawaii to return to California. Will the allure of marrying a wealthy fiance overshadow his true connection with Michelle? *This book is the conclusion to The Hawaii Love Story. If you have not read the FREE Preview of Book #1, Courageous Love, please be sure to download it first.* If you want a touching Christian romance that will restore your hope in committed love, you'll want to get your copy of Perfect Love. This clean & wholesome contemporary book is the conclusion to the Hawaii Love story. Michelle Clemens fights her growing attraction for Daniel Louis, a Christian man who must leave Hawaii soon to return home to Kimberly, his fiancé. But her heart can't resist his good looks and charm, and she falls deeper in love as they build happy memories on Trinity Ranch. But when Daniel must leave Hawaii for California, Michelle battles feelings of heartbreak and loneliness as she accepts the reality of becoming a newly single mother. Daniel is torn between spending quality time with Michelle in Hawaii or facing his demanding fiance in California. Michelle's grandparents see their growing attraction and plot to keep Daniel on the island so their Christian relationship can blossom. But when tragedy strikes Trinity Ranch, Daniel must decide to whom he is loyal. Will he leave Hawaii forever and marry Kimberly, who is rich? Or will he follow his heart and start a new future with Michelle? Find out the conclusion to this uplifting clean & wholesome contemporary romance novel for women. Get your copy now! Other Christian romance books in The Hawaii Love Series by Kelsey MacBride -Courageous Love: The Hawaii Love Series #1

Life is a cycle of death from one generation to the next. From day one we all have equal opportunities in life. As a young man who made some wrong choices at an early age and those choices will follow him all through the rest of his life. While trying not to become a statistic of the hood, but growing up in a society of poverty without a father can have a major effect on how your life turns out. Being raised around pimps, drug dealers, and wine-os their habits are bound to rub off on you. There are two roads in life: the road to destruction and the road to success; its totally up to you which one you will choose in life. You have to play the hand you were dealt, but you must play it to win. Sometimes things may not go as planned. You must never mix business with pleasure and loyalty and trust are everything. By know means ever should you let a woman come between you and your homies. Always stay true to yourself and know that snitches get stitches. If you ever get to the point that the money makes you instead of you making the money... GAME OVER! Written by: Frederick Williams aka Kwunt Dedicated to: Letha Williams

High-top-fade security guard hero Buckett Collins goes in search of a beloved comrades murderers, fights to save a child abuse victim, and evades a belligerent former love interest amid self-doubt, hostility, and the insanity and street violence of 1989 South Central Los Angeles.

Book Six in the Time Travelers Series Drew Bryant born in the year 1870 is a photographer for the daily newspaper and on his way home one night, loses consciousness. He wakes up in a hospital in the year 2014, to find he has been shot and that his brother has taken him into the future with an antique watch to save his life. After weeks of recovery, he returns home to discover a female friend, Timmie Blyth has been abducted. Their lives continue to get involved with the mob, which endangers them with low-life characters, more time traveling and killings. Editors Note: Many characters in this book have accents and or different speech patterns. The author has attempted to illustrate this phonically. These are not spelling errors.

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Charlotte Rodgers has always wanted too much. Too much love, too much attention, and had too many big dreams. It was how she ended up abandoning her two daughters, Connie and Reesy to chase after a man and the promise of a dream life. But Charlotte never anticipated how her world would be irrevocably changed. Now, twenty-seven years later, her whole world shifts yet again with a letter from one of her daughters. And the past is about to bust wide open. Reesy has always been obsessed with something. Obsessed with finding her birth mother. Obsessed with her sister's life. Obsessed with her own adopted daughter never finding out that Reesy is really her aunt. With a neglected husband, who is unknowingly drifting further and further away, a sister who is trying to escape her well-meaning clutches, and a daughter becoming more and more curious about her true parentage, finding the mother she always dreamed about seems to be an answered prayer to Reesy. That is until Reesy is brought crashing back to earth to find that her perfect life is in tattered pieces. Connie has always expected too little. Too little from the man she's been living with for years. Too little from her modest jewelry business. And too little from her relationships, or lack thereof, with her daughter, mother and sister. And too little from herself. Until she discovers she is pregnant again and decides that this time she is keeping her baby, sending her life and her relationship into a tailspin. And rediscovering the mother who left them behind is the last thing she wants. Thrown back together again, in a maelstrom of shocking truths, Charlotte, Reesy and Connie will discover on their journey to forgiveness and redemption that you just might have to sin first in order to be saved.