"THE AUTO-THUGOGRAPHY OF TURK"(SYNOPSIS).... FORMER CASH MONEY RECORDS "HOT BOY TURK" OFFERS WITH HIS AUTO-THUGOGRAPHY HIS LIFE AS A LIVING TESTAMENT OF HIS YOUNG N THUGGIN PAIN, STRUGGLES.MENTAL-MATURITY, SPIRITUAL GROWTH, AND HIS REDEMPTION. TAB"YOUNG TURK "VIRGIL JR.FROM NEW ORLEANS "UPTOWN MAGNOLIA PROJECTS, AS A YOUNG ASPIRING FOOTBALL PLAYER DARED TO DREAM. AFTER DEVELOPING HIS ABILITY TO, AND PASSION FOR RAPPING, HIS SKILLS CAUGHT THE ATTENTION OF CASH MONEY RECORDS "SLIM AND THE "BIRDMAN "BABY AND WAS RECRUITED. AFTER JOINING THE RANKS OF CASH MONEY LABEL-MATES;JUVENILE, B.G AND LIL WAYNE, TURK'S PRESENCE HELPED CREATE CASH MONEY RECORD'S SENSATIONAL AND PLATINUM-SELLING"HOT BOYS"!! WITH THEIR INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS THEY WERE INSTANTLY BOMBARDED WITH FORTUNE AND FAME, BUT TURK WAS BLIND-SIDED BY IT'S ADMIXTURE OF EVIL.... .......READ.....\THE AUTO THUGOGRAPHY OF TURK...................... AND TRAVEL WITH TURK THROUGH HIS ACTION PACKED YOUNG LIFE IN NEW ORLEANS "UPTOWN MAGNOLIA PROJECTS.

FORMER CASH MONEY RECORDS "HOT BOY TURK" OFFERS WITH HIS AUTO-THUGOGRAPHY HIS LIFE AS A LIVING TESTAMENT OF HIS YOUNG N THUGGIN PAIN,STRUGGLES.MENTAL-MATURITY,SPIRITUAL GROWTH,AND HIS REDEMPTION. TAB"YOUNG TURK "VIRGIL JR.FROM NEW ORLEANS "UPTOWN MAGNOLIA PROJECTS, AS A YOUNG ASPIRING FOOTBALL PLAYER DARED TO DREAM. AFTER DEVELOPING HIS ABILITY TO, AND PASSION FOR RAPPING, HIS SKILLS CAUGHT THE ATTENTION OF CASH MONEY RECORDS "SLIM AND THE "BIRDMAN "BABY AND WAS RECRUITED. AFTER JOINING THE RANKS OF CASH MONEY LABEL-MATES;JUVENILE,B.G AND LIL WAYNE, TURK'S PRESENCE HELPED CREATE CASH MONEY RECORD'S SENSATIONAL AND PLATINUM-SELLING"HOT BOYS"!! WITH THEIR INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS THEY WERE INSTANTLY BOMBARDED WITH FORTUNE AND FAME, BUT TURK WAS BLIND-SIDED BY IT'S ADMIXTURE OF EVIL.... READ THE AUTO THUGOGRAPHY OF TURK AND TRAVEL WITH TURK THROUGH HIS ACTION PACKED YOUNG LIFE IN NEW ORLEANS "UPTOWN MAGNOLIA PROJECTS, HIS YEARS AS A CASH MONEY MILLIONAIRE, HIS HEROIN AND COCAINE ADDICTION, THE 52 SHOTS "SHOOT OUT "THAT HE ESCAPED IN MEMPHIS, AND HIS ATTEMPTED MURDER CONVICTION AND SENTENCE.

The highly anticipated memoir from Gucci Mane, "one of hip-hop's most prolific and admired artists" (The New York Times).

A PERFECT COMPANION READ TO THE SHOWTIME DOCUMENTARY, WU-TANG CLAN: OF MICS AND MEN Selected as a Best Book of the Year by Esquire "Couldn't put it down." – Charlamagne Tha God "Mesmerizing." – Raekwon da Chef "Insightful, moving, necessary." – Shea Serrano "Cathartic." –The New Yorker "A classic." –The Washington Post The explosive, never-before-told story behind the historicrise of the Wu-Tang Clan, as told by one of its founding members, Lamont "U-God" Hawkins. “It’s time to write down not only my legacy, but the story of nine dirt-bomb street thugs who took our everyday life—scrappin’ and hustlin’and tryin’ to survive in the urban jungle of New York City—and turned that into something bigger than we could possibly imagine, something that took us out of the projects for good, which was the only thing we all wanted in the first place.” —Lamont "U-God" Hawkins The Wu-Tang Clan are considered hip-hop royalty. Remarkably, none of the founding members have told their story—until now. Here, for the first time, the quiet one speaks. Lamont “U-God” Hawkins was born in Brownsville, New York, in 1970. Raised by a single mother and forced to reckon with the hostile conditions of project life, U-God learned from an early age how to survive. And surviving in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s was no easy task—especially as a young black boy living in some of the city’s most ignored and destitute districts. But, along the way, he met and befriended those who would eventually form the Clan’s core: RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killah, and Masta Killa. Brought up by the streets, and bonding over their love of hip-hop, they sought to pursue the impossible: music as their ticket out of the ghetto. U-God’s unforgettable first-person account of his journey,from the streets of Brooklyn to some of the biggest stages around the world, is not only thoroughly affecting, unfiltered, and explosive but also captures, invivid detail, the making of one of the greatest acts in American music history.

The dark journey of a boy who became a man, the man who became an artist, and the artist who became an icon. A talent for rhyme saved his life, but the demons and sins of his past continue to haunt him. This is the story of Earl Simmons.

The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.

'I stood there for a moment, silently speaking to myself: Josefina, you will survive this. You are strong. You are a fighter. You adapt.' As a young mum-of-three, Josefina Rivera was determined to get her troubled life back on track. But then she met Gary Heidnik and the next four months became a living nightmare. Along with five women Josefina was held captive in a cellar where she was starved, beaten, and repeatedly raped to fulfil Heidnik’s desire of creating a ‘family’ of ten children. Cellar Girl is the shocking but ultimately inspiring story of how one brave, young woman saved herself and others from a life worse than hell.

"This novel in verse, alternately narrated by two boys in 1980s Greenpoint, Brooklyn, one channeled by Elliott and one by Miller-Lachmann, eloquently tackles race, culture and life on the spectrum." — The New York Times For fans of Jason Reynolds and Jacqueline Woodson, this middle-grade novel-in-verse follows two boys in 1980s Brooklyn as they become friends for a season. Punk rock-loving JJ Pankowski can't seem to fit in at his new school in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, as one of the only white kids. Pie Velez, a math and history geek by day and graffiti artist by night is eager to follow in his idol, Jean-Michel Basquiat's, footsteps. The boys stumble into an unlikely friendship, swapping notes on their love of music and art, which sees them through a difficult semester at school and at home. But a run-in with the cops threatens to unravel it all. From authors Zetta Elliott and Lyn Miller-Lachmann, Moonwalking is a stunning exploration of class, cross-racial friendships, and two boys' search for belonging in a city as tumultuous and beautiful as their hearts.

Winner of the 2022 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence Shortlisted for the 2023 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2023 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award A transnational feminist novel about human trafficking and motherhood from an award-winning author. Saddled with student loans, medical debt, and the sudden news of her infertility after a major car accident, Shannon, an African American woman, follows her boyfriend to Morocco in search of relief. There, in the cobblestoned medina of Marrakech, she finds a toddler in a pink jacket whose face mirrors her own. With the help of her boyfriend and a bribed official, Shannon makes the fateful decision to adopt and raise the girl in Louisville, Kentucky. But the girl already has a mother: Souria, an undocumented Mauritanian woman who was trafficked as a teen, and who managed to escape to Morocco to build another life. In rendering Souria’s separation from her family across vast stretches of desert and Shannon’s alienation from her mother under the same roof, Jacinda Townsend brilliantly stages cycles of intergenerational trauma and healing. Linked by the girl who has been a daughter to them both, these unforgettable protagonists move toward their inevitable reckoning. Mother Country is a bone-deep and unsparing portrayal of the ethical and emotional claims we make upon one another in the name of survival, in the name of love.

New York Times bestselling author Carl Weber and Essence bestseller La Jill Hunt return with a story of love, money, power, and respect in the next addition of the popular Family Business series. Five years ago, Orlando Duncan created the perfect drug in HEAT. It made the Duncans more than two hundred and fifty million dollars and was on its way to making them billionaires. However, they abruptly stopped manufacturing the drug when it was proven to cause cancer in rats. Yes, even as drug distributors, they still had a moral compass, placing lives over profit despite the overwhelming demand. When Orlando is awakened by an alarm in his old lab, he discovers that not only have all his computers, equipment, and notes been stolen, but the robbers have also taken over a million tabs of HEAT that he’d left behind for future experiments—tabs that he had sworn to his family he would destroy. Dr. Brandi Richardson is one of the most brilliant research chemists in the world, but her propensity for cutting corners led to her firing from both Dow Chemicals and Dupont. She’s now working at CVS as a clerk, but things are about to change for her in a big way. Billionaire Alexander Cora is known as the Moor by business associates and enemies. His company, Cora International, is a publicly traded EU defense contractor. It is also a front for one of the largest weapons, drugs, and illegal contraband smuggling rings in the world. For some reason, he has set his sights on the Duncan family. That can’t be good, because Alexander plays for keeps, and he has not been known to lose. Niles Monroe, the handsome hit man and Paris Duncan’s one true love, is back from the dead, and it’s only a matter of time before he comes looking for her. These rich and powerful people are on a collision course. When the dust settles, who will still be alive, and who will be on top?