Urban skønlitteratur

When the rich rob the poor, it's called business. When the poor fight back, it's called violence.There's a war happening....A silent war between the rich who have everything and the poor who have nothing.Frosty is living in the trenches. Surviving on the street, he watches as the city becomes a place of privilege and gentrification pushes society's most vulnerable to the fringes, making criminals of them.Things reach a breaking point after a series of assaults targeting the homeless. Tired of being stepped over and spit on, Frosty organizes them, and using their intimate knowledge of the streets, they wage an urban war to reset the status quo.This war will be loud.

Attorney Bastien Philogene and his wife, schoolteacher Sylvia Jean-Philogene recently moved to Atlanta, Georgia, from Baltimore, Maryland. The successful Haitian-American couple has been going through a rough time lately and want to spice things up in their relationship. Bastien recently revealed his latent Bisexuality to Sylvia and she was supportive. Both want to salvage their relationship. Bastien loves Sylvia and isn't about to ditch her to chase men. The couple that plays together stays together. To that end, they joined the Atlanta Black Swingers Association, also known as ABSA. What Bastien and Sylvia found there absolutely amazed them. A world of freaky Black couples having fun. Sylvia and Bastien both feel intensely drawn to one of the locals. Marcus Bronson is a tall, handsome and masculine Black man who has been a staple of the Atlanta Swingers World for many years. After playing with White couples for years, Marcus relishes the opportunity to play with a sexy Black couple. The Heteroflexible brother loves male/male/female threesomes and is down for whatever. Big-booty Black ladies and manly Black men, anyone can get it as far as the bisexual Marcus is concerned. Can Bastien and Sylvia handle what Marcus throws their way ?

When it comes to getting a bag, CASCI, RENIYA and ARIEL are definitely up on their game. When money is the motive, these three girls get it how they live. But Casci moves in a way that is to be admired. PRETTY GIRLS DO NASTY THINGS for the bread, but Casci pops her gun, too.When MARCUS, an ex boyfriend, enlists Casci to help him pull off a lick that he's been planning a long time, things could become real dicey? Will Marcus keep it real with Casci or has he put her in more danger than she bargained for? Can a slim waist and cute face save Casci from retribution? Or will she be forced to suffer for her ill-gotten gains?¿¿¿¿¿¿¿Meanwhile, Reniya and Ariel are living hood fabulous, playing ballers out of cash and blessing the clubs with their presence. With them, it's money over love, but how long will they be able to survive with that mentality? Will Casci, Reniya and Ariel maintain their friendships throughout their ordeals? Or will they ultimately become frenemies?

Mutationerne - Roman. Jorge Comensal. Mutationerne svinger mesterligt mellem komedie og tragedie, og man møder som læser en fantastisk samling personer, som man aldrig ved om man skal more sig over eller føle medlidenhed med. Det umulige - eller i hvert fald usædvanlige - lykkes for Jorge Comensal, nemlig at fortælle en humoristisk historie om en kræftsygdom og hvad den gør ved de berørte. Det er vedkommende og dybfølt, og det er hylende morsomt.

Dre Peters has it all, the grades, the talent, and the discipline. With greatness comes an ego. Dre is at risk of flunking a required course that he needs in order pass to next grade. He is assigned a special assignment from his teacher. It is a PASS or FAIL assignment. Will he rise to the occasion or flunk and become a statistic?

How resilient can one family be? How much pain can they endure? Meet Mary B and her family. Life hasn't always been full of rainbows, but they stick together. Drama and family secrets plague this family. Read their story to find out if they prevail through the storm or if they break under its weight.

Just when you think things would calm down for the Brown clan. The pain keeps coming. Will they survive the lies, the drama and the twists? Can Mary B hold her family together? Is her strong faith enough to see them through? So many obstacles stacked against them. In the end, who wins?

Fans of Debbie Macomber and Jojo Moyes will love this warm, funny, moving holiday tale from the New York Times bestselling author of Christmas at the Cupcake Café and Little Beach Street Bakery.A nip in the air, chiming bells and carolers, and the genial glow of love and family. But for this English village, it's going to be a Christmas to remember in ways it never expected...In her comfy cottage nestled in the Derbyshire hills, Rosie Hopkins has good reason to feel a warm blush in her cheeks. With Christmas weeks away, the holiday is being ushered in with England's first glorious snowfall of the season. Her boyfriend Stephen is starting his new job as a teacher in the village school. Her quaint Sweetshop and Confectionery has been restored to its former glory, and she has a loveable mop of a new puppy named Mr. Dog. Most joyous of all, Rosie and Stephen's relatives will finally be gathering together in Lipton for what is sure to be a merry feast.But when a devastating tragedy strikes at the heart of the close-knit town, plans for a cozy Christmas are suddenly in danger of melting away. It's going to take Rosie's indomitable spirit, the embrace of family and friends, and the resilient good will of a community to turn it all around and make this a holiday to be thankful for.Soulful, emotional, uplifting, and complete with recipes for delicious wintry treats, Christmas at Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop is a perfect gift for listeners.

A dual story line about a single working woman and a busy working mom of two exploring work/life balance.

It's been awhile since Mexican Cartel boss, ALEXUS COSTILLA had a firm grip on Chicago's illicit drug trade. She knows that despite the spike in gang-relate homicides, the Windy City is the land of opportunity for a drug-dealing queenpin like herself. All Alexus needs is a street organization to move her product. Enter LEE "JUICE" WILKINS.Hailing from notorious North Lawndale, Juice is the leader of one of the most feared and notorious gangs on the West Side of the city. Though business seems grand and money is rolling in non-stop, Juice decides to make a move that will be more profitable for himself. How will Alexus react to being cutout of the equation? Juice's new connect, BULLET-FACE, is non other than the ex husband of Alexus. When Juice and several of his closest cohorts travel to Cali to meet with Bullet-Face, it begins a day that will involve scandal, deceit, backstabbing and murder. Will THE BRICK MAN find his way back to Chicago with a stronger plug on deck? Or will his return to his home turf be inside a box?

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWinner of the Sophie Brody Medal • An NBCC Finalist for 2016 Award for Fiction • ALA Carnegie Medal Finalist for Excellence in Fiction • Wall Street Journal's Best Novel of the Year • A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • A Washington Post Best Book of the Year • An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Slate Best Book of the Year • A Christian Science Monitor Top 15 Fiction Book of the Year • A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year • A San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year • A Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year • A New York Post Best Book of the YeariBooks Novel of the Year • An Amazon Editors' Top 20 Book of the Year • #1 Indie Next Pick • #1 Amazon Spotlight Pick • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A BookPage Top Fiction Pick of the Month • An Indie Next Bestseller"This book is beautiful.? ? A.O. Scott, New York Times Book Review, cover reviewFollowing on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure?and the forces that work to destroy us.In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother's home in Oakland, California, to visit his terminally ill grandfather. Tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, memory stirred by the imminence of death, Chabon's grandfather shared recollections and told stories the younger man had never heard before, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried and forgotten. That dreamlike week of revelations forms the basis for the novel Moonglow, the latest feat of legerdemain from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon. Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as ?my grandfather.? It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and marriage and desire, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact?and the creative power?of keeping secrets and telling lies. It is a portrait of the difficult but passionate love between the narrator's grandfather and his grandmother, an enigmatic woman broken by her experience growing up in war-torn France. It is also a tour de force of speculative autobiography in which Chabon devises and reveals a secret history of his own imagination. From the Jewish slums of prewar South Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of New York's Wallkill prison, from the heyday of the space program to the twilight of the ?American Century,? the novel revisits an entire era through a single life and collapses a lifetime into a single week. A lie that tells the truth, a work of fictional nonfiction, an autobiography wrapped in a novel disguised as a memoir, Moonglow is Chabon at his most moving and inventive.

Chosen by Denis Lehane for his eponymous imprint, Ivy Pochodas Visitation Street is a riveting literary mystery set against the rough-hewn backdrop of the New York waterfront in Red Hook.Its summertime in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue-collar dockside neighborhood. June and Val, two fifteen-year-olds, take a raft out onto the bay at night to see what they can see.And then they disappear. Only Val will survive, washed ashore; semi-conscious in the weeds.This shocking event will echo through the lives of a diverse cast of Red Hook residents. Fadi, the Lebanese bodega owner, hopes that his shop will be the place to share neighborhood news and troll for information about Junes disappearance. Cree, just beginning to pull it together after his fathers murder, unwittingly makes himself the chief suspect, but an enigmatic and elusive guardian is determined to keep him safe.Val contends with the shadow of her missing friend and a truth she buries deep inside. Her teacher Jonathan, a Julliard School dropout and barfly, wrestles with dashed dreams and a past riddled with tragic sins.