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CONFESSIONS OF A VIDEO VIXEN
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Author:Karrine Steffans
Glass vases filled with marbles crashed all around us as he began tossing linens from the bed. As the marbles scattered, we laughed in unison ... I remember the exact moment that I first laid on my back for him ... My legs were wrapped around his waist and just before his body was to merge with mine, I noticed his upper right chest. On it was a tattoo with the words "Pain is Love."
Confessions of a Video Vixen is the widely anticipated memoir of Karrine Steffans, the once sought-after sexy siren who appeared in the music videos of multiplatinum hip-hop artists such as Jay-Z, R. Kelly, and LL Cool J. A top-paid video dancer, Karrine transitioned to film when acclaimed director F. Gary Gray picked her to costar in his film A Man Apart, starring Vin Diesel. But the movie and music video sets, swanky Miami and New York restaurants, and trysts with the celebrities featured in the pages of People and In Touch magazines only skims the surface of Karrine's life.
This memoir -- part tell-all, part cautionary tale -- shows how Karrinne came to be the confidante of so many, why she kept their secrets, and how she found herself in Hollywood after a life marked by physical abuse, rape, and drugs -- all before she was twenty-six. By sharing her emotionally charged story, she hopes to shed light on an otherwise romanticized industry.
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ISBN: 0060842423
Format: Hardcover, 205pp
Pub. Date: June 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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ARE YOU SATISFIED, YET?
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Author:MBridges
Betty Jean Carlson is a woman tired of her life...her love life in particular. She's convinced that no love is perfect and is willing to suffer and sacrifice for hers, confident a wedding ring is worth it all. A painful discovery forces her to look within and ask herself some tough questions. Is her little piece of happiness enough? How much longer can she pretend like it is? Does she even want to?
Ezekiel Johnson has been playing the game for so long he has no idea how to stop. Even when he's faced with losing all that he holds dear, he can't find the way to truth and honesty
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BABYGIRL
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Author:Urb'n Anthony
Stephanie was born into a family of crime. Although she learned the trade and the secrets, nothing could prepare her for the person she found inside of her.
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Publisher:Aeti Publishing (August 31, 2004)Trade Paper
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CONCRETE JUNGLE
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Author:Shannon Holmes, A.J. Rivers, Anthony Wyhte
Crafted with a similar place in mind: Stories of money, sex, lies,videtapes, drugs, violence, and finding a place to fit in. Above all, these are stories of decisions made, good or bad, in the face of the sheer desperation that comes from trying to survive in this corner of America known as the "Concrete Jungle"
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Publisher: Jackson Press Corp(June 15, 2005) Trade Paper
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DEADLY REIGNS
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Author:Teri Woods
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WIVES AND GIRLFRIENDS
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Author:Nishawnda N. Ellis
Wives and Girlfriends is a seductive and suspenseful tale of lust, infidelity and murder, with a surprise twist at the end. Get ready to be entertained, as this story takes you through the life of a cheating ruthless husband and the women that love him.
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FOREVER MY LADY
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Author:Jeff Rivera
Forever My Lady is a fast-paced coming of age novel set in the barrio and in prison boot camp. Jeff Rivera has done a wonderful job bringing his teenagers to life. From Dio to the cruel Grossaint, to the skinny rich-kid loner, Simon, each has a story. Parental guidance is advised, but I think it should be a must read for any teen, especially those exposed to gang activity.
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SHAKEDOWN
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Author:Nubian James
Paris Hightower, is a sexy young thang who falls in love with the man of her dreams, Tyree Dickerson, the son of very wealthy Real Estate tycoons. But there?s a problem?. Tyree?s mother (Mrs. Dickerson) thinks that her son is too good for Paris and is dead-set on destroying the relationship at all costs.
After Mrs. Dickerson reveals a long-kept secret to Paris about her mother (Ebony Hightower), a woman that abandoned Paris and her brother more than fifteen years ago when she was forced to flee and hide from police amidst Attempted-Murder charges for shooting Paris? father --- Paris is left in an impossible situation.
Even though the police have long given-up on the search for Ebony Hightower (Paris? mother), the bitter Mrs. Dickerson threatens to find her and turn her in to authorities as blackmail for Paris to end the relationship with her son.
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BUSTED
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Author:Rhonda Swan
The lives of Arianna, Nicole and Janelle collide in a drama, as they discover that they've all been dating the same man.Chauncey, a brother that makes a habit out of loving and leaving women that he's met thru LoveMeBlack.com. . The three of them plot to exact their revenge on the unsuspecting Chauncey, as an unforgettable way of letting him know that he's been BUSTED!
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TAKE IT THERE
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Author:Kaira Denee
Tanya Mitchell is a professional Art Director by day, but by night she's the freak of the week; pursuing men solely based upon their clothes, looks and cars. Once she realizes her way of thinking is dangerous, will it be too late for her to fix the mess she gets herself into? Shari is at first happily married to Dexter and stands out as the more responsible and mature one of the group. However, when she agrees to let Tanya's younger sister Tangie stay with her and Dexter, her suspicion that they're having an affair overtakes her better judgment. All of Nia Lopez's life she'd been teased by her half sisters and made to feel inadequate; not a real Black woman, due to her father's Cuban heritage. Further conflict arises when Nia's ex boyfriend re-enters her life. She must decide whether to forgive him for the terrible things he did in the past and learn to trust again. But can rape ever be forgiven? The alternate endings will let YOU decide the fate of one of these lady's destinies.
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HELP WANTED
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Author:Shawan Lewis
Brace yourself as you experience how the compromised lives of four women are entangled in this powerful drama. Help Wanted is a page-turning tale that reveals sex, scandal and deceit. A botched drug deal forces college student, Hailee Shaw in the arms of a notorious gangster, Lucas Blacke. Hailee sells her body and soul to this thug, in a desperate effort to save her heroin addicted mother's life, who happens to be the other woman. R&B; singer, Onyx Devoe encounters a brief relationship with a NBA player who leaves her heartbroken after the devastating death of their newborn child. Paris Parker, a single mom, lands an internship at an investment firm. Her career is jeopardized when her conniving boyfriend sleeps with her supervisor's wife. Effie Peters adores Clarence, her husband of forty years. Clarence's affair with a younger woman leads to death, bringing two conflicting lives face to face in a prison cell. Wait! There is a silver lining in the clouds for each of these four women. Their unpredictable trials link them to a love supreme-incomparable to anything on earth.
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ISBN: 097668750X
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FATOU
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Author:Fatby Sidi
Twelve year old Fatou travels from West Africa to America thinking she's furthering her education. Yet, she arrives in New York City greeted by a man three times her age - someone from her village who paid a dowry to be her husband. Suffering through pedophiles, deplorably cruel living conditions, and a slave-life job eventually pushes her over the edge. When the smoke clears, she refuses to be a victim and exerts control of her life by becoming part of Harlem's fast money scene. The resulting terror leveled at anyone who gets in her way doesn't mask wounds but it does soothe her overwhelming hunger for revenge. Aside from money, power, respect, and her new love for New York city's number one drug lord, that's all a West African girl in Harlem has to look forward to.
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FREDDIE'S DEAD
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Author:Richard Torres
Freddie gets a crack at his first big case when a former childhood friend hires him to find her brother. Things are not what they seem when Freddie finds himself face to face with the end of a sawed-off shotgun and the least likely of suspects.
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IN THE NAME OF LOVE
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Author:Sammie Ward
At twenty-five he had been in his last year of graduate school for business. She was in her second year of medical school. She wanted to specialize in obstetrics. Derrick could still see her long, thick, black hair, framing her oval face, and could practically smell the scent of her. He thought of their many nights of sizzling-hot-passion that had remained etched in his mind. He could still feel her soft, wet, and wild body underneath his as they moaned each other's name over and over again.
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TWISTED
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Author:Holland Jones
Nadine, a sultry, ghetto-fine conniving gold-digger, will do whatever it takes to make sure that she is financially set for life -- even at the cost of breaking-up a family.
When Wayne, Nadine's man since high-school, is sentenced to two years in prison for a crime he did not commit, he's betrayed by the two people he trusted the most, his woman (Nadine) and his cousin (Bobo).
Asia, a curvaceous diva and designer-clothing boutique owner with a wilder-side sexual-preference becomes an unlikely confidant to her best-friend Nadine's man (Wayne) during his incarceration.
Meanwhile Bobo, one of VA's most notorious and most successful Street-Entreprenuers, manages to hustle his way into staring down a possible life sentence.
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MAN KILLER
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Author:Denise Campbell
She woke up at seven years old and found the manhood of her so-called father in her mouth. She watched her mother die to protect and save her innocence. She survived the trauma and indignities excelling into law as a Florida State Supreme Court justice. There she tried to make a difference, but her anger and pain became intensified as she watch murderers, pedophiles and convicted rapists slip through the cracks of legal loopholes leaving her feeling helpless, victimized all over again. She quickly realized that being a member of the "Clothe" was just another dysfunctional institution that only served as a handcuff to true justice
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UNWILLING TO SUFFER
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Author:Antoine "Inch" Thomas
From the underground best-selling author of Flower's Bed and No Regrets, novelist Antoine "Inch" Thomas paints a portrait in this tale like no other , sexy . . . unrestrictedly erotic . . . provocative and full of passion!
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CAUGHT 'EM SLIPPIN'
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Author:Al-Saadiq Banks
Miranda Benderas, born to an infamous Cuban kingpin, and his trophy wife, an African American supermodel. Miranda grew up with all the luxuries that other girls could only dream of. Her daddy proved that crime does pay. But isn't there always a cost to having it all? By age 13, Miranda's father was sentenced to life in prison. Has Miranda's father given her enough to navigate the world without him?
Miranda Benderas, born to an infamous Cuban kingpin, and his trophy wife, an African American supermodel. Miranda grew up with all the luxuries that other girls could only dream of. Her daddy proved that crime does pay. But isn't there always a cost to having it all? By age 13, Miranda's father was sentenced to life in prison. Has Miranda's father given her enough to navigate the world without him?
Three short years later, Miranda falls into the arms of Philadelphia's Bad Boy, Sha-Rock. The beautiful flower of a woman that Miranda's father planted has turned into a weed, thanks to Sha-rock.
Sha-Rock is sentenced to a short prison bid. Years later, Sha-Rock steps back onto the scene, realizing that the game has changed. Yet Sha-Rock is still determined to make it back to the top at any cost. The help he needs lies in the hands of Miranda.
Just how far will she go to prove her loyalty?
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THE GLAMOROUS LIFE
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Editor:Nikki Turner
With the street knowledge she gleaned from her ex as well as her own business savvy, Bambi builds a multimillion-dollar party planning empire. Along the way she runs across all kinds of dudes who try to run massive amounts of game, and ultimately she becomes a first-rate swindler and top-notch gamestress in her own right. Then she crosses paths with Lynx, a young drug dealer who sees more in Bambi than the gold digger she is rumored to be. He methodically penetrates her shield layer by layer until he captures her heart. But is she just setting herself up to be played once again?
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STREET POSSESSION
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Author:Tony Lindsay
Mike Brown, south side's resident crack head, is a man who's made a deal with the devil. He's sold his soul, and now he's got nowhere to go but down. Problem is, he's about to take a few others with him, two prostitutes and a disillusioned police detective who can't always be distinguished from the criminals he's supposed to arrest. Can this unlikely trio face the unthinkable, escape their fate and save their lives?
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BULLETPROOF SOUL
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Author:Michelle Buckley
Bulletproof Soul pays respect to the resiliency of women from the ghettos to the burbs. It's a fast-paced and poignant debut novel that skillfully interweaves themes of love, betrayal, loss, hope and forgiveness. It's the story of Lacy Foxx, for whom the humor and horror of being black, female, single and searching (but in denial about it) is all too real. Unfortunately, her love life isn't her only problem. She's also struggling with the death of close family members, best friend woes, baby's momma drama and major job trauma. Will she learn to embrace her indestructible spirit . . . her bulletproof soul . . . in time before everything comes crashing down around her
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SOUTH SIDE DREAMS
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Author:B.K. Ray
Meet the Evans family, three generations living together in a desolate neighborhood in Chicago's crime-ridden South Side. Life has not turned out the way Dorothy Evans, the head of the clan, dreamed it would. Now she returns home from her dead-end job every night and seeks comfort in a bottle of vodka to numb the pain.
Her children find other ways to deal with life in the hood. Danny is on a paper chase trying to make money and stay alive in spite of threats from a rival dealer. Regina keeps herself busy juggling her children's fathers, all the while dreaming that some day she'll find a man to take her away from the hood. Her twin brother, Reginald, seeks fellowship in the church, but his holier-than-thou attitude ignites plenty of arguments in the household.
When their cousin, Anthony, returns home after his sixth stay in prison, he is full of rage. A visit to his son, who's living with a crack-addicted mother, leaves Anthony determined to find a way to insure a brighter future for the child. He devises a plan that will pull the Evans family out of the desperate cycle of poverty they've been stuck in. What price will he be willing to pay to change the course of this family's future?
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ROCKIN' ROBIN
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Author:Stephanie Johnson
Robin Sessoms was fine working as the Head Reservation Clerk at the Gray Pearl, in Asbury Park, New Jersey which is owned by Todd Kendricks, a software consultant, student and undercover drug addict who is still sleeping with his drug addicted ex-wife and mother of his first son Reggie, and Chanel, a Sociologist, mother of Todd's second son, Kyle, and is also good friends with Robin. Her time was spent working a forty hour plus work week to make ends meet and therapy sessions with Dr. Christopher, her therapist, two times a week because something inside of her just wasn't right. She always felt like she had more than one shadow, like she was never alone. Jiles and Toscha Sessoms are Robin's parents but because of the physical, verbal and mental abuse that he inflicted on both Robin and her mother, she has no contact with him and very little with her mother. Jiles denied he ever abused Robin and Toscha, who still receives his physical and verbal abuse, knew it happened but convinced herself to believe it didn't.
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SISTER GIRLS
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Author:Angel M. Hunter
Take a look inside the lives and relationships of Crystal, Susan, Jewell, and Elsie. Their lives are laced with love, addiction, lust and loyalty. Crystal must deal with a past she can't escape. Susan is in denial and needs to get real. Jewell is looking for a "good man". And Elsie is confused about her sexuality. When their issues explode each woman is forced to confront her own set of issues. Their friendship is put to test numerous times and in ways that they never imagined. Together these four sisters take friendship to a new level that puts the realities of life's trail's and tribulations into their proper perspective.
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DIRTY MONEY
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Author:Ashley JaQuavis
The Girls Are Taking Over The Game!!!
Dirty Money is an urban tale of sex, money, murder, and mayhem and shows the pros and cons of the game. Anari is the epitome of a good girl turned bad after her world is brutally destroyed. Consumed with her desire for revenge, she, along with her best friend Monica, enter a life of drugs, fast money, and betrayal only to adapt the lifestyle that pushed them in the game in the first place. Hiding their true identities, the pair quickly rises to the top of New Jersey?s dope game. Using everyone who crosses their paths, nothing, not betrayal or addiction will stop them from dispensing their street justice.
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CRACK HEAD
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Author:Lisa Lennoz
In this gripping tale, readers are introduced to young Laci Casteneda, the only child of supportive parents who raised Laci with a silver spoon in her mouth. Groomed for success, Laci is talented, athletic, attractive and voted Most Likely to Succeed.
Fate takes a turn for the worse when Laci is invited to a high school graduation party by an envious clique of girls and accepts a dare to take a hit of a crack pipe.
Laci's future spirals downhill by day as she canvasses the streets by night seeking to satisfy her addiction. Labeled as a "strawberry", the streets claim Laci's youth and her life will never be the same.
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FETISH
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Author:Kevin Elliott
Fetish is a thought provoking anthology that raises African American sexuality stakes, like you've never seen before. Myths are tackled and fantasies are explored. Smart literature that heads and shoulders above the rest. Sex scenes are vivid and candid but incredibly believable.
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