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1) Street Life
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A former inmate, who is now an assistant stock broker and a part-time gang counselor, details his life on the inner city streets of Atlanta as a notorious drug dealer, vividly recreating his struggle to break the cycle and walk the straight and narrow.
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"Hub-City Street Life" is a gritty, intense crime drama that follows the life of a young man from the streets who rises to the top of the criminal underworld. The main charater, is a charismatic and ambitious hustler who will stop at nothing to achieve his goals. As he navigates the dangerous world of drugs, money, and power, he must also grapple with the weight of his own conscience and the consequences of his actions. With a powerful cast and a...
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John T. Ahern's debut novel "The Carnation Street Life Estate" is a suspenseful thrill ride that readers of Christian fiction will love. In this story, unintended consequences derailed Marge McAllistar's gift to Frank Wilson. The life estate she bequeathed in her Will and Trust was supposed to make his life better. The rest of her estate was supposed to make her lone heir, Bethany's life better too. But Marge could not predict how her life estate...
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Each year 25,000 inmates are released in one of the largest prison towns in America-Huntsville, Texas. They exit and shuffle along the sidewalk, some smiling, some pensive, and all carrying onion sacks full of belongings. If their families are there, they leave into open arms. For most, though, they aren't. The majority stream past the private homes and prison offices toward the Greyhound bus station three blocks away. This story is an honest look...
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Classic document of social realism contains 37 photographs by famed Victorian photographer John Thomson, accompanied by individual essays - by Thomson himself or social activist Adolphe Smith - that offer sharply drawn vignettes of lower-class laborers, dustmen, street musicians, shoe blacks, and other street people. A treasure trove of astonishing historical detail.
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"Her Benny" by Silas K. Hocking. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are...
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"Ragged Dick is a well-told story of street-life in New York, that will, we should judge, be well received by the boy-readers, for whom it is intended. The Hero is a boot-black, who, by sharpness, industry, and honesty, makes his way in the world, and is, perhaps, somewhat more immaculate in character and manners than could naturally have been expected from his origin and training. We find in this, as in many books for boys, a certain monotony in...
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Miss Understood chronicles one young girl's journey through poverty, depression, low self-esteem, and ghetto street life to break through barriers and defeat all odds set against her. Set in the heart of the ghetto, Miss Understood will take you on a rocky yet heartfelt journey filled with pitfalls, dark lonely ditches, heartache, pain and suspense. Meet Latoya Shantae Robinson also known as Toya. Toya gets dealt a rough hand being born to an alcoholic...
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