Ghetto Read
Explore the Ghetto Read book list featuring gritty urban fiction from KaShamba Williams, Shannon Holmes, and Nikki Turner, including Driven, Bad Girlz, and A Project Chick.
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Little Black Girl Lost
by Keith Lee Johnson
When an old-school pimp is released from prison after ten years, he reconnects with his friends in the old neighborhood and teams up with a young, dynamic pimp in search of his missing daughter. Original.
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Bad Girlz
by Shannon Holmes
Bad Girlz takes readers into the mysterious and often dangerous lives of young women who turn to the streets and strip clubs as a means of survival. These are the girls who, along the way, suffer bad breaks and find themselves ripe for exploitation by men and women who pretend to be their saviours. Holmes tells a page-turning story of sex, money and murder in the name of survival and reveals the many ways that good girls, trying to get by in desperate situations, become Bad Girlz.
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Driven
by KaShamba Williams
What happens when an unseen tragedy occurs? Life begins to unravel and skeletons begin to leap out of the closet. Nasir is a young man torn between street life and fatherhood, who finds his mother's scorned vengefulness and his girlfriend's enraged insecurities are driving him close to the edge. Will he be a father to his child - or will he fold under pressure?
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At the Court's Mercy
by KaShamba Williams
Nasir Johnson, a young man haunted by his past and torn between street life and fatherhood, just wants a normal life with his son and new fiancee. And just when it seems his dreams could come true, reality enters, in the form of his vindictive baby momma, who has teamed up with his own mother to regain the custody rights she so freely relinquished years ago. And he's being hounded by a stalker who threatens to deal the final blow to his dreams of a new life.
