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| Author | : Siren |
| Publisher | : Sullivan Group Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 109 |
| Release | : 2019-02-24 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 164854682X |
Amoré Jones thought that the winters of Chicago were cold, but they had nothing on how cold her baby daddy, Chiraq, was doing her. 2019 wasn't looking too promising as the state of Illinois cut her food stamps, and her baby daddy was acting up. However, Amoré was determined to make it happen for her and her son, even if it meant that love had to be put on the back burner. But a new job may change all that as Amoré comes across her new boss, Markelle. Markelle "MK" Carter likes to entertain hoes, and he doesn't want to commit to anyone. However, his world, as well as his heart, is turned upside down when his new assistant, Amoré, enters his life. Amoré isn't his type at all. She's too hood, and MK isn't about to compete with any man for a chick. But, late nights and new found lust has MK trying to shoot his shot with Amoré. With Valentine's day quickly approaching, will Amoré pick the familiarity of Chiraq, or will she let MK slide in more than just her thoughts? Love is in the air, and Cupid is searching the hood. Who said that hood chicks don't need love too?
| Author | : Scott Simon |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 161 |
| Release | : 2017-04-11 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 073521803X |
NPR's Scott Simon's personal, heartfelt reflections on his beloved Chicago Cubs, replete with club lore, memorable anecdotes, frenetic fandom and wise and adoring intimacy that have made the world champion Cubbies baseball's most tortured—and now triumphant—franchise. Heartbreak and hope. Charmed and haunted. My Cubs is Scott Simon’s love letter to his Chicago Cubs, World Series winners for the first time in over a century. Replete with personal reflections, club lore, memorable anecdotes, and tales of frenetic fandom, My Cubs recounts the franchise’s pivotal moments with the wise and adoring intimacy of a long-suffering devotee and Chicago native. Simon illustrates how the condition of “Cubness” has defined the life of so many Chicagoans and how the team’s fortunes became intertwined with the aspirations of its faithful. With the curse finally broken on November 2, 2016, My Cubs is the perfect portrayal of paradise lost and found.
| Author | : Jessica N Watkins |
| Publisher | : Independently Published |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2021-09-19 |
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Tricey, Vic, and Lyric are three friends from the Southside of Chicago fighting in the tumultuous war between finding the one amongst the chaotic sea of Mr. Wrongs. After breaking up with her baby's father, Memphis, Vic is in the arms of one new beau after the next; turning her heartbreak into a life filled with bald-headed h*e shenanigans. Vic's new approach to love terribly clashes with Asa's uncontrollable need for being more than her next sneaky link. However, Vic's refusal to commit doesn't keep Asa's alpha male, street swag from trying desperately to blow up the wall that she has built around her terribly damaged heart. As Vic runs from Asa's attempts to woo her, Tricey has done the unthinkable: fallen in love with her friend-with-benefits. After the heart-rendering endings of her past relationships, Akbar was the ideal replacement. Everything was perfect about him... except for his pregnant wife. After fighting against it, she falls in love and realizes that she needs to walk away from the man that she can't imagine living without. Then enters "Blood" the dope boy ready to sweep her off of her feet. But can she find the courage to walk away from the explosive chemistry between she and Akbar in order to enjoy the life that Blood wants to give her? While Tricey is stuck between a dope boy and her married love, Lyric and Salem are approaching their wedding date. As they prepare to spend the rest of their lives together, Salem is under the impression that he has chosen the perfect wife-to-be. Lyric struggles with this cloak of perfection as she figures out a way to quietly end the affair she's had on the side since the day she met her soon-to-be-husband. This is only the beginning of this Urban Romance, which is filled with love that hurts, betrayals, and feels tragically unsustainable. Packed with a sea of characters that add their own two cents of drama and contribute to the shocking and heartrending end, this love story is of three homegirls, not only falling in love with the one, but also falling in love with themselves. * This is a re-release of the previously published book, Love, Sex, Lies. Since this book was written when I was very young, I wanted to give it the quality and attention that these characters deserve. This story has been revamped. Changes have been made, and many scenes have been added.
| Author | : Aloe Franklin |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2019-03-30 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1796015911 |
James Walker, who goes by the name J-Money, was born on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois. He later moved to Chicago’s west suburb, Maywood, Illinois, as a juvenile. Maywood is where he began his string of robberies. He and his gang committed robberies from Maywood to the West Side of Chicago for years. J-Money was arrested for robbery several times as a juvenile and as an adult. After doing time in the penitentiary, he came home a young man. He needed his own money, which led him to getting it the only way he knew how—robbing with his gang. The war also was still on with their rival street. A few of J-Money’s gang members find themselves locked up also. Though J-Money is street, he, too, is a ladies magnet. J-Money is having more sex than a little, which is why at nineteen, he got Lala pregnant a month after he came home from prison. This was also the same age he met a woman whom he fell in love with at first sight. Yvette is twenty-seven and married with five children. Yvette is a neighbor-turned-friend of J-Money’s auntie, Leana. Yvette and her husband, Dub, are on the verge of divorce after repeatedly trying to make it work for, at least, their kids’ sake. J-Money has never been in or believed in love nor has he ever been in a serious relationship. Yvette’s marriage is on the rocks. She has to make a decision not only for her, but her kids too. These are people who are a product of their environment, which is the ghetto. Police brutality, gang violence, poverty, struggle, and risk. J-Money has a flock of girls and is addicted to the street life. Will he leave all the girls alone for his first love or is it just puppy love? Which will he choose, the streets or love? Yvette is married with children and has just inherited a big lump sum of money. Will she leave her husband and find new love? Or will she settle because she wants her kids to have a normal household with mom and dad? Read the book, and you’ll find out because I’m not telling you!
| Author | : Michael Czyzniejewski |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : American wit and humor |
| ISBN | : 9780983422853 |
Forty dramatic fictions each told in the persona of famous Chicagoan from Barack Obama to Oprah Winfrey.
| Author | : Joe Meno |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2010-04-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0393071375 |
“This ambitious, adventurous writer . . . recalls Anton Chekhov with his amused appreciation of human foibles.”—Wendy Smith, Chicago Tribune The sky is falling for the Caspers, a family of cowards. When the parents decide to separate, this family is forced to appreciate the cloudiness of this modern age.
| Author | : Joanna Pearson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781946724182 |
The fourteen stories in Every Human Love redefine our sense of reality. Set seemingly in the quotidian, these tales veer into the unexpected, the uncomfortable, occasionally the eerie, thrusting characters in crisis into still greater quandaries, where the world of weddings and work, of frustrated hopes and mundane dissatisfactions, collides with a realm of legend, of fairy tale, of nightmare.
| Author | : Leo Sullivan |
| Publisher | : Sullivan Group Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 331 |
| Release | : 2019-03-27 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1946789275 |
As the queen of the Gangstress, Star’s entire life has suddenly changed. She’s swapped out her impoverished lifestyle for one filled with luxury and prestige. However, it also came with the constant threat of violence. Life with Polo is like living with a ticking time bomb, and it doesn’t take her long to realize that she’s caught up in a situation that may kill her if she doesn’t find a way out in time. When she finds real love with the unlikeliest person, she is hopeful that her luck will change. Unfortunately, that’s not at all the case. Kato awakes from his coma and Polo is eager to find out the details of what exactly happened the night that his brother was killed. Being able to claim Star was the trophy he was seeking, but the nagging in his mind about what really happened to Mink just won’t go away. When he forces Star to assist Kato in gaining back his memory, he unknowingly lays the foundation for an unforeseen romance that just may be the end of them all. Now awake, Kato’s struggle to fully recover from the injury that nearly claimed his life becomes the least of his worries. Once he receives news from a reliable source that the Disciples have a betrayer in the midst, he wants nothing more than to get to the bottom of it and take out revenge on the person whose loyalty is in question. After finding out that it may be his own best friend, Polo, behind it all, he finds himself on the brink of initiating an all-out war in the streets. To make matters worse, his growing feelings for Star only further complicate the situation when he suspects that she’s being abused. Will his budding love affair with Star be the one thing capable of bringing the entire Disciple organization down?
| Author | : Kevina Hopkins |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2020-09-08 |
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From Kevina Hopkins comes a gripping, African American Urban fiction, romance series, Lil Mama A Ryder: A Chicago Love Story. Growing up as the baby of the family, Chyna had the life that most would only dream of. As long as she followed her parents' simple rules, she would have the world handed to her. With so much to look forward to once she turned eighteen, Chyna remained on the straight and narrow. When her parents went back on their word, Chyna no longer did as they said; ultimately, resulting in her parents cutting her off.No longer having her parents to back her up, Chyna hits the streets to attempt to do the only thing she has seen her father and brother do her entire life, hustle. The game is different for women and Chyna quickly learns that. But, having the hunger to get it out the mud, she quickly adapts to the game and makes the game her bitch.When she crosses paths with Maddox, Chyna doesn't know what to expect, but she was intrigued. Mixing business with pleasure proves to be tougher than Chyna presumed. When Maddox wants more than what Chyna is willing to give, their situation takes a turn for the worse. When Maddox and Chyna both try to make each other jealous, hidden feelings emerge; which, leaves Chyna questioning who she should really be riding for. Take this ride in this twisted love tale and find out if lil mama is the ryder that she always claimed to be.
| Author | : Alex Kotlowitz |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2020-03-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0804170916 |
2020 J. ANTHONY LUKAS PRIZE WINNER From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods. The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60,000 wounded by gunfire. What does that do to the spirit of individuals and community? Drawing on his decades of experience, Alex Kotlowitz set out to chronicle one summer in the city, writing about individuals who have emerged from the violence and whose stories capture the capacity--and the breaking point--of the human heart and soul. The result is a spellbinding collection of deeply intimate profiles that upend what we think we know about gun violence in America. Among others, we meet a man who as a teenager killed a rival gang member and twenty years later is still trying to come to terms with what he's done; a devoted school social worker struggling with her favorite student, who refuses to give evidence in the shooting death of his best friend; the witness to a wrongful police shooting who can't shake what he has seen; and an aging former gang leader who builds a place of refuge for himself and his friends. Applying the close-up, empathic reporting that made There Are No Children Here a modern classic, Kotlowitz offers a piercingly honest portrait of a city in turmoil. These sketches of those left standing will get into your bones. This one summer will stay with you.
