Street Love

Street Love
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2006-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0060280794

In this Harlem story told in free verse, seventeen-year-old Damien takes a bold step to ensure that he and his new love will not be separated.

Love Street

Love Street
Author: Leah Rachel
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2019-07-23
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0062955926

Visually arresting, irresistibly sexy, and ferociously funny, this faux 1980s pulp love magazine is the perfect beach read, coffee table accessory, or gift from the brain that brought you @theyellowhairedgirl. Dedicated to broken-hearted girls who will always love again . . . Have you ever hooked up with a homeless hottie who stole your heart, but then also your potato chips? Flaked out on friends and changed the course of your entire life after meeting the “perfect” guy before discovering his multiple undiagnosed anti-social personality disorders? Planned a What-Would-Dolly-Parton-Do day but then realized you have no hair spray and just ate raw cookie dough by yourself instead? If it’s happened to Leah Rachel, it can happen to you. Instagram’s insanely popular Yellow Haired Girl, unloads in this brutally funny and vibrantly illustrated book about love, fluids, resilience, pain, and owning the whole marvelous mess we call womanhood. Filled with quizzes, recipes for the lost, mad libs, puzzles, horoscopes, and raw personal essays, Love Street is packed with screw-it-all advice on sex, drugs, diets, dating, self-esteem, body image, friends, romance, masturbation, fashion, and crashing into love so fast and hard you’re as sure as your lost dignity it’s the real thing. This unique, eye-popping work of pulp art is both aspirational and cringingly relatable. This is for any woman who isn’t afraid to wear her heart on her sleeve, no matter how many times it’s been through the washer. Paper dolls included.

Peace, Love & Barbecue

Peace, Love & Barbecue
Author: Mike Mills
Publisher: Rodale Books
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2005-05-20
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1605292540

This unique combination of cookbook, memoir, and travelogue features 100 recipes, photographs, and behind-the-scenes stories from legendary pitmaster Mike Mills. In Peace, Love, & Barbecue, Mike Mills, the unrivalled king of barbecue, shares his passion for America's favorite cuisine—its intense smoky flavors, its lore and traditions, and its wild cast of characters. Through conversational anecdotes and black-and-white photographs, readers meet a diverse circle of colleagues and friends and join Mills in a behind-the-scenes tour of the barbecue contest circuit, with stops at some of the best “shrines, shacks, joints, and right-respectable restaurants.” Also included are prizewinning recipes that have earned Mills his fame and fortune as a barbecue maestro. These 100 recipes will enable anyone with a grill to achieve champion barbecue flavor right in their own backyard. The selection features Mills own secret concoctions and treasured family recipes as well as choice contributions from his pitmaster friends, and it covers all manner of barbecued meat and fish, sauces and dry rubs, as well as the sides, soups, and down-home sweets that complete any great barbecue feast. With its folksy, fun tone and its unique insider’s take on a hugely popular—and deeply American—subject, Peace, Love, & BBQ is perfect for barbecue lovers, food mavens, and cooks of all stripes.

Love, Castro Street

Love, Castro Street
Author: Katherine V. Forrest
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: American essays
ISBN: 9781555839970

Recognized as perhaps the world’s most queer destination, San Francisco has a long, storied history of embracing—and influencing—gay and lesbian culture. Now, Michael Nava, Elana Dykewoman, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Jim Tushinski, Michele Tea, K.M. Soehnlein, and many others offer up essays and stories about why they love Castro Street. Katherine V. Forrestis the Lambda Award-winning author ofCurious Wine, Daughters of the Emerald Dusk,and the Kate Delafield mystery series. Jim Van Buskirk, the director of the James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center at the San Francisco Library, co-authoredGay by the Bay.

What They Found

What They Found
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2008-12-24
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0307549186

By the groundbreaking author of the award-winning Monster–a visionary who influenced and inspired a generation–this story take us back to the world of 145th Street: Short Stories to show how love can be found, and thrive, in the most unlikely places. Curtis finds love in Iraq as he struggles to stay alive in a war he doesn't want to fight, and Letha discovers her own beauty in the love of her child. There is the "good daughter" who realizes that there's only one way to help her brother and her family. Other stories center on the daily drama of the Curl-E-Que beauty shop, or capture the slapstick side of passion. AWARDS FOR WALTER DEAN MYERS: New York Times Bestselling Author 3-Time National Book Award Finalist Michael L. Printz Award 5 Coretta Scott King Awards 2 Newbery Honors National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature (2012-2013) Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement Children’s Literature Legacy Award

Love from Sesame Street

Love from Sesame Street
Author: Sesame Workshop
Publisher: Sesame Workshop
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2019-03-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1618313053

The New York Times Bestseller! Love is infinite. Love is giggles. Love is cookies. Explore all the definitions of love with your friends from Sesame Street! In this illustrated picture book, children will delight in seeing their favorite characters share what love means to them. This warm and uplifting story will show children to look for love in new ways in their everyday lives―and will brighten their day!

Pretty Girls Love Street Kings

Pretty Girls Love Street Kings
Author: D. Gamblez
Publisher: Sullivan Group Publishing
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2021-01-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1637181671

Audriana Escobar, aka Audi, is the 18-year-old leader of the Gucci Girlz−a crew made up of her closest friends. Growing up in poverty, their only current goal is to find a way out of the poor town of Aetna and achieve a life of happiness, love, and luxury. When they cross paths with another crew named the Tru Aetna Boyz, all of their wants and desires seem to be coming true. DeAndre, aka Dre, leads the team that includes his friends Raheem, Devonte and Lyrical and, together, they make up one of the most dangerous gangs in their hometown. With their intentions set on gaining money, status, women and fame, meeting a group of women with the same goals in mind seems like the best kind of luck. Sparks fly almost immediately and, together, they quickly become a force that totally dominates the street game without competition or resistance... until they catch the eye of police sergeant, Naomi Mills. Pursuing money and love always comes with its own set of troubles, which the Gucci Girlz and Tru Aetna Boyz eventually realize on their own. As they begin to step into the lives that they always envisioned for themselves, everything is turned upside down when they become the trophy for a sergeant with a chip on her shoulder. Will they be able to step into their dream of luxury and true love?

Love, Christopher Street

Love, Christopher Street
Author: Thomas Keith
Publisher: Vantage Point
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: American essays
ISBN: 9781936467341

The essays in this volume represent dozens of places in New York including the five boroughs and each speaks to the author's feelings about being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered in New York City.

Love on a Two-Way Street

Love on a Two-Way Street
Author: J. L. King
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2008
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 141656313X

A gripping novel about seven high-powered millionaires who each harbour a secret about their sexuality - they are all men that are part of an underground organisation on the down low: they sleep with men for pleasure. Just as King's bestselling book On the Down Low put the provocative topic of men who lie about their sexuality on the map, this new novel will have readers guessing about the real-life people behind these fictional characters - a music mogul, an NBA superstar, a pastor, a club owner, a businessman, a fashion designer and a senator.

For the Love of Money

For the Love of Money
Author: Sam Polk
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2017-07-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1476785996

"A former hedge-fund trader presents a memoir about coming of age on Wall Street, his obsessive pursuit of money, his disillusionment and the radical new way he has come to define success, "--NoveList