by Sister Souljah

ISBN: 0613213637
Format: Library Binding
Pub. Date: January 2000
Publisher: Pocket Books

Renowned hip-hop artist, writer, and activist Sister Souljah brings the streets of New York to life in a powerful and utterly unforgettable first novel.

I came busting into the world during one of New York's worst
snowstorms, so my mother named me Winter.

Ghetto-born, Winter is the young, wealthy daughter of a prominent Brooklyn drug-dealing family. Quick-witted, sexy, and business-minded, she knows and loves the streets like the curves of her own body. But when a cold Winter wind blows her life in a direction she doesn't want to go, her street smarts and seductive skills are put to the test of a lifetime. Unwilling to lose, this ghetto girl will do anything to stay on top.

by Shannon Holmes

ISBN: 074348620X
Format: Paperback, 224pp
Pub. Date: October 2003
Publisher: Atria Books

The best-selling author of B-More Careful, Shannon Holmes, delivers Bad Girlz, another wild adventure into the streets. The setting this time is the Badlands, one of the toughest and poorest communities in Philadelphia.

Bad Girlz takes you 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 girls who, along the way, suffer bad breaks and find themselves ripe for exploitation by men and women who pretend to be their saviors.

Tender and Goldie were taken under wing by Kat, a veteran stripper, who enjoyed the life and the risks she had to take to stay in the mix of the sex trade. Both of these young and beautiful girls had ended up in dire straits and in need of Kat's help in different ways, but ultimately for the same reasons: They lacked the love and support that most of us expect to get at home and in our communities. Where they live, illegal money is often the only money to be made, and the difference between the law and the outlaw is tough to discern.

Street Life
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by Jihad

Format: Paperback, 291pp.
ISBN: 0971237093
Publisher: United Brothers
Pub. Date: January 2004

Streetlife is an in-depth graphic journey into the struggle of life as a young black male raised by America's inner city streets. This journey is not only Jihad's, but documented bits and pieces of every African-American mother's son's life. The private lives of so many that have revolved around him as he evolved thru childhood, adolescence and adulthood is profiled.

Thugs and the Women Who Love Them

by Wahida Clark

ISBN: 0972277110
Format: Paperback, 211pp
Pub. Date: November 2002
Publisher: Black Print Publishing, Inc.

Thugs and the Women Who Love Them is the first book from Wahida Clark, an inmate in a United States Federal prison. Clark brings us into a world of sex, crime and brutality, all the more real because she lived in it. Ms Clark has completed her second book, Every Thug Needs A Lady.

Let that Be the Reason
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by Vickie M. Stringer

ISBN: 1886433852
Format: Paperback, 250pp
Pub. Date: June 2002
Publisher: A & B Distributors & Publishers Group

Vickie Stringer’s book, Let That Be The Reason, (Essence Magazine Best Seller) has been quoted as the most realistic street novel ever written. Emotionally charged and compared to legendary classics written by Donald Goines, she is being called the �hustler-author� of urban literature. Let That Be the Reason is the first of a quasi-fiction trilogy based on the author's real-life experiences. Pamela Xavier is abandoned by her drug dealing infant son's father (Chino) with a stack of bills, no food in the 'fridge, and an impending eviction notice. With no job prospects, Pamela feels backed into a corner and decides to get her "hustle" on. As a female caught up in a male-dominated game, Pamela relies on her alter-ego, Carmen, to deal with the streets, playas, dealers, drug lords, and of course, the law.

Entangled
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by K. Elliot

Unprotected Sex, Murder, Disloyalty and Payoffs all included in this street-life thriller. Entangled is a Love Story between a Major drug trafficker and a history teacher. The subplots includes a Black DEA agent with divided loyalty. He wants to do his job and rid the streets of drugs but on the other hand he knows tat the system is corrupt and it targets minorities, this story has all the elements of a major motion picture.