A blueprint. A bible. What Sun Tzu’s Art of War was to ancient China, Pimp is to the streets. As real as you can get without jumping in, this is the story of Iceberg Slim’s life as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it. It is a trip through hell by th...

Pimp

He's beautiful, with gray eyes, tall, chocolate...and he's worth fighting for.  Meet Omari, a gorgeous, hardworking 28-year-old man from the South Side of Chicago. No matter how hard he works at his job at UPS, it is never enough to take care of hims...

Secrets of a Side Bitch

The port of Miami brings in millions of dollars worth of cocaine every year, and the Cartel controls 80 percent of it. The Diamond family is a force to be reckoned with, but all hell breaks loose when they lose their leader. The most ruthless gangste...

The Cartel

Beauty isn't everything. Beneath Simone's long fake hair, phony smile, and saline booty is a web of trickery, lies, and murder. After being attacked by Jimmy, Simone's web of lies begins to violently unravel. One by one, her skeletons are falling out...

Secrets of a Side Bitch 3

The Cartel series is back...and deadlier than ever.  Las Vegas: a city built on obscene wealth and corrupt deals, cunning entrepreneurs, and the ruthless mob. The Cartel's plan to open a casino will rake in cash, but it comes with great sacrifice. Th...

The Cartel 6

Each year, approximately 16,000 people are murdered in the United States. Seven percent of the killers are female; one of them being Simone Campbell.  In Secrets of a Side Bitch 2, Simone is struggling to keep together the web of lies that she has wo...

Secrets of a Side Bitch 2

When the Side N*gga Catch Feelings is the story of two women who are unfaithful for two totally different reasons, yet wind up with the same catastrophic outcome.   Meet Heaven: a young girl who is loving, submissive, and beyond appreciative of her h...

When the Side N*gga Catch Feelings

Diamonds are forever - or are they? The Cartel runs Miami, and loyalty to their organization runs deep, but when someone breaks the rules, things may be beyond repair. A snitch in the crew has dismantled the notorious Cartel, and now disloyalty threa...

The Cartel 2: Tale of the Murda Mamas

When a Boeing 747 drops out of the sky with the men of the Cartel aboard, the women of the family have to step into their own. With the federal government on their heels and the family on the brink of destruction, a female dynasty is born.  After the...

The Cartel 5

The Cartel has come full circle with this fast-paced, groundbreaking novel, the third installment in the hit series by New York Times best-selling duo Ashley and JaQuavis.  Miamor is fighting for her life in the belly of the beast. She’s been kidnapp...

The Cartel 3: The Last Chapter

You thought the Cartel was over, but Diamonds are forever….  The Diamond family has survived murder, deceit, and betrayal. Through it all, they’re still standing tall, and a new era has begun. After surviving an attempt on her life, Breeze has moved ...

The Cartel 4

Love and hip-hop.... The two mix together smoothly, like Hennessy and Coke.  Harmony used to love love. She loved the idea of being in love. As a result, Valentine’s Day was her favorite holiday...was. Now, she hated the very thought of it. Cody had ...

Say My F*cking Name

At the end of When the Side N*gga Catch Feelings, Part 1, all hell breaks loose. The two side dudes that Heaven and Treasure have fallen for pretended as if they could play second to another man. Now, their feelings are in the way, secrets have been ...

When the Side N*gga Catch Feelings 2

The feud between YaYa and Leah has ruined the lives of everyone around them. In The Prada Plan 4, the animosity is alive, and the resentments run deeper than ever.  Indie has watched YaYa's past destroy the woman he once knew, and his patience has ru...

The Prada Plan 4

The third and most explosive installment of the groundbreaking True to the Game trilogy will take you on a marathon race through the mean streets of Philly.  Starting off where the second installment's dramatic cliffhanger left us, True to the Game I...

True to the Game III

K’wan delivers his bloodiest story yet.  “One bullet changed everything.”  Three years after narrowly escaping a one way trip to the gas chamber, the fugitive known only as Animal finds himself drawn back to the scene of the crime: Harlem.  Throughou...

Animal

Two children from Sierra Leone, Liberty and A’shai, are brought together by chance, only to be forced apart by the most inevitable and tragic fate. Ashley & JaQuavis bring us this classic love story set against modern life’s most horrifying realities...

Murderville

New York Times best-selling authors Ashley and JaQuavis have returned with the much-anticipated final installment in the epic Murderville Series. Taking up where the thrilling Murderville 2: The Epidemic left off, we're thrown back into the internati...

Murderville 3

True to the Game II picks up where True to the Game left off-with one difference. Gena is now seeing a new guy named Jay. Little does Gena know that the man she has fallen in love with, so soon after Quadir's death, is his archrival, Jerrell Jackson. Unfortunately, Jerrell is determined to get his revenge against Quadir's crew, and he'll start with Gena.

True to the Game II

After everything that he has been through, Omari can't even see himself in another relationship. Just the thought of Simone Campbell makes him turn away from any chick. Whether it's the baddest bitch or a foreign chick, he'll pass.  But then she came...

Secrets of a Side Bitch 4

The fascinating never-before-told-in-full story of personal reinvention grounded in musical salvation and fatherhood.  Travis Barker's soul-baring memoir chronicles the highlights and lowlights of the renowned drummer's art and his life, including th...

Can I Say

New York Times best-selling authors Ashley and JaQuavis are back with the second installment in the epic Murderville series. Love, murder, loyalty, and money fill this hood tale as they continue this international street saga.  With Samad’s target on...

Murderville 2

From the New York Times best-selling authors of the Cartel series comes a new chapter in a world that only Ashley and JaQuavis know how to bring to life. The LaCroixs are four beautiful Haitian American women bound by money and blood. On the surface,...

Money Devils 1

The New York Times best-selling series with over one million copies sold  The highly anticipated sequel to the international best seller, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder! More dark secrets are exposed in this addictive, true-crime fueled mystery.  Pip ...

Good Girl, Bad Blood

Secrets are revealed, sides are chosen, and bodies are dropped - it's on!  After being thought dead, Animal resurfaces on the streets of New York to keep true to his promise and make it rain blood over Harlem. All those who had wronged him would feel...

Animal 2: The Omen

A prequel to Ashley and JaQuavis' New York Times best-selling Cartel series, this story follows the rise of notorious gangster Carter Diamond, taking listeners through his days on the mean streets of Michigan to his becoming the biggest drug lord Miami has ever seen. Before the cartel was ever created, he stood alone. 

Carter Diamond: Before the Cartel He Stood Alone

New York Times best seller JaQuavis Coleman's The Day the Streets Stood Still is an intricate, fast-paced street thriller that tells a bold story of true love, addiction, and murder.  Sean was raised by a hustling, well-connected mother who taught hi...

The Day the Streets Stood Still

After making a promise to leave the street life behind, a shocking revelation forces Animal back into the game to face his greatest opponent yet.  When Animal's former lover, Red Sonja, shows up on his doorstep with a little girl, claiming Animal is ...

Animal 3: Revelations

What happens to the children the world throws away? They become animals.  Tayshawn Torres is a child born in the slums and cursed by the sins of his parents. His mother is a notorious drug addict and whore who's more concerned with getting her next h...

Ghetto Bastard

Welcome to Carter Diamond, Part Two.  New York Times best-selling authors Ashley and JaQuavis follow up their smash hit Carter Diamond with part two in the prequel series to The Cartel. Picking up right where the last installment ended, this action-packed street tale tells the story of the man who started it all. Before the Cartel - he stood alone. 

Carter Diamond, Part Two

It's the late 1980s, and Gena, a young girl from the projects, meets Quadir, a millionaire drug dealer and falls madly in love. Quadir builds a massive empire while fighting his rivals and enemies. Gena faces the challenges of holding onto her man, h...

True to the Game I

Rozalyn McGuay is a simple-minded 15-year-old who thinks life is easy. She quickly realizes that life is a force to be reckoned with once she is abandoned by her mother and forced to live with a father who doesn't want anything to do with her. Seekin...

Rozalyn

In his own words, real life American Gangster Frank Lucas recounts his life as the former heroin dealer and organized crime boss who ran Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Determined to break the Italian mafia’s monopoly over drug smugglin...

Original Gangster

For years Lou-Loc, an efficient assassin and OG of the Crip organization, did dirt. After dancing on the razor's edge, he has become weary of the street life that has consumed him during his service to his set and begins to wonder if there's a better...

Gangsta

Diamonds and Pearl is a gritty, compelling novel from number-one Essence best-selling author K'wan.  They say that good girls like bad boys, and this was especially true for Pearl Stone, a child born of privilege to a drug baron and reputed killer kn...

Diamonds and Pearl

Number one Essence best-selling author K'Wan returns with The Diamond Empire, the explosive, hard-hitting follow-up audiobook to the street love story Diamonds and Pearl.  It's about to be an all-out war. While an ambitious rival has taken over Diamo...

The Diamond Empire

The explosive sequel to Gangsta has finally arrived!  Blood answers for blood on the streets of Harlem. It's been months since Lou-loc was brutally murdered on his way to freedom, and the pain is still fresh. Gutter, Lou-loc's best friend, finds hims...

Gutter

From the best-selling author of Hoodlum comes a novel about one of the deadliest women to ever grace the streets of Harlem - Eve.  The only family Eve Panelli has ever known is the infamous Twenty Gang. Orphaned as a small child, Eve quickly learned ...

Detective James Wolf earned the nickname Lone Wolf from his inability to work with a partner. He's a hard cop who doesn't mind bending the rules to the breaking point to make a case, which is why Internal Affairs is digging in his backyard, looking f...

Black Lotus

This is the gritty truth, the life of a hustler in South Side Chicago, where the only characters are those who con and those who get conned.  Trick Baby tells the story of White Folks, a blue-eyed, light-haired con artist whose pale skin allows him t...

Trick Baby

Hood rat: a woman of questionable repute, one who has been known to "get around" in the 'hood.  Yoshi is young, fine, and larcenous. She lives her life playing on men's hearts as well as their pockets. But she learns the hard way that all that glitte...

Hood Rat

Dare to embrace your wild side as five of the brightest imaginations in black literature today - Michelle Cuttino, Shakir Rashaan, Anna Black, Jada Pearl, and N'Tyse - come together to weave an unforgettable exploration of female liberation and self-gratifying sexual healing. These risque tales of steamy passion bloom from illicit affairs, secret fetishes, romantic flings, and pure, unadulterated happenstance.

Cougar Cocktales

Only the strong survive on the streets of Brooklyn.  While Dena Jones definitely has what it takes to succeed, she wants out. She's determined to make it out of "Crooklyn" by any means necessary and doesn't have a problem manipulating men to get what...

Still Hood

When the Grand Design is finally revealed, it will spell the last ride for Mr. Armed and Brokenhearted.    In this final installment of the widely popular “Animal” series, we find our anti-hero on a hunt for the woman who forced him to pick his guns ...

Animal V

Tressa is a fly girl accustomed to the lavish lifestyle that her possessive and deranged baby daddy, Lucky, has provided herwith. In order to keep her high standard of living, she has excused many of his unforgivable actions. It is not until he pulls...

A Project Chick

In the Frederick Douglass Housing Projects, the name of Jada Butler is synonymous with drama. But there is about to be a new contender to the throne of ghetto antics.  Malika is a young, single mother trying to make a life in public housing. When she...

Welfare Wifeys

"It's the penthouse or the morgue."  This is the philosophy adopted by Keshawn Wilson, a.k.a. "K-Dawg',' self-proclaimed lord of the streets. Keshawn is the youngest of five kids and one of only two that doesn't belong to his mother's husband. As a l...

Road Dawgz

Love, betrayal, and loyalty on the streets of Harlem.  Daruis, aka Rio, the only child of a singer turned alcoholic, feels he has nothing to hold on to except the idea of escaping the ghetto. Years ago he took a gun charge for a friend and did some p...

Street Dreams

To save his daughter, he’ll go anywhere - and any-when.... Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT, trying to keep the spark in his marriage, struggling to connect with his teenage daughter, Miranda. But his current life is a far cry fro...

Here and Now and Then

From number-one Essence best-selling author K’wan comes the next installment in his best-selling Hood Rat series.  Porsha, the ghetto princess; Sahara, the scandalous baby mama; Frankie, a.k.a. Francine, the con artist: these three girls live in one ...

Eviction Notice

From New York Times best-selling author Nikki Turner comes the sequel to Project Chick.  Tressa always thought that the best moment in her life was the day she gave birth to her twin boys, Khalil and Hadji, but even better was when she got the news t...

Project Chick 2

Simone Campbell is the epitome of crazy and the ultimate villain. Take a look back into her high school and college days, when she was causing just as much turmoil and chaos. This story's ending is only the beginning of Secrets of a Side Bitch 4, and...

Secrets of a Side Bitch: The Simone Campbell Story

Moving Weight introduces listeners to Dysha and lets them ride shotgun for 24 hours in the fast life.  Thrown into a web of lies, drugs, and deceit, Dysha has had money put on her head by the most powerful man in the city. Now, with the entire city gunning for her, she can trust only one man. Ashley and JaQuavis weave a sexy, suspenseful tale with an unpredictable ending that will have you in awe. 

Moving Weight

When there’s nothing left except a choice between war or death, there’s really no choice.  From New York Times best-selling author Wahida Clark comes the highly anticipated next installment in the Thug series. Fans will rush to this latest installmen...

Honor Thy Thug

A National Best Seller "My Grandmother's Hands will change the direction of the movement for racial justice." (Robin DiAngelo, New York Times best-selling author of White Fragility) In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the d...

My Grandmother's Hands

This continuation of a best-selling, much loved series brings new drama and action. Old fans will devour this new installment and new fans will discover Wahida Clark’s sexy, dangerous, and intriguing work for the first time.  Justify My Thug continue...

Justify My Thug

T'was the night before Christmas and all through house a whole family slept soundly, three kids, two grandchildren, a husband and his spouse... Ezra "Ethic" Okafor and his family are finally complete. After years of loneliness Ethic has met his match...

Christmas with the Okafors: Holiday Edition

Lamont "Hood" Mason is a fearless 19-year-old gangsta who was born and raised in the projects of Brooklyn, New York. He was an abandoned child who roamed the city streets and fought hard for survival. The only thing constant in his young life was the...

Hood

Dixyn Greene has it all. She is a hustler's wife and the mother of a beautiful girl and owns a townhouse and a nice car - she's living the life. But when the feds arrest her man, Dixyn's whole world begins to crumble. Things quickly go from bad to wo...

Caught Up

New York Times best-selling author Wahida Clark is all too familiar with the truths of ghetto life. The first novel in her gritty series takes listeners into the streets, where a wrong choice could be the last choice a person ever makes. In a hood lo...

Thugs and the Women Who Love Them

Every Thug Needs a Lady is the spellbinding sequel to Wahida Clark's Thugs and the Women Who Love Them.  After taking us through the rugged, thug-filled lives of Jaz, Kyra, and Angel, Wahida now takes us into the drama-filled life of their best frien...

Every Thug Needs a Lady

Lonnie Adebayo, best friend to Desdimona Green, is a walking, talking billboard for the old adage “You can’t keep a good woman down.” But Jordan Gatewood has done so much more than just try to keep her down. He made a huge mistake when he put his han...

Drop Dead, Gorgeous

Peter Stone is a poor, black vampire who is wondering where his nightclub, mansion, and sports car is. Instead, he is working a minimum wage job during the night shift, as being a vampire isn't all that impressive in a world where they've come out to...

Straight Outta Fangton

How much will she risk for love? Fired from her prestigious job, journalist Allison Wakefield is now working for a tabloid newspaper, and she's desperate to find a way to get her career back on track. Her new assignment, an explosive story involving ...

Last Chance at Love

Lyssa and Jacob, owners of the swingers' club Puss and Boots, have been living an active swinger's lifestyle ever since their two children moved out of the house. Every couple months they hire a "live-in," a girl who, in exchange for room, board, and...

Swing

Tupac Amaru Shakur (1971–1996) was an American rap artist, actor, and social activist. More than seventy-five million of his albums have sold worldwide, making him one of the bestselling music artists in the world. Rolling Stone magazine named him th...

Holler If You Hear Me

Detective Houser wants nothing more than his retirement, but when a murder case involving the WMM firm lands on his desk, he can’t avoid it.  All of law enforcement knows that WMM Advertising, also known as We Make Millionaires, is one of the biggest...

The Golden Hustla

From New York Times bestselling author Wahida Clark comes the highly anticipated next installment in the Queen's notorious Payback series. Fans will rush to this latest installment while new listeners will be eager to discover Clark's unmatched melod...

Blood, Sweat, and Payback

In this bold collection of hard-hitting urban erotic quickies, Noire, the undisputed Queen of Urban Erotica, brings you 11 authors who explore, without apology or restraint, street sagas of sexual pleasure.  Boasting an all-star lineup of some of tod...

From the Streets to the Sheets

In this New York Times best seller, Tyrese Gibson, multi-platinum R&B singer and movie star, and Rev Run of Run-DMC and star of Run's House, present a bold, honest, and uncensored look into the male mind.  Tyrese and Rev are the unlikeliest of best f...

Manology

Lassoed by love?  What's a city girl like Lydia Emerson doing in Granger, Montana? Her movie-actress boss has given her plenty of strange assignments, but this one trumps them all. Lydia must win herself a cowboy.  And Wes Broward is not just any cow...

Wrangling Wes

A respected Nigerian psychologist travels to a remote southern border town to uncover the truth about the murder of three university students. When Dr. Philip Taiwo is called on by a powerful Nigerian politician to investigate the public torture and ...

Lightseekers

Cara Carelli is a silver-tongued mafia princess, master manipulator, and the only woman I've ever loved. But she's also smokin' hot and my ex-wife.  When Cara led me straight into a trap and pleaded for my help, I couldn't say no. She thought she had...

Tied Down

Pappy tries to break out of the game before the head of his crew, Black, gets them all killed. Against his better judgment Pappy agrees to do one last job, but only because it’s the price of his freedom. He knows Black can’t be trusted. He knows his ...

H.N.I.C.

From New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Shanora Williams comes a forbidden romance about a college woman who helplessly falls for her best friend's father.  Dear Mr. Black,  I know you were hurting. I heard your cries for help. I wished...

Dear Mr. Black

Iceberg Slim, best-selling author of Pimp and Trick Baby, brings us yet another riveting classic. LongWhite Con tells the story of the most incredible con man ever to have risen.  Picking up where TrickBaby left off, we dive into the world of Johnny ...

Long White Con

New York Times Best Seller Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year “An instant sports classic.” (New York Post)  “Stellar.” (The Wall Street Journal)  “A true masterwork…880 pages of sheer baseball bliss.” (BookPage, starred revi...

The Baseball 100

Reporter Dana Nichols has come home to Mississippi, determined to uncover the truth behind the tragedy of her parents’ long-ago murder-suicide and clear her family name once and for all. The last thing she expected was an instant attraction to handso...

Homecoming

New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Shanora Williams brings you the highly anticipated conclusion to the number-one best-selling taboo novel that had listeners craving for more. Dear Chloe Knight, I know you still think of me. You must b...

Forever, Mr. Black

With more than two million copies in print, Manchild in the Promised Land is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time - the definitive account of African-American youth in Harlem of the 1940s and 1950s, and a seminal work of modern lite...

Manchild in the Promised Land

This collection of six gritty tales from the underground is a tribute to the streets and those forced to try to survive them. With tales of slick con men, revenge, a heist gone awry, and more, Robert Beck, the man many know as Iceberg Slim, brings us...

Airtight Willie & Me

Cam is a young man with a bright future in the music business who seemed to be on his way to the top after signing one of the hottest R&B singers in the world -a singer who goes by the name Honey. Cam and Honey hit it off hot and heavy as they mix bu...

The Serial Cheater

In this full retelling of the upcoming film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, listeners are introduced to Brooklyn teen Miles Morales as he juggles his normal high school life with the infinite possibilities of the Spider-Verse, where more than one can wear the mask.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

From the Best-Selling Author of the Supervillainy Saga Peter Stone is a poor black vampire who has found undeath isn't all it was promised to be. There's no vast riches, innate cool, or super-sex appeal. No, instead, there's working the graveyard shi...

100 Miles and Vampin'

A “profound, sometimes hilarious, often heartbreaking” (The New York Times) view of prison life, as told by currently and formerly incarcerated people, from the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast Ear Hustle “A mus...

This Is Ear Hustle

One of PopSugar's Best Romances of October With the stakes this high, it’s no longer just a game for the Mustang’s quarterback in this romance by the author of Blitzed.  Elliot Reed is living her best life — or pretending to. She owes it to her dad’s...

Snapped

This is the story of Chicago's ruthless and tireless Mafia. The intensely real characters - the brutal overlords, their faithful lackeys, and their vengeful enemies - all collide in acts of loyalty, lust, greed, and death.  Power hungry Don Jimmy Col...

Death Wish

A Hideaway wedding wager - and an irresistible attraction....  Twins Ana and Jason and their cousin Nicholas are successful 30-somethings who are single and loving it. They have no idea that their relatives are betting on which one of them will get m...

Eternal Vows

Take a trip into theheart of passion as seductive samba rhythms pulse in the warm evening breezes. Escape and savor these three scintillating stories set against the beautifulbackdrop of Brazil.  "Risky Business" by Donna Hill  Two weeks in Rio - sur...

Endless Summer Nights

Atlan Warlord Jorik guards the Coalition Fleet’s Processing Center on Earth, protecting warriors and brides without mercy or distraction...until he sees Gabriela. She is everything the beast within him craves. Soft. Curved. Unafraid. He dreams of cou...

Cyborg’s Secret Baby

The perennial New York Times best-selling author here helps listeners discover how to put money in its place and use wealth-building as a tool for joy and fulfillment.  Hill Harper is uniquely poised to guide listeners through tough times and offers ...

The Wealth Cure

It all started with one passionate night… Don't preach to Alexis Montgomery about settling down. She's got her act together - a fabulous new job, great friends, and plenty of dating prospects. She's happily taking New York City by storm, so why would...

Mistletoe, Baby

Omar Goodness is back and his focus has not changed...Tia Fields! Over time, he has kept tabs on Tia, in hopes of a miracle. Omar is trying to change his life and make sex a non-factor. He will do whatever it takes to fix things between him and Tia, ...

The Panty Ripper

A riveting personal exploration of the health-care crisis facing inner-city communities, written by an emergency-room physician who grew up in the very neighborhood he is now serving.  Sampson Davis is best known as one of three friends from inner-ci...

Living and Dying in Brick City

A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller's "stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation's carceral system" (Heather Ann Thompson). Each year, mo...

Halfway Home

In this short story collection, New York Times best-selling author Brenda Jackson takes us on five steamy, sexy adventures.  From a freelance writer whose interview with a ruthless, ambitious, and very handsome millionaire turns into something so muc...

Some Like It Hot

After graduating from High School John “Dre” Dodson finds his future looming before him. He is forced to make a number of decisions that will change his life. Choosing school over the mean Detroit's Eastside streets, the sudden reality of his poor ci...

Baller Dreams

I'll be honest with you - I'm no saint.   Sure, I turned down my $9.6m football contract to join the Teams, but I'll never tell you the real reason why. The media has anointed me a selfless, patriotic American hero. But it isn't that deep - I just wa...

Invaluable

"The most comprehensive, the most thoroughly researched and documented, the most scholarly of the biographies of Martin Luther King Jr." (Henry Steele Commanger, Philadelphia Inquirer) Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award  A New York T...

Let the Trumpet Sound

Includes a bonus PDF with recipes, photos, and instructions! Get fit like 50 Cent! The phenomenally fit superstar rapper reveals his strategic six-week workout plan for achieving a ripped body—and developing the mental toughness to stay in shape for ...

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