Push
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An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl's horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father's child, miraculous hope appears and the world begins to open up for her when a courageous, determined teacher bullies, cajoles, and inspires her to learn to read, to define her own feelings and set them down in a diary.
The White Boy Shuffle
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Paul Beatty's hilarious and scathing debut novel is about Gunnar Kaufman, an awkward, black surfer bum who is moved by his mother from Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles. There, he begins to undergo a startling transformation from neighborhood outcast to basketball superstar, and eventually to reluctant messiah of a "divided, downtrodden people."
B-More Careful
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Flyy Girl
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From the author of the NY Times Best-seller, For the Love of Money, comes this best-selling urban classic novel about a young woman coming of age in the late 1980s. Tracy Ellison, a knockout with attitude, is living life as fast as she can, loving and leaving the men who'll do anything to get next to her. It's only when her lifestyle threatens heartbreak that she begins to examine her life, her goals and her sexuality. With a thoroughly entertaining and confident voice, Omar Tyree leads the pack of a new generation of [black] male writers' - E.L. Harris'
The Rose That Grew from Concrete
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Tupac Shakur's most intimate and honest thoughts were uncovered only after his death with the instant classic The Rose That Grew from Concrete. His talent was unbounded -- a raw force that commanded attention and respect. His death was tragic -- a violent homage to the power of his voice. His legacy is indomitable -- as vibrant and alive today as it has ever been. For the first time in paperback, this collection of deeply personal poetry is a mirror into the legendary artist's enigmatic world and its many contradictions. Written in his own hand from the time he was nineteen, these seventy-two poems embrace his spirit, his energy -- and his ultimate message of hope.