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Eleven-year-old Renee Jenkins is a vivacious, bright girl who is unfortunately a member of the notorious, dysfunctional Jenkins clan living in a Miami neighborhood where it is not unusual to hold a nine-millimeter Glock pistol while answering the door and where little girls like Renee shop for heroin for their mothers. As she maneuvers her way through the asphalt jungle of Miami's dangerous Overtown section, Renee bravely attempts to find happiness amid a world consumed with death, despair, drugs, and pain.

Strange events seem to follow Mora wherever she goes. She suffers terrible nightmares that seem so real they cause panic attacks. She receives weird text messages from unidentifiable numbers that tell her to "Be quiet". And worst of all, she's begun seeing an apparition in her bathroom mirror...a terrifying entity who resembles her own distorted reflection.... But when Mora's sinister reflection begins stirring up trouble with her family, the terrified teen must come to grips with her greatest fears.

Fatherless and as good as motherless, Messiah "Mash" Bankfield must shake his nagging religion from his conscious if he wants to level up in a city centered around the '90s drug boom, twisted sexual exploitation, hardcore hip hop, and deep ghetto philosophy. Even if it requires hustling the same stuff that turned his mother into a dope fiend or taking out the big homies who showed him love, some things just must be. Shaped by the unsavory lifestyle of his sugar-daddy seeking sister and haunted by the spirit of his deceased grandmother, Mash sinks deeper into the darkness. 

Rarri: a hustler from the streets of Cali with a rough life and a complicated past. As he learns to navigate the streets as a drug dealer, he begins to learn of the life that his deceased father led and dreamed for him—a life filled with money, excitement, lessons, and, most of all, ladies. Follow Rarri as he finds out what "babe" means to him, as he tries to not only live up to his father's memory, but surpass it. 

This book is powerful and revelatory! The only bad part about the book is that it eventually ends. Dr. Ansy Dessources does not speak about something he is unfamiliar with, but something that helped mold him into the great man of God he is today: intercessory prayer. The Rise of the Intercessors will birth a hunger for prayer in you. At the end of every chapter in this book, all you will want to do is pray! By the end of the book, the intercessor in you will surely arise!

Fighting a superior foe is a momentous task. There are many ways it can be done; there are many ways victories can be achieved. In war, there are no rules, there are no laws; there are only strategies and tactics. Many say what they would do in the face of tyranny; many know what they should do when the powerful become predators. A divided people can be isolated and devoured. Survival depends upon the masses forming one mind.

Deliver Us: A Guide to Spiritual Freedom is a riveting and thought-provoking exploration of the power of Jesus Christ to deliver people from the clutches of evil demonic spirits. This book sheds light on the reality of spiritual warfare and the need for every person to be equipped with the knowledge and tools necessary to overcome the darkness that surrounds us.

Vampire King depicts the struggle of a young vampire boy, Israel Sultan as he and his family leave the island of Florianopolis Brazil in hopes of a better life in the United States. Just to find out that there is another struggle once accepted into the U.S. Israel is selected because of his bloodline to advance the life of a witch that has taken notice of him.

Sixteen-year-old Mora awakes to find herself trapped in a dark supernatural prison known as, The Threshold. In order for her to return home she must first complete three challenges. With each hurdle harder than the last, if Mora fails just one, she could face her doom in this bleak and hopeless realm. And even if she succeeds... she must still battle against other lost souls to compete for a spot at returning home to her family.

Everything I Need to Know About Business I Learned from Hip-Hop marries business fundamentals with the excitement, drama, and humor of hip-hop culture.

Born months before the start of World War I, William L. Adams left the North Carolina cotton fields behind forever in 1929 and moved to Baltimore as part of the Great Migration. At the age of 15, he became a numbers runner to support himself. With a preternatural understanding of finance and business, he rapidly ascended, becoming the head of his own illegal gambling operation. His leadership of the racket led to an attempt on his life by the Mafia, repeated criminal prosecutions, testimony before a special investigative committee of the U.S. Senate, and a landmark Supreme Court case.

If confidence was a women’s size 20, then its name would have to be Aspen St. Andrews. The 31-year-old freelance journalist is living life on her own terms, except in one area. Love. She feels somewhat stuck in an engagement to a man that she once loved and that she decided to cohabitate with. They argue about her career as if it’s a hobby and Aspen is sick of it.

Deeply personal and well-written, this autobiography leads listeners on an open journey beginning in the 1970s and culminating nearly 50 years later. Through intimate stories, Wolff paints a striking picture of his life. With intelligence and insight, he satirizes joining the US Army, trading youth for maturity on the campus of Lincoln University in Missouri and ultimately having a successful 30-year career as a highly decorated military officer.

In the intriguing novel Dopeman and the Preacher, two brothers fight hard to overcome the hardships of poverty in Southern Mississippi. They were small-time store boosters until Mr. Irons exposed them to the dope game. They went from thieves to bosses overnight, and their new team is now bound together by trust and commitment. Power, however, comes at a heavy cost. With a rival crew targeting their new position, they're caught between a rock and a hard place, only the faith they were raised with could keep them from going too far….

Jacob, a bright 10-year-old African American boy with exceptional writing ability, seems to have a promising academic future ahead of him. But living on the south-side of Chicago, life at home is nothing but. He is living in a drug-infested community with a residence overrun with roaches that should be condemned. With an addict for a mother, who’s in a self-induced comatose state most of the time, he’s not in a situation that he can easily test out of.

Whether you are just starting to explore the self-defense/self-protection world or you are already a martial artist but you're looking for more information, this book will give you all of the answers you need to get started or keep going.

After being brutally assaulted and murdered in the woods by three racist white brothers, the disgruntled spirit of an old 75-year-old Black man returns on the anniversary of his death to seek vengeance on his assailants and everyone associated with them. With only two survivors, Ethan and his girlfriend must elude the authorities and the whip wielding, wise cracking vengeful spirit of Jesse Jammer.