“Everybody knows these chicks. They’re straight up from around your way.” —Shannon Holmes, author of Bad Girlz, on Around the Way Girls 2
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- The Naked Truth
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By Chunichi
Read by iiKane
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Release Date: 1/16/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Ceazia Devereaux has seen it all on the streets. She’s gone from a gangster’s girl to being married to the game. After the murders of a few of her associates, she’s ready to divorce herself from the lifestyle she once knew and become the “good girl” she was raised to be.
Ceazia finds her way to Atlanta, where she hopes to find a man who can take care of her. Parlay is a big-name rapper who fits the bill perfectly. Ceazia sets up a chance encounter with him, thinking she’s on her way to a fresh start.
Danielle, her arch-enemy, has other plans for Ceazia. She’s bound and determined to make Ceazia pay for her past sins. But when she gets caught up in the very same web she weaves and someone sets out to destroy Danielle’s life, will her thirst for revenge take a back seat?
- The Naked Truth
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By Chunichi
Read by iiKane
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Release Date: 1/16/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Around the Way Girls 7
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By Chunichi, Karen Williams, and B.L.U.N.T.
Read by Ida Belle
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Release Date: 12/19/17
Formats: Digital Audy
There’s a saying that if you’re from my part of town, you’re from around the way.
Following in the footsteps of its successful predecessors, Around the Way Girls 7 showcases three popular Urban Books authors and their versions of some very tough, street-smart girls.
Nina and Mouse are a couple just trying to survive the hater nation. Only problem is Nina’s a little paranoid when it comes to other women, and Mouse is usually guilty as charged. Fed up with Mouse’s cheating, Nina begins to creep a little herself, but will her revenge blow up in her face?
Diamond hates her messed-up life, her sorry-behind county recipient daddy, and his broke, crack-smoking girlfriend. Most of all, Diamond hates her mother, who didn’t love her enough to stick around. But there are two sides to every story, and Diamond is about to hear the other side to hers.
Homegirls Whakelah, LaShawn, and Misha have big dreams to make it out of Webster Projects. There was a time their bond seemed unbreakable, but now that Misha has found love and a ticket to the big time, her friends want to go along for the ride. How far are they willing to go to chase that paper?
- Around the Way Girls 7
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By Chunichi, Karen Williams, and B.L.U.N.T.
Read by Ida Belle
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Release Date: 12/19/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- California Connection 2
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By Chunichi
Read by iiKane
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Release Date: 11/14/17
Formats: Digital Audy
Jewel used to be content with being a ride or die chick, playing Bonnie while the men in her life played Clyde. But now she realizes that it was her connections and street smarts that helped her man, Calico, rise to the top, and Jewel wants to be the one in control. She’s tired of taking orders from men.
She’s willing to do anything to be queen of the streets, but when a deal she makes with the enemy comes back to haunt her, her dream is turned into a nightmare. Hopeless and struggling to keep her head above water, Jewel meets Misty, who seems to be her savior. They quickly form a bond, but when that bond is broken and the mist turns to rain, Jewel finds herself in the middle of a storm that she might not make it out of.
- California Connection 2
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By Chunichi
Read by iiKane
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Release Date: 11/14/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- California Connection 3
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By Chunichi
Read by iiKane
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Release Date: 11/14/17
Formats: Digital Audy
Jewel climbed up the heap to become queen of the streets, diva of all divas. But now that she’s expecting a baby, she’s concerned about just one thing—giving her child a good life, away from the guns, the drugs, and the lies. However, that also means a life away from the glitz and glam that Jewel still craves, and she’s not quite ready to give it all up … not until she’s back on top. Flat broke and miles away from her fugitive baby daddy, Jewel will have to put every bit of her street savvy, as well as her sharp business skills, into action to gain back her place and her power.
- California Connection 3
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By Chunichi
Read by iiKane
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Release Date: 11/14/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Return of a Gangster’s Girl
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By Chunichi
Read by iiKane
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Release Date: 11/14/17
Formats: Digital Audy
Brokenhearted, scorned Ceazia is back home in Virginia and up to her old ways. With her road dawg, Diamond, by her side, she’s unstoppable, until the attention she’s used to falls on her friend and envy rears its ugly head.
When she pulls Shawn, Diamond gets the luxuries Ceazia’s used to and now lacking, which sets things off. Now eager to get a man that outshines Shawn, Ceazia meets Judah. Catching wind that Shawn is indebted to Judah, Ceazia devises the perfect plan to knock Shawn off his pedestal and end Diamond’s fantasies.
Trust no one without knowing their agenda, or be ready to find out whose game is tighter.
- The Return of a Gangster’s Girl
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By Chunichi
Read by iiKane
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Release Date: 11/14/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Married to the Game
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By Chunichi
Read by iiKane
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Release Date: 9/12/17
Formats: Digital Audy
Exotic dancer Ceazia Deveareux has grown accustomed to the luxurious lifestyle she was living before the death of her boyfriend, Vegas Jackson. Even though she was the one who caused his death, Ceazia feels no guilt. She believes she still deserves to have the finest of everything, and she’s determined to get it.
Vegas’ brother Snake is patiently waiting for the day that he can avenge his brother’s death. The only problem is that he has a fascination with strippers, and the sexy Ceazia might prove to be more than he can resist.
In this follow-up to her hit novel A Ganster’s Girl, Chunichi delivers more of her trademark style. Married to the Game is a fast-paced tale of sex, betrayal, and murder.
- Married to the Game
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By Chunichi
Read by iiKane
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Release Date: 9/12/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- California Connection
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By Chunichi
Read by iiKane
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Release Date: 8/15/17
Formats: Digital Audy
Jewel is young and beautiful, and with several hustles under her belt, she’s all about making money. This doesn’t leave much time for friends, but she’ll always make time for Touch, the local hustler. He’s been her friend since grammar school, when they made a lifelong pact to look out for each other. Lucky for them, their promise has never been put to the test—until now.
When Michael Burroughs arrives on the scene from LA, he floods the East Coast with top-notch product and quickly earns his title as the California Connection—“Calico” for short. He’s also a smooth brotha with a knack for getting whatever he wants out of women then tossing them to the side. When he meets Jewel, sparks fly, and things quickly spin out of control.
Touch knows how Calico operates and doesn’t want to watch his friend get used and abused. Little does he know, he doesn’t have to worry about her, because Jewel has a few tricks of her own. When Calico shows his true colors, Jewel knows just how to get revenge. Will her plans backfire, or will she be the last woman standing?
- California Connection
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By Chunichi
Read by iiKane
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Release Date: 8/15/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- A Gangster’s Girl
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By Chunichi
Read by iiKane
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Release Date: 7/18/17
Formats: Digital Audy
Meet Ceazia, a very attractive, very good girl who has just left the safety of her parents’ home and entered into the world of bad boys and fast money. Ceazia thinks the world belongs to her when she meets Vegas, one of the Tidewater, Virginia area’s most notorious drug dealers. Even though a relationship with Vegas goes against everything her parents taught her, she still can’t resist his bad boy persona. He’s fine, sexy, and ready to give her anything her heart desires—just what the doctor ordered for a broke, wannabe diva. This might just end up being the biggest mistake of her life.
- A Gangster’s Girl
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By Chunichi
Read by iiKane
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Release Date: 7/18/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Girls from da Hood
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By Nikki Turner, Roy Glenn, and Chunichi
Read by iiKane
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Release Date: 6/27/17
Formats: Digital Audy
For Unique, life is good until her dope-dealing boyfriend, Took, is arrested and winds up in jail. Now she’s broke as a joke’ trying to put every petty hustle into play to chase hard times away from the door. With an empty refrigerator, a stack of bills piling up, a tenth grade education, a big butt and a smile, it doesn’t take long for her to learn to pull the wool over the eyes of any fool who’s blinded by her good looks. She’s sure that one day some guy’s slip-up will be her ultimate come-up, and her days of nickel and dime swindles will be a thing of the past. Unique knows that every scandalous chick has her day, but doesn’t realize that her day will come too!
If luck were money, Nina Thomas would be one broke sister. After taking a stab at stripping, she finds herself once again on the wrong end of a bad choice. Now she’s on trial for murder, and the consequences of spending too much time with the wrong folks might just end up costing her life.
Anyeh is out for revenge, and with the help of a secret friend on the other end of her cell phone, known only as “my baby,” she just might get what she wants. She’s after Diablo, the most well-known hustler in Virginia. He’s one careful brother; but in the end, his feelings for Anyeh might just be his undoing.
- Girls from da Hood
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By Nikki Turner, Roy Glenn, and Chunichi
Read by iiKane
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Release Date: 6/27/17
Formats: Digital Audy