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2. Urban fiction - Wikipedia

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   Urban fiction. Urban fiction, also known as street lit or street fiction, is a literary genre set in a city landscape; however, the genre is as much defined by the socio-economic realities and culture of its characters as the urban setting. The tone for urban fiction is usually dark, focusing on the underside of city living.

3. There There (novel) - Wikipedia

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   There There is the debut novel by Cheyenne and Arapaho author Tommy Orange. Published in 2018, the book follows a large cast of Native Americans living in the Oakland, California area and contains several essays on Native American history and identity. The characters struggle with a wide array of challenges, ranging from depression and ...

4. Urban Books - Wikipedia

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   Urban Books is a book publisher specializing in African-American topics, founded and published by Carl Weber in 2002. Imprints. Urban Soul (women's fiction, a joint venture with Kensington Books) Urban Renaissance Books (2010) Urban Christian Books (2007) References

5. Carl Weber (author) - Wikipedia

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   2000–present. Carl Weber (born 1964) is an American author, publisher, television writer and producer. He owns Urban Books, a publishing company, and formerly owned Urban Knowledge, a chain of bookstores. [1][2] His mystery novels were adapted into films The Man in 3B (2015), The Preacher's Son (2017), The Choir Director (2018) and Influence ...

6. Donald Goines - Wikipedia

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   The book dealt with an anti-hero character named after Jomo Kenyatta that ran an organization similar to the Black Panthers to clear the ghetto of crime. In his book The Low Road, Eddie B. Allen remarks that the series was a departure from some of Goines's other works, with the character of Kenyatta symbolizing a sense of liberation for Goines. [5]

7. The Image of the City - Wikipedia

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   0-262-62001-4. The Image of the City is a 1960 book by American urban theorist Kevin Lynch. The book is the result of a five-year study of Boston, Jersey City and Los Angeles on how observers take in information of the city, and use it to make mental maps. Lynch's conclusion was that people formed mental maps of their surroundings consisting of ...

8. Teri Woods - Wikipedia

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   Teri Woods (born March 8, 1968) is an American novelist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [1] and a successful, self-published pioneer of the urban fiction genre. [2] Woods finished writing her first novel, True to the Game, in 1992 while working at a law firm in Philadelphia. [3] She spent six years submitting the work to numerous publishers ...

9. Toy Styles - Wikipedia

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   Toy Styles. Toy Styles (born 31 January), pen names T. Styles, Reign and Mikal Malone, is an American author, screenwriter and film producer of urban fiction. According to Styles her first novels, Black & Ugly and A Hustler's Son, were written in a week. [1] Black & Ugly reached number 3 on the Essence magazine bestseller list. [2]