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"At nine-years-old, D. Watkins has three concerns in life: picking his dad's lotto numbers, keeping his Nikes free of creases, and being a man. Directly in his periphery is east Baltimore, a poverty-stricken city battling the height of a crack epidemic just hours from the nation's capital. Watkins, like many boys around him, is thrust out of childhood and into a world where manhood means surviving by slinging crack on street corners and finding himself on the wrong side of pistols. For thirty years, Watkins is forced safeguard every moment of joy he experiences, or risk losing himself entirely. Now, for the first time, Watkins harnesses these moments to tell the story of how he matured into the D. Watkins we know today-beloved author, college professor, editor-at-large of Salon.com, and devoted husband and father. Black Boy Smile lays bare Watkins' relationship with his father and brotherhoods with boys around him. He shares candid recollections of early assaults on his body and mind and how he coped through stoic silence disguised as manhood. His harrowing pursuit for redemption, written in his signature street style, pinpoints how generational hardship, left raw and unnurtured, breeds toxic masculinity. Watkins discovers a love for books, is admitted to two graduate programs, meets with his future wife-an attorney-, and finds true freedom in fatherhood. Equally moving and liberating, Black Boy Smile is D. Watkins' love letter to Black boys in concrete cities, a daring testimony that brings to life the contradictions, fears, and hopes of boys hurdling headfirst into adulthood. Black Boy Smile is a story that proves that when we acknowledge the fallacies of our past, we can uncover the path toward self-discovery. Black Boy Smile is the story of a Black boy who healed"--.

Tells the story of what happens to the witnesses after a fumbling, cranky old church deacon, known as Sportcoat, shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in South Brooklyn and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range, in 1969.

An investigation into the notorious Mexican drug kingpin delves beyond the legends of his life to reveal the most dramatic and horrifying moments of his career, including his infamous prison escapes, brutal murders, and eventual downfall.

Two women who escaped the international drug trade and who are married to the highest level drug traffickers to become U.S. informants share never-before-revealed details about El Chapo, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the dangerous world of illicit drugs.

Mitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood in America's whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the '90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. In his commanding autobiographical novel, Mitchell writes what it was to come of age in that time and place, with a break-out voice that's nothing less than extraordinary."The Residue Years" switches between the perspectives of a young man, Champ, and his mother, Grace. Grace is just out of a drug treatment program, trying to stay clean and get her kids back. Champ is trying to do right by his mom and younger brothers, and dreams of reclaiming the only home he and his family have ever shared. But selling crack is the only sure way he knows to achieve his dream. In this world of few options and little opportunity, where love is your strength and your weakness, this family fights for family and against what tears one apart.

Sixteen-year-old Meringue agrees to take over her friend Jeff's pizza route on her scooter without knowing that Jeff uses the route as a cover for his drug dealing. Meringue inadvertently becomes the target of a rival drug dealer, and struggles to find a way to extricate herself without snitching.

Living in Burro Hills, California, poor drug dealer Jack Burns deals with secretly being gay and his relationship with Connor Orellana.

"A teenager living in an alternate-history futuristic Versailles must escape its walls by selling a happy-enducing makeup called Glitter"--Provided by publisher.

Tells the story of what happens to the witnesses after a fumbling, cranky old church deacon, known as Sportcoat, shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in South Brooklyn and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range, in 1969.

"Documents the inside story of DEA Special Agent Andrew Hoganand his eight-year pursuit of the world's most-wanted drug kingpin, a case that involved the infiltration of El Chapo'sinner circle."--OCLC.