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The New York Mafia has been around for decades, and the Giuliani’s have ruled their criminal empire with an iron first. But wait. There’s an upstart waiting in the wings, and the Lombardi’s are about to claw their way in, thanks to the decline of the city’s ruling family. The prize to be had in the upcoming battle is New York Harbor. The warriors? Francesco Giuliani, the bad-boy son and enforcer of the family, and Jessica Lombardi, her family’s lawyer who has learned the business from her father and brother.

The everyday African life of Aliou, in the small village in Gambia of his birth, is one of hardship and happiness. Despite his talent in soccer and his exceptional performance in school, this young, black, and gifted teenager seems destined to live out his days in the same sort of poverty that his family had experienced. Then, with the sudden death of his father, Aliou is faced with a hard decision.

Gabrielle, an "at-risk" young lady coming from a poor neighborhood in New York City, finished her college degree last semester. She was working for peanuts at the time when a better job came through, requiring her to move 200 miles away from home to Boston to work for a new startup. She didn't know that the history of bias and xenophobia in Boston may test the patience and perseverance of this young African American. But Gabrielle would be willing to risk it all for a better lifestyle.

House is the first descendant of disco. While Black and Hispanic communities were jamming and party DJs spinning records, a new birth of rhythm gave way to music lovers from Chicago and New York in the form known as house music. Developed in Chicago's underground dance club culture in the early 1980s, today house music is worldwide and continues to dominate most club scenes and has expanded beyond its subculture beginning.

What's that purpose-driven life? You have a mindset about it. Your spiritual direction is based on certain beliefs. Seeking wisdom, the words you use, and the ideas you construct are what makes who you are. However, many are only stumbling on happiness and have yet to enjoy its actual meaning.

In this audiobook, you will hear the stories of business-minded people who once were miserable at work. You will find out what they went through and how they managed to start their own businesses from zero. Hopefully, by the end of this audiobook, you will feel inspired and you will start planning your resignation and your potential new business, a business that will make you happy!

I’m the hottest single dad with a son on my local town's youth travel baseball team. This year, my son and his teammates have their eyes on the championship. It's spring, I'm on the field observing, and I've got my eye on the ball...and another kid's mom....

We live in a society that places a high degree of importance on physical appearance. TV, movies, magazines and billboards all display attractive people. We see many men and women running to plastic surgeons, having many different kinds of procedures done simply to enhance their appearance. Our society is obsessed with physical beauty and many women are caught up in that obsession.

A medida que los refugiados y los inmigrantes siguen fluyendo a través de las fronteras de los Estados Unidos, muchos de ellos buscando el sueño americano, el país comienza a crujir y gemir en las costuras y la pregunta se hace con más frecuencia, con una sospecha subyacente.

Sofia: Fifteen years ago, I saved my grandson from the devil. That day, our family lost everything. But I'm back. Dangerous. Unhinged. Vengeful. Consumed by the mob life. By my late husband, by my ambition. This obsession may destroy me.

Fresh off her racial profiling mystery in Boston, Gabbie comes home to discover her parents have divorced and her little sister, Khadi's getting on everyone's nerves; becoming a young horror around the house. On top of the drama, a new guy, Maleek, Ummi's co-worker is trying to hit on her mother, quickly which adds to this urban nostalgia.

As our children and teens race down the onramp to the Information Superhighway, many parents feel left behind in the dust. News stories about online sexual predators, child pornography, cyberbullies, hate groups, gaming addiction, and other dangers that lurk in the online world make us feel increasingly concerned about what our children are doing (and with whom) in cyberspace. Who are the Kids Behind the Screen provides you with need-to-know information about those online dangers and gives you the practical parenting strategies necessary to help children and teens learn to use the Internet safely and responsibly.

With the gradual shift away from traditional hip-hop, a new style of music known as trap paved way for inner-city youth, bringing out new flavor from new and old artists all over the globe. This is now referred as the "Era of Trap". T.I., Waka Flocka Flame, Young Jeezy, Lil Wayne, Gucci Mane, Travis Scott, and many more brought in a new urban sound that is now competing with America‘s loudest street voice, known as hip-hop. This book takes you behind the scenes, giving you a fresh look at the new era of urban artistic talent that hopes to stay for many years to come.

Rebecca Horowitz, a 33-year-old assistant DA spent her career working her way up the ladder in the city of Manhattan. The hardworking lawyer will never admit her true desire to her colleagues: to have a relationship with a hot femme whenever the opportunity presents itself.

Sigue el viaje de Philly boy E a través de las drogas, la familia, la duda en sí mismo y cualquier cosa menos una vida simple...Aquí está la última historia de un adolescente que se enfrenta con bolas con curva que el destino le lanza con una determinación y un carisma crudo, reclamando las calles de Filadelfia que lo han moldeado en el torbellino que es.

Allí y Ahora, Volumen 2 sigue la historia de E, un adolescente americano, cuando comienza a encontrar su camino en Filadelfia a finales de los años ochenta, andando por las calles, descubriendo una atracción por las chicas y un amor duradero por el hip-hop y deejaying. A medida que la vida de E se acerca cada vez más a los códigos de las calles, sus padres se preguntan si será reclamado por las calles, como muchos antes que el, acabado y terminado antes de que alcance sus veintitantos años.

Allí y Ahora, un diario en español que narra la historia de un niño (Lil E) y su vida en Filadelfia. En los años 70 y 80, esta ciudad era interesante para un niño americano, y Lil E recuerda todo...Debido a que Lil E, no crecio mucho, siempre fue con quien todo el mundo quería bromear y meterse. Lleno de sonrisas, nostalgia y lágrimas de arrepentimiento. Allí y Ahora es un libro que te llevará a lo largo de un viaje lleno de historia y emoción.

Have you noticed the seemingly endless abuses carried out by police on minorities of color? Are you someone who has suffered from police profiling? If you are, or you are simply a concerned citizen who is opposed to the tide of police brutality, police corruption, and violence inflicted on ordinary citizens, then This Must Stop Now: Mr. Officer is an audiobook you should hear. This audiobook was written in part to assist in highlighting the problems and to call others to action in a bid to halt the wave of brutality that we see on a daily basis.