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The Major's Wife Diana King is a psychiatric doctor, working closely with military families. Her marriage to a major in the US Army may not seem anything out of the normal except that her husband is an African American man. She is a white woman from the rural south. Her father makes it very clear that he is not supportive of the relationship. The drama explodes when King and family are reassigned to Fort Rucker, Alabama, where Diana's family r...

A quick reference guide in your pocket - an aid memoir in deciphering the presenting complaint.The assessment tools - history taking, physical assessment and graphics - in this book make it both compact & concise in performing a Top to Toe examination.

Call it street literature or urban drama - we call it hip-hop literature. This exciting genre features fast-paced action, gritty ghetto realism, and social messages about the high price of the street life style. The interest level and the pace at which urban literature crosses over to multimedia is increasing as urban literature offers new and exciting content that caters to a growing demographic of Latino population, African Americans, and hi...

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BACK IN THE DAYS is a compelling finale to the Ghetto Girls Series. Two teen girls are drawn together and after sharing similar experiences, they become even closer. The mountain of tragedies that they have faced in their lives still threatens to push them over the cliff. Even when they feel they've moved along, In Ghetto Girls 6 demons from BACK IN THE DAYS continue to haunt. Coco and Deedee come face to face with the violence and issues of t...

Simultaneously struggling with her own potential handicap and her mother's precarious sobriety, Coco calls on Deedee to help decode a message from Miss Katie. Meanwhile, Deedee is in a quandary of her own, as she discovers that her uncle has been having a relationship with Josephine and sets her sights on reuniting him with his former fiancee.

A powerful kingpin seeks revenge against three men who murdered his best friend and lieutenant in this gangster tale. Chaos, Priest, and Carlos had unknowingly entered the house of the lieutenant and after forcing themselves upon his daughter, killed him. Abandoning his credo, "business never personal, " the Piano Man sets out to destroy these childhood friends who make a living robbing drug dealers and selling their bounty through their own p...

The best of the street chronicles today, Ghetto Girls Too is a wonderfully hypnotic adventure that delves into the convoluted minds of criminals and the dark world of police corruption. Yet, there is something thrilling and surprisingly tender about this ongoing young-adult saga filled with mad flava. FIC000000

This has been called the sexiest hip-hop story ever!. A fast-moving joint with a raw, gritty edge, and full of brutal honesty, Ghetto Girls examines teen life on the streets and teaches a lesson you're never too old to learn or appreciate. You live by the sword. . .you die by the sword!

Dirty cops push Lil' Long around, and Lil' Long uses it as motivation to exact revenge on the streets and rub off enemies at every turn. Bodies drop left and right as Coco, Deedee, and Josephine run for their lives - even bodyguards can't protect them.

It's August, 2003. All of the Northeast is sweltering, but no place is hotter than Brooklyn, especially the gritty neighborhood known as East Flatbush. Then, in the midst of the heat wave, the unthinkable happens: the power goes out. And stays out. And the longer it's out, the edgier people get, until finally, edginess gives way to anger. For 48 hours, the community is in chaos. Looters are everywhere. No one is safe. Violence erupts suddenly,...

In the fifth installment of the popular "Ghetto Girls" series, Coco suffers an injury that leaves her more helpless than she could have imagined. As she relies on her best friend Deedee for love and support, their relationship grows to another level. But Deedee finds out that her friend needs her even more than she's letting on when Coco's unsupportive mother puts her health in a precarious position. Meanwhile, Deedee has problems of her own w...

A new case comes across the desk of detective Sheryl Street from the Dade cCounty larceny squad in Miami. Pursuing the investigation, she discovers that it threatens to unfold dig up details of her life she thought were long buried in New York. As Hher duties as detective pit her against the family that had emotionally destabilized her, when the murder of a friend brings her back to New York. Street finds she can no longer run away from a worl...

In "Thin Line, " the police code of silence is tested when officer Rita Sanchez's eight-year-old son, Shareef, witnesses the murder of his grandmother and other family members. The next day he is hauled off to the precinct and questioned inappropriately by the police after he's involved in a riot at school. At the precinct, he recognizes a cop as one of the assailants from the murder scene, which begins this gripping tale of deception, graft, ...