When was the last time you took a chance?For the small group of friends in Flying A Kite At Night During A Storm, taking a chance means many things: letting go, learning to love, allowing yourself feel again after a staggering personal loss. In turn amusing and poignant, this is a story about the foundations of friendship and overcoming fear: the fear of loneliness, the fear of the unknown, the fear of life and ultimately, the fear of not having lived to your full extent.From the first page of this extraordinary work, you are asked: in an age where your life can change in a single instant-with a single act-how much would you be willing to risk?Are you ready to take a chance?

Flying A Kite At Night During A Storm

Literature & Fiction

Long, Thomas

Literary

iUniverse

In this entertaining and educational book, children are introduced to some exotic -- and exotically named -- animals. Beautiful watercolor paintings by bestselling artist Sylvia Long illustrate the whimsy and humor that can be found in the names of a variety of unusual animals. A brief text describing the animal and its habitat, as well as a glossary of natural history terms makes this a great way to meet curious creatures from around the globe.

Any Bear Can Wear Glasses: The Spectacled Bear & Other Curious Creatures

Children's Books

Long, Matthew

Animals

Chronicle Books LLC.

A guide for parents who work and their latchkey children explains how youngsters can overcome the problems of being left alone and develop independence, maturity, and self-sufficiency

Handbook for Latchkey Children and Their Parents: A Complete Guide for Latchkey Kids and Their Working Parents

Long, Lynette

Parenting & Relationships

Arbor House Pub. Co

Enclosed is a walk through the city projects, ghettos and streets. It's a mind journey that puts life's realities into words. This anthology is the first of its kind to take such an array of authors, and their true to the life gritty tales, and allow their words to explode in one setting.

The Game (Triple Crown Publications Presents)

Authors, Various

Holmes, Shannon

Stringer, Vickie

Foye, K'wan

Brown, Tracy A.

Griot, The Urban

Moses, Kenya I.

Washington, Shere

United States

Triple Crown Publications

Dayvon and Ty ran the drug game in West Baltimore for years as the heads of the DFL (Dogs For Life) family. However, after Ty gets sent to prison on a suspect charge and Dayvon decides that he wants outta the game, drama is about to jump off between the two once loyal comrades. Ty plots his brutal revenge when he begins to think that Dayvon had something to do with his incarceration. Dayvon is not about to lie down and let Ty take him outta the game without a fight. To top it all off, they both face a surprise enemy in two up and coming members of their crew, Lil' Jay and Stink, who have their own plans to seize control of the family. What proceeds is an action packed adventure that will have you guessing as to who will survive this tale of urban warfare.

A Thug's Life

Dramas & Plays

United Brothers

From the mind of Baltimore native and veteran author Thomas Long comes the most raw and uncut depiction of the unforgiving streets of a city that is infamously known as Bodymore. It's a place where murder is an everyday part of life and nobody is immune from harm. Jericho Jones: The Smooth Assassin is a fast paced tale about one of the city's most dangerous young criminals. Jericho is haunted by personal demons that feed his violent nature and desire to inflict pain upon others. His life will forever be changed when the same kind of violence that he administers out in the streets winds up on his doorstep. Psycho Chick is the story of Ellis Savoy, a well respected business woman who rose from poverty to achieve immense wealth and fame in the fashion industry. In spite of her success, she has skeletons in her closet that have the potential to destroy everything that she has worked hard to build. She will stop at nothing to keep her secrets hidden from the public. The Killing Season explores the role of police corruption on the upwardly spiraling murder rates in Baltimore City. Find out what happens when the community decides to take the streets back from the criminals and the crooked cops. The Bodymore Homicide Novella Series gives you three different stories that touch on the violence and bloodshed that plague this notorious urban terrain. The explosive details of these tales will shock and astound the readers, but, at the same time, keep them tuned in to each storyline to find out what happens next.

The Bodymore Homicide novella series

Rock Solid Media Group, LLC dba Streetwise Publishing

For My Sisters is the book that the young female struggling to find a healthy relationship has been looking for. It contains seven key tips that are essential to the relationship building process. This book is a how to guide that can be useful to both the woman struggling with her current relationship and for the woman who is still actively involved in the dating process.

For My Sisters: 7 Relationship Tips

XSL Publishing, Inc.

Nigel Hawkins was one of the biggest drug dealers in Baltimore City. However, after years of drug use and resorting to crime to support his habit, he catches a charge that lands him in jail to serve a lengthy prison sentence. When he returns to society, he is drug-free and now a born again Christian. Nigel is also determined to reconnect with his son, JR, who has followed in his footsteps by getting caught up in the drug game. JR is torn between his love for the thug life and the love that he harbors deep inside for his father, who seeks to redeem his soul from his sinful ways. What unfolds in this story is a host of real life events that force both men to make gut wrenching decisions that will forever alter the course of both of their lives. Just Like Daddy gives you a gut wrenching picture of the impact of generational curses on the lives of Black men who are forced to survive in the midst of the tangled web of drugs, crime, and poverty that engulf the inner cities of America. It also touches on the power of spirituality and redemption in breaking down these obstacles. Thomas Long pulls no punches in delivering the realist depiction and insight into the life of a drug addict since Donald Goines’ Dopefiend. He brings you his own unique brand of educational urban fiction with a twist that is sure to create an emotional connection between the reader and the main characters as the plot thickens. This book is a must read for any father seeking to undo years of absence from the life of his male child in making an effort to work towards developing a healthy father son relationship in the face of insurmountable odds and social pressure.

Just Like Daddy

Genre Fiction

Urban Books

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Dr. Walker's True, Modest, And Faithful Account Of The Author Of Eikon Basilike, Strictly Examined, And Demonstrated To Be False, Impudent, And Deceitful In Two Parts (1693)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Kessinger Publishing

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