Books like The candy shop by Kiki Swinson

When four friends discover that the Sweet Tooth's enchanted confections give them amazing powers, they must face rival magical strangers who hunt a powerful hidden treasure—race to save their town.

Porsha, Boots, and Frankie navigate a New York City eviction notice with street life and a mystery twist among the chaos, starring K'Wan Foye’s beloved hood rat series characters.

Dating a hustler was never on Naheema's to-do list. But after the charming yet deceptive Mike sweeps her off her feet, dating a hustler is the least of her worries. Mike's sweetness turns sour when the abuse, cheating, and his street mentality kick in. But Naheema is learning from the best and soon the tables turn and she holds Mike's future in her hands--P. [4] of cover.

A harrowing journey into the harsh realities of race and prejudice in Harlem during the 1920s, as an African American woman struggles to find her place in a society defined by colorism.

Margaret, Charlie, Virginia, Tracy, and Laquita are all drug users involved in regular criminal activity: prostitution, burglary, shoplifting, robbery, drug selling, petty theft, and various kinds of fraud. Four of the women are black; one is white and Puerto Rican. While all five have been involved in same-sex relationships, three are primarily straight and two are primarily lesbian. They come from working-class or welfare families; some women characterize their mothers as strict, abusive, intolerant, and distant while other mothers are characterized as concerned, religious, and loving. The women talk frankly about their drug use, their sexual and criminal activities, their childhoods, their school and work experiences, their neighborhoods, their personal relationships with their families of origin, children, and partners, their fears and future goals, and the ordinary trappings of their lives. While these accounts describe lives at the margins of society, they also reveal women who assert a control over their activities and talk of independent judgment in terms that we imagine are reserved for men. There is a tendency in criminology to treat the data generated by research on men as fundamentally true for women as well. By allowing female law-breakers to describe their lives in their own way, Pettiway underlines not only their differences from men but also their differences from each other.

A middle‑aged woman reincarnated into a 22‑year‑old drug addict’s body learns that redemption can come from confronting her past, weaving reality and fantasy in Oregon and Beverly Hills.

A powerful, unvarnished chronicle of Rosa Lee Cunningham’s life and her family’s struggle with poverty, drug addiction, and urban hardship in Washington, D.C., as seen through the sustained journalistic eye of Leon Dash.