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G.O.D. by Saleem Little stretched the boundaries of Urban Fiction. Through the microcosm of inner-city New York, Little shined the spotlight on the ulterior motives of the "War on Drugs".1986: Buffalo, NY: beginning of the crack era...Wally is the child of a mother who is strung out from freebasing crack cocaine, and his disdain for her state of deadness is only matched by the state of squalor in which they live.Dumare is the youngest son of a devout Five Percenter. As he learns profound life lessons from his father, Dumare is also consumed by the street life.The only thing peaceful about Serenity's life is her name. Her mother has H.I.V. and no remorse for making 11-year-old Serenity sell her body to feed her mother's crack habit.Roscoe is a boy was simply slipped through the cracks of society early in life. His mother blames him for killing his little brother in a fire that burned down their apartment building.Hamid and Luqman are two, poor Afghani boys who chanced upon meeting a powerful drug lord in 1975. By 1986, they were assimilated into American society in Brooklyn, NY.In G.O.D., the seemingly dystopian society that Saleem Little relays through this book is not a fantasy. It is the harsh reality of the Crack Epidemic that continues to shatter so many lives almost 30 years later in present-day America. G.O.D. gives an up-close view of the effects of the desolation that urban blight has on different groups of people from different walks of life. Instead of blaming poverty on the people trapped within the confines of their neighborhoodS, G.O.D. shares the horrors of the inner-city, its faces and its motives.G.O.D. specifically focuses on the year of 1986 because of the Reagan era's "Just Say No" campaigns, which the book suggests were a cute fa ade to the tsunamis of destruction brought by the CIA and the CIA-backed armies in South America. Through the CIA, the American government used a Californian drug ring to systematically cripple Americans in ghettos nationwide. Whereas the US military and politicians hugely profited from cocaine under the guise of funding rebel armies in Central America to overthrow rogue governments, the Mujaheddin brought in profits from heroin under the guise of shutting down opium drug lords and driving out the Soviet army. Back on American soil, America turned a blind eye on her own children.G.O.D. lays out how the global greed and the shady economic practices of the rich and powerful affect the impoverished. In the book, Hamid and Luqman try to balance the tables by getting American educations. Their goal is to help their people and their motherland by waging a war of wits. Brute force is traded for intelligence. Rage is traded for strategy. Drugs in the inner city are traded for money which is used to fund their objectives.Saleem Little wrote G.O.D. in a way that was both informative and entertaining. He distilled vast amounts of information and global history into easy-to-understand paragraphs that articulated his points. In doing so, he puts the actions of his characters in proper contexts. He writes "Intellectual Urban Fiction" that has its base in the inner-city and its connections to global phenomena. Little illustrated the butterfly effects of billionaires controlling the puppet strings of governments that turn a blind eye to a profitable inter-continental drug trade. Communities sprinkled across the globe are targeted by both law enforcement agencies and criminal activities. The billionaires profit while the disadvantaged are negatively affected in numerous ways by a "War on Drugs."Although the ending of G.O.D. is tragic, there are many lessons that Saleem Little pulls into clear view. Little walks a thin line between fact and fiction with G.O.D. This novel was a well-constructed look at the ways drugs, greed, politics and religion can possibly come together to profit a few at the expense of many.-Joey Pinkney (Author, Critic, Reviewer and Blogger)

Lena and Dante had a wonderful relationship. They had spent the last two years learning each other and what they had learned was that they loved each other enough to get married. Now engaged, Lena gets the crazy idea to try something fun to spice up their relationship; she decides to bring in another woman for a one night, no strings attached, m nage a trois. It was a fantasy of hers as an adolescent woman and one she wanted to fulfill before she and Dante finalized their marriage. Unfortunately for Sophia, sex with no strings is hard for an emotionally and romantically starved woman such as herself who is truly seeking nothing but love to erase the years of pain and abuse she's endured. Special is the story of one couple's fantasy becoming their worst nightmare and an innocent experiment that soon becomes a fatal attraction.

Cocaine epidemics have twice figured in American history. The first sustained episode of cocaine use and addiction began in the 1880s and lasted into the 1920s. The second began about 1970 and peaked in the late 1980s. Together the two epidemics illustrate a cardinal principle of drug history: what we think about and how we regulate 'consuming habits' depends very much upon the characteristics of those who consume them.

Lena y Dante ten an una relaci n maravillosa. Hab an pasado los dos ltimos a os aprendi ndose y lo que hab an aprendido era que se amaban lo suficiente para casarse. Ahora comprometida, Lena obtiene la loca idea de probar algo divertido para condimentar su relaci n; Ella decide traer a otra mujer para una noche, sin ataduras, m nage a trois. Era una fantas a suya como una mujer adolescente y una que ella quer a cumplir antes de que ella y Dante terminaran su matrimonio. Desafortunadamente para Sophia, el sexo sin cuerdas es dif cil para una mujer emocional y rom nticamente muerta de hambre, como ella misma, que realmente est buscando nada m s que amor para borrar los a os de dolor y abuso que ha sufrido. Especial es la historia de la fantas a de una pareja convirti ndose en su peor pesadilla y un experimento inocente que pronto se convierte en una atracci n fatal.

Para Simeone, fue el comienzo de un nuevo trabajo. Para Merdeith, otro d a de rutina en el trabajo. Para ambos, una reuni n casual que dejar a a los dos anhelos el uno por el otro en las pr ximas semanas. El seducir es la inmensa cantidad de qu mica y les gusta que se den cuenta que comparten. El problema es que Simeone est al final de una relaci n y Meredith est comprometido. Ninguno se siente apreciado o entendido por sus respectivos c nyuges y anhela algo m s profundo. Vea qu sucede cuando demasiado so ar despierto conduce a un drama que cambia la vida en el volumen 1 de esta serie de 3 partes.Como siempre, su fantas a er tica estaba haciendo lentamente su trascendencia del pensamiento a la realidad, de la imaginaci n a ..."Oh Dios ..." pens Elaine en un estado de p nico. Estaba sucediendo de nuevo. Las mejillas bien definidas de Elaine se enrojecieron de verg enza cuando sali de su silla de cuero giratoria y se meti en el ba o. Una vez dentro, r pidamente cerr la puerta con llave. Cerrando los ojos, Elaine esperaba que la oscuridad le permitiera aferrarse a la ltima fracci n de la fantas a que hab a iniciado esta feliz reacci n. Sin embargo, como con todos los viajes mentales y las abstracciones, la imagen se disip y surgi la frustraci n que siempre sigui . Agradecida por la privacidad, con la espalda apoyada firmemente contra la puerta, Elaine exhal una mezcla de ansiedad y euforia. Este gumbo emocional tuvo que ser liberado. Fue embriagador y Elaine necesitaba desesperadamente su sobriedad para volver para poder terminar su trabajo. En cambio, sin embargo, el ensue o estaba volviendo. Elaine se rega y se disciplin a s misma. O al menos ella lo intent . Esa voz ubicua de la raz n le estaba recordando que no hab a manera de que ella permitiera que un hombre tuviera tanto poder sobre ella, especialmente considerando que la relaci n no era m s profunda que algunos cumplidos calculados, charlas de trabajo b sico e imaginaciones apasionadas. Record ndose a s misma por qu hab a entrado en el ba o en primer lugar, Elaine meti la mano en sus bragas de sat n humedecidas, sobre la mancha bien cuidada de delicados vellos p bicos y sobre sus labios. Ella sacudi la cabeza y se sonri a s misma con verg enza inocente. Lo hab a vuelto a hacer. l hab a hecho su orgasmo sin el menor toque de una mano, solo una transmisi n de energ a sexual y emoci n. Ech ndose un vistazo a s misma en el espejo, se ech a re r sin control, primero internamente y luego en voz alta, ya que no pod a controlar la risa alegre. Lo m ximo que pod a hacer era amortiguarlo con sus manos ahuecadas."Este hombre ..." pens Elaine mientras se quitaba las bragas por completo, las envolv a en toallas de papel y las met a en la papelera. "Welp, ah va otro par." Ella sonri y comenz a lavarse las manos. Mirar en su propia imaginaci n era tentador, pero mirar su reflejo en el espejo era vergonzoso. Su reflejo reflejaba su realidad, su meditaci n meramente sus deseos. El rostro de su amante mental hab a sido reemplazado abruptamente por el hecho de que su novio causaba una cascada de verg enza que inundaba su esp ritu. Esto fue divertido, incluso emocionante, pero peligroso y lleno de culpa. La realidad era que ella ten a un hombre en casa. La situaci n no era perfecta, pero ninguna lo era, y sin importar de qu lado estaba su relaci n en ese momento, el hecho era que ella estaba en uno

Tales of Love, Passion and Crimes of Passion written by Author Saleem Little