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🚇 Street Memoir

Raw, first-person accounts of life on the margins—growing up in tough neighborhoods, navigating poverty, violence, and the fierce will to survive.
Pimp
by Iceberg Slim • 1967
A Chicago pimp traces his transformation from wounded boy to master manipulator to man undone.
4.00
15k+
🌃 Urban Underworld📉 Rise And Fall🔄 Criminal Redemption
Pimp Summary
Pimp 92%
A Chicago pimp traces his transformation from wounded boy to master manipulator to man undone.
by Iceberg Slim 1967
4.00
15k+ ratings
🌃 Urban Underworld📉 Rise And Fall🔄 Criminal Redemption
The Beautiful Struggle
by Ta-Nehisi Coates • 2008
Between Black Panther discipline and Baltimore's street code, a boy fights to write his own story.
4.08
11k+
🏙️ Urban Memoir🖤 African American Memoir🌱 Coming Of Age Memoirs
The Beautiful Struggle Summary
The Beautiful Struggle 92%
Between Black Panther discipline and Baltimore's street code, a boy fights to write his own story.
by Ta-Nehisi Coates 2008
4.08
11k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Memoir🖤 African American Memoir🌱 Coming Of Age Memoirs
The Basketball Diaries
by Jim Carroll • 1978
A New York basketball prodigy keeps a diary as the court gives way to the needle.
3.99
32k+
🖤 Addiction Memoir🗽 1960s New York🏀 Sports As Salvation
The Basketball Diaries Summary
The Basketball Diaries 91%
A New York basketball prodigy keeps a diary as the court gives way to the needle.
by Jim Carroll 1978
3.99
32k+ ratings
🖤 Addiction Memoir🗽 1960s New York🏀 Sports As Salvation
Fist Stick Knife Gun
by Geoffrey Canada • 1995
Respect was won with fists on Union Avenue. Then guns came and rewrote the rules for everyone.
4.03
3k+
🏙️ Urban Violence🧱 Street Culture🌱 Youth Mentorship
Fist Stick Knife Gun Summary
Fist Stick Knife Gun 91%
Respect was won with fists on Union Avenue. Then guns came and rewrote the rules for everyone.
by Geoffrey Canada 1995
4.03
3k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Violence🧱 Street Culture🌱 Youth Mentorship
Adversity for Sale
by Jeezy • 2023
A custom chain went viral by accident. The rapper wearing it had planned everything else.
4.07
1k+
🎤 Hip-Hop Memoir💼 Music Business💪 Overcoming Adversity
Adversity for Sale Summary
Adversity for Sale 91%
A custom chain went viral by accident. The rapper wearing it had planned everything else.
by Jeezy 2023
4.07
1k+ ratings
🎤 Hip-Hop Memoir💼 Music Business💪 Overcoming Adversity
The Lost and the Found
by Kevin Fagan • 2025
A reporter followed two unhoused people in San Francisco. One got out. The other didn't. Here's why.
4.27
912
🏠 Chronic Homelessness🏙️ Urban Poverty💉 Addiction And Recovery
The Lost and the Found Summary
The Lost and the Found 90%
A reporter followed two unhoused people in San Francisco. One got out. The other didn't. Here's why.
by Kevin Fagan 2025
4.27
912 ratings
🏠 Chronic Homelessness🏙️ Urban Poverty💉 Addiction And Recovery
Education of a Felon
by Edward Bunker • 1999
A career criminal's brutal education behind bars, and how literature gave him a way out.
4.14
2k+
⛓️ Prison Memoir💰 Career Criminal🔪 Prison Survival
Education of a Felon Summary
Education of a Felon 90%
A career criminal's brutal education behind bars, and how literature gave him a way out.
by Edward Bunker 1999
4.14
2k+ ratings
⛓️ Prison Memoir💰 Career Criminal🔪 Prison Survival
Never Far from Home
by Bruce Jackson • 2023
Amsterdam Houses to Microsoft: a Black lawyer's climb through music, race, and two worlds.
4.12
257
🪜 Upward Mobility🚧 Racial Barriers🎓 First-Gen Professionals
Never Far from Home Summary
Never Far from Home 90%
Amsterdam Houses to Microsoft: a Black lawyer's climb through music, race, and two worlds.
by Bruce Jackson 2023
4.12
257 ratings
🪜 Upward Mobility🚧 Racial Barriers🎓 First-Gen Professionals
Decoded
by Jay-Z • 2009
His annotated lyrics reveal how the corner became a boardroom and rhyme became high poetry.
3.86
9k+
🎤 Hip Hop Memoirs🎵 Lyricism💼 Street Entrepreneurship
Decoded Summary
Decoded 90%
His annotated lyrics reveal how the corner became a boardroom and rhyme became high poetry.
by Jay-Z 2009
3.86
9k+ ratings
🎤 Hip Hop Memoirs🎵 Lyricism💼 Street Entrepreneurship
Down the Drain
by Julia Fox • 2023
An Italian girl follows her erratic father to New York. Survival will mean constant reinvention.
4.36
95k+
🎬 Celebrity Memoir💉 Addiction Recovery🌍 Immigrant Childhood
Down the Drain Summary
Down the Drain 90%
An Italian girl follows her erratic father to New York. Survival will mean constant reinvention.
by Julia Fox 2023
4.36
95k+ ratings
🎬 Celebrity Memoir💉 Addiction Recovery🌍 Immigrant Childhood
The Other Wes Moore
by Wes Moore • 2010
Two boys named Wes Moore, same city. One became a Rhodes Scholar; the other got life.
3.87
60k+
👥 Parallel Lives🏙️ Urban Poverty🌱 Coming Of Age
The Other Wes Moore Summary
The Other Wes Moore 90%
Two boys named Wes Moore, same city. One became a Rhodes Scholar; the other got life.
by Wes Moore 2010
3.87
60k+ ratings
👥 Parallel Lives🏙️ Urban Poverty🌱 Coming Of Age
Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised
by Carmelo Anthony • 2021
Grief unnamed, a mother's open door, a blacktop sanctuary: surviving the projects before the NBA.
4.07
2k+
🏀 Basketball Memoirs🏢 Housing Projects⚖️ Systemic Racism
Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised Summary
Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised 90%
Grief unnamed, a mother's open door, a blacktop sanctuary: surviving the projects before the NBA.
by Carmelo Anthony 2021
4.07
2k+ ratings
🏀 Basketball Memoirs🏢 Housing Projects⚖️ Systemic Racism
Never Stop Walking
by Christina Rickardsson • 2016
Adoption carried her from Brazilian caves to Sweden at eight. Learning the cost took decades.
3.98
10k+
🧳 Transnational Adoption🏚️ Street Survival💔 Childhood Trauma
Never Stop Walking Summary
Never Stop Walking 90%
Adoption carried her from Brazilian caves to Sweden at eight. Learning the cost took decades.
by Christina Rickardsson 2016
3.98
10k+ ratings
🧳 Transnational Adoption🏚️ Street Survival💔 Childhood Trauma
Gang Leader for a Day
by Sudhir Venkatesh • 2008
A sociologist ran a Chicago gang for a day. The books were cleaner than he expected.
4.07
26k+
🏙️ Urban Poverty📝 Ethnographic Fieldwork💰 Underground Economy
Gang Leader for a Day Summary
Gang Leader for a Day 90%
A sociologist ran a Chicago gang for a day. The books were cleaner than he expected.
by Sudhir Venkatesh 2008
4.07
26k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Poverty📝 Ethnographic Fieldwork💰 Underground Economy
Poverty Safari
by Darren McGarvey • 2017
Poverty isn't just broke. It's trauma, addiction, and a mind that fights its own rescue.
4.01
7k+
🏚️ Urban Poverty📊 Class Analysis💊 Addiction And Recovery
Poverty Safari Summary
Poverty Safari 90%
Poverty isn't just broke. It's trauma, addiction, and a mind that fights its own rescue.
by Darren McGarvey 2017
4.01
7k+ ratings
🏚️ Urban Poverty📊 Class Analysis💊 Addiction And Recovery
Tremendous
by Joey "Coco" Diaz • 2023
Homeless at twenty-one, sleeping in a rocket ship. How Joey Diaz traded crime for stand-up.
4.46
3k+
🎤 Stand-Up Comedy💊 Addiction Memoirs🔫 Criminal Past
Tremendous Summary
Tremendous 90%
Homeless at twenty-one, sleeping in a rocket ship. How Joey Diaz traded crime for stand-up.
by Joey "Coco" Diaz 2023
4.46
3k+ ratings
🎤 Stand-Up Comedy💊 Addiction Memoirs🔫 Criminal Past
A Gift of Hope
by Danielle Steel • 2012
She gave teddy bears to homeless men. The toughest cried, and her grief began to heal.
3.98
3k+
🏠 Homelessness🚐 Street Outreach🧸 Dignity Restoration
A Gift of Hope Summary
A Gift of Hope 90%
She gave teddy bears to homeless men. The toughest cried, and her grief began to heal.
by Danielle Steel 2012
3.98
3k+ ratings
🏠 Homelessness🚐 Street Outreach🧸 Dignity Restoration
I'll Never Write My Memoirs
by Grace Jones • 2015
How a girl from a repressive Jamaican church became the mirror-faced androgynous icon of disco.
3.76
2k+
🎤 Music Memoirs👗 Fashion And Style🦋 Self Invention
I'll Never Write My Memoirs Summary
I'll Never Write My Memoirs 90%
How a girl from a repressive Jamaican church became the mirror-faced androgynous icon of disco.
by Grace Jones 2015
3.76
2k+ ratings
🎤 Music Memoirs👗 Fashion And Style🦋 Self Invention
The Road Beneath My Feet
by Frank Turner • 2015
Band broke up. He went acoustic, slept on floors, and one tiny show at a time, headlined Wembley.
4.21
2k+
🎸 Music Memoir🚐 Diy Touring🎤 Touring Life
The Road Beneath My Feet Summary
The Road Beneath My Feet 89%
Band broke up. He went acoustic, slept on floors, and one tiny show at a time, headlined Wembley.
by Frank Turner 2015
4.21
2k+ ratings
🎸 Music Memoir🚐 Diy Touring🎤 Touring Life
All Souls
by Michael Patrick MacDonald • 1999
His mother buried four sons. Southie's code demanded no one ask why.
4.09
14k+
🏙️ Urban Poverty🏛️ Boston History🍀 Irish American
All Souls Summary
All Souls 89%
His mother buried four sons. Southie's code demanded no one ask why.
by Michael Patrick MacDonald 1999
4.09
14k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Poverty🏛️ Boston History🍀 Irish American
Unruly
by Ja Rule • 2014
Millions of records sold. A prison sentence. And one phone call to the father who left him.
3.51
164
🎤 Hip Hop Memoirs🎵 Music Industry✊ Black Masculinity
Unruly Summary
Unruly 89%
Millions of records sold. A prison sentence. And one phone call to the father who left him.
by Ja Rule 2014
3.51
164 ratings
🎤 Hip Hop Memoirs🎵 Music Industry✊ Black Masculinity
Ice
by Ice-T • 2011
Orphaned at twelve, he became a South Central hustler. Then hip-hop made him a TV cop.
3.88
2k+
🎤 Gangsta Rap Origins🎬 Rapper To Actor🏙️ Street To Stage
Ice Summary
Ice 89%
Orphaned at twelve, he became a South Central hustler. Then hip-hop made him a TV cop.
by Ice-T 2011
3.88
2k+ ratings
🎤 Gangsta Rap Origins🎬 Rapper To Actor🏙️ Street To Stage
Bad Boy
by Walter Dean Myers • 2001
He missed his own high school graduation. No arrest, no dropout. He simply stopped showing up.
3.73
3k+
🧠 Intellectual Coming Of Age✊🏾 Racial Identity🏙️ Harlem Life
Bad Boy Summary
Bad Boy 89%
He missed his own high school graduation. No arrest, no dropout. He simply stopped showing up.
by Walter Dean Myers 2001
3.73
3k+ ratings
🧠 Intellectual Coming Of Age✊🏾 Racial Identity🏙️ Harlem Life
My Broken Language
by Quiara Alegría Hudes • 2021
A professor said her Spanish was broken. Write it that way. A playwright found her voice.
4.18
4k+
🧒 Coming Of Age Memoir🌍 Multicultural Memoir🔀 Code Switching
My Broken Language Summary
My Broken Language 89%
A professor said her Spanish was broken. Write it that way. A playwright found her voice.
by Quiara Alegría Hudes 2021
4.18
4k+ ratings
🧒 Coming Of Age Memoir🌍 Multicultural Memoir🔀 Code Switching
A Piece of Cake
by Cupcake Brown • 2006
Orphaned, prostituted, addicted to crack, and living behind a dumpster. She became a lawyer.
4.26
39k+
🩹 Addiction Recovery💔 Childhood Trauma🏠 Foster Care
A Piece of Cake Summary
A Piece of Cake 89%
Orphaned, prostituted, addicted to crack, and living behind a dumpster. She became a lawyer.
by Cupcake Brown 2006
4.26
39k+ ratings
🩹 Addiction Recovery💔 Childhood Trauma🏠 Foster Care
From the Ashes
by Jesse Thistle • 2019
Addiction took his home and nearly his leg. His lost Métis identity showed him another way.
4.49
35k+
🪶 Indigenous Memoir💊 Addiction Recovery🧬 Intergenerational Trauma
From the Ashes Summary
From the Ashes 89%
Addiction took his home and nearly his leg. His lost Métis identity showed him another way.
by Jesse Thistle 2019
4.49
35k+ ratings
🪶 Indigenous Memoir💊 Addiction Recovery🧬 Intergenerational Trauma
The Sunset Route
by Carrot Quinn • 2021
A young woman rides freight trains west to escape a broken past, searching for a new kind of family.
4.16
2k+
🚂 Freight Train Culture🏡 Off-Grid Living🎒 Nomadic Lifestyles
The Sunset Route Summary
The Sunset Route 89%
A young woman rides freight trains west to escape a broken past, searching for a new kind of family.
by Carrot Quinn 2021
4.16
2k+ ratings
🚂 Freight Train Culture🏡 Off-Grid Living🎒 Nomadic Lifestyles
Low Road
by Eddie B. Allen Jr. • 2004
Two guns, no prints, two children locked in the basement. He had written this scene before.
3.85
134
🖋️ Literary Biography💉 Heroin Addiction🔒 Prison Writing
Low Road Summary
Low Road 89%
Two guns, no prints, two children locked in the basement. He had written this scene before.
by Eddie B. Allen Jr. 2004
3.85
134 ratings
🖋️ Literary Biography💉 Heroin Addiction🔒 Prison Writing
See A Little Light
by Bob Mould • 2011
Father's fury. The Ramones' first record. Then amphetamines and a closet that almost won.
3.80
2k+
🔥 Hardcore Punk🌈 Closeted Identity🤝 Creative Partnerships
See A Little Light Summary
See A Little Light 89%
Father's fury. The Ramones' first record. Then amphetamines and a closet that almost won.
by Bob Mould 2011
3.80
2k+ ratings
🔥 Hardcore Punk🌈 Closeted Identity🤝 Creative Partnerships
Class
by Stephanie Land • 2023
To afford college, she scrubbed toilets. The welfare office told her to drop out instead.
3.61
15k+
👩‍👧 Single Motherhood💔 Domestic Abuse Survival👩‍🎓 Poverty And Education
Class Summary
Class 89%
To afford college, she scrubbed toilets. The welfare office told her to drop out instead.
by Stephanie Land 2023
3.61
15k+ ratings
👩‍👧 Single Motherhood💔 Domestic Abuse Survival👩‍🎓 Poverty And Education
Now I Am Known
by Peter Mutabazi • 2022
A stranger asked a street kid his name. He grew up to become a foster father.
4.75
1k+
🏠 Foster Care💔 Childhood Trauma🕊️ Forgiveness
Now I Am Known Summary
Now I Am Known 89%
A stranger asked a street kid his name. He grew up to become a foster father.
by Peter Mutabazi 2022
4.75
1k+ ratings
🏠 Foster Care💔 Childhood Trauma🕊️ Forgiveness
Gather Together in My Name
by Maya Angelou • 1974
A teenage mother alone in San Francisco, Maya Angelou chases dignity on her own stubborn terms.
4.32
19k+
🖋️ Literary Memoir🖤 Black Womanhood🎭 Self Invention
Gather Together in My Name Summary
Gather Together in My Name 89%
A teenage mother alone in San Francisco, Maya Angelou chases dignity on her own stubborn terms.
by Maya Angelou 1974
4.32
19k+ ratings
🖋️ Literary Memoir🖤 Black Womanhood🎭 Self Invention
Pour Me, A Life
by A.A. Gill • 2014
Drunk, dyslexic, and directionless, he walked into a newspaper and found the one language that fit.
4.08
3k+
🍷 Addiction Recovery🍽️ Restaurant Criticism📰 New Journalism
Pour Me, A Life Summary
Pour Me, A Life 89%
Drunk, dyslexic, and directionless, he walked into a newspaper and found the one language that fit.
by A.A. Gill 2014
4.08
3k+ ratings
🍷 Addiction Recovery🍽️ Restaurant Criticism📰 New Journalism
I Forgot to Die
by Khalil Rafati • 2015
How a homeless heroin addict became the interventionist families call when hope runs out.
4.34
3k+
💉 Addiction Memoirs🪜 Twelve Step Recovery🧸 Childhood Trauma
I Forgot to Die Summary
I Forgot to Die 89%
How a homeless heroin addict became the interventionist families call when hope runs out.
by Khalil Rafati 2015
4.34
3k+ ratings
💉 Addiction Memoirs🪜 Twelve Step Recovery🧸 Childhood Trauma
Tattoos on the Heart
by Gregory Boyle • 2009
Gang programs fail because they're conditional. One LA priest bet on love that refuses to quit.
4.49
31k+
🕊️ Restorative Justice⛪ Urban Ministry🔄 Gang Rehabilitation
Tattoos on the Heart Summary
Tattoos on the Heart 89%
Gang programs fail because they're conditional. One LA priest bet on love that refuses to quit.
by Gregory Boyle 2009
4.49
31k+ ratings
🕊️ Restorative Justice⛪ Urban Ministry🔄 Gang Rehabilitation
Short Stories
by Columbus Short • 2020
A pint of whiskey daily to become Little Walter, and the habit that outlasted the role.
3.94
293
🎬 Hollywood Memoirs🖤 Black Hollywood💊 Substance Abuse Recovery
Short Stories Summary
Short Stories 89%
A pint of whiskey daily to become Little Walter, and the habit that outlasted the role.
by Columbus Short 2020
3.94
293 ratings
🎬 Hollywood Memoirs🖤 Black Hollywood💊 Substance Abuse Recovery
Health and Safety
by Emily Witt • 2024
She found transcendence in raves and drugs, then captivity in her partner's mental collapse.
3.49
2k+
🧪 Drug Experimentation🎶 Rave Culture🏙️ Urban Gentrification
Health and Safety Summary
Health and Safety 89%
She found transcendence in raves and drugs, then captivity in her partner's mental collapse.
by Emily Witt 2024
3.49
2k+ ratings
🧪 Drug Experimentation🎶 Rave Culture🏙️ Urban Gentrification
Sidewalk
by Mitchell Duneier • 1999
Some of the most disorderly figures on the sidewalk are also the ones preventing real crime.
4.15
2k+
🛝 Urban Ethnography💰 Informal Economies🚨 Broken Windows Debate
Sidewalk Summary
Sidewalk 89%
Some of the most disorderly figures on the sidewalk are also the ones preventing real crime.
by Mitchell Duneier 1999
4.15
2k+ ratings
🛝 Urban Ethnography💰 Informal Economies🚨 Broken Windows Debate
Nowhere Girl
by Cheryl Diamond • 2021
Forging documents before cursive. At sixteen, she walked a runway while hiding a fugitive past.
4.04
9k+
🏚️ Dysfunctional Families🕵️ Criminal Families💔 Childhood Trauma
Nowhere Girl Summary
Nowhere Girl 89%
Forging documents before cursive. At sixteen, she walked a runway while hiding a fugitive past.
by Cheryl Diamond 2021
4.04
9k+ ratings
🏚️ Dysfunctional Families🕵️ Criminal Families💔 Childhood Trauma
Porcelain
by Moby • 2016
A sober Christian in 1990s rave culture: the paradox, the crash, and the hospice room.
3.98
4k+
🎧 Electronic Music🪩 Rave Culture🎤 Music Memoirs
Porcelain Summary
Porcelain 89%
A sober Christian in 1990s rave culture: the paradox, the crash, and the hospice room.
by Moby 2016
3.98
4k+ ratings
🎧 Electronic Music🪩 Rave Culture🎤 Music Memoirs
F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow
by Action Bronson • 2021
His chef career shattered with his leg. Rap stardom and hard-won confidence rose from the wreckage.
3.73
2k+
🎤 Hip Hop Memoirs🍳 Chef Memoirs💪 Body Acceptance
F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow Summary
F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow 89%
His chef career shattered with his leg. Rap stardom and hard-won confidence rose from the wreckage.
by Action Bronson 2021
3.73
2k+ ratings
🎤 Hip Hop Memoirs🍳 Chef Memoirs💪 Body Acceptance
Writing My Wrongs
by Shaka Senghor • 2013
He shot a man and went to prison. In solitary, he found a pen, and everything changed.
4.25
5k+
🏛️ Mass Incarceration🔗 Prison Memoir🕊️ Redemption Narratives
Writing My Wrongs Summary
Writing My Wrongs 89%
He shot a man and went to prison. In solitary, he found a pen, and everything changed.
by Shaka Senghor 2013
4.25
5k+ ratings
🏛️ Mass Incarceration🔗 Prison Memoir🕊️ Redemption Narratives
Hillbilly Elegy
by J.D. Vance • 2016
Poverty teaches a lesson that keeps you poor: your effort doesn't matter.
3.83
508k+
⛰️ Appalachian Memoir🏭 White Working Class🧸 Childhood Adversity
Hillbilly Elegy Summary
Hillbilly Elegy 89%
Poverty teaches a lesson that keeps you poor: your effort doesn't matter.
by J.D. Vance 2016
3.83
508k+ ratings
⛰️ Appalachian Memoir🏭 White Working Class🧸 Childhood Adversity
A Childhood
by Harry Crews • 1978
By age six he had lived a lifetime. The writing was just aftermath.
4.34
3k+
🏚️ Rural Poverty🌾 Southern Memoir🩸 Childhood Trauma
A Childhood Summary
A Childhood 89%
By age six he had lived a lifetime. The writing was just aftermath.
by Harry Crews 1978
4.34
3k+ ratings
🏚️ Rural Poverty🌾 Southern Memoir🩸 Childhood Trauma
Catching the Wolf of Wall Street
by Jordan Belfort • 2009
The FBI closes in. The marriage collapses. The only path out runs through a federal prison cell.
3.90
5k+
🏢 Wall Street Culture📉 Securities Fraud💼 White Collar Crime
Catching the Wolf of Wall Street Summary
Catching the Wolf of Wall Street 89%
The FBI closes in. The marriage collapses. The only path out runs through a federal prison cell.
by Jordan Belfort 2009
3.90
5k+ ratings
🏢 Wall Street Culture📉 Securities Fraud💼 White Collar Crime
This Is Not a T-Shirt
by Bobby Hundreds • 2019
How a blog became a streetwear empire and why community, not scarcity, kept it alive.
4.21
1k+
🧥 Streetwear Culture🧵 Fashion Entrepreneurship🏗️ Brand Building
This Is Not a T-Shirt Summary
This Is Not a T-Shirt 89%
How a blog became a streetwear empire and why community, not scarcity, kept it alive.
by Bobby Hundreds 2019
4.21
1k+ ratings
🧥 Streetwear Culture🧵 Fashion Entrepreneurship🏗️ Brand Building
My Losing Season
by Pat Conroy • 2002
Revisiting his worst college basketball season, a novelist finds the writer forged in every loss.
3.91
11k+
⛹️ Sports Memoirs✍️ Literary Memoirs🏀 Basketball Writing
My Losing Season Summary
My Losing Season 89%
Revisiting his worst college basketball season, a novelist finds the writer forged in every loss.
by Pat Conroy 2002
3.91
11k+ ratings
⛹️ Sports Memoirs✍️ Literary Memoirs🏀 Basketball Writing
The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing
by Matt Taibbi • 2018
A drug dealer's business playbook: lessons in risk, financial discipline, and knowing when to quit.
3.95
337
🏴 Criminal Enterprise📊 Street Economics⚠️ Risk Management
The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing Summary
The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing 89%
A drug dealer's business playbook: lessons in risk, financial discipline, and knowing when to quit.
by Matt Taibbi 2018
3.95
337 ratings
🏴 Criminal Enterprise📊 Street Economics⚠️ Risk Management
Bruce Lee
by Bruce Lee • 2001
A basement jersey gave a boy superpowers. His mission: vaporize every adult who ruined the fun.
4.21
1k+
🏙️ Midcentury America🧒 American Childhood📷 Nostalgia Memoir
Bruce Lee Summary
Bruce Lee 89%
A basement jersey gave a boy superpowers. His mission: vaporize every adult who ruined the fun.
by Bruce Lee 2001
4.21
1k+ ratings
🏙️ Midcentury America🧒 American Childhood📷 Nostalgia Memoir
The Cross and the Switchblade
by David Wilkerson • 1963
A Life photo pulls a rural pastor into Brooklyn's gangs, armed with prayer and an impossible love.
4.27
60k+
🏙️ Urban Ministry🤝 Gang Intervention✝️ Faith-Based Recovery
The Cross and the Switchblade Summary
The Cross and the Switchblade 89%
A Life photo pulls a rural pastor into Brooklyn's gangs, armed with prayer and an impossible love.
by David Wilkerson 1963
4.27
60k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Ministry🤝 Gang Intervention✝️ Faith-Based Recovery
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