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  • Your Barber Knows Too Much: Haircuts, Bad Decisions, Awkward Confessions, and Everything Said Under the Cape

    by Augustine Okrokene ...
    Kevin has spent enough years behind the barber chair to know one thing for certain: the cape changes people.Customers come in for fades, lineups, beard trims, and cleanups—but somehow the conversation always becomes much bigger than the haircut. Relationship problems. Bad decisions. Family drama. Impossible reference photos. Late arrivals who are always "five minutes away." Clients who move at ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • COLLECT CALL KIDS

    by Augustine Okrokene ...
    When a parent is incarcerated, the sentence reaches far beyond prison walls. It reaches children waiting by the phone, hiding the truth at school, worrying about the cost of calls, and wondering whether a missed call means they have been forgotten.Told through fifteen connected collect calls, COLLECT CALL KIDS follows Marcus, Aaliyah, Deshawn, Tiana, Jaylen, and Carlos as they grow up while a ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reason for Transfer

    by Augustine Okrokene ...
    Every Friday, a line forms at the money-transfer counter. Workers send money to the people they love, often while hiding how little they have left for themselves.Reason for Transfer tells the stories behind those payments: a nurse paying school fees for cousins, a construction worker missing his daughter's childhood, and a former athlete learning how to help his family without losing everything. ... Read more

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  • Pain Into Punchlines

    by Augustine Okrokene ...
    Behind every punchline is a person with a story.Pain Into Punchlines presents seventeen comedians and explores how difficult experiences, personal setbacks, and life's unexpected turns can become part of a voice that makes people laugh. Augustine Okrokene looks beyond the stage to the lives behind the performances, where hardship meets creativity and humor can help people connect.This book ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Future Was Listening: Tupac Shakur, His Words and the Thirty Years That Followed

    by Augustine Okrokene ...
    Tupac Shakur died at twenty-five, but the conversation around him never stopped.Thirty years later, his music continues to reach new generations, his words are studied in classrooms and museums, his influence can be heard across hip-hop, and the events surrounding his life and death are still being reconsidered through new evidence, technology, and cultural perspective.THE FUTURE WAS LISTENING ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eazy Street: The Life of Eazy-E in Seventeen Places

    by Augustine Okrokene ...
    From the streets of Compton to the boardroom, courtroom and hospital room, Eric Wright's story unfolded across places that shaped—and were shaped by—his choices.Eazy Street follows Eazy-E through seventeen defining locations, tracing his rise from Compton to the creation of Ruthless Records and N.W.A., the conflicts over ownership and control, his encounters with the institutions he challenged, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sent Home to a Stranger

    by Augustine Okrokene ...
    What happens when the country you grew up in sends you somewhere you barely remember—or have never known?Sent Home to a Stranger tells the stories of people brought to the United States as children, long-time residents, military veterans, and internationally adopted children who were later deported. Drawing on public reporting, court records, and published interviews, the book follows their lives ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dog: The Life of DMX in Seventeen Places

    by Augustine Okrokene ...
    Born Earl Simmons, DMX grew up in Yonkers and became one of hip-hop's most unmistakable performers, known for raw music, deep faith, and a life marked by both success and struggle.The Dog traces his story through seventeen places, from childhood and the streets of Yonkers to recording studios, film sets, courtrooms, stages, and the hospital where he died. It explores the experiences that shaped ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 8:40 Booking: A Psychological Thriller

    by Augustine Okrokene ...
    Julian Cross has built his reputation on discretion. As a trusted mobile barber, he enters private homes, luxury residences, and the lives of people who expect their secrets to stay hidden.But one late-night appointment changes everything.At 8:40 p.m., Julian arrives to groom a wealthy businessman for what appears to be an ordinary private booking. Within hours, the man is connected to a murder ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • WE LEFT ANYWAY: One Family, a World of Adventure, and the Decision to Stop Waiting for Someday

    by Augustine Okrokene ...
    What if the life you really wanted began the moment you stopped waiting?We were a normal family with normal routines—until we realized that "someday" had become a dangerous place. Tired of watching our dreams get smaller, we made a different choice. We left the familiar behind, packed our bags, and set out to show our child that there is a bigger, brighter world to explore.From vibrant cities to ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Map of Biggie: The Life of the Notorious B.I.G. in Seventeen Places

    by Augustine Okrokene ...
    The Map of Biggie tells the life of Christopher Wallace — The Notorious B.I.G. — through seventeen places that shaped his extraordinary twenty-four years.From his family roots in Jamaica to the Brooklyn streets where he grew up, from classrooms and early recordings to studios, stages, fame, rivalry, and finally Los Angeles, each chapter follows a location that became part of his story.Rather than ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Everything I Owned Fit in a Trash Bag: Life After Aging Out of Foster Care

    by Augustine Okrokene ...
    What happens when foster care ends but the need for support doesn't?Everything I Owned Fit in a Trash Bag explores life after aging out of foster care: the uncertainty of starting over, the struggle to find stability, and the search for a place to call home. It invites readers to consider the challenges young people can face as they step into adulthood—and the resilience it can take to build a ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus