Push Comes To Shove [Paperback]

OASIS (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 14, 2008

Tremaine is good for Natalie well at least on paper but Natalie has a secret. She craves women and it s become a feeling she can t resist. Natalie meets Jaharie, a beautiful biracial woman, who wants a relationship with a man or a woman. Love is the only thing that matters to her. Natalie is thoroughly intrigued with Jaharie. She wants her, but being with a woman full-time isn t what Natalie has in her plans and she knows her mother will never approve. She wants a husband, children a normal life and is on track to acquiring this. She plans to keep Jaharie a secret until she meets Tamala, a powerful, successful attorney and very attractive Lesbian who wants to take Natalie away from both Jaharie and Tremaine. Tamala has the savvy and financial power to woo Natalie right into her arms. Their relationship works for a while, until a past lover of Tamala s vows to kill Natalie if she doesn t stop seeing her. Natalie fears Tamala s deranged lover but doesn t leave until she learns a huge secret of hers. Dillema is a fast paced novel that will keep you intrigued and surprised.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Oasis (Duplicity) delivers a cookie-cutter urban drama that, while long on crime, violence, betrayals, and melodrama, is unfortunately short on coherence and logic. Greg "GP" Patterson is a family man and aspiring comic book artist who struggles to get by and isn't opposed to the occasional light crime to help make ends meet, but with his comic book dreams going nowhere and his luck getting harder—including a repo man who repossesses just about everything he owns and a trumped-up assault case that has his family separated—he hooks up with a friend to hustle money quickly to get his family back, only to unwittingly put them further in danger. Genre staples abound, but the characters are far from consistent or believable, while implausibilities (what are the odds of stumbling upon the mayor smoking crack with hookers?) and an unruly structure that ping-pongs between points of view and various overheated plot lines overpower the potentially entertaining cautionary tale at the center. (Mar.)
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About the Author

K. Elliott, aka The Well Fed Black Writer, penned his first novel, Entangled, in 2003. Although he was offered multiple signing deals, Elliott decided to found his own publishing company, Urban Lifestyle Press. Bookstore by bookstore, street vendor by street vendor, Elliott took to the road selling his story. He did not go unnoticed, selling 50,000 units in his first year and earning a spot on the Essence Magazine Bestsellers list. Since Entangled, Elliott has published five titles of his own and two more on behalf of authors signed to Urban Lifestyle Press. For one book, The Ski Mask Way, Elliott was selected to co-author with hip-hop superstar 50 Cent. Along the way, he has continued to look for innovative ways to push his books to his fans while keeping down his overhead. Not wanting to keep such valuable experience to himself, Elliott did two things. First, in 2010 he forged his vision of low-cost publishing by in 21 Black Street, an eBookstore to mirror a traditional African-American themed bookstore - except it could totally cuts out a publisher's printing costs. Second, Elliott created the Well-Fed Black Writer, a blog for authors to find life-hacking tips for more efficient, effective self-publishing. The Well-Fed Black Writer includes podcasts, video and blog posts, all to help aspiring authors turn their manuscripts into publishing success stories. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: Voices Books & Publishing (July 14, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 098005124X
• ISBN-13: 978-0980051247
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,939,641 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!!, September 22, 2008

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Rapid Reader "Mrz Morton" (Memphis TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Push Comes To Shove (Paperback)

Push Comes To Shove has to be one of the best books I've read in a very long time! Its real life issues, believable characters, and its twist and turns, have you laughing, crying, and shaking your head. Oasis is a talented author who is destined for great things in the literary world. This book is going to put him where he needs to be--at the top.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gotta make it do what it do..., March 19, 2009

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This review is from: Push Comes To Shove (Paperback)

Greg "GP" Patterson is a dreamer with a wife, two kids, and a boatload of bills and responsibilities that have been shuffled one too many times. Hard times are breaking down his doors like a drug task force, his wife Kitchie is about fed up, and the kids are rapidly losing confidence in dad and his Street Prophet cartoon character. Jewels is his best friend and life jacket in all situations in betwixt her running credit card scams and the next illegal transaction she can get up in the mix with.

While handling their daily hustle, Kitchie and GP are caught up in an altercation that lands them in jail and their children in a foster home. Not just any foster home, but the foster home that GP grew up and was tortured in with his archenemy presiding there. Frantic with the realization that they are indeed helpless and unable to rescue their children, GP and Kitchie face uncomfortable encounters while incarcerated, as does the children facing bullies young and old. It's the good guys versus the bad guys from beginning to end with a mix of issues for everybody.

Oasis has painted a very realistic, emotionally-charged, and refreshing novel. I found it to be a great read that satisfied my thirst for a sincere and page-turning storyline. The characters are genuine and very enchanting. The overview is altogether addictive as it has you afraid to read the next page, but too scared not to proceed. I could actually visualize the characters and specifically could see Jewels being portrayed by none other than Queen Latifah. I commend the author for a job well done. An endearing storyline that was not saturated with sex, designer labels, profanity, or graphic murders. Push Comes to Shove evolves around disappointments, lost dreams, loyalty, responsibilities, sacrifices, genuine friendship, the evil of the world, and more than anything true love. Magnificente Oasis!!!

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back (token), November 13, 2008

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This review is from: Push Comes To Shove (Paperback)

Push Comes To Shove is a heartwarming story that depicts nomatter how hard you try sometimes you can't get ahead. Greg Patterson is facing some hard times and the odds is stacked against him and his family with no way out. This story shows how a man and his wife is involved with a simple assault, but gets charged w/a robbery case. GP's children gets sent off to the same shelter that he grew up in and abused him as a child. The family is separated and broken financially, physically, and mentally. GP tries to get back everything he once had, but soon as he take one step forward, he's knocked back down 3. Jewels, GP's lesbian best friend, steps in to help save the day. Jewels getting money from a loan shark was the easy part, but getting robbed was hard and now GP is back to square one: GP is still looking at doing time, In debt, Homeless, trying to get children out of group home, and still broke. GP's see's the only way out is to do whatever's necessary and by any means to make everyone in his way pay the cost.

Push Comes To Shove was a heartfelt, and laugh out loud book that had it's tender moments. Oasis gives you the message that hard times will come and life will throw curve balls, but it's how you throw that curve ball back will keep you ahead in the game of life. This was a wonderful page turner and had me shouting, crying, laughing, and at the end saying what a entertaining, powerful, and wonderful read.