Uptown Dreams

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Writer and welfare mother Brenda Carver, aspiring actress Rosa Rivera, and political activist Sharif Goldsby support and protect one another in their Harlem Ida Barrett Wells Tower home while pursuing independent goals and sharing life lessons. By the author of Using What You Got. Originally published as Ida B. Reprint.

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  Uptown Dreams: A Novel

  • 2005-06-28
  • 240 pages
  • Paperback
  • Simon and Schuster
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  Uptown Dreams

  • 2011-05-26
  • 288 pages
  • Ebook
  • Kensington Publishing Corp.

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