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Teri Woods is a native of Philadelphia. She has worked as a legal secretary/paralegal for eight years in a Philadelphia Center City law firm practicing in defense litigation for a national insurance company.

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She began writing True to the Game in 1993. She copyrighted her work in 1994 and began to submit her work to publishers. After being turned down, the book sat dormant in a closet for two years. By 1997, she was determined to do something for herself. In 1998, she began selling hand made books on the street and out the trunk of her car. With the success of the hand made books, she started her own publishing and production company, Meow Meow Productions, and has successfully launched her first novel, True to the Game, making it available for bookstores across the country.

 

 

Alibi II: Nard's Revenge
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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (November 13, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1455572411
ISBN-13: 978-1455572410
Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches

ALIBI II picks up where ALIBI left off. The year is 2006 and Diane Praeliou is happily married and living on a horse ranch in Arizona when she receives a letter that threatens her entire world. Someone knows her true identity.

In 1986, Daisy was given a second chance at life when she received a new identity and a fresh start as a college student in Arizona courtesy of the witness protection program.

Nard wasn't so lucky. He was sentenced to twenty years to life in a western Pennsylvania facility and has endured things that no man should ever have to endure. All Nard can think about is Daisy's testimony and how much he wants revenge.

Diane goes on living life, finding love, and getting married until things slowly begin to spiral out of control. What makes matters worse is now Nard is out on parole and Diane is afraid for herself and her family. Feigning innocence, Diane can only turn to one person for help. But if she doesn't come clean about her past secrets, her entire world can come crashing down and there will be no one to protect her.

 

Dutch III: International Gangster
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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (May 25, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0446551546
ISBN-13: 978-0446551540

It's one month before Dutch's trial for what the media has deemed "the Month of Murder," Roc and Angel are locked up, and Craze is now the commander in charge. After coming into contact with Joseph Odouwo, Kazami's very rich and powerful relative, Craze is immediately on alert. However, Odouwo has other plans that may put all of their lives at risk. Craze can't resist a stake in Odouwo's very successful billion-dollar diamond trade, and reluctantly takes Odouwo up on his offer, hoping that he didn't make a decision he will soon regret.

 

Alibi
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Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (August 11, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0446581690
ISBN-13: 978-0446581691

Two men think they've found the perfect opportunity--a chance to rob the stash house of Simon Shuller, one of Philadelphia's biggest drug lords. But their plans are spoiled when one of Shuller's men catches them as they break into the stash house. Temperatures flare as the men capture Shuller's worker, Poncho, and force him to show them the goods. What they didn't expect was for Poncho's partner to be armed and very dangerous. An altercation breaks out and when the smoke clears, Nard, Poncho's accomplice, is the only one left standing. Thinking quickly, Nard cleans shop and makes his escape, but not before being spotted by a few neighbors. Not wanting to kill anyone else, he makes a mad dash for the streets but wonders if the witnesses will give up his identity. What he needs now is a plausible alibi. If he doesn't come up with one fast, it could mean life in prison, or death on the streets.

 

True to the Game III
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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (July 2, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0446581682

The third and most explosive installment of the groundbreaking True to the Game trilogy will take you on a marathon race through the mean streets of Philly. Starting off where the second installment's dramatic cliffhanger left us, True III will finally reveal Gena's mysterious stalker and savior, as well as introduce a new killer so vicious, so cunning, so ruthless, he'll have you looking over your shoulder with each turn of the page.

The crooked cops are searching for the money, Gena's family members are now the target for Gena who's hiding from everything and everyone, as the race is on for Gena's survival. Will she manage to keep the money, can she get out of town and make a new life for herself, and will her family survive the maniacal killer that is hell bent on tracking her down? Will Gena stay, True to the Game?

 

True to the Game II
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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (November 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0446581666

This is the sequel to Teri's amazing first novel True to the Game. Fans have been awaiting this story for over five years. TRUE TO THE GAME II will pick up where True to the Game left off-- with one difference, Gena is now seeing a new guy named Jay. Little does Gena know that the man she has fallen in love with, so soon after Quadir's death, is his archrival, Jerrell Jackson. Unfortunately, Jerrell is determined to get his revenge against Quadir's crew and he'll start with Gena.

 

Angel
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ISBN: 0977323420
Pub. Date: July 2006
Format: Paperback, 256pp
Publisher: Woods, Teri Publishing, LLC

'With a tormenting secret from her past haunting her every step, the once sweet and innocent Kareemah El-Amin's delicate mind snaps, sending her on a darkened path that will transform her into her deadly alter ego, Angel. With nothing to lose and the world to gain, she embarks on a quest to rule the gritty streets of our nation's capital, by taking over the rough and rugged D.C. drug trade.

Guile, cunning, and ruthlessness are her tools, while death, destruction and deception are her trade. Her quest to conquer the shady underworld is brought to a cataclysmic halt by a horrendous act against the one person who brought her any semblance of sanity, her baby sister.
With revenge on her mind, Angel sets out on a bloodthirsty quest to avenge the one person in life whom she truly loved. The clock is ticking, the police are on her trail, and a shocking betrayal threatens to send her to prison for life. Will Angel avenge her sister's shocking torture and manage to escape the clutches of the determined detective Sean Jones? Will she find out who her betrayers are, before it's too late? Will she get her life together and move on? Or will she suffer the same fate that she has dealt to so many others?

The stakes are high, the players are ruthless, and the result of failure is death.'

 

Deadly Reigns II
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ISBN: 0977323412
Pub. Date: June 2006
Format: Paperback, 298pp
Publisher: Woods, Teri Publishing, LLC

Damian, Dante and Princess Reigns, America's most notoriously violent crime family is back. Except this time, they're not at war with each other. they're at war with an enemy they can't see; an enemy who has more political power than they and is backed by an even more powerful secret entity.

Can they stand united and survive a war waged against them by El Jeffe, the commission, and the FBI? the family's only hope is in the hands of the brother that despised them all, Dajon Reigns. Deeply inexperienced and totally out of his depth, dajon takes on the treacherous waters of the narcotics underworld as well as the high and mighty world of international politics to save his family from complete and total destruction.

The stakes are high as the Reigns Empire is on the verge of collapse and the Reigns family is on the verge of demise. Will the reigns family survive this deadly storm?

 

Deadly Reigns
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ISBN: 0967224977
Pub. Date: June 2005
Format: Paperback, 303pp
Publisher: Woods, Teri Publishing, LLC

Damian Reigns, a Harvard educated business man with GQ looks, runs the Reigns Family Enterprise worth billions of dollars. His brother Dante, a Princeton graduate with a degree in psychology is a lethal weapon and protects the family business at any expense. Their sister Princess is calculating, manipulative and just as deadly as her brothers, but is now among their greatest enemies.

 

True to the Game
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ISBN: 0446581607
Pub. Date: May 2007
Format: Paperback, 302pp
Publisher: Warner Books, Incorporated
Edition Description: Reprint

It's the late 1980s, and Gena, a young girl from the projects, meets Quadir, a millionaire drug dealer, and falls madly in love. Quadir builds a massive empire while fighting his rivals and enemies.

Gena faces the challenges of holding onto her man, her house, her car, and the cash. Both of them find themselves caught up in a vicious yet seductive world, and learn that success in this game is no easy win. Gena and Quadir also learn that once you're in, there's no way out, 'cause everyone stays in forever....True.

 

True to the Game: A Teri Woods Fable
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Paperback: 257 pages
Publisher: Teri Woods Publishing (June 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 096722490X
ISBN-13: 978-0967224909
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches

by Teri Woods

This book represents the drug game during the late 80's from the inner city streets of Philadelphia. The main characters, Gena and Quadir find themselves caught in the vicious, yet seductive world of drugs and money. Quadir a millionaire drug dealer flipping kilo after kilo, builds a massive money empire. He, however, is also faced with the art of extortion brought upon by the notorious junior mafia. She, however, is faced with holding onto her man, her house, her car and the money.

This is our life, these are our streets and this book represents our losses, our gains, our sorrows and joys. With the good, always comes the bad and when you play in this game you have to count the highs and the lows. When you deal with loss after loss, when the people closest to you are gunned down, when the people closest to you are millionaires from hustling in the drug game, when you live this life and have everything money can buy, the price is too often life in return. It's so hard to think about the bad when it's all good. It's so hard to think about the sacrifices that will be made so the next can eat, so the next can come up, so the next can survive to tell about it. We at MMP thank the massive support from the brothers locked up, the massive support from the streets, and if we never make it on a book shelf the hustle was the real. We at MMP promise to never forget you, never forget the hustle and always represent. This one is for the streets.

 

Dutch II: Angel's Revenge
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ISBN: 0967224969
Format: Paperback, 290pp
Pub. Date: March 2005
Publisher: Woods, Teri Publishing, LLC

AALBC.com #10 Best Selling Book Fiction for March/April 2005

Following the overwhelming success of Dutch: The First of a Trilogy Teri Woods Publishing is proud to release Dutch II: Angel's Revenge by Teri Woods. This second installment of the trilogy takes us into the lives of Angel Alverez and One-eyed Roc, two of Dutch's merciless soldiers who have been locked down in federal prison for their roles in the legendary Month of Murder.

 

Dutch
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ISBN: 0967224942
Pub. Date: November 2003
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Woods, Teri Publishing, LLC

SELF-PUBLISHED LITERARY GURU, TERI WOODS TAKES CONTROL OF THE STREETS ONCE AGAIN WITH THE RELEASE OF HER SECOND NOVEL DUTCH: THE FIRST OF A TRILOGY

New York, New York - (November 3, 2003) Teri Woods, author of the best-selling novel True to the Game and publisher of B-More Careful and The Adventures of Ghetto Sam by Kwame Teague, has released her second novel and her fourth Teri Woods Publishing title. DUTCH: The First of a Trilogy is a remarkable story about the life and trial of Bernard James, Jr., Newark's most notorious gangster.

With her second novel, Teri Woods clearly reveals the urban reality of plots masterminded by the books' characters. She compels the reader to experience the true essence of the criminal mind. With the vivid picture Teri Woods has painted, the readers are able to celebrate in the characters' successes and also understand why they are feared. Teri Woods takes the genre of 'street stories' to another dimension with her savvy writing style that continuously draws the readers in and never lets them go.

DUTCH: The First of a Trilogy tells the story of Bernard James a.k.a. Dutch the most dangerous and feared gangster to come up in Jersey in the last thirty years. From his experience and skill as a young car thief, Dutch recognized the opportunity to ruthlessly become the ruler of the streets and grabbed it. After serving 18 months in prison for a botched auto theft, Dutch promised himself, he'd never return to prison. Once out, he never looked back.

Driven by the desire to live the life of his dreams, Dutch and his crew ' Craze, Angel, Qwan, Roc, and Zoom fearlessly locked down the streets of Newark for over 10 years.

Now, Dutch is on trial for allegedly masterminding what the press has called 'THE MONTH OF MURDER', a brutal thirty-day killing spree where no one was spared. With Dutch facing multiple life sentences and a possible death penalty, the streets are in a mixed uproar of celebration and dread. The story depicts the passion of a man who possesses the determination to win 'The War' he fights everyday. Some fight to survive; Dutch fights to win.

 

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Teri Woods is featured in the 2011 documentary film,

Behind Those Books, which is a thought Provoking Documentary Tackling Societal Ills Through Literature

The film was Written & Produced by: Kaven Brown & Edited & Directed by:
Mills Miller

Visit http://aalbc.it/behindthosebooks to learn more

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