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LeDuff, Charlie.

Summary: An expose of bureaucratic corruption and systemic arson in Detroit traces the author's work with a local fire brigade and his investigations into the daily lives of politicians, police officials, and others who are working to save the troubled city.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 0000

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 LED

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 LED

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI South LeDuff

Moore, Anne Elizabeth

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "Taking on the thorny ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black city and a majority Bangladeshi neighborhood with both intelligence and humor, this memoir brings a new perspective to a Detroit that finds itself perpetuallyon the brink of revitalization"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOO

Philp, Drew

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: "A young writer's sincere search (with his dog) for an authentic life--buying a ruined house in Detroit for $500, fixing it up nail by nail, and, in the process, participating in the grassroots rebirth of the city itself."--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PHILP, DREW PHI

Bartels, Erin

Summary: James Rich has a strange request for Detroit Free Press reporter Elizabeth Balsam: that she look up a relative she didn't know she had in order to deliver an old camera and a box of photos. Having lost her job after a botched investigation, she has nothing but time. At her great-aunt's 150-year-old farmhouse Elizabeth uncovers a series of mysterious items, locked doors-- and hidden graves. The...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BAR

Shine, Neal.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.34 SHI

Boyd, Herb

Summary: "Award-winning journalist Herb Boyd chronicles the fascinating history of Detroit through the lens of the African American experience. Offering an expansive discussion of this iconic city, Black Detroit ranges in subject from Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac's initial vision of what would become a thriving metropolis to the city's glory days as the center of American commerce; from the waves of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 BOY

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 BOY

Ahmed, Saladin

Summary: "A WAR FOR THE SOUL OF DETROIT. Elena Abbott is one of Detroit's toughest reporters--and after defeating the dark forces that murdered her husband, she's focused on the most important election in the city's history. But when someone uses dark magic to sabotage the campaign of the prospective first Black mayor of Detroit, it becomes clear to Abbott that the supernatural conspiracy in her city is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Boom! Studios, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc. 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AHM

Henning, Barbara

Summary: "Ferne is a time capsule of mid-century Detroit, a city poised to explode. Its sounds, scents, and sights spill forth, as vividly experienced by a vibrant young woman whose life would end too soon. Ferne joyously curates her own life; that's the heart of this book. But we also encounter her through the fervent eyes of her daughter, poet and novelist Barbara Henning, who lyrically fills in and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spuyten Duyvil 2022

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI South Henning

Lentz, Timothy Paul

Summary: In the spring of 2017 David DiChiera's nearly fifty-five year tenure as the guiding spirit of opera in southeast Michigan came to an end with his retirement from Michigan Opera Theatre. The Impresario and civic leader extraordinaire was stepping aside, and the company he founded was in excellent shape with a bright and sustainable future and a beautiful world-class home in the Detroit Opera...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [Wayne State University Press] 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 782.1 LEN

Moon, Elaine Latzman.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1994

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 977.434 MOO

Parkins, A. E. (Almon Ernest)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan Historical Commission 1918

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 977.434 PAR

Smith, Colby Cedar

Summary: Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit is a beautifully written novel in verse loosely based on author Colby Cedar Smith's maternal grandmother. The story follows Mary as she and her family emigrate from Greece to Detroit in the 1930s, creating a historically accurate portrayal of life as an immigrant during the Great Depression, hunger strikes, and violent riots. Mary lives in a tiny apartment with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMI

Allen, Kevin

Summary: "An oral history of the Detroit Red Wings, one of the most popular franchises in the NHL The most outstanding voices of the Detroit Red Wings hockey tradition come together in this decade-by-decade collection of more than 40 stories. Wings fans will relish the intimate stories told by Steve Yzerman, Niklas Lindstrom, Ted Lindsay, and other figures they have come to cherish. One phrase, one...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Triumph Books 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.96 ALL

Davis, Bridgett M

Summary: An homage to the author's mother relates how she cleverly played Detroit's illegal lottery in the 1970s to support the family while creating a loving, joyful home and mothering her children to the highest standards.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVIS, FANNIE DAV

Austin, Dan.

Summary: From the Publisher: In this important book, Dan Austin and Sean Doerr have restored the real people to many of Detroit's architectural landmarks, and not a moment too soon. These "lost" buildings still stand, or rather totter, in a dilapidated state, their histories fading like the paint on their walls. The buildings might not long survive, but thanks to this book and the efforts of Austin...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: History Press 2010

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 AUS

Bak, Richard

Contents: Eternal thanks -- Here and gone -- Boneyards.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 393.1 BAK

Anderson, Carlotta R.

Summary: "All-American Anarchist chronicles the life and work of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), Detroit's prominent labor organizer and one of early labor's most influential activists. A dynamic participant in the major social reform movements of the Gilded Age, Labadie was a central figure in the pervasive struggle for a new social order as the American Midwest underwent rapid industrialization at the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LABADIE, JO AND

Markus, Peter

Summary: For over twenty years, award-winning short story writer and novelist Peter Markus has made his living teaching creative writing in the Detroit Public Schools. As a teaching artist with Detroit's longest enduring literary non-profit — InsideOut Literary Arts Project — Markus has inspired thousands of students to become believers in the power of words, armed with nothing but an ordinary pencil —...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dzanc Books 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARKUS, PETER MAR

Couric, Katie

Summary: In this memoir, Katie Couric reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life--a story she's never shared, until now.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 COURIC, KATIE COU

Chin, Curtis

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: "Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung's Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone--from the city's first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples--could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenerational family,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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Sobczak, John.

Summary: Product Description: This title contains photographs of the unique people, places, and events that make up a year in the life of Metropolitan Detroit. In "A Motor City Year", award-winning photographer John Sobczak captures everyday life in Metro Detroit in 365 images. His photographs showcase the familiar-the Thanksgiving Day parade in Detroit, vendors at Eastern Market, the Woodward Dream...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.434 SOB

Ahmed, Saladin

Summary: While investigating police brutality and corruption in 1970s Detroit, journalist Elena Abbott uncovers supernatural forces being controlled by a secret society of the city's elite. In the uncertain social and political climate of 1972 Detroit, hard-nosed, chain-smoking tabloid reporter Elena Abbott investigates a series of grisly crimes that the police have ignored. Crimes she knows to be the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Boom! Studios, a division of Boom Entertainment 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AHM

Summary: Quotations and text messages from former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick compiled by Detroit Free Press reporters M.L. Elrick and Jim Schaefer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Watchmen Ink LLC 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 ELR

Clemens, Paul

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2005

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 305.809 CLE

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