Johnson, Lois
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Publisher / Publication Date: Painted Turtle Book 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59774 JOHHenning, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spuyten Duyvil 2022
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI South HenningGonzález, Echo Elise
Summary: A graphic-style nonfiction adventure into fundamental concepts in computer science. -- adapted from publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 005.74 GONPaley, Dan
Summary: "An informative picture book that takes readers along on a high stakes mission to battle one of the deadliest natural disasters to threaten the nation, while offering a dramatic look into the work of the highly-trained first responders who risk their lives to fight wildfires."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J363.37 PALAustin, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 AUSBak, Richard
Contents: Eternal thanks -- Here and gone -- Boneyards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 393.1 BAKPhilp, Drew
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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PHILP, DREW PHIGoldish, Meish.
Summary: Describes the work that fire fighters do in the city, in the forest, and at sea, and discusses their preparation and training and why people become fire fighters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363 GOLMcCarthy, Meghan
Summary: "A picture book exploration of what it takes to be a firefighter, including training and equipment"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.37 FLYArnaud, Michel
Summary: [This book] is a visual essay on the rebuilding and resurgence of the city of Detroit by photographer Michel Arnaud, co-author of Design Brooklyn. In recent years, much of the focus on Detroit has been on the negative stories and images of shuttered, empty buildings-- the emblems of Detroit's financial and physical decline. In contrast, Arnaud aims his lens at the emergent creative enterprises...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2017
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Summary: "A journalistic account of how Detroit's foodways are playing a key role in the city's revitalization"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 LOOSummary: "The annual Kresge Eminent Artist Award salutes an exceptional artist in the visual, performing or visual arts for lifelong professional achievements and contributions to metropolitan Detroit's cultural community. Olayami Dabls is the 2022 Kresge Eminent Artist. This monograph honors his life and work."--Page [1].
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Kresge Foundation 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DABLS, OLAYAMI CULCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B DABLS CHRMoore, Andrew
Summary: No longer the Motor City of boom-time industry, the city of Detroit has fallen into an incredible state of dilapidation since the decline of the American auto industry after the Second World War. Today, whole sections of the city resemble a war zone, its once-spectacular architectural grandeur reduced to vacant ruins. In Detroit Disassembled, photographer Andrew Moore records a territory in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Damiani Editore 2010
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 770 MOOWilliams, Rachel Marie-Crane
Summary: "In the heat of June in 1943, a wave of destructive and deadly civil unrest took place in the streets of Detroit. The city was under the pressures of both war-time industrial production and the nascent civil rights movement - a powder keg waiting to go off. Thirty-four people were killed, most were Black, and over half were killed by police. Two thousand people were arrested and over 700...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 WILVan Dusen, Gerald C.
Summary: In 1941, a real estate developer in northwest Detroit faced a dilemma. He needed federal financing for white clients purchasing lots in a new subdivision abutting a community of mostly African Americans. When the banks deemed the development too risky because of potential racial tension, the developer proposed a novel solution. He built a six-foot-tall, one-foot-thick concrete barrier extending...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The History Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 VANElliott, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Detroit Society for Genealogical Research 1999
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3 EllioBoyd, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 BOYArlon, Penelope
Summary: "Join the LEGO minifigures on an exciting adventure as firefighters race to the rescue around LEGO City. Learn amazing facts about their rescue vehicles, daily tasks, and heroic rescues. Bursting with stunning photographs, fun facts, mini comics, building ideas, and stickers, Firefighters to the Rescue is the perfect book for any young reader"--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2018
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Summary: While more and more people each day become aware of the dangerous world of human trafficking, many people in the U.S. believe this is something that happens to foreign women men and children not something that happens to their own children and neighbors. They couldn't be more wrong. --publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ampelon Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 FLOShine, Neal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.34 SHICrabtree, Marc.
Summary: Looks at a day in the life of a fire fighter working at her station, where she washes the trucks, hears the alarm, and rushes to the scene in order to put out a fire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363 CRAAmes, Michelle.
Summary: Describes the job duties, equipment, and work environments of firefighters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2010
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Summary: Describes a day in the life of a fire fighter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 1998