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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMIShabazz, Ilyasah
Summary: Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SHAZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: "A National Book Award Finalist with five starred reviews! A New York Times Notable Book * Publishers Weekly Flying Start * Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * ALA Booklist Editors' Choice of 2017 (Top of the List winner) * School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Best Book of the Year * BookPage Best YA Book of the Year American Street is an evocative and powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZOBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ZOBRandall, Alice
Summary: In the black-owned-and-operated Kirkwood Hospital, Joseph "Ziggy" Johnson reflects on his life. From the Great Depression through the post-World War II years, Ziggy had been the pulse of Detroit's famous Black Bottom. A celebrated gossip columnist for the city's African-American newspaper, the Michigan Chronicle, he was also the emcee of one of the hottest night clubs, where he rubbed elbows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RANSummary: Whatever became of the "American Dream"? Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto star in the powerful, critically acclaimed drama Blue Collar. Three auto assembly line workers, fed up with union brass and tired of scraping by, hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters. Disappointed with their measly bounty, they realize they've made off with something much more valuable than cash....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLUHarrison, Kim
Summary: "Detroit 2030. Double-crossed by the person she loved and betrayed by the covert government organization that trained her to use her body as a weapon, Peri Reed becomes a fugitive and joins forces with a mysterious rogue soldier in a deadly race to piece together the truth about her fateful final task"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAREstleman, Loren D.
Summary: She is book editor, Louise Starr, a beautiful and scheming ghost from Amos Walker's past-- and she wants the Detroit private eye to find Eugene Booth, a missing paperback writer from the 1950's and ask him why he turned down his first book contract in 40 years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTSummary: Having left the hollers of Kentucky 15 years ago, Raylan Givens now lives in Miami, a walking anachronism balancing his life as a U.S. Marshal and part-time father of a 15-year-old girl. His hair is grayer, his hat is dirtier, and the road in front of him is suddenly a lot shorter than the road behind. A chance encounter on a desolate Florida highway sends him to Detroit. There he crosses paths...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV JUSArnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson
Summary: Strong-willed, self-reliant Gertie Nevel's peaceful life in the Kentucky hills was devastated by the brutal winds of change. Uprooted form their backwoods home, she and her family were thrust into the confusion and chaos of wartime Detroit. And in a pitiless world of unendurable poverty, Gertie would battle fiercely and relentlessly to protect those things she held most precious--her children,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARNEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: Reluctantly agreeing to return the ashes of a successful madam to her long-absent son, Detroit detective Amos Walker completes the task only to learn that the son has been murdered and that he, Walker, has been named a prime suspect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: At the beginning of the twentieth century, two things were invented that would spawn the two biggest industries in history. One was the automobile. The other was organized crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: Amos Walker investigates the death of Deirdre Fuller, daughter of a former Detroit Tiger pitcher, Darius Fuller, while eluding crooked cops and organized crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ESTSummary: Based on the moving true story of a blue-collar father and his teenage son, Rick Wershe, who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s, before he was arrested for drug trafficking, abandoned by his handlers, and sentenced to life in prison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHIAhmed, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boom! Studios, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AHMWinston, Sherri
Summary: Brianna Justice is the president of her Detroit middle school's sixth grade, but she is finding the position a real headache--beside the normal troubles of being in a new school, and the sudden coldness of her old friends, there is a class trip to Washington, D.C. coming up and she needs to figure out how to raise the rest of the money so that the class can go.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WINBartels, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BARSummary: A Korean War vet stops a young Hmong teen from stealing his prized car, and reluctantly proceeds to reform the boy, learning about himself along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRA RATED RCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Grand 2010Estleman, Loren D.
Summary: Amos Walker is hired by Francis X. Lawes, a private-sector mover and shaker in Detroit politics, to prove that his wife, Paula, who disappeared under sinister circumstances more than six years ago, is dead. Francis wants to remarry without having to wait for the seven-year declaration-of-death rule to kick in. Walker's investigation is complicated by two facts: the police still consider Lawes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ESTHardwick, Gary.
Summary: In Detroit, a white avenger goes to war against black gangs peddling dope. The unknown individual, dubbed the Handyman, cuts off the hands of his victims. Tony Hill, a black detective with a grudge against whites is assigned to catch him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARPatterson, James
Summary: On his first night with Detroit PD, Officer Walter O'Brien is called to a murder scene. A terrified twenty-year-old has bludgeoned her kidnapper with skill that shocks even O'Brien's veteran partner. The young woman is also a brilliant escape artist. Her bold flight from police custody makes the case impossible to solve, and, for Walter, even more impossible to forget. By the time Walter's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATCintrón, Esperanza Malavé
Summary: "Esperanza Cintrón's Shades: Detroit Love Stories is a short story collection that is distinctly Detroit. By touching on a number of romantic and sexual encounters that span the historical and temporal spaces of the city, each of these interconnected stories examines the obstacles an individual faces and the choices he or she makes in order to cope and, hopefully, survive in the changing urban...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CINElster, Jean Alicia
Summary: In The Colored Car, Jean Alicia Elster, author of the award-winning Who's Jim Hines?, follows another member of the Ford family coming of age in Depression-era Detroit. In the hot summer of 1937, twelve-year-old Patsy takes care of her three younger sisters and helps her mother put up fresh fruits and vegetables in the family's summer kitchen, adjacent to the wood yard that her father, Douglas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELSTaylor, Lori (Lori E.)
Summary: Tween explorer Holly Wild discovers that the family pet and Hayfield's school mascot and good luck charm Marilla the three-legged hen has gone missing, and just before their big homecoming game. Along the way she learns that rural development is a far greater threat to her missing hen than coyotes, hawks, and cats as she turns to the urban wild of Detroit for clues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bear Track Press 2018
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Series TaylorSummary: Based on the true story of Robert Kearns. The Kearns' were a typical 1960s Detroit family. Bob is a college professor and part-time inventor. When Bob invents a device that would eventually be used by every car in the world, the Kearns' think they have struck gold. But their aspirations are dashed after the auto giants, who originally embraced Bob's creation, unceremoniously shuns him. Ignored,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009