Summary: Detroit is a city of stories. In this, we are rich. We begin with abundance. But while much is written about our city these hard days, it is typically meant to explain Detroit to those who live elsewhere. Much of this writing is brilliant, but our anthology, this anthology, is different: it is a collection of Detroit stories for Detroiters. Through essays, photographs, poetry, and art, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rust Belt Chic Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 DETWinston, 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 WINEstleman, 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 ESTCintrón, 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 CINTaylor, 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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Place a hold to request this item.Patterson, 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 PATHardwick, 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 HARFournier, Gregory A.
Summary: "Zug Island: A Detroit Riot Novel tells a Huck Finn-meets-heavy-industry tale about a suburban white kid who gets a crash course in race relations. Set in 1967 against a backdrop of industrial blight and urban decay, the book follows Jake Malone and Theo Semple as they stumble in and out of rhythm on Detroit's mean streets to discover that the face of racism comes in every shade of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheatmark 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOUZoboi, 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 ZOBZadoorian, Michael
Summary: "Danny Yzemski is a husky, pop radio-loving loner balancing a dysfunctional homelife with the sudden harsh realities of freshman year at a high school marked by racial turbulence."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZADCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Zadoorian 2018Arnow, 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: Private detective Amos Walker investigation into Donald Gates' death is complicated by a reward being offered by an anonymous donor from the dead man's church and a Ukranian mobster in the Witness Protection Program.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Estleman 2014Estleman, Loren D.
Summary: Detroit private eye Amos Walker is hired by the young widow of an industrialist to find her late husband's illegitamate child. What Walker finds is an abused wife on the run with her young son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ESTSukenic, Lisa
Summary: "Twelve-year-old Georgia Johnson is sure she can win the 'Spirit of Detroit Poetry Contest,' judged by her idol, Gwendolyn Brooks. After moving from her beloved Detroit neighborhood to an unfamiliar suburb on the outskirts of the city, Georgia lies to prevent becoming disqualified from the contest (which is for Detroit residents only) by using her aunt Birdie's address. With her older brother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Sukenic 2021Brown, Adrienne M.
Summary: "Dune's mother is patient zero of a mysterious illness that stops people in their tracks -- in mid-sentence, mid-action, mid-life -- casting them into a nonresponsive state from which no one recovers. Dune must navigate poverty and the loss of her mother as Detroit's hospitals, morgues, and graveyards begin to overflow. As the quarantined city slowly empties of life, she investigates what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AK Press 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF BROEstleman, 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 ESTEstleman, Loren D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1995
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ESTLeonard, Elmore
Summary: When party games involving a beautiful escort, her model roommate, lawyer Tony Paradiso, and his aide Montez Taylor go murderously wrong, Detroit detective Frank Delsa finds himself with a double homicide on his hands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Vande Zande, Jeff.
Summary: Detroit Muscle is a fearless examination of family and of loss, a picaresque novel about putting these shattered pieces of our lives together again - to examine them, to understand them, and to see how, if at all possible, we can move past them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Whistling shade Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANEstleman, Loren D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ibooks 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTEstleman, 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 ESTEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: A dying architect, his ex-wives wrangling over his fortune, learns the woman he loved did not cheat, the picture of her in another's arms was faked by a rival. PI Amos Walker of Detroit is hired to find her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTHarrison, 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