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Summary: Even though his mother feels baseball ruined her marriage to his father, she allows fourteen-year-old Brian to become a bat boy for the Detroit Tigers, who have just drafted his favorite player back onto the team.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LUPBartels, 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: 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 WINZoboi, 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 ZOBMarsh, Carole.
Summary: "Put on your dancing shoes as Christina, Grant, Mimi, and Papa mosey into Motown, where they find themselves in a musical mystery complete with classic cars, missing melodies, puzzling clues, and lots of jiggling, wiggling, toe-tapping tunes!" -- Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MARLaDelle, Ebony
Summary: Prince Jones, a self-professed teen love doctor known for his radio segment on the local hip-hop station, believes he can get the bookish, anti-romance Dani Ford to fall in love with him in three dates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction LaDelleFournier, 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 FOUKienzle, William X.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews and McMeel 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIELeonard, Elmore
Summary: In World War II-era Detroit, meatcutter Walter Schoen bears an uncanny resemblance to Nazi Heinrich Himmler--and the resemblance is more than skin deep, as Walter's been supplying the enemy with vital war production data. Lucky for the good guys, special agent Carl Webster is already in bed with Walter's wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEOKienzle, William X.
Summary: "In this new entry, we revisit Koesler's adolescent and teen years, to a time when young Catholic men and women were encouraged, even expected, to become priests and nuns, whether or not their vocation was real. We meet a group of six young aspiring religious (four men and two women) who underwent the rigors of the seminary and the convent together. We learn of their individual struggles with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIELeonard, Elmore
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M LEOTaylor, 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 TaylorPatterson, 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: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: "Amos Walker doesn't mean to walk into trouble. But sometimes it finds him, regardless. The missing woman has left a handwritten note that said, "Don't look for me." Any P.I. would take that as a challenge, especially when he found out that she'd left the same message once before, when having an illicit affair. But this time it's different. The trail leads Walker to an herbal remedies store,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Estleman 2014Estleman, Loren D.
Summary: Barry Stackpole, Amos Walker's old friend, has vanished. Finding him is the job Walker's been hired for, not once, but twice - by Stackpole's newspaper, and by an attractive literary editor. But the trail becomes littered with an assortment of dead bodies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTJackson, Jon A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Foul Play Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: "In the waning days of the 1970s, the lives of several residents of Detroit and its affluent white suburbs are drawn together following the disappearance of yet another child. Hannah, a wife and mother, begins an affair with a darkly charismatic stranger; Mikey, a young street hustler, finds himself on an unexpected mission to rectify injustice; and then there's the child serial killer known as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OATLeonard, Elmore
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLarge Print 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M LEOLeonard, Elmore
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEOEstleman, 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 ESTJackson, Jon A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACEstleman, 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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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