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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 SMIBartels, 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 BARAustin, 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 AUSBoyd, 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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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 SHAMiles, Tiya
Summary: Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and territories provided stops on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. In this paradigm-shifting book, celebrated historian Tiya Miles reveals that slavery was at the heart of the Midwest's iconic city: Detroit. In this richly researched and eye-opening book, Miles has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 MILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 MILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI South MilesDunnigan, Brian Leigh.
Summary: "Detroit's origins as a French outpost make it older than many other cities of eastern North America, despite its inland location. A vivid iconographic record survives for early Detroit, created by those who studied the city for military or commercial purposes. These pictures and maps are tantalizing windows into the past of this colonial metropolis of the Great Lakes during its French,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.434 DUNIsgro, Bailey Sisoy
Summary: Rosie, a Detroit Herstory is a story for young readers about women workers during World War II. Across America, women produced everything from ships and tanks, to ammunition and uniforms, in spectacular quantities. Their skill, bravery, tenacity, and spirit became a rallying point of American patriotism and aided in defining Detroit as the Arsenal of Democracy. Even though women workers were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 ISGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 ISGMaraniss, David
Summary: "It's 1963 and Detroit is on top of the world. The city's leaders are among the most visionary in America: Grandson of the first Ford; Henry Ford II; influential labor leader Walter Reuther; Motown's founder Berry Gordy; the Reverend C.L. Franklin and his daughter, the amazing Aretha; Governor George Romney, Mormon and Civil Rights advocate; super car salesman Lee Iacocca; Mayor Jerome...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 977.434 MARSummary: Fifty years after anger and frustration over police-community relations boiled over into a rebellion in Detroit, there are lots of people asking what we’ve learned, how we’ve changed. ...There are so many ways that the factors that led to the uprising are still with us. There are so many reminders, both physical and metaphorical. If there is good news, 50 years after the 1967 uprising, it is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 INTChardavoyne, David G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.66 CHABurton, Clarence Monroe
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Publisher / Publication Date: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1930
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.433 HISParkins, A. E. (Almon Ernest)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan Historical Commission 1918
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 977.434 PARBurton, Clarence Monroe
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Publisher / Publication Date: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1930
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.433 HISBeasley, Norman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1957
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 BEACall number: MI 977.434 BEA
Stark, George W. (George Washington)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arnold-Powers 1939
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 977.434 STAMartelle, Scott
Summary: "Detroit: A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities, and one of the nation's greatest urban failures. It tells how the city grew to become the heart of American industry and how its utter collapse--from 1.8 million residents in 1950 to 714,000 only six decades later--resulted from a confluence of public policies, private industry decisions, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2011
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI South MartelleFranck, Michael (Michael S.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 FRAGenat, Robert
Contents: The fine art of street racing Woodward style -- Cruising Woodward's drive-ins -- Muscle cars on Woodward -- Woodward's car dealers and Detroit's speed shops -- Fast cars and rock & roll, Woodward's soundtrack -- Woodward dream cruise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CarTech 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 977.4 GENSummary: Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip Hop and Beyond is the first of its kind to capture the full spectrum of Detroit popular music from the early 1900s to the twenty-first century. Readers will find in this unique and stimulating anthology new essays, and a few classics, by widely known and respected music writers, critics, and recording artists who weigh in on their careers and experiences in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 HEAMason, Philip P. (Philip Parker)
Summary: History of life in Michigan during prohibition when seventy-five percent of the illegal liquor smuggled into the United States came across the Detroit River from Canada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MIO 364.133 MASFarmer, Silas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gale Research Co. 1969