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Summary: In the spring of 2017 David DiChiera's nearly fifty-five year tenure as the guiding spirit of opera in southeast Michigan came to an end with his retirement from Michigan Opera Theatre. The Impresario and civic leader extraordinaire was stepping aside, and the company he founded was in excellent shape with a bright and sustainable future and a beautiful world-class home in the Detroit Opera...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Wayne State University Press] 2017
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 782.1 LENPhilp, 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 PHIShine, 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 SHIBoyd, 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: "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 HenningMoore, Anne Elizabeth
Summary: "Taking on the thorny ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black city and a majority Bangladeshi neighborhood with both intelligence and humor, this memoir brings a new perspective to a Detroit that finds itself perpetuallyon the brink of revitalization"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOOMcDonald, Greg
Summary: "A fresh biography of legendary entertainment manager Colonel Tom Parker, with a contrarian and corrective point of view"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 977.434 MOOParkins, 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 PARSmith, Colby Cedar
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 SMIDavis, Bridgett M
Summary: An homage to the author's mother relates how she cleverly played Detroit's illegal lottery in the 1970s to support the family while creating a loving, joyful home and mothering her children to the highest standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVIS, FANNIE DAVAllen, Kevin
Summary: "An oral history of the Detroit Red Wings, one of the most popular franchises in the NHL The most outstanding voices of the Detroit Red Wings hockey tradition come together in this decade-by-decade collection of more than 40 stories. Wings fans will relish the intimate stories told by Steve Yzerman, Niklas Lindstrom, Ted Lindsay, and other figures they have come to cherish. One phrase, one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triumph Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.96 ALLAustin, 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 BAKAnderson, Carlotta R.
Summary: "All-American Anarchist chronicles the life and work of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), Detroit's prominent labor organizer and one of early labor's most influential activists. A dynamic participant in the major social reform movements of the Gilded Age, Labadie was a central figure in the pervasive struggle for a new social order as the American Midwest underwent rapid industrialization at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LABADIE, JO ANDChin, Curtis
Summary: "Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung's Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone--from the city's first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples--could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenerational family,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHIN, CURTIS CHIMarkus, Peter
Summary: For over twenty years, award-winning short story writer and novelist Peter Markus has made his living teaching creative writing in the Detroit Public Schools. As a teaching artist with Detroit's longest enduring literary non-profit — InsideOut Literary Arts Project — Markus has inspired thousands of students to become believers in the power of words, armed with nothing but an ordinary pencil —...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dzanc Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARKUS, PETER MARLeDuff, Charlie.
Summary: An expose of bureaucratic corruption and systemic arson in Detroit traces the author's work with a local fire brigade and his investigations into the daily lives of politicians, police officials, and others who are working to save the troubled city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 LEDCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI South LeDuffSobczak, John.
Summary: Product Description: This title contains photographs of the unique people, places, and events that make up a year in the life of Metropolitan Detroit. In "A Motor City Year", award-winning photographer John Sobczak captures everyday life in Metro Detroit in 365 images. His photographs showcase the familiar-the Thanksgiving Day parade in Detroit, vendors at Eastern Market, the Woodward Dream...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.434 SOBSummary: Quotations and text messages from former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick compiled by Detroit Free Press reporters M.L. Elrick and Jim Schaefer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watchmen Ink LLC 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 ELRRobb, Matthew Z.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lost Prairie Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROBB, DEAN ROBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROBB ROBNowak, Margaret Collingwood
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 331.88 NOWClemens, Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 305.809 CLEArnaud, 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