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Summary: During World War II, while most of the Detroit police department is fighting overseas, the "Four Horsemen" -- Lieutenant Max Zagreb, Sergeant Starvo Canal, and Detectives McReary and Burke -- struggle to keep the city safe from draft-dodging troublemakers, gangsters, racial tension and enemy saboteurs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyrus Books, an imprint of F+W Media, Inc., [2015]. 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Estleman 2015Shabazz, 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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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 SMIEstleman, 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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Summary: After some innocent black men are shot by a white policeman, the Detroit police appoint Officer Charlie Battle, a black policeman, to carry out an investigation, then put every possible obstacle in his way. But were the blacks really innocent? Battle's probe is complicated by the arrival of the FBI, the case involving Black Panthers. The story is set in the early 1970s. By the author of Edsel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTEstleman, Loren D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1995
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Summary: The building of the Edsel by the Ford Motor Company in Detroit in the 1950s is the setting of this novel. Its protagonist is Connie Minor, a down-and-out journalist who is hired to promote everyman's dream car. He gets mixed up in union troubles, has a romance with a Ford secretary and, as a former crime reporter, probes the leak of design secrets. By the author of Whiskey River.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1995
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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
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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