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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 TaylorHardwick, 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 HARJones, Stephen Mack
Summary: "Tough, smart, and struggling to stay afloat, August Snow is the embodiment of Detroit. The son of an African American father and a Mexican mother, August grew up in Detroit's Mexicantown and joined the Detroit police only to be drummed out of the force by a conspiracy of corrupt cops and politicians. But August fought back; he took on the city and got himself a $12 million wrongful dismissal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Hernandez, Lolita
Summary: Drawing on memories of growing up in Detroit with Caribbean roots, Hernandez reveals a hidden community that craves sun and saltwater, dances to calypso, and makes callaloo, bakes, buljol, sanchocho, and pelau in their kitchens. Making Callaloo in Detroit explores questions of how we assimilate and retain identity, how families evolve as generations pass, how memory guides the present, and how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEREstleman, Loren D.
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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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SHASmith, 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 SMILeonard, 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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEORoy, Lori.
Summary: "In 1958 Detroit, on Alder Avenue, neighbors struggle to care for neighbors amid a city ripe with conflicts that threaten their peaceful street. Grace, Alder's only expectant mother, eagerly awaits her first born. Best friend Julia prepares to welcome twin nieces. And Malina sets the tone with her stylish dresses, tasteful home, and ironfisted stewardship of St. Alban's bake sale. Life erupts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROYBeyer, Mark
Summary: What would you do if a dying stranger begged you to save his daughter and then paid you seven figures to do it? When suburban dad Terry Holbrook stops to help the quickly dying driver of an icy car wreck on a dark, lonely country road, he can't believe the bloody check thrust into his hands is worth the paper it's printed on. Yet, in no time, Terry and his family are swept into a dangerous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BeyerEstleman, 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 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 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: "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: 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: Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Estleman 2019Estleman, 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 JACEstleman, 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, Call number: FIC ESTCopies Available at Interlochen
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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Place a hold to request this item.Oates, 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
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: When beautiful Constance Thayer is charged with the murder of her husband, an investigation uncovers the largest cache of illegal munitions ever seized from a private citizen. Her lawyer intends to prove that her late husband was a character who would have driven anyone to commit justifiable homicide. Amos Walker's investigation pulls him into the arms dealers' underworld.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1989
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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 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACPatterson, 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 PATFournier, 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