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21) Betty before X
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
(David Andrew),Ballpark mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
590L
Physical Desc
103 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Mike and Kate visit Detroit, someone is blackmailing the Tigers' famous slugger, Tony Maloney." --
24) Them
Author
Language
English
Description
A novel that chronicles the lives of Loretta Wendall and her children Maureen and Jules, a family on the edge of poverty living in the Detroit slums of post World War II America.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Loren D. Estleman's most popular characters, PI Amos Walker and hit man Peter Macklin, are together in one story for the first time in Black and White Ball! Detroit hit man Peter Macklin forces private eye Amos Walker to furnish protection for Laurie, Macklin's estranged wife, while Macklin tracks down the party who has threatened to kill her. The man Walker's client suspects cannot be ignored; as his own grown son, Roger Macklin has inherited all...
26) Guardian
Author
Series
Orphan train saga volume 4
Publisher
Dorry Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Taken from his unwed mother immediately after his birth and sent to a New York Children's Asylum, Franky never questioned his life of sterile walls, strict discipline, and emotionally distant caregivers. That is, until being selected to ride the orphan trains, where he quickly discovers there is more to life than living in an institution. Taken in by a well-educated judge who is looking to save a wayward boy, the man soon turns Franky into a voracious...
27) White Boy Rick
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the moving true story of a blue-collar father and his teenage son, Rick Wershe, who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s, before he was arrested for drug trafficking, abandoned by his handlers, and sentenced to life in prison.
28) Love radio
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
At seventeen Prince Jones has his own segment on Detroit's popular hip-hop show, Love Radio, dishing out advice to the brokenhearted. He dreams of becoming a DJ and falling in love, but being the main caretaker for his mother, who has multiple sclerosis,...
29) American Street
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On the corner of American Street and Joy Road, Fabiola Toussaint thought she would finally find une belle vie--a good life. But after they leave Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Fabiola's mother is detained by U.S. immigration, leaving Fabiola to navigate her loud American cousins, Chantal, Donna, and Princess; the grittiness of Detroit's West Side; a new school; and a surprising romance, all on her own. Just as she finds her footing in this strange new world,...
Author
Series
Domestic partners in crime mystery volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Real-life domestic partners and stars and producers of the new hit reality home renovation show Domestic Partners, bestselling mystery author Peter "PJ" Penwell and actor JP Broadway are enjoying work and life in their sleepy Detroit suburb of Pleasant Woods--until a suspicious death makes an unscripted appearance. After a successful first season of Domestic Partners chronicling the renovation of their historic Craftsman Colonial, Peter and JP are...
31) The witchfinder
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A dying architect engages Detroit PI Amos Walker to uncover someone who is spreading lies about him The world is waiting for Jay Bell Furlong to die. The grand old man of American architecture is on deathwatch in a Los Angeles hospital, and it won't be long before his obituary hits the front page. Only Amos Walker knows that the impending death is a bit farther off than that. In fact, Furlong has just become Walker's client. The architect is still...
32) The operator
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
468 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Peri Reed's job eats her mind, but for a special task agent in hiding, forgetting the past can be a blessing. Betrayed by the man she thought she loved and the agency who turned her into the very thing she fought against, Peri abandoned the wealth and privilege of Opti for anonymity riddled with memory gaps and self-doubt. But when a highly addictive drug promises to end her dependency on those who'd use her as a tool for their own success, she must...
33) The good Negress
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Haunting . . . To read The Good Negress is to fall under a spell, to open a window, to fly." -Los Angeles Times Book Review
Twenty years after its initial publication, The Good Negress continues to be an important part of the literary canon, as relevant and necessary as ever. Set in 1960s Detroit, the novel centers around Denise Palms, who leaves her grandmother's home in rural Virginia to reunite with her mother, stepfather, and older brothers....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Detroit PI Amos Walker searches for a priceless medieval illuminated manuscript - and for evidence that can put his former partner's killer behind bars. Hired by a curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts to serve as his bodyguard during a transaction involving a stolen illuminated manuscript, Amos Walker enters a darkened skin-flick theater where the exchange is supposed to take place. When the deal goes south, he's lucky to leave with his life......
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unrated edition ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Detroit detective Marty Kingston [is] the leader of an undercover narcotics team, whose members are being systematically murdered one by one. To solve the brutal killings, Kingston joins forces with a cocky, young homicide detective. But neither of them is prepared for the shocking corruption their investigation will uncover--stunning secrets that will set both men on a violent collision course with betrayal and vengeance"--Container.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A half million dollars in drug proceeds, guarded by three men with automatic weapons. For Wallace Stroby's determined heroine, professional thief Crissa Stone, and her team, stealing it was the easy part. But when the split goes awry in a blaze of gunfire, Crissa finds herself on the run with a duffel bag of stolen cash, bound by a promise to deliver part of the take to the needy family of one of her slain partners. In pursuit are the drug kingpin's...
Author
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
GN 530L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Walter Peck has shipped the Ghostbusters around America to deal with other haunted cities. In this tale, they face the ghost of a Civil War soldier, Major General Anthony Wayne in Detroit, Michigan.
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Khalil Sarda went through a rough patch last year, but now he's nearly back to his old self. All he has to do is keep his 'stuff' in the his past. Real men don't have depression and go to therapy--or, at least they don't admit it. He's ready to focus on his growing barbershops, take care of his beloved Detroit community, get back to being the ladies' man his family and friends tease him about. It'll be easy...until Vanessa throws him completely off...
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In a scheme to reunite with her estranged biological mother, foster kid Jess joins a cosplay team working toward a competition in New York, but along the way she learns the value of the family you choose for yourself.
Bounced between foster homes since the age of seven, Jessica knows better than to set down roots. Most of the kids at her new Michigan high school think shes a witch anyway (because, you know, goth). The only one who gives her the time...
40) Abbott
Author
Publisher
Boom! Studios, a division of Boom Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
While investigating police brutality and corruption in 1970s Detroit, journalist Elena Abbott uncovers supernatural forces being controlled by a secret society of the city's elite. In the uncertain social and political climate of 1972 Detroit, hard-nosed, chain-smoking tabloid reporter Elena Abbott investigates a series of grisly crimes that the police have ignored. Crimes she knows to be the work of dark occult forces. Forces that took her husband...