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On Alder Avenue in 1958 Detroit, 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 visiting nieces. Life erupts when childlike Elizabeth disappears while in the care of Grace and Julia. All the ladies fear that the recent murder of a black woman in an alley near the factory on Willingham...
2) Mr. Paradise
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"Roommates Kelly and Chloe are enjoying their lives and their downtown Detroit loft just fine. Kelly is a Victoria's Secret catalog model. Chloe is an escort, until she decides to ditch her varied clientele in favor of a steady gig as girlfriend to eighty-four-year-old retired lawyer Tony Paradiso, a.k.a. Mr. Paradise." "Evenings at Mr. Paradise's house, there's always an old Michigan football game on TV. And when Chloe's around, there's a cheerleader,...
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Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one is unique even by Detroit standards: half boy, half deer, somehow fused together. As stranger and even more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the city hold on to a reality that is already tearing at its seams?
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Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
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♭2016.
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English
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When Vonlee "Nicole" Titlow and her aunt, Billie Jean Rogers, came home from a night of gambling in a casino near Detroit, they told police they found Billie's husband unconscious on the floor of the Rogers' mansion. Just another of his alcoholic benders, they assumed. But this time, Donald Rogers didn't wake up. The investigation would reveal the sordid story behind the death of a self-made millionaire--including transgender adventures in Chicago...
6) Alex Cross
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Summit Entertainment
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Young homicide detective/psychologist Alex Cross faces off against a serial killer known as Picasso.
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President series volume 3
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Brianna Justice is the president of her Detroit middle school's sixth grade, but she is finding the position a real headache--beside the normal troubles of being in a new school, and the sudden coldness of her old friends, there is a class trip to Washington, D.C. coming up and she needs to figure out how to raise the rest of the money so that the class can go.
9) August Snow
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August Snow novels volume 1
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Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"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 settlement that left him low on friends. He has just returned...
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Father Koesler mysteries volume 13
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Andrews and McMeel
Pub. Date
c1991
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English
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A prositute dressed as a nun is found murdered outside an old, prestigious church. Her clientele includes some of the city's most powerful figures and Father Koesler is asked to aid in the investigation.
11) White boy rick
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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.
12) Whiskey River
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Detroit series volume 1
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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A novel about Detroit during Prohibition.
13) The batboy
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It is every baseball kid's dream summer job: batboy for your hometown Major League team. Yet for fourteen year-old Brian, the job means more than just the chance to hang around his idols. Baseball was the job his father loved so much, in the end he couldn't leave it. Yet he could leave his family. Now Brian sees the job as the way to win back his father. There is no winning back some people, though. Just ask Hank Bishop?once the most popular player...