detroit (mich.)

A singular memoir highlighting "the outstanding humanity of black America" that tells the story of one unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and the life they lead in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s and 1970s (James McBride) In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee borrowed $100 from her brother to run a Numbers racket out of her tattered apartment on Delaware Street, in one of Detroit's worst sections.

"This enchanting novel in verse captures one woman's struggle for equality, independence, and identity as a Greek immigrant in troubled 1930s America"--Provided by the publisher.

Presents a biography of Rosa Parks based on the thoughts of her family.

"Bankruptcy and the austerity it represents have become a common 'solution' for struggling American cities. What do the spending cuts and limited resources do to the lives of city residents? In Broke, Jodie Adams Kirshner follows seven Detroiters as they navigate life during and after their city's bankruptcy. Reggie loses his savings trying to make a habitable home for his family. Cindy fights drug use, prostitution, and dumping on her block. Lola commutes two hours a day to her suburban job. For them, financial issues are mired within the larger ramifications of poor urban policies, restorative negligence on the state and federal level and--even before the decision to declare Detroit bankrupt in 2013--the root causes of a city's fiscal demise"--Provided by the publisher.

Three generations of a Greek American family find themselves plagued by a mutant gene which causes bizarre side effects in the family's teenage girls.

The Turner house on Yarrow Street in Detroit has stood for fifty years and has seen over a dozen children born and raised, grandchildren visit, the fall of the neighborhood, and the loss of the family patriarch. When the Turner family matriarch falls ill and loses her independence, the adult Turner children return to the house to decide its fate.

Teenager Tara, who has always been shy and jealous of her sister, has to step into the shoes of her twin, Mya, after a tragedy, and learns her sibling's life is not as perfect as she thought it was.

"Chronicles the birth and rise . . . of the American auto industry through the . . . life of Harley Earl, an eccentric six-foot-five, stuttering visionary who dropped out of college and went on to invent the profession of automobile styling"--Amazon.com.

While researching one of Mimi's books in Detroit, Christina, Grant, Mimi, and Papa stumble upon a Motown musical mystery concerning classic cars, missing melodies, puzzling clues and lots of good music.

"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"--Provided by publisher.