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The cofounder of the Asian American Writers' Workshop tells his story of growing up as a gay Chinese kid in 1980s Detroit and how he found refuge in a welcoming Chinese restaurant.

As a freshman at one of the best private high schools in Detroit, Isaiah has earned a spot on the varsity basketball team. But at home his family is falling apart, and he struggles with the feeling that he's lost his street-cred by moving to the suburbs.

"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.

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.

"An energetic picture book celebrating the musical genres and rhythms of industry that fueled Detroit in the Motown era"--From the publisher's web site.

It's 1986 and twenty-one-year-old Angie continues to mourn the death of her brilliant and radical sister Ella. On impulse, she travels from Detroit to the place where Ella tragically died four years before???Nigeria. She retraces her sister's steps, all the while navigating the chaotic landscape of a major African country on the brink of democracy careening toward a coup d'??tat. At the center of this quest is a love affair that upends everything Angie thought she knew about herself. Against a backdrop of Nigeria's infamous go-slow???traffic as wild and surprising as a Fela lyric???Angie begins to unravel the mysteries of the past, and opens herself up to love and life after Ella.

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.

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.