detroit (mich.)

All sixteen-year-old Xavier Hunter ever wanted was to stay out of trouble and get out of the 'hood for good, until he meets Samantha Fox. Now, he will do anything to prove he is the man for her, even things he doesn't want to, and shouldn't, do. Samantha can see that Xavier is different from other guys, but the stronger their feelings for each other grow, the faster they are headed toward trouble.

Kelly, a lingerie model, is faced with a choice between life and love when she falls for the detective who is investigating the murder of Kelly's roommate Chloe, a high-end call girl who was shot along with her steady client Tony Paradiso, an eighty-four-year-old retired lawyer known as Mr. Paradise.

A woman and her family struggle to keep their dignity as they move from the hills of Kentucky to the chilling indifference of a big midwestern city.

In 1937, twelve-year-old Patsy and her family travel from Detroit to Tennessee to visit her grandmother. They leave in a first-class train car and Patsy is shocked to discover that they must change seats and ride in the cramped "colored car" when they get further south. When Patsy returns home she examines her experience in the colored car and the subtle injustices her family faces in Detroit.

Judge Greg Mathis chronicles his rise to success, discussing his life on both sides of the law, his childhood in Detroit, the threat to his mother which caused him to straighten up, his law career, and other related topics.

Mildred Peacock, mother of five, black, and fed up with poverty and the jealous rampages of her husband, kicks him out to raise her kids on her own.

Tells the story of Diego Rivera's controversial Detroit Industry Murals, which he painted in 1932-33, commissioned by Edsel Ford, then president of the Ford Motor Company. Describes the murals' production and their meaning, and presents color reproductions.

The author chronicles his 1999 baseball adventure: attending all eighty-one home games at Tiger Stadium in its last season. In the process, he examines his relationships with his father and his young son.

Photographs and text help trace the history of Detroit's auto industry, and discuss the influence the city had on the development and manufacturing of cars in the United States.

The history of the Detroit Pistons professional basketball team from its start in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1941 to today, spotlighting the franchise's greatest playersand moments.