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Middlesex
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Jeffrey Eugenides
Spanning eight decades, Eugenides's long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. Eugenides was named one of America's best young novelists by both "Granta" and "The New Yorker."
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Out of Sight
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Elmore Leonard
Despite his silky smoothness, Jack Foley has still managed to land in prison. He soon escapes, but then has the bad luck to run into deputy U.S. marshal Karen Sisco. He stuffs her into the trunk of the getaway car driven by his friend Buddy, but being a gentleman as well as a wanted man, climbs in with her. An odd first date, it works until Sisco ...
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Up in Honey's Room
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Elmore Leonard
German-born Walter Schoen, now living in Detroit, is a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler. Along comes Carl Webster, the hot kid of the Marshal's Service, looking for a German officer who escaped from a POW camp in Oklahoma. All Carl wants is to get his man without getting shot. Now in a tall Premium Edition.
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
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Thomas J Sugrue
Historian Thomas Sugrue weaves together the history of workplaces, unions, civil rights groups, political organizations, and real estate agencies to show that the roots of today's persistent racialized urban poverty lies in a hidden history of racial violence, discrimination, and deindustrialization that reshaped the American urban landscape after ...
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Black Gangster
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Donald Goines
A large part of Goine's 39 years were spent being a pimp, a thief, a bootlegger, an armed robber, and a small time dope dealer. He tells the tale of his street experience here in what many fans consider his best book.
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Mama
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Terry McMillan
An independent-minded African-American woman named Mildred Peacock gets tired of being dominated by the worthless men in her life, including her jealous husband, and raises her five children alone.
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Abby Cooper: Psychic Eye: A Psychic Eye Mystery
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Victoria Laurie
Psychic Abigail Cooper makes her debut in this first title of a new chick lit mystery series. Abby's work as a "psychic intuitive" can be rewarding. But when a client turns up dead, the clues start pointing toward Abby. Turns out she knows too many details about the murder for her own good. Original.
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Unknown Man #89
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Elmore Leonard
Detroit process server and ex-thug Jack Ryan is very good at finding people--especially people who don't want to be found. Now he's being offered large bucks to locate a lost lowlife named Robert Leary, a.k.a Bobby Lear. But this hunt is leading Ryan back into very bad company--and into beds where he doesn't belong.
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Pagan Babies
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Elmore Leonard
In Leonard's 35th novel, Father Terry Dunn, a professional crook turned nominal priest, returns to Detroit after a brief exile in Rwanda and teams up with tough girl Debbie Dewey. Debbie is an ex-con just out of prison for running over her boyfriend with a Ford Escort; she's also a former employee of Terry's lawyer brother, Francis. Together, ...
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The Algiers Motel incident
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John Hersey
Responding to a telephoned report of sniping, the Detroit police invaded the Algiers Motel and interrogated ten black men and two white women. By the time the interrogators left, three men had been shot to death and the others, including the women, beaten. The late Pulitzer Prize winning novelist John Hersey described the event in this book, based ...
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Better Read Than Dead
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Victoria Laurie
Word of Abby Cooper's tarot card-reading talents reach a mob boss who wants her help in some business matters, and he won't take no for an answer. Meanwhile, she's asked by police to shed light on a masked man who is attacking women. Original.
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Witness to the Truth
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Paul Lindsay
Special Agent Mike Devlin--an FBI maverick actually dedicated to cracking crime--has been exiled to the dead end of wiretap duty. It's there that he gets an earful: a traitor in the ranks is planning to sell out the Bureau's file on informants to the mob.
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Death Penalty
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William Jeremiah Coughlin
"Sometimes I like my clients, sometimes I don't."
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Band Fags!
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Frank Anthony Polito
Polito's debut novel is a funny, exhilarating coming-of-age story filled with biting wit and pitch-perfect observations, as two best friends discover they have more in common than being in the band.
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The Final Season: Fathers, Sons, and One Last Season in a Classic American Ballpark
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Tom Stanton
In this sports memoir, a fan celebrates Tiger Stadium by attending every game of its final season. He recalls the good old days and comes to a new awareness of the special place his father holds in his heart and memory.
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In Bed with Her Boss
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Brenda Jackson
This title launches a new series by a "USA Today" bestselling author. Though Dmarcus Armstrong is a demanding, cranky boss, hes the star of Opal Lockharts fantasies. But what chance does a naive secretary have with this self-made millionaire? Opals sisters come to the rescue with a makeover and some attitude adjustment. Original.
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Chameleon
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William X Kienzle
A murdered prostitute is found dressed in a habit at her sister's convent. With no clues and few leads, the case is complicated by the possibility that the killer mistook the victim for her sibling, Sister Joan Donovan. But more bizarre murders follow, and what began with a nun under a gun ends with Father Robert Koesler under a cardinal's cossack.
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City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit
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Elmore Leonard
Seriously crazed killer Clement Mansell, aka the "Oklahoma Wildman, " is back on the Detroit streets--thanks to nifty courtroom moves by his lawyer--and he's feeling invincible enough to execute a crooked Motown judge on a whim. Homicide detective Raymond Cruz is determined to see that the hayseed psycho doesn't slip through a legal loophole the ...
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Sudden Death
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William X. Kienzle
Hard-hitting, hard-running, and, most of all, hard-hearted, Hank "The Hun" Hunsinger, superstar tight end for the Pontiac Cougars, is murdered by ingenious and macabre means in his own shower. There's no shortage of suspects -- from the canny club owner to a miffed mistress to a humble rookie. Himself a religious football fan, Father Koesler is ...
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Whoreson: The Story of a Ghetto Pimp
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Donald Goines
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When Good Girls Go Bad: A Motor City Thriller Featuring Brett Higgins
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Therese Szymanski
Someone is killing exotic dancers in Detroit. When one of Brett Higgins's dancers is found dead behind the Paradise Theatre, Brett takes it personally and sets out to find the killer. Only it turns out to be a serial killer and things go from bad to worse when Detective Randi McMartin starts investigating Brett for the killings. Then, Brett's ...
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Motown
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Loren D. Estleman
Detroit: 1966. Motor City's road machines are hot. Ex-cop Rick Amery goes undercover to put the brakes on consumer advocacy that could legislate the auto industry out of business. Second in a trilogy and sequel to Whiskey River winner of the 1990 American Mystery Award and Edgar nominee.
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Whoreson
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Donald Goines
Whoreson Jones is the son of a beautiful black prostitute and an unknown white john. By the age of sixteen, he is a full-fledged pimp, cold-blooded, ruthless. His story affords a glimpse into the inner city hell.
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Bishop as Pawn
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William X Kienzle
An innocent game of chess turns lethal when unpopular Bishop Ramon Diego is found murdered. Most of the Detroit clergymen agree that the victim abused his power by treating the loyal and devoted as mere pawns. However, Father Koesler faces the real possibility that the murderer is one of his own kind.
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Sinister Heights
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Loren D Estleman
Detroit private investigator Amos Walker agrees to help a wealthy widow distribute financial largesse to her dead husband's mistresses, but soon finds that all the intended recipients are becoming victims of violence. The widow's generosity was as suspect as it seemed, and Amos must figure out what's really going on.
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