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1) The batboy
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English
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Even though his mother feels baseball ruined her marriage to his father, she allows fourteen-year-old Brian to become a bat boy for the Detroit Tigers, who have just drafted his favorite player back onto the team.
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Peri Reed chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Detroit 2030. Don't forgive and never forget has always been Peri's creed. But her day job makes it difficult: she is a drafter, possessed of a rare, invaluable skill for altering time, yet destined to forget both the history she changed and the history she rewrote. When Peri discovers her name is on a list of corrupt operatives, she realizes that her own life has been manipulated by the agency. Her memory of the previous three years erased, she joins...
4) Love radio
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English
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At seventeen Prince Jones has his own segment on Detroit's popular hip-hop show, Love Radio, dishing out advice to the brokenhearted. He dreams of becoming a DJ and falling in love, but being the main caretaker for his mother, who has multiple sclerosis, and his little brother means his dreams will stay just that. Dani Ford is focused on her plan: ace senior year, score a scholarship, and move to New York City to become a famous author. Prince is...
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Thirty years ago Julia Gooden's brother Ben was abducted from the room they shared. Try as she might to recall any clue or detail, there is a black hole where Julia's memories of that terrible event should be. Now a crime reporter at a Detroit newspaper Julia tries to give others the closure she's never found, despite her own guilt and grief. Then, on the anniversary of Ben's disappearance, Julia's two-year-old son, Will, is snatched from his bed--...
7) Them
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Series
[Wonderland quartet] volume 3
Publisher
Quality Paperback Book Club
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
A novel about class, race, and the horrific, glassy sparkle of urban life, them chronicles the lives of the Wendalls, a family on the steep edge of poverty in the windy, riotous Detroit slums. Loretta, beautiful and dreamy and full of regret by age sixteen, and her two children, Maureen and Jules, make up Oates' vision of the American fam-ily--broken, marginal, and romantically proud.
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Domestic partners in crime mystery volume 2
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English
Description
Peter's first play is having its world premiere at Pleasant Woods's community theater. His handsome one and only, JP, has the lead. Rehearsals have begun. And New York City's award-winning, hotshot helmer, Xander Sherwood Deva, is directing. Unfortunately the controlling, arrogant, poison-barbed, egomaniacal diva has everyone on edge. No wonder he finally pushes someone over it ... Xander is found strangled to death in the same extra-long, imported...
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Series
Psychic eye mystery volume 2
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Once again, Abby Cooper's abilities are in high demand. But this time she won't just be finding a deadly criminal - she'll be helping one. It's autumn in Detroit, and psychic intuitive Abby Cooper is falling to pieces. She was about to nestle into her cozy, almost-renovated new house - and into the arms of FBI agent Dutch Rivers. Then, faster than you can say trick or treat, her plans fell apart with one phone call... As a favour for a friend, Abby...
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Amos Walker novels volume 23
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English
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"Amos Walker doesn't mean to walk into trouble. But sometimes it finds him, regardless. The missing woman has left a handwritten note that said, "Don't look for me." Any P.I. would take that as a challenge, especially when he found out that she'd left the same message once before, when having an illicit affair. But this time it's different. The trail leads Walker to an herbal remedies store, where the beautiful young clerk knows nothing about the...
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English
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"In the black-owned-and-operated Kirkwood Hospital, Joseph 'Ziggy' Johnson reflects on his life. From the Great Depression through the post-World War II years, Ziggy had been the pulse of Detroit's famous Black Bottom. A celebrated gossip columnist for the city's African-American newspaper, the Michigan Chronicle, he was also the emcee of one of the hottest night clubs, where he rubbed elbows with the legendary black artists of the era. In his hospital...
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Domestic partners in crime mystery volume 1
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English
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Real-life domestic partners and stars and producers of the new hit reality home renovation show Domestic Partners, bestselling mystery author Peter "PJ" Penwell and actor JP Broadway are enjoying work and life in their sleepy Detroit suburb of Pleasant Woods--until a suspicious death makes an unscripted appearance. After a successful first season of Domestic Partners chronicling the renovation of their historic Craftsman Colonial, Peter and JP are...
13) Out of sight
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Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
c1996.
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English
Description
Before there was Raylan, there was Sisco... U.S. Marshal Karen Sisco is on the hunt for world-class gentleman felon Jack Foley in Out of Sight, New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonards sexy thriller that moves from Miami to the Motor City. Based on Miami, Florida's Gold Coast, U.S. Marshal Karen Sisco isnt about to let a expert criminal like Jack Foley successfully bust out of Florida's Glades Prison. But theres a...
14) Pagan babies
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2000.
Language
English
Description
A priest and a stand-up comic recently released from prison for assault raise money for Rwandan orphans...or do they?
15) The witchfinder
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Series
Amos Walker novels volume 13
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English
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"Stuart Lund came in at six-two and three hundred pounds in gray silk tailoring with a large head of wavy yellow hair, blue eyes like wax drippings, and a black chevron-shaped moustache he hadn't bothered to bleach." That description of a lawyer who summons private detective Amos Walker to a secret meeting with Jay Bell Furlong, a world-famous architect who is supposedly dying in Los Angeles, could have come straight from Raymond Chandler. So could...
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Amos Walker novels volume 15
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English
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In Estleman's latest novel, Amos Walker is back on the streets of Detroit as he investigates the mysterious death of an ageing pulp fiction writer.
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English
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Joseph Michael Ballista"Joey Ballistic" to his mob buddiesknows most of the ways to make an illegal buck, or "a lefthanded dollar." Thats why hes in trouble again. But his crafty lawyer, Lucille Lettermore"Lefty Lucy" to just about every prosecutor shes ever humiliated in courtis determined to free him by getting all his previous convictions set aside, beginning with one for attempted murder....
19) Middlesex
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English
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In trying to figure out why Calliope Stephanides is not like other girls, she uncovers a guilty family secret and becomes Cal, a hermaphrodite.
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Amos Walker novels volume 28
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Amos Walker is hired by Francis X. Lawes, a private-sector mover and shaker in Detroit politics, to prove that his wife, Paula, who disappeared under sinister circumstances more than six years ago, is dead. Francis wants to remarry without having to wait for the seven-year declaration-of-death rule to kick in. Walker's investigation is complicated by two facts: the police still consider Lawes the prime suspect, and the first-responding officer in...
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