Detroit (Mich.)
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Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An “extraordinary, unforgettable” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow) memoir of redemption and second chances amidst America’s mass incarceration epidemic, fro… [more below]
- Author: Senghor, Shaka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 31 2017
- ISBN10: 1101907312
- Language: English
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Black Gangster
$15.95 Add to cartRaw and true to the street, no one portrays the underground like the godfather of urban lit, Donald Goines.
Trapped in jail for a petty crime, Prince hatches a scheme from his cell to make it big. O- Author: Goines, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 27, 2020
- ISBN10: 1496733231
- Language: English
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The Nightmare on Trap Street
$8.99 Read moreSometimes death births new life, and that is fact for sisters Rhonnie and Ahli Montgomery. After having to fake their own deaths in order to survive, the young women have taken on the job of security … [more below]
- Author: Phillips, C. N.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1645563634
- Language: English
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Sprawl: Poems
$19.95 Read moreSprawl is a reconstruction of the constantly shifting landscape of metropolitan Detroit, which extends over six counties and is home to over four million people, from the perspective of a single paren… [more below]
- Series: Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
- Author: Collard, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0821425285
- Language: English
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Kenyatta’s Escape
$7.99 Read moreKenyatta had two ambitions: cleaning the ghetto of all drug traffic and gunning down all the racist white cops But a black and white detective team, Benson and Ryan, is on his tail and has discovered… [more below]
- Series: Kenyatta #3
- Author: Goines, Donald
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0870678833
- Language: English
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Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah: Poems
$17.95 Read moreNational Book Award finalist Patricia Smith chronicles the Great Migration through Motown music and Chicago streets.
- Author: Smith, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: March 27, 2012
- ISBN10: 1566892996
- Language: English
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How It Happens
$18.99 Add to cartIntergenerational story of three Black women and their struggle to stake their claim to the American dream.
- Author: Elster, Jean Alicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0814348696
- Language: English
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Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination
$17.99 Read moreNAACP 2017 Image Award Finalist
2018 Michigan Notable Books honoree
The author of Baldwin’s Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit–a blend of memoir, l
- Author: Boyd, Herb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0062346636
- Language: English
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The Real Hoodwives of Detroit
$18.95 Add to cartWelcome to Detroit, Michigan, home of the grittiest, illest, most hardcore, crime-infested, poverty-stricken neighborhoods in the country. It’s sometimes referred to as the Murder Capital because of t… [more below]
- Author: India
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1622861892
- Language: English
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Unknown Man #89
$18.99 Add to cart“No one is Leonard’s equal,” declares the Chicago Tribune–and anyone who might doubt it would only have to read Elmore Leonard’s riveting noir classic, Unknown Man #89, to become a true believer.
The
- Author: Leonard, Elmore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 25 2013
- ISBN10: 006218928X
- Language: English
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Bury Me When I’m Dead
$19.95 Add to cartCharlene “Charlie” Mack is a PI in Detroit. Born and raised in the city that America forgot, Charlie has built a highly respected private investigations firm through hard work, smart choices, and rele
- Series: Charlie Mack Motown Mystery #1
- Author: Head, Cheryl A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 1612940676
- Language: English
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Street Players
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the mind of Donald Goines, one of the most influential, bestselling Black authors to date, comes a edition reissue of his timeless, page-turning, bullet-riddled tale…
The bad news: He was born- Author: Goines, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1496739361
- Language: English
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Freaky Deaky
$18.99 Add to cart“Wonderfully wicked…a nonstop, pedal-to-the-metal romp.”
—Chicago TribuneOver-the-hill former counter-culture SDS revolutionaries decide to turn bomb-making–and detonating–from a political statem
- Author: Leonard, Elmore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0062120352
- Language: English
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Out of Sight
$20.99 Add to cartBefore 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 Leonard’s sexy
- Author: Leonard, Elmore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0062227874
- Language: English
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Doll Maker the
$21.99 Add to cartThe Dollmaker was originally published in 1954 to immediate success and critical acclaim. In unadorned and powerful prose, Harriette Arnow tells the unforgettable and heartbreaking story of the Nevels… [more below]
- Author: Arnow, Harriette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 1439154430
- Language: English
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Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit: Essays
$18.00 Read moreAn electric essay collection about Blackness, art, and dreaming of new possibilities in a time of constriction
This collection of innovative, penetrating, and lively essays features swimming pools and- Author: Sloan, Aisha Sabatini
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1644452715
- Language: English
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Living for Change: An Autobiography
$19.95 Read moreNo one can tell in advance what form a movement will take. Grace Lee Boggs’s fascinating autobiography traces the story of a woman who transcended class and racial boundaries to pursue her passionate
- Series: PostHumanities
- Author: Boggs, Grace Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1517901480
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Hustle
$8.99 Read moreThis pastor’s daughter has some choices to make. Does she return to the flock, or fully enter the world of these kingpins?
Being] ]the] ]daughter] ]of] ]a pastor, ]] ]]Erica] ]Collins] ]never] ]got] ]- Author: Friday, T.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1645564924
- Language: English
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Rehearsed to Death
$16.95 Add to cartHart to Hart via HGTV, this fabulous new quozy (queer cozy) mystery series by award-winning author and playwright Frank Anthony Polito’s features a gay couple who solve crimes while renovating houses … [more below]
- Series: A Domestic Partners in Crime Mystery
- Author: Polito, Frank Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496735609
- Language: English
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The Laws of Loyalty
$16.95 Read moreIntrigued by danger, attracted to the thrill, and feenin’ for life in the fast lane, Morgan gives up everything she’s ever known to go on the ride of her life with Javon. Drugs, love, heartbreak, and … [more below]
- Author: Littles, T. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1645565378
- Language: English
