Whoreson Jones is the son of a beautiful black prostitute and an unknown white john. At age twelve, his street education begins as he learns trickology. By sixteen, his childhood abruptly ends, and he is a full-fledged pimp, cold-...
Detroit
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Auteur:Morris, BillSommaire:Willie Bledsoe is driving some smuggled guns to the Motor City with the hopes of jump-starting his dream of writing a memoir. But there at Tiger Stadium on opening day of the 1968 baseball season, Willie learns he is the prime suspect...
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Auteur:Shapiro, J. H.Sommaire:A picture book biography of urban environmental artist Tyree Guyton, discussing his childhood in 1950s Detroit and the way he used art to transform his decaying, crime-ridden neighborhood into an internationally-recognized exhibit.
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Auteur:Patterson, James, Barker, J. D.Sommaire:His first night with Detroit PD, officer Walter O'Brien is called to an indelible murder scene. A woman who bludgeoned her kidnapper eludes all capture, even from the police. Now a detective, he searches for her.
- Auteur:Randall, AliceSommaire:
From the Great Depression through the post-World War II years, Joseph "Ziggy" Johnson, has been the pulse of Detroit's famous Black Bottom. As he lays dying in the black-owned-and-operated Kirkwood Hospital, Ziggy...
