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Binelli, Mark.

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Summary: "The fall and maybe rise of Detroit, America's most epic urban failure, from local native and Rolling Stone reporter Mark BinelliOnce America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2012

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 307.1 BIN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.1216 BIN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.1216 BIN

Krist, Gary.

Summary: "From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City. Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite 'better half' against its powerful and long-entrenched...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2014

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Ehrenhalt, Alan

Summary: "Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanologists, takes us to cities across the country to reveal how the roles of America's cities and suburbs are changing places--young adults and affluent retirees moving in, while immigrants and the less affluent aremoving out--and the implications for the future of our society. How will our nation be changed by the populations shifting in and out of the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.76 EHR

Summary: "For the first time in print, rich, provocative first-hand stories of life in the Bronx in the twentieth century. In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City borough--before, during, and after the troubled years of arson, crime, abandonment, and flight in the 1970s and 1980s. The voices in this volume are as eclectic as the Bronx...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Texas Tech University Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 BRO

Desmond, Matthew

Summary: "[The author] takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.4 DES

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 339.4 DES

Kaplan, Seth D.

Summary: "The neighborhoods we live in impact our lives in so many ways: they determine who we know, what resources and opportunities we have access to, the quality of schools our kids go to, our sense of security and belonging, and even how long we live. Yet too many of us live in neighborhoods plagued by rising crime, school violence, family disintegration, addiction, alienation, and despair. Even the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.14 KAP

Boyd, Herb

Summary: "Award-winning journalist Herb Boyd chronicles the fascinating history of Detroit through the lens of the African American experience. Offering an expansive discussion of this iconic city, Black Detroit ranges in subject from Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac's initial vision of what would become a thriving metropolis to the city's glory days as the center of American commerce; from the waves of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 BOY

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 BOY

Anderson, Sam

Summary: "Award-winning journalist Sam Anderson's long-awaited debut is a brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City--a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny. Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous "Land Run" in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 AND

Hanna-Attisha, Mona

Summary: "The dramatic story of the signature environmental disaster of our time and an inspiring tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power. Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan--in the name of austerity--shifted the source of its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Soon after, citizens began complaining about the water...

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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018

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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: 615.9 HAN Book Club Kit

Hanna-Attisha, Mona

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Summary: "The dramatic story of the signature environmental disaster of our time and an inspiring tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power. Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan--in the name of austerity--shifted the source of its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Soon after, citizens began complaining about the water...

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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018

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2 available in Adult, Call number: 615.9 HAN

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAN

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environ Hanna-Attisha

Ramsey, Donovan X.

Summary: "The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably the least examined crisis in American history. Beginning with the myths inspired by Reagan's war on drugs, journalist Donovan X. Ramsey's exacting work exposes the undeniable links between the last triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement and the consequences we live with today--a racist criminal justice system, continued mass incarceration...

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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2023

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Stanton, Brandon

Summary: "In the summer of 2010, photographer Brandon Stanton set out on an ambitious project: to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City. Armed with his camera, he began crisscrossing the city, covering thousands of miles on foot, all in his attempt to capture ordinary New Yorkers in the most extraordinary of moments"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 STA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 974.70022 STA

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