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Detroit: An American Autopsy
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Middlesex
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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Updated Edition) (South End Press Classics Series)
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4.25 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
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Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
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3.84 avg rating — 2,077 ratings
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Once In A Great City: A Detroit Story
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3.79 avg rating — 1,867 ratings
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Detroit: A Biography
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3.71 avg rating — 1,107 ratings
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Broken Monsters
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3.59 avg rating — 23,718 ratings
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The Dollmaker
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4.17 avg rating — 3,795 ratings
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The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
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4.05 avg rating — 497 ratings
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Detroit Noir (Akashic Noir)
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3.46 avg rating — 262 ratings
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The Detroit True Crime Chronicles: Tales of Murder and Mayhem in the Motor City
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3.60 avg rating — 149 ratings
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The Ruins Of Detroit
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4.55 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Made in Detroit: A Memoir
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3.22 avg rating — 453 ratings
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Detroit Rock City: The Uncensored History of Rock 'n' Roll in America's Loudest City
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3.69 avg rating — 315 ratings
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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
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3.65 avg rating — 4,057 ratings
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Seven Neighborhoods in Detroit: Recipes from the City
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4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Breaking His Rules
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3.66 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Killed to Death: Detroit, Assembly Lines, Murder
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Devil's Night: And Other True Tales of Detroit
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3.62 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Second Hand
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3.59 avg rating — 695 ratings
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Out of Sight (Jack Foley, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 13,221 ratings
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How To Live In Detroit Without Being A Jackass
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3.93 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Coney Detroit
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4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Slave Across the Street: The True Story of How an American Teen Survived the World of Human Trafficking
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3.81 avg rating — 3,621 ratings
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Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination
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3.75 avg rating — 338 ratings
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Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001 (African American Life
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3.68 avg rating — 34 ratings
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True Crime: Michigan: The State's Most Notorious Criminal Cases
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3.61 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Detroit's Historic Places of Worship
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4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Fins: Harley Earl, the Rise of General Motors, and the Glory Days of Detroit
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4.25 avg rating — 342 ratings
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Inside My Pencil: Teaching Poetry in Detroit Public Schools
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4.40 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Escape from Detroit: The Collapse of America's Black Metropolis
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3.53 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Writing My Wrongs
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4.25 avg rating — 5,080 ratings
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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
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4.08 avg rating — 3,004 ratings
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Beer Money: A Memoir of Privilege and Loss
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3.46 avg rating — 1,379 ratings
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Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR
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4.18 avg rating — 604 ratings
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Detroit Resurrected: To Bankruptcy and Back
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4.04 avg rating — 367 ratings
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A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City
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3.90 avg rating — 1,128 ratings
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The Algiers Motel Incident
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3.88 avg rating — 249 ratings
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Lost Detroit: Stories Behind the Motor City's Majestic Ruins
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4.15 avg rating — 295 ratings
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Grit, Noise, and Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll
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4.05 avg rating — 110 ratings
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When Shadows Turned to Night: The Motor City Thriller Series Finale
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Lost Girl (Hidden, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 1,935 ratings
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Punching Out
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4.22 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Your Life Idyllic
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Grand River and Joy
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The Cheerio Killings (Lupe Garcia #1)
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Elmwood Endures: History of a Detroit Cemetery (Great Lakes Books)
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Scrapper
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3.20 avg rating — 575 ratings
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The Detroit Riot of 1967 (Great Lakes Books)
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3.53 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Bury Me When I'm Dead (Charlie Mack Motown Mystery, #1)
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3.69 avg rating — 453 ratings
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
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4.24 avg rating — 2,205 ratings
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The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America
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3.78 avg rating — 1,808 ratings
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Beautiful Music
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4.02 avg rating — 872 ratings
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Unborn (Unborn, #1)
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3.73 avg rating — 2,022 ratings
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The Life of Charles Stewart Mott: Industrialist, Philanthropist, Mr. Flint
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4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Good Negress
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3.67 avg rating — 438 ratings
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Spitting Image: A Foundling's Memoir of Faith and Gratitude
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4.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Man Candy (After We Fall, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 16,535 ratings
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Punishment (Detective Barnes, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 5,051 ratings
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Detroit Fairy Tales
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4.63 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Motor City at War (Detroit Series Book 1)
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4.52 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Born from Pain
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The Fair Weather Friend
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3.65 avg rating — 130 ratings
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The Bird: The Life and Legacy of Mark Fidrych
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3.97 avg rating — 332 ratings
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The Red Wings
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Broken (Hidden, #2)
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3.99 avg rating — 1,254 ratings
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DETROIT ROCKS! A Pictorial History of Motor City Rock and Roll 1965 to 1975
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Motown Underground (Lupe Garcia #2)
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2.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Off Color: The Violent History of Detroit's Notorious Purple Gang
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3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit
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3.62 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Unseen (Unborn, #2)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,261 ratings
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City of Champions: A History of Triumph and Defeat in Detroit
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3.77 avg rating — 84 ratings
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This Far By Faith
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4.20 avg rating — 60 ratings
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The Final Season: Fathers, Sons, and One Last Season in a Classic American Ballpark (Honoring a Detroit Legend)
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4.22 avg rating — 343 ratings
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The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit (Made in Michigan Writer Series)
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3.78 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Yzerman: The Making of a Champion
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3.66 avg rating — 119 ratings
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The Detroiters
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King of the Corner (Detroit, #3)
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3.92 avg rating — 111 ratings
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THE VIOLENT YEARS: Prohibition and the Detroit Mobs
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3.54 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Turner House
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3.63 avg rating — 17,894 ratings
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Where Did Our Love Go? the Rise and Fall of The Motown Sound
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3.93 avg rating — 238 ratings
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Heart Soul Detroit: Conversations on the Motor City
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4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed
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3.87 avg rating — 1,961 ratings
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Last Year's Jesus: A Novella and Nine Stories
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3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Places/Everyone
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4.25 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Jitterbug (Detroit, #6)
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3.61 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Calling Out Around the World: A Motown Reader
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford
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4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Detroitland: A Collection of Movers, Shakers, Lost Souls, and History Makers from Detroit's Past
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When It's All Relative (Brett Higgins Motor City Thrillers, #8)
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4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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M-80 (Pitt Poetry Series)
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4.36 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Edsel (Detroit, #4)
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3.59 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Motown: The Sound Of Young America
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4.32 avg rating — 74 ratings
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CREEM: America's Only Rock 'N' Roll Magazine
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4.01 avg rating — 122 ratings
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When First We Practice (Brett Higgins Motor City Thrillers, #7)
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4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Blue Jesus
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3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Standing In The Shadows Of Motown: The Life And Music Of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson
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4.53 avg rating — 304 ratings
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Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul
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4.14 avg rating — 634 ratings
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Black Bottom Saints
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3.94 avg rating — 1,153 ratings
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Strawberry: How an exotic dancer toppled Detroit's hip-hop mayor
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