Author : La Vonne Faith Pope
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 2022-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1669846393
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Author : Jazz Jordan
Publisher : Platinum Life Publishing
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 150105905X
When Kai takes a trip to Costa Rica with Santiago to attend his sister’s wedding, she can’t help but fantasize about her own happily-ever-after, but her excursion in paradise is interrupted by someone from Santiago’s past, someone who makes Kai question the man she longs to open her heart to. Is Santiago worthy of her love, or is he harboring a destructive secret? Back in Detroit, at the Channel 5 news desk, Kai is excited to hold the coveted spot as lead anchor. The fact that she is filling in for her trifling ex, Frank, definitely doesn’t diminish her resolve to advance her career. Unfortunately, someone at the TV station has a sinister plan. For Kai Lewis, danger is never too far away. Meanwhile, Kai is invited to interview for the job of a lifetime. As badly as she wants to seize the opportunity, she is reluctant to leave her family and the love of her life behind to move across the country. While she struggles with the difficult decision, a trial gets underway to decide the fate of her nemesis, Tisha. Despite Tisha’s laundry list of dirty deeds, her clever defense attorney has concocted a brilliant strategy, and Kai is concerned that the jury will acquit her instead of throwing her salty behind under the jail where she belongs. After the unnerving and shocking display of that lawyer’s slick courtroom antics, Kai finds herself confronted by her second nemesis, Madison, in the most disrespectful way. Kai’s life as a single mother and her work schedule allow her limited free time to spend with her man, but she tries her best to make every minute count, and her fantasies of a brighter future bring a smile to her face. With the love and support of her family, Kai feels nothing can stop her. But just as she’s on the verge of realizing a dream-come-true, she makes a devastating mistake that could cost her everything. Can Kai and her sister, LaNaya, undo the damage before it’s too late? Kai has already endured years of unspeakable drama from outsiders, but this time, she is responsible for a situation that could be the cause of her own downfall. In this final installment of The Motor City Drama Series, sex, witness testimony, and videotape distort reality.
Author : Loren D. Estleman
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 12,26 MB
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1453220488
The first book in the long-running Amos Walker Mysteries introduces the hard-boiled Detroit detective as he searches for an aging mobster’s missing adopted daughter Private eye Amos Walker is a Vietnam veteran who was thrown out of the Police Academy for punching a fellow cadet. He’s a hard man in a ruined city, scratching out a living looking for lost things. Walker’s latest case comes by way of ex-mobster Ben Morningstar, who’s been living out his retirement in Phoenix while raising Maria, the daughter of a long-ago murdered friend. Only now, Maria is missing and the gangster needs Walker’s help. But the trail has gone cold—the only clue is a faded pornographic snapshot. Never one to give up, Walker witnesses the kidnapping of a former Vietnam friend and solves the murder of a young black labor leader while slugging his way to a solution. Fans of Raymond Chandler and Elmore Leonard’s crime fiction will find Estleman’s lean prose, retro style, and tough-guy hero irresistible. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Loren D. Estleman including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
Author : Bob Harris
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738552361
Detroit is famous for its cars and its music. From the 1950s through the 1970s, Motor City fans experienced a golden age of rock and roll. Rock was the defiant voice of the boomer generation. The 1960s and the 1970s were turbulent decades. Blacks and women asserted themselves, breaking down the establishment. Rock music, and the spirit and events that defined it, advanced these interests. The war in Vietnam brought tension and national conflict. Drugs and a sexual revolution, made possible by the introduction of the birth control pill, added to the volatile mix. Woodstock, May Day protests, and the resignation of Pres. Richard Nixon were just a few of the upheavals that made these decades two of the most important in the nation's history. Motor City Rock and Roll: The 1960s and 1970s features 200 images, capturing local musicians who started in Detroit and then traveled the world, as well as world-famous acts who came to the city to perform. Intimate stories of musicians, bands, and other members of the rock community make this history a must for dedicated fans.
Author : Richard Abel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 34,89 MB
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253046483
Motor City Movie Culture, 1916–1925 is a broad textured look at Hollywood coming of age in a city with a burgeoning population and complex demographics. Richard Abel investigates the role of local Detroit organizations in producing, distributing, exhibiting, and publicizing films in an effort to make moviegoing part of everyday life. Tapping a wealth of primary source material—from newspapers, spatiotemporal maps, and city directories to rare trade journals, theater programs, and local newsreels—Abel shows how entrepreneurs worked to lure moviegoers from Detroit's diverse ethnic neighborhoods into the theaters. Covering topics such as distribution, programming practices, nonfiction film, and movie coverage in local newspapers, with entr'actes that dive deeper into the roles of key individuals and organizations, this book examines how efforts in regional metropolitan cities like Detroit worked alongside California studios and New York head offices to bolster a mass culture of moviegoing in the United States.
Author : Jazz Jordan
Publisher : Platinum Life Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 12,62 MB
Release : 2014-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1496022343
Kai Lewis is a TV reporter with the inside scoop on Detroit's juiciest corruption scandals. Years ago, her affair with Frank Anderson, the very handsome but very married lead news anchor, had taken her body, soul, and career to new heights. But Kai's thrill ride with Frank ended in an unspeakable tragedy. Now, she avoids his advances, despite the deep feelings for him that still undeniably linger within her. Anxious to move on, Kai initiates a summer fling with Deandre Grant, a sexy NBA player with mind-blowing bedroom skills. Soon, Kai finds herself hungering for more than a casual relationship, and she's overjoyed when Deandre confesses that he feels the same way. Unfortunately, their beautiful beginning is tainted when their relationship hits two major roadblocks: Kai's sister, LaNaya, a video vixen and exotic dancer, who gets caught up in a sexy webcam operation with dangerous consequences just as Kai is trying to sort out her own love life; and Janice, Deandre's deranged baby-mama. On a business trip to Atlanta, Kai discovers something about Frank, her former flame, that changes her perspective on the past. Will this new information open the door for reconciliation with him, or will she go all the way with Deandre? Kai reports the news every day, but there is much more drama off the air, when it comes to her own life. This novel is a tale of fate, desire and the unexpected.
Author : Jazz Jordan
Publisher : Platinum Life Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1500399604
Kai’s perfect family life is destroyed by Frank’s nasty secret. His eye-popping video places her right back in the crosshairs of his ex-wife, Tisha, a vindictive schemer who literally gets off on seeing Kai suffer. Through the years, the women have battled for Frank’s affection, and it looks like Tisha has won this time. But looks can be deceiving, especially when Kai discovers a missing piece to the puzzle. When her maternity leave ends, Kai reports to back to work at Channel 5, ready to tackle her unexpected promotion. As she adjusts to her new position, she is also forced to face the man who wanted her dead. During CyberKing’s trial, surprising new evidence is revealed, but the truth leads Kai down a more frightening path than she ever imagined. Life as a single mother proves to be anything but boring as Frank tries to work his way back into the mix, under the guise of being a devoted father to their daughter. He also tries to work his way back between her sheets, declaring that he is a changed man. Meanwhile, Kai’s ex-boyfriend, Deandre, makes his own shocking return. Even though their relationship ended horribly, he begins singing a new tune, and he hopes Kai will make some music with him. As Kai tries to juggle all of the new changes in her job and with her precarious relationships, her daughter is put in danger. She’s convinced that CyberKing will stop at nothing to harm her family. In desperation, Kai turns to a familiar face, someone from her past. Santiago, the handsome Costa Rican bodyguard, has changed professions, and he is willing to do anything to help Kai and her daughter, even if it means breaking the law. Can Kai and her sister, LaNaya, solve the mystery of what really happened and why, before it’s too late? Kai is an investigative reporter, but for the first time in her life, she’s at a loss for words, confused by a web of deceit and missing facts. In this third installment of the "Motor City Drama Series," lust and lies intertwine for an explosive result.
Author : Jazz Jordan
Publisher : Platinum Life Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,86 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1499331916
Kai is overjoyed about her pregnancy and her romantic new beginning with Frank, a man who satisfies her heart as much as her extraordinary libido. In spite of the outrageous antics of his salty ex-wife, the two enjoy a passion-filled relationship. The baby Kai is carrying is a miracle all its own, after she received a grim diagnosis that she would never be able to conceive. But what Frank doesn’t know could hurt him because he has no clue that the bun in Kai’s oven may belong to another man. For Kai, it means she will have to get more than her hands dirty to discreetly solve her baby-daddy dilemma. Meanwhile, Kai uses her skills as an investigative TV reporter to uncover the truth about her sister, LaNaya, now a suspected murderer. The evidence draws Kai into a world of swinger parties, online prostitution, and something far more sinister. As she gets closer to solving the crime, she finds danger right on her own doorstep. In addition to Kai’s off-air drama, her ex-boyfriend crosses a line that can’t be uncrossed when he does the unspeakable. Playing the role of Kai’s protector, Frank hires a bodyguard to keep her safe, but someone at the security agency causes Kai to look at her relationship from a new perspective. Can Kai’s love for Frank withstand the chaos of the ultimate test? Who really fathered her child? Will Kai catch the real killer and clear her sister’s name before it’s too late? Kai usually reports on the leading news story, but she suddenly finds herself right in the middle of it. In this second installment of the “Motor City Drama Series,” sex, secrets, and murder make for primetime drama.
Author : Mark Slobin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190882107
This is the first-ever historical study across all musical genres in any American metropolis. Detroit in the 1940s-60s was not just "the capital of the twentieth century" for industry and the war effort, but also for the quantity and extremely high quality of its musicians, from jazz to classical to ethnic. The author, a Detroiter from 1943, begins with a reflection of his early life with his family and others, then weaves through the music traffic of all the sectors of a dynamic and volatile city. Looking first at the crucial role of the public schools in fostering talent, Motor City Music surveys the neighborhoods of older European immigrants and of the later huge waves of black and white southerners who migrated to Detroit to serve the auto and defense industries. Jazz stars, polka band leaders, Jewish violinists, and figures like Lily Tomlin emerge in the spotlight. Shaping institutions, from the Ford Motor Company and the United Auto Workers through radio stations and Motown, all deployed music to bring together a city rent by relentless segregation, policing, and spasms of violence. The voices of Detroit's poets, writers, and artists round out the chorus.
Author : Mike Mueller
Publisher : MotorBooks International
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0760339449
Muscle cars all but disappeared by 1974, but by the 1990s, thanks to improved engine technology, they were back with a vengeance. This book traces the full history right up to today's new Mustang, Camaro, and Challenger.
