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Detroit, 1941. With the nation on the brink of war, four people unite against the treachery that threaten's America's "arsenal of democracy."Eva Szabó, a young immigrant, goes undercover at the Ford Rouge Assembly plant to expose the company's campaign of anti-union violence. Her boss, private investigator Elizabeth Waters, probes Detroit's pro-Nazi, Christian nationalist fifth column groups. Police detective Clarence Brown, part of a segregat...

The new collection of poetry from award-winning author Donald Levin "offers a deeply satisfying self-portrait in poetry that maps the terrain of his past against the social and political dimensions of our time" (Terry Bonhorst Blackhawk, author of One Less River). Bridging the worlds of mythology, music, war, photography, art, and literature, Levin's "passionate and well-crafted poems . . . [strive] to grasp meaning in our disillusionment, yea...

Detroit. 1932. The fates of four people converge during a violent week of labor unrest in the bleakest year of the Great Depression. Detective Clarence Brown is one of a handful of Black officers in the Detroit Police Department, navigating a thicket of lies and racism to find the killer of a young Black man. Ben Rubin wants to move from petty crime into the ranks of Detroit's notorious Purple Gang. Elizabeth Waters is a fiercely independent...

When PI Martin Preuss investigates the gruesome murder of a history professor, the twisting trail leads him across the metropolitan Detroit region, from a Buddhist temple to the gathering storm of white supremacist terrorism. Will all his wits and skills be enough to navigate through the hate to find the killer? In the House of Night is a timely, gripping novel of guilt and redemption. "Levin is a pro at crafting intriguing plots, memorable ch...

In the bleakest of post-apocalyptic futures, Mae belongs to an aging tribe of women who eke out their desperate survival in an abandoned underground mine. When she protests against a plot to usurp the leadership of the tribe from her lifelong companion, Mae finds herself in a nightmarish situation: she is banished to the Upground without food, water, or protection. There she is prey to all the dangers of her world. Cascading climate disasters ...

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The third entry in the Martin Preuss Mystery series finds Preuss called to search for a van that has disappeared along with the woman who was driving and her passenger, a young handicapped man. Working through layer upon layer of secrets, Preuss exposes a multitude of contemporary crimes with roots in the twentieth century's darkest period. Complex, chilling, and compulsively readable, GUILT IN HIDING finds Preuss investigating the most distur...

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The application of new molecular technology has greatly increased our understanding of the role of chromosomal change in plant evolution. There is now a broad database on genome size variation within and among species and a wide array of nuclear and cytoplasmic genetic markers. There is a variety of literatures addressing this subject but much of it is scattered. This book created a contemporary synthesis or work in this area and addresses iss...

Schon bald nachdem die ehemalige Fernseh-Produzentin Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman) gemeinsam mit ihrem Ehemann (Matthew Broderick) und den Kindern in die auf Hochglanz polierte Gemeinde Stepford in Conneticut gezogen ist, wird ihr klar, dass die malerische Kleinstadtidylle ein bisschen zu perfekt ist ... Was ist das Geheimnis der Bewohner von Stepford? Warum sind die Frauen so unglaublich perfekt und die Männer so unglaublich glücklich? ...

One June evening in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale, a minibus belonging to a group home for handicapped adults disappears. Acting Chief of Detectives Martin Preuss organizes the search for the van along with the woman who was driving and her passenger, a handicapped young man. Preuss's investigation ranges across the entire metropolitan Detroit region into the lives of a homeless woman who is a Marine Corps veteran, an 83-year-old private inve...