Chicago (Ill.)
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Once a King, Always a King: The Unmaking of a Latin King
$16.95 Read moreThis riveting sequel to My Bloody Life traces Reymundo Sanchez’s struggle to create a “normal” life outside the Latin Kings, one of the nation’s most notorious street gangs, and to move beyond his pas
- Author: Sanchez, Reymundo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: October 01, 2004
- ISBN10: 1556525532
- Language: English
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Graceland Cemetery: Chicago Stories, Symbols, and Secrets
$19.95 Read moreChosen for the 2024 Illinois Reads Program by the Illinois Reading Council
One of Chicago’s landmark attractions, Graceland Cemetery chronicles the city’s sprawling history through the stories of its
- Author: Selzer, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 0252086503
- Language: English
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Guardian Angel
$18.99 Read moreNew York Times Bestseller: A Chicago PI trying to help her elderly neighbors ends up tangled in politics and a murder in this “fast-paced, complicated mystery” (New York Daily News).
V.I. “Vic” Wars- Series: V.I. Warshawski Novels
- Author: Paretsky, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1504074343
- Language: English
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Runner
$26.00 Read more“Lapel-grabbing and provocative…Clark writes with purpose, her sense of social justice never venturing into dogma but remaining fully rooted in Raines’s actions and personality.” – The New York Time… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Mystery
- Author: Clark, Tracy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1496732014
- Language: English
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Perfect Day Chicago
$27.00 Read more- Series: Perfect Day
- Author: Altschuler, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1681064359
- Language: English
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Super Sad Black Girl
$17.00 Read moreDiamond Sharp’s Super Sad Black Girl is a love letter to her hometown of Chicago, where the speaker finds solace and community with her literary idols in hopes of answering the question: What does it
- Author: Sharp, Diamond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1642598380
- Language: English
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Dark of Night
$15.95 Read moreA recent murder is ancient history in a breathtaking novel about a sacred lost treasure and poisonous retribution by the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of At First Light.
What
- Series: Dr. Evan Wilding #2
- Author: Nickless, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 343
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1662500815
- Language: English
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Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win: Five Decades of Resistance in Chicago’s Uptown Community
$24.95 Read moreHelen Shiller recounts her independent path of resistance: from the student anti-war movement of the 1960s to a Black Panther Party alliance to Mayor Harold Washington’s 26th vote to lonely voice agai
- Author: Shiller, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1642598429
- Language: English
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Chicago Abc: A Larry Gets Lost Book
$14.99 Read moreDiscover Chicago from A (The Art Institute of Chicago) to Z (Lincoln Park Zoo), and everything in between D is for Deep-Dish Pizza, G is for Grant Park, and R is for the Chicago River. Kids will have… [more below]
- Series: Larry Gets Lost
- Author: Skewes, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 157061993X
- Language: English
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Chicago Like a Local: By the People Who Call It Home
$16.99 Read moreKeen to explore a different side of Chicago? Like a Local is the book for you.
This isn’t your ordinary travel guide. Beyond the sporting stadiums and skyscrapers, you’ll find vegan diners, late-night- Series: Local Travel Guide
- Author: Dk Eyewitness
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0241568498
- Language: English
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Negroland: A Memoir
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – An extraordinary look at privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America by the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural c… [more below]
- Author: Jefferson, Margo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 23 2016
- ISBN10: 0307473430
- Language: English
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The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home
$22.95 Read moreEven as a fourth-generation Jewish Texan, S. L. Wisenberg has always felt the ghost of Europe dogging her steps, making her feel uneasy in her body and in the world. At age six, she’s sure that she h
- Series: Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction
- Author: Wisenberg, S. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1625347359
- Language: English
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A Raisin in the Sun and the Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
$17.00 Add to cartCollected together, two of the most electrifying classic masterpieces of the American theater, remarkable not only for their historical value but for their continued ability to engage the imagination … [more below]
- Author: Hansberry, Lorraine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 13 1995
- ISBN10: 0679755314
- Language: English
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The Ambrose Deception
$7.99 Add to cartMelissa is a nobody. Wilf is a slacker. Bondi is a show-off.
Not a single one of Melissa, Wilf, or Bondi’s middle school teachers would considerer them a star student. Yet to everyone’s surprise, Meli- Author: Ecton, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1484790057
- Language: English
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The Westing Game
$9.99 Read moreBE CLASSIC with The Westing Game, introduced by New York Times bestselling author Mac Barnett.
A highly inventive mystery begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of the very strang- Series: Be Classic
- Author: Raskin, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0593118103
- Language: English
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A Steady Rain
$15.00 Add to cartJoey and Denny have been best friends since kindergarten, and after working together for several years as policemen in Chicago, they are practically family: Joey helps out with Denny’s wife and kids;
- Author: Huff, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0865479364
- Language: English
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On This Day in Chicago History
$14.99 Read moreJoin John R. Schmidt on a day-by-day look at some of Chicago’s most fascinating lesser-known events.
Think you know Chicago? If you are thinking of Al Capone, the L, the Cubs, Barack Obama or the Great
- Series: On This Day in
- Author: Schmidt, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1626192537
- Language: English
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A People’s History of Chicago
$17.00 Add to cartNamed “Best Chicago Poet” by The Chicago Reader, Kevin Coval channels Howard Zinn to celebrate the Windy City’s hidden history.
- Series: Breakbeat Poets
- Author: Coval, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 160846671X
- Language: English
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The Rough Guide to the Great Lakes & Chicago (Compact Guide with Free Ebook)
$12.99 Add to cartPractical travel guide to the Great Lakes & Chicago with a free eBook featuring points-of-interest structured lists of all sights and off-the-beaten-track treasures, with detailed colour-coded maps, p
- Series: Rough Guides
- Author: Guides, Rough
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 183905798X
- Language: English
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Lifting as They Climbed: Mapping a History of Trailblazing Black Women in Chicago
$19.95 Add to cartAn essential guidebook to influential Black women from Chicago’s South and West Sides, and their social, cultural, and artistic contributions to movements both past and present.
Geographically, histor- Author: Kaba, Mariame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599018
- Language: English
