Chicago (Ill.)
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Marshall Field’s: The Store That Helped Build Chicago
$23.99 Add to cartAnyone who has waited in a Christmas line for the Walnut Room’s Great Tree can attest that Chicago’s loyalty to Marshall Field’s is fierce.
Dayton-Hudson even had to take out advertising around town to
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Soucek, Gayle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 10 2010
- ISBN10: 1596298545
- Language: English
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Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago
$17.95 Add to cartRedlined exposes the outcome of racist mortgage laws that ravage a Chicago community in the 1960s, told through the story of one white family navigating the uncharted shoals of their neighborhood’s ra… [more below]
- Author: Gartz, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1631523201
- Language: English
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Aia Guide to Chicago
$42.95 Read moreChicago’s architecture attracts visitors from around the globe. The fourth edition of the AIA Guide to Chicago is the best portable resource for exploring this most breathtaking and dynamic of citysca… [more below]
- Author: American Institute of Architects Chicago
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0252086732
- Language: English
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Walking Chicago: 35 Tours of the Windy City’s Dynamic Neighborhoods and Famous Lakeshore
$16.95 Add to cartFeaturing 35 self-guided walking tours, Walking Chicago leads readers through some of the city’s most interesting, scenic, and historic places.
- Series: Walking
- Author: Loerzel, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0899976972
- Language: English
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Airtight Willie & Me: The Story of the South’s Black Underworld
$17.99 Add to cart“Iceberg Slim breaks down some of the coldest, capitalist concepts I’ve ever heard in my life.” –Dave Chappelle, from his Netflix special The Bird Revelation In this collection of six gritty tales fr… [more below]
- Author: Slim, Iceberg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1936399156
- Language: English
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Roofwalker
$15.00 Add to cartIn Roofwalker, Native American writer Susan Power explores the complexities of contemporary Native American life. Featuring both fiction and nonfiction — “stories” and “histories” — the book shows t… [more below]
- Series: Milkweed National Fiction Prize
- Author: Power, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 199
- Publish Date: August 10 2004
- ISBN10: 157131041X
- Language: English
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Escape
$29.00 Read moreIn this companion to #1 New York Times bestseller The Black Book, Detective Billy Harney chases down a billionaire crime boss and a prison escape artist while a young girl’s life hangs in the balance.
- Series: A Billy Harney Thriller #3
- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0316499447
- Language: English
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The Silent Wife
$18.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling novel soon to be a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, for fans of The Woman in the Window and The Silent Patient.
“I gobbled it down in one sitting.” – Anne La- Author: Harrison, A. S. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 25 2013
- ISBN10: 0143123238
- Language: English
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Then We Came to the End
$17.99 Add to cartWinner of the Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award, this debut novel is “as funny as The Office, as sad as an abandoned stapler . . . that rare comedy that feels blisteringly urgent.” (TIME)
No one knows- Author: Ferris, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 26 2008
- ISBN10: 031601639X
- Language: English
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Jillian
$17.00 Read moreThe “sublimely awkward and hilarious” (Chicago Tribune), National Book Award “5 Under 35”-garnering first novel from the acclaimed author of The New Me–now in a new edition
Twenty-four-year-old Megan- Author: Butler, Halle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 014313552X
- Language: English
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Wonderful Hair: The Beauty of Annie Malone
$18.99 Read moreForgotten today, Annie Turnbo Malone was an influential Black business leader in the early 20th century.
She turned her personally developed hair care products into a successful industry, including s
- Author: Catarevas, Eve Nadel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 195435410X
- Language: English
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1919
$16.00 Add to cartNPR Best Books of 2019
Chicago Tribune Best Books of 2019
Chicago Review of Books Best Poetry Book of 2019
O Magazine Best Books by Women of Summer 2019
The Millions Must-Read Poetry of June 2019
LitH- Author: Ewing, Eve L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1608465985
- Language: English
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The Westing Game
$10.99 Add to cartA Newbery Medal Winner
For over thirty-five years, Ellen Raskin’s Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are- Author: Raskin, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140386645
- Language: English
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I Sailed with Magellan
$23.00 Add to cartFollowing his renowned The Coast of Chicago and Childhood, story writer Stuart Dybek returns with eleven masterful and masterfully linked stories about Chicago’s fabled and harrowing South Side. Unit
- Author: Dybek, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 307
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312424116
- Language: English
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Nobody’s Angel
$15.95 Read moreQUENTIN TARANTINO on NOBODY’S ANGEL: “My favorite fiction novel this year was written by a taxi driver who used to hand it out to his passengers. It’s a terrific story and character study of a cabbie … [more below]
- Author: Clark, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1803367474
- Language: English
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100 Things to Do in Chicago Before You Die, Special Edition
$22.50 Read moreIt could take a lifetime to experience everything Chicago has to offer, but most tourists only have a day or two. Page gives you weekend-sized itineraries for your to-do list. Whether you’re just maki
- Series: 100 Things to Do Before You Die
- Author: Page, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1681062399
- Language: English
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I’ve Got My Mind Set on Brew
$18.99 Read moreA down-on-her-luck craft beer brewer and her privileged new boss clash as they work together to save a quirky brewpub in this enemies-to-lovers workplace rom-com, perfect for fans of Rachel Lynn Solom… [more below]
- Author: Jayne, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1639106499
- Language: English
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Who Is Michelle Obama?
$5.99 Read moreBorn into a close knit family in Chicago, Michelle Robinson was a star student who graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law. Then in 1992, she married another promising young lawyer and the rest, as t… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Stine, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0448478633
- Language: English
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Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book
An “unmissable” (Vogue), “exceptional” (The Washington Post), and “evocative” (Chicago Tribune) memoir
A Best Book of 2021 by BuzzFeed and Real Simple- Author: Turner, Dawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1982107715
- Language: English
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Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance
$26.00 Read moreChoosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance is a brilliant literary memoir of chosen family and chosen heritage, told against the backdrop of Chicago’s North and South Sides.
A- Author: Royster, Francesca T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1419756176
- Language: English
