Geographic Orientation/Illinois
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Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography
$27.00 Add to cartMeryle Secrest’s Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography focuses on Wright’s family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends and family. Secrest had unprecedented access to an archive of over one hu… [more below]
- Author: Secrest, Meryle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 652
- Publish Date: May 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0226744140
- Language: English
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Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year
$17.99 Add to cartA must-read for parents, new teachers, and classroom veterans, Educating Esm? is the exuberant diary of Esm? Raji Codell’s first year teaching in a Chicago public school. Fresh-mouthed and free-spirit… [more below]
- Author: Codell, Esmé Raji
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1565129350
- Language: English
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Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect
$29.00 Add to cartFor over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regard… [more below]
- Author: Sampson, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: June 14 2013
- ISBN10: 022605568X
- Language: English
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Give the Lady What She Wants
$19.95 Add to cartIn the heart of downtown, there was a palace of commerce, a jewel of Chicago history. It was Marshall Field & Company. “Give the lady what she wants”. “The customer is always right”. These generous po
- Author: Wendt, Lloyd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: January 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1087860652
- Language: English
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Once Anillos/ Eleven Rings
$12.95 Read moreDurante su exitosa carrera como entrenador de los Chicago Bulls y Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson conquistó más campeonatos que ningún otro entrenador en la historia profesional del deporte.
Jackso… [more below]- Author: Jackson, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 30 2016
- ISBN10: 8416240574
- Language: Spanish
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Across Five Aprils
$9.99 Add to cartThe Newbery Award-winning author of Up a Road Slowly presents the unforgettable story of Jethro Creighton–a brave boy who comes of age during the turbulent years of the Civil War.
In 1861, America is- Author: Hunt, Irene
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 15 1986
- ISBN10: 0425102416
- 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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City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago
$22.95 Add to cartCity of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago’s development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today’s robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose live
- Author: Spinney, Robert G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: May 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1501748963
- Language: English
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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A moving and powerful account by an acclaimed journalist that “informs the heart. [This] meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is re… [more below]
- Author: Kotlowitz, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0385265565
- Language: English
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Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
$22.00 Add to cart“A classic. I can’t recommend it enough.”–Chris Hayes
On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measure- Author: Klinenberg, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 06 2015
- ISBN10: 022627618X
- Language: English
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The Big Book of Illinois Ghost Stories
$19.95 Add to cartTurn these pages and enter the world of the paranormal, where ghosts and ghouls alike creep just out of sight. From a gallows tree in Greene County where an apparition can still be seen hanging, to th… [more below]
- Series: Big Book of Ghost Stories
- Author: Taylor, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1493043803
- Language: English
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Weird Chicago
$20.00 Add to cartThe city of Chicago is unquestionably the weirdest and most haunted city in America With a history dating back to the early 1800s that is filled with violent events, mysterious happenings and a lot o… [more below]
- Series: Haunted Illinois
- Author: Taylor, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: July 22 2008
- ISBN10: 1892523590
- Language: English
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The Jungle
$7.99 Read moreEnriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students an… [more below]
- Series: Enriched Classics
- Author: Sinclair, Upton
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 458
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0743487621
- Language: English
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Match Me If You Can
$8.99 Add to cartYou met star quarterback Kevin Tucker in This Heart of Mine. Now get ready to meet his shark of an agent, Heath Champion, and Annabelle Granger, the girl least likely to succeed.
Annabelle’s endured de
- Series: Chicago Stars #6
- Author: Phillips, Susan Elizabeth
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 29 2006
- ISBN10: 0060734566
- Language: English
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The Middlesteins
$21.99 Add to cartFor more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie’s enormous … [more below]
- Author: Attenberg, Jami
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1455507202
- Language: English
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Indemnity Only: A V. I. Warshawski Novel
$7.99 Read moreThe first V.I. Warshawski novel! – “[V.I. Warshawski] is . . . wonderful company and a rich discovery awaiting those who have yet to meet her.”–Los Angeles Times
Meeting an anonymous client late on a … [more below]- Series: V. I. Warshawski #1
- Author: Paretsky, Sara
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0440210690
- Language: English
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Gain
$28.99 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Overstory, Richard Powers’s Gain braids together two stories on very different scales.
In one, Laura Body, divorced mother of tw
- Author: Powers, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0312429096
- Language: English
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Caramelo (Spanish Edition)
$19.95 Add to cartLa c lebre autora de La casa en Mango Street, y ganadora del PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature 2019, nos ofrece una nueva y extraordinaria novela narrada en un lenguaje de
- Author: Cisneros, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 1400030994
- Language: Spanish
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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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The Neon Wilderness
$15.95 Read moreAs rock and roll novelist Tom Carson writes in his introduction, “The Neon Wilderness is the pivotal book of Nelson Algren’s career–the one which bid a subdued but determined farewell to everything t… [more below]
- Author: Algren, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1644212161
- Language: English
