Geographic Orientation/Illinois
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A Winter Haunting
$9.99 Add to cartA once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage — and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the
- Author: Simmons, Dan
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0380817160
- Language: English
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The Deep End of the Ocean
$16.00 Read more“Masterful…A big story about human connection and emotional survival” – Los Angeles Times
The first book ever chosen by Oprah’s Book Club Few first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim s- Series: Oprah’s Book Club
- Author: Mitchard, Jacquelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140286276
- Language: English
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The Litigators
$35.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – After leaving a fast-track legal career and going on a serious bender, David Zinc is sober, unemployed, and desperate enough to take a job at Finley & Figg, a self-desc… [more below]
- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0385535139
- Language: English
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Mama Black Widow
$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 The most gritty and real illustration of … [more below]
- Author: Slim, Iceberg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 1936399199
- Language: English
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The Coast of Chicago
$19.00 Add to cartThe stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek’s classic story collection. A child’s collection of bottle caps becomes the tombstones of a graveyard. A lowly
- Author: Dybek, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 173
- Publish Date: April 03 2004
- ISBN10: 0312424256
- Language: English
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The Burden of Proof
$19.99 Add to cartTurow’s acclaimed second novel, which topped international bestseller lists, is now available in trade paperback. Sandy Stern, the brilliant defense attorney from Presumed Innocent, faces an event so … [more below]
- Author: Turow, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: December 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0446677124
- Language: English
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L Is for Lincoln: An Illinois Alphabet
$17.95 Read moreThe home of one of America’s most revered Presidents is also home to American icons such as the Ferris wheel, Montgomery Ward stores, and John Deere tractors. This latest offering from the award-winni… [more below]
- Series: Discover America State by State (Hardcover)
- Author: Wargin, Kathy-Jo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 09 2000
- ISBN10: 1585360163
- Language: English
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Bronzeville Boys and Girls
$16.99 Read moreThis classic picture book from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, paired with full-color illustrations by Caldecott Honor artist Faith Ringgold, explores the lives and dreams of the childre
- Author: Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: December 26, 2006
- ISBN10: 0060295058
- 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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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, Fiction, Classics
$23.95 Add to cartThe book depicts working class poverty, the lack of social supports, harsh and unpleasant living and working conditions and a hopelessness among many workers. These elements are contrasted with the de
- Author: Sinclair, Upton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1598183222
- 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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Marshall Field’s: The Store That Helped Build Chicago
$31.99 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 t… [more below]
- Author: Soucek, Gayle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: September 10 2010
- ISBN10: 1540223779
- Language: English
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Good Kings, Bad Kings
$18.99 Add to cartBellwether Award winner Susan Nussbaum’s powerful novel invites us into the lives of a group of typical teenagers–alienated, funny, yearning for autonomy–except that they live in an institution for
- Author: Nussbaum, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1616203250
- Language: English
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The Song of the Lark
$13.95 Add to cartIn this powerful portrait of the self-making of an artist, Willa Cather created one of her most extraordinary heroines.
Thea Kronborg, a minister’s daughter in a provincial Colorado town, seems destin- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Cather, Willa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 27 1999
- ISBN10: 0375706453
- Language: English
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The Wright 3
$8.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times-bestselling team behind Chasing Vermeer comes another thought-provoking art mystery featuring Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie house–now in After Words paperback
Spring semester at … [more below]
- Author: Balliett, Blue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0439693683
- Language: English
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Animal Tracks of Illinois
$9.95 Add to cartConcise descriptions of the animals and their tracks are combined with detailed drawings of the front and back prints, stride patterns and other important identifying features. Over 52 common animals … [more below]
- Series: Animal Tracks
- Author: Eder, Tamara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1551053012
- Language: English
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The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Cubs: A Decade-By-Decade History
$40.00 Read moreThe Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Cubs is a decade-by-decade look at one of baseball’s most beloved if hard-luck teams, starting with the franchise’s beginnings in 1876 as the Chicago White Stoc… [more below]
- Author: Chicago Tribune
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1572842172
- Language: English
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Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States: A Field-To-Kitchen Guide
$24.95 Read moreLavishly illustrated with nearly three hundred gorgeous full-color photos, this engaging guidebook carefully describes forty different edible species of wild mushrooms found around Illinois and surrou
- Series: Field-To-Kitchen Guides
- Author: McFarland, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0252076435
- Language: English
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The Litigators
$10.99 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – After leaving a fast-track legal career and going on a serious bender, David Zinc is sober, unemployed, and desperate enough to take a job at Finley & Figg, a self-descr… [more below]
- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 26 2012
- ISBN10: 034553056X
- Language: English
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Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders
$16.95 Read more“An unnerving true crime story of murder, terror, and justice.” –Dallas Morning News
Updated with the latest DNA findings and a new foreword by Gregg Olsen! The definitive book on John Wayne Gacy, wr- Author: Sullivan, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0806542403
- Language: English
