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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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Finding Langston
$8.99 Add to cartA Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
When eleven-year-old Langston’s father moves them from their home in Alabama to Chicago’s Bronzeville dist
Winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction- Series: The Finding Langston Trilogy
- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0823445828
- Language: English
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The Christmas Tree Ship
$15.95 Add to cartOn November 21, 1912, the schooner Rouse Simmons set sail from a small northern Michigan town across Lake Michigan. Affectionately dubbed the “Christmas Tree Ship,” this was an annual trek for the Rou… [more below]
- Author: Crane, Carol
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 08 2011
- ISBN10: 1585362859
- Language: English
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Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
$20.00 Add to cart“Through candor and comprehensiveness, Jackson writes a convincing revisionist take, in which he emerges as an excellent coach . . . highly readable . . . reflects Jackson’s polymathy.” —The New York… [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0143125346
- Language: English
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Dandelion Wine
$9.99 Add to cartThe summer of ’28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma’s belly-busting
- Series: Grand Master Editions
- Author: Bradbury, Ray
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01, 1985
- ISBN10: 0553277537
- Language: English
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Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty
$16.95 Add to cartCoretta Scott King Author Award Honor – American Library Association (ALA)
Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards NomineeA graphic novel based on the life and death of Robert “Yummy” Sandifer, an eleven-ye
- Author: Neri, G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1584302674
- Language: English
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The Great Fire
$14.99 Add to cartJim Murphy’s Newbery Honor Book available for the first time in paperback.
The Great Fire of 1871 was one of most colossal disasters in American history. Overnight, the flourshing city of Chicago was t… [more below]
- Author: Murphy, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 439203074
- Language: English
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Lord of the Flies
$17.00 Add to cartBefore The Hunger Games there was Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrai- Author: Golding, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01, 1997
- ISBN10: 1573226122
- Language: English
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A Raisin in the Sun
$8.95 Add to cart“Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people’s lives been seen on the stage,” observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened… [more below]
- Author: Hansberry, Lorraine
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 29 2004
- ISBN10: 0679755330
- Language: English
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
$32.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The true tale of the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.
Two men, each- Series: Illinois
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 11, 2003
- ISBN10: 0609608444
- Language: English
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Maya and the Rising Dark
$7.99 Add to cartIn this highly anticipated contemporary fantasy, twelve-year-old Maya’s search for her missing father puts her at the center of a battle between our world, the Orishas, and the mysterious and sinister
- Series: Maya and the Rising Dark #1
- Author: Barron, Rena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 17, 2021
- ISBN10: 0358447690
- Language: English
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Die Trying
$19.00 Add to cartJack Reacher finds himself in bad company in the second novel in Lee Child’s #1 New York Times bestselling series.
DON’T MISS REACHER ON PRIME VIDEO! Jack Reacher is an innocent bystander when he witn- Series: Jack Reacher Novels #2
- Author: Child, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 04 2012
- ISBN10: 425264386
- Language: English
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Simon B. Rhymin’
$8.99 Add to cartA funny and heartwarming bounce-to-the-beat underdog story about a kid rapper whose rhymes bring his community together, by America’s favorite rapping teacher from Chicago.
As featured on Good Mornin- Series: Simon B. Rhymin’ #1
- Author: Reed, Dwayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0316538965
- Language: English
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The House on Mango Street
$13.00 Add to cartA TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK
NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago – Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in sc- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Cisneros, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 03 1991
- ISBN10: 679734775
- Language: English
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If Angels Burn: A Novel of the Darkyn
$7.99 Read moreAlexandra Keller is Chicago’s most brilliant reconstructive surgeon. Michael Cyprien is New Orleans’ most reclusive millionaire–and in desperate need of Dr. Keller’s skills.
- Series: Novel of the Darkyn #1
- Author: Viehl, Lynn
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0451214773
- Language: English
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
$17.99 Add to cartOne of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now featuring a new introduction and material about its longstanding influence on culture and genre.
For thos- Author: Bradbury, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 24, 2017
- ISBN10: 1501167715
- Language: English
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Neferet’s Curse
$14.99 Read moreThe White City, 1893: In turn-of-the-century Chicago, with the World’s Fair bringing bustle and excitement to her home city, sixteen-year-old Emily Wheiler should be reveling in her youthful beauty an
- Series: House of Night Novellas #3
- Author: Cast, P. C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 19, 2013
- ISBN10: 1250000254
- Language: English
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Timebound
$14.95 Read moreAn Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award winner–Grand Prize and Young Adult Fiction.
When Kate Pierce-Keller’s grandmother gives her a strange blue medallion and speaks of time travel, sixteen-year-old Kate
- Series: Chronos Files #1
- Author: Walker, Rysa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: January 01, 2014
- ISBN10: 1477848150
- Language: English
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Caramelo
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – Every year, Ceyala “Lala” Reyes’ family–aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and Lala’s six older brothers–packs up three cars and, in a wild ride, drive from Chicago to the Little… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Cisneros, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 443
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0679742581
- Language: English
