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The Wrigley Riddle
$6.99 Add to cartNext up to the plate–book #6 in our early chapter book mystery series, where each book is set in a different American ballpark
Ivy-covered walls–they’re the most famous part of the Chicago Cubs’ hi… [more below]
- Series: Ballpark Mysteries #6
- Author: Kelly, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0307977765
- Language: English
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High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
$19.99 Read moreJoining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and nat
- Author: Austen, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0062235079
- Language: English
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A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories
$8.99 Read moreA Newbery Honor Book
A summer they’ll never forget. Each summer Joey and his sister, Mary Alice–two city slickers from Chicago–visit Grandma Dowdel’s seemingly sleepy Illinois town. Soon enough, th- Series: Puffin Modern Classics
- Author: Peck, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 09 2000
- ISBN10: 0141303522
- Language: English
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Etta Invincible
$17.99 Add to cartIn this touching debut middle grade novel, a girl with hearing loss and a boy adjusting to life in a new country connect through their love of comics and get entangled in their own fantastical adventu… [more below]
- Author: Eschmann, Reese
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1534468374
- Language: English
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Finding Langston
$16.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0823439607
- Language: English
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Mystery in Crooked Creek Woods: Tree Street Kids (Book 4)
$8.99 Read moreBook Four in the Tree Street Kids Series
Something fishy is going on in Crooked Creek Woods. Does it have anything to do with the weird lights coming from Ruthie’s neighbor’s yard? Or are the kids’ ima
- Series: Tree Street Kids
- Author: Cleary Eastep, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0802421059
- 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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Edward and Annie: A Penguin Adventure
$17.99 Read moreJoin penguins Edward and Annie, the famous viral sensations, as they waddle through Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium in this funny and surprising adventure story that teaches kids and adults alike that life’s
- Author: Rivadeneira, Caryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 140022828X
- Language: English
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The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Blackhawks: A Decade-By-Decade History
$40.00 Read moreThe Chicago Blackhawks, one of the NHL’s “Original Six,” have been building their storied legacy for decades. Since their founding in 1926, the Hawks have won six Stanley Cup championships and produce… [more below]
- Author: Chicago Tribune
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1572842318
- Language: English
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Chicago’s WLS Radio
$31.99 Add to cartFrom its early days as the farmer’s companion to over a quarter century as the nation’s premier rock-and-roll station, WLS has touched the lives of millions of listeners. Many well-known celebrities, … [more below]
- Author: Childers, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1531640249
- Language: English
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Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football
$20.00 Add to cartMonsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football is the New York Times bestselling gripping account of a once-in-a-lifetime team and their lone Super Bowl season.
For Rich Cohen and mi- Author: Cohen, Rich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1250056047
- Language: English
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Making a New Deal
$29.99 Add to cartThis book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as t… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Cohen, Lizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 566
- Publish Date: November 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1107431794
- 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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Forgotten Chicago
$24.99 Add to cartChicago has long been regarded as home to some of the world’s most impressive architecture.
Responding to the Great Fire of 1871, Chicagoans rebuilt the city, creating a radically new architectural sty
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Paulett, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 26 2004
- ISBN10: 0738532797
- Language: English
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Lost Restaurants of Chicago
$24.99 Add to cartChicago author, Greg Borzo, recalls the city’s celebrated lost restaurants.
Many of Chicago’s greatest or most unusual restaurants are no longer taking reservations, but they’re definitely not forgotte
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Borzo, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1625859333
- Language: English
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Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
A Best Book of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Rocky Mountain News
“The Cubs against the Cardinals in the heat of August and of a pennant race–this is ba
- Author: Bissinger, Buzz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0618710531
- Language: English
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson
$19.99 Read moreTwo award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author join forces for a collaborative novel of awesome proportions.
One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two teens–both named Will Gr- Author: Green, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 06, 2010
- ISBN10: 0525421580
- Language: English
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The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City
$15.00 Add to cartArguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of C
- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Smith, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0226764729
- Language: English
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For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago
$19.99 Add to cartIt was a crime that shocked the nation: the brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child by two wealthy college students who killed solely for the thrill of the experience. Nathan Leopold and Richard L
- Author: Baatz, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0060781025
- Language: English
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Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob
$19.99 Add to cartEven in Chicago, a city steeped in mob history and legend, the Family Secrets case was a true spectacle when it made it to court in 2007. A top mob boss, a reputed consigliere, and other high-profile … [more below]
- Author: Coen, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1569765456
- Language: English
