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Stirring Up Love
$12.95 Read moreFrom the author of Digging Up Love comes a heartfelt story about two rivals whose passion for food and their communities brings them together in ways they never expected.
After doing her time in corpor
- Series: Taste of Love
- Author: Blumberg, Chandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 339
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1542038316
- 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 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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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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The Space Within: Inside Great Chicago Buildings
$65.00 Add to cartFor the first time, the interiors of some of the Chicago area’s greatest buildings, designed by celebrated architects, are brought together and featured in truly stunning original photographs. These C… [more below]
- Author: Cannon, Patrick F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0764972057
- 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
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The Quilt Room Secret
$14.99 Add to cartTrini Holds Secret Dreams for Her Future
Full of faith, hope, and romance, this new series takes you into the Heart of Amish country. As they took turns pushing each other on the swing that hung from- Series: The Heart of the Amish
- Author: Jones Baker, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1636097758
- Language: English
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Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
$18.00 Add to cart“The best book ever written about an American city, by the best journalist of his time.”– Jimmy Breslin
In the turbulent world of Chicago politics, Boss dives deep into the captivating life and legac- Author: Royko, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0452261678
- Language: English
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Death Wish: A Story of the Mafia
$18.99 Add to cartThis is the original mafia story that spawned all the rest–the story of Chicago’s ruthless and tireless mafia.Power hungry Don, Jimmy Collucci, is out to become the kingpin of Chicago’s “Honored Soci… [more below]
- Author: Slim, Iceberg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1936399172
- Language: English
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The Black Book
$19.99 Add to cartThe “thrilling” #1 New York Times and USA Today bestseller (Karin Slaughter): when three bodies are found in a Chicago bedroom, a black book goes missing . . . and the city has never been more dangero… [more below]
- Series: A Billy Harney Thriller #1
- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1455542679
- Language: English
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Ordinary People
$18.00 Add to cartOne of the great bestseller of our time: the novel that inspired Robert Redford’s Oscar-winning film starring Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore
In Ordinary People, Judith Guest’s remarkable first- Author: Guest, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 28 1982
- ISBN10: 0140065172
- Language: English
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Best Friends Forever
$18.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes “a smart, witty fairy tale for grownups” (Maureen Corrigan, NPR).
Addie Downs and Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. That’s what A- Author: Weiner, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0743294300
- Language: English
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I, Q the Windy City
$9.99 Read moreAfter Q and Angela help foil a Ghost Cell plot in San Antonio, they head to Chicago, the next stop on the Match tour. Since they’ve been busy fighting international terrorism, they’re behind on their … [more below]
- Series: I, Q (Paperback)
- Author: Spradlin, Michael P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1585368237
- Language: English
