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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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Downpour
$19.99 Add to cart“This book hits like a summer squall and never lets up, a real-time, one-location doom machine that earns its place beside The Mist.“
– Daniel Kraus, author of Whalefall
A sudden storm appears above an
- Author: Hawkins, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: October 3, 2023
- ISBN10: 1937346145
- 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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Something to Do with Paying Attention
$18.00 Add to cartDavid Foster Wallace’s last unfinished work, a wise and unexpected tour de force “using the IRS the way Borges used the library and Kafka used the law-courts building: as an analogy for the world.” —… [more below]
- Author: Wallace, David Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 05, 2022
- ISBN10: 1946022276
- 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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Arsenic and Adobo
$19.00 Add to cartA RUSA Award-winning novel!
The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes–one that might just be killer…. When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover fr- Series: A Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery #1
- Author: Manansala, Mia P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0593201671
- Language: English
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Murder and Mamon
$17.00 Add to cartWhen murder mars the grand opening for Lila Macapagal’s aunties’ new laundromat, she will have to air out all the dirty laundry in Shady Palms to catch a killer…
Lila Macapagal’s godmothers April,- Series: A Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery
- Author: Manansala, Mia P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593549163
- Language: English
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The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride
$18.95 Read moreMaxy Awards “BOOK OF THE YEAR”
At 100 years old, Murray McBride has outlived everyone he’s ever loved. But when he meets Jason Cashman, a 10-year-old boy with a terminal illness, Murray may learn somet
- Series: Murray McBride #1
- Author: Siple, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: May 10, 2018
- ISBN10: 1684330408
- Language: English
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So Long, See You Tomorrow: National Book Award Winner
$17.00 Add to cartIn this magically evocative novel, William Maxwell explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try. On a winter mo
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Maxwell, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 03 1996
- ISBN10: 0679767207
- 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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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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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
