Locality/Chicago
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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 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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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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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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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
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson
$14.99 Add to cartOne cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, Will Grayson crosses paths with . . . Will Grayson. Two teens with the same name, running in two very different circles, suddenly find their lives… [more below]
- Author: Green, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0142418471
- Language: English
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Emmi in the City: A Great Chicago Fire Survival Story
$9.99 Add to cartAlthough Emmi has lived in Chicago for two years, she finds it hard to love her adopted city. As a German immigrant in the early 1870s, she’s often teased by her America-born peers. But when the Great… [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Alikhan, Salima
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496580117
- Language: English
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Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2017 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Finalist for the C. Wright Mills Book Award, sponsored by the Society for th
- Author: Gonzalez Van Cleve, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1503602788
- Language: English
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Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury
$20.00 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
After a decade abroad, the National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States–Greenwich, CT;- Author: Osnos, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1250858755
- Language: English
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Simon B. Rhymin’
$16.99 Read moreA 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 0316538973
- Language: English
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Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds: Volume 1
$8.99 Read moreA Kirkus Best Middle Grade Book of 2021!
From New York Times and indie bestselling author Samira Ahmed comes a thrilling and magical adventure intertwining Islamic legend and history, perfect for fan- Series: Amira & Hamza
- Author: Ahmed, Samira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 031654048X
- Language: English
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History Comics: The Great Chicago Fire: Rising from the Ashes
$13.99 Add to cartTurn back the clock with History Comics! In The Great Chicago Fire you’ll learn how a city rose up from one of the worst catastrophes in American history.
A deadly blaze engulfs Chicago for two terrify- Series: History Comics
- Author: Graudins, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1250174260
- Language: English
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Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
$21.99 Read moreA “persuasive and essential” (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller’s “stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation’s carc
- Author: Miller, Reuben Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0316451487
- Language: English
