Locality/Chicago
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Chicago: City on the Make: Sixtieth Anniversary Edition
$21.00 Add to cart“Once you’ve become a part of this particular patch, you’ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.”
Ernest Hemingw- Author: Algren, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0226013863
- Language: English
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Behind Closed Doors
$16.99 Add to cartRegina Moore and Karen Jackson, lifelong best friends, are living the kind of life most women only fantasize about. With beautiful homes, fulfilling careers, and two adoring husbands, their joy could
- Author: Roby, Kimberla Lawson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: September 21 2004
- ISBN10: 0060593652
- Language: English
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
$17.99 Add to cartErik Larson, author of #1 bestseller In the Garden of Beasts, intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World’s Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their deaths. Co… [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 689
- Publish Date: February 26 2013
- ISBN10: 1594136246
- Language: English
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The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
$21.00 Add to cart**One of Buzzfeed’s 18 Best Nonfiction Books Of 2016**
A lyrical, intelligent, authentic, and necessary look at the intersection of race and class in Chicago, a Great American City In this intelligent- Author: Moore, Natalie Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1250118336
- Language: English
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The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service
$18.00 Add to cartThe powerful story of the women who founded and ran the legendary Chicago reproductive rights organization Abortion Counseling Service, otherwise known as Jane, written by one of its members. A compel… [more below]
- Author: Kaplan, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0593471083
- Language: English
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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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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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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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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
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Biting Bad
$22.00 Add to cartMerit has been a vampire for only a short while, but she’s already seen a lifetime’s worth of trouble. She and her Master, centuries-old Ethan Sullivan, have risked their lives time and again to save
- Series: Chicagoland Vampires Novels #8
- Author: Neill, Chloe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 06, 2013
- ISBN10: 0451415183
- Language: English
