Chicago Review Press
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Gorilla Tactics: How to Save a Species
$30.00 Read moreGorillas are among the most recognizable of the large charismatic mammals, but climate change and poaching has brought them to the brink of extinction.
Greg Cummings was the executive director of the… [more below]- Author: Cummings, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0897330315
- Language: English
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Mary Anning and Paleontology for Kids: Her Life and Discoveries, with 21 Activities
$18.99 Read moreMary Anning was only 12 years old when she excavated the skeleton of an unknown animal.
The discovery of the ichthyosaur was the dawn of a new age of science called paleontology, and Anning became o… [more below]- Series: For Kids
- Author: Bearce, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1641608331
- Language: English
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The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy
$30.00 Add to cart“Adam Nimoy has written about the challenges growing up with his famous father and about their estrangement later in life. The fact that Leonard and Adam found a way to rebuild their relationship shou
- Author: Nimoy, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0915864738
- Language: English
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With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic
$19.99 Add to cartWhen she died in 1977, Joan Crawford was remembered as an icon of Hollywood’s Golden Age–until publication the following year of her daughter’s memoir, Mommie Dearest.
Christina Crawford’s book was- Author: Hoff, A. Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1641607688
- Language: English
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The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy
$30.00 Add to cart“Adam Nimoy has written about the challenges growing up with his famous father and about their estrangement later in life. The fact that Leonard and Adam found a way to rebuild their relationship shou
- Author: Nimoy, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0915864738
- Language: English
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When the Band Played on: The Life of Randy Shilts, America’s Trailblazing Gay Journalist
$38.95 Add to cartThe Crowley Thoth Tarot is a masterpiece of esoteric wisdom and visionary art, renowned worldwide for its striking beauty and profound occult symbolism. Created under the guidance of Aleister Crowley
- Author: Crowley, Aleister
- Binding:
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: April 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0913866156
- Language: English
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A Light in the Dark: Surviving More Than Ted Bundy
$19.99 Read moreTHE FIRST BOOK BY A CONFIRMED SURVIVOR OF TED BUNDY, AND THE ONLY MEMOIR TO CHALLENGE THE POPULAR NARRATIVE OF BUNDY AS A HANDSOME KILLER WHO CHARMED HIS VICTIMS INTO TRUSTING HIM
In January 1978, I- Author: Kleiner Rubin, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0897334116
- Language: English
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The Joys of Being a Little Black Boy
$18.99 Add to cartThe Joys of Being a Little Black Boy is a vividly illustrated children’s book that brings to life Roy, a joyful Black boy.
Roy takes young readers on a upbeat journey through history to meet some of- Author: Reynolds, Valerie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1641608536
- Language: English
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The City Is Up for Grabs: How Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Led and Lost a City in Crisis
$28.99 Add to cart“Gregory Pratt had a rare front-row seat to the passions, problems, peculiarities, hopes, disappointments, shenanigans, and pettiness in the drama and farce that was Lori Lightfoot’s uneasy tenure on
- Author: Pratt, Gregory Royal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1641605995
- Language: English
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Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp
$30.00 Add to cartOn a late March morning in the spring of 1942, Elaine Yoneda awoke to a series of terrible choices: between her family and freedom, her country and conscience, and her son and daughter.
She was the c
- Author: Slater, Tracy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0913705705
- Language: English
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Superpod: Saving the Endangered Orcas of the Pacific Northwest
$12.99 Add to cart*Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
Meet the playful and beloved Southern Resident orcas and the people
* Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) Bestseller – Early & Middle Reader- Author: Nickum, Nora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0897334531
- Language: English
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Dancing with Muddy: Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, and My Lucky Life in and Out of the Blues
$19.99 Add to cartJerry Portnoy grew up in Chicago hearing the blues being played outside his father’s rug store on famed Maxwell Street during the late 1940s and early ’50s.
After dropping out of college, he became- Author: Portnoy, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0897334582
- Language: English
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Lowdown: The Music of Boz Scaggs
$30.00 Add to cartBoz Scaggs has always been a musical artist of complexity.
Boz Scaggs founded his connection to music through the blues, but his lasting legacy is one of glamorous and romantic pop songwriting. He po- Author: Warne, Jude
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0915864762
- Language: English
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It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time
$28.99 Add to cart“Bruce Vilanch, a storyteller without peer, has written a tell-all . . . on himself! And it’s hilarious! He’s finally coming clean and owning up to his part in creating some of the worst television of
- Author: Vilanch, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0914091921
- Language: English
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Bring It on: The Complete Story of the Cheerleading Movie That Changed, Like, Everything (No, Seriously)
$29.99 Read moreFeaturing dozens of interviews with the cast and crew, fans of the franchise, film scholars, former and current cheerleaders, fellow filmmakers, and more.
Gabrielle Union, Kirsten Dunst, and Eliza Du- Author: Wickman, Kase
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1641607084
- Language: English
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Working 9 to 5: A Women’s Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie
$28.99 Read more“A must-read for any activist or reader in search for a piece of inspiration.” –Liz Shuler, president, AFL-CIO
2022 Sarton Awards Finalist for Memoir
2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Meda- Author: Cassedy, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1641608226
- Language: English
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The Disquieting Death of Emma Gill: Abortion, Death, and Concealment in Victorian New England
$28.99 Read more“The narrative unfolds like a high-stakes crime novel.”–Kirkus Reviews
In 1898, a group of schoolboys in Bridgeport, Connecticut discovered gruesome packages under a bridge holding the dismembered re- Author: Biederman, Marcia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1641608560
- Language: English
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Monsters on the Couch: The Real Psychological Disorders Behind Your Favorite Horror Movies
$19.99 Read moreHorror movies can reveal much more than we realize about psychological disorders–and clinical psychology has a lot to teach us about horror.
Our fears–mortality, failure, loneliness–can be just as… [more below]- Author: Sharpless, Brian A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1641607912
- Language: English
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Too Hot: Kool & the Gang & Me
$28.99 Read moreGrowing up around music, young George was inspired to piece together a makeshift drum set and teach himself to play as he practiced in the dark, dank basement of his run-down New Jersey row house.
He- Author: Brown, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1641609184
- Language: English
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Protecting Whitney: The Memoir of Her Bodyguard
$30.00 Read moreDavid Roberts was Whitney Houston’s bodyguard, the real one.
Roberts was hired in 1988 for Houston’s UK portion of the Moment of Truth world tour. Accustomed to working for diplomats and Fortune 500… [more below]- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0914090372
- Language: English
