Geographic Orientation/Illinois
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Fool Moon
$10.99 Add to cart“One of the most enjoyable marriages of the fantasy and mystery genres on the shelves,”(Cinescape) the Dresden Files have become synonymous with action-packed urban fantasy and nonstop fun. Fool Moon … [more below]
- Series: Dresden Files (ROC Paperback) #2
- Author: Butcher, Jim
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0451458125
- Language: English
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Grave Peril
$10.99 Read moreWizard for hire Harry Dresden gets mixed-up with the dead in this “haunting, fantastical novel”(Publishers Weekly) in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
Harry Dresden’s faced some pretty terrif- Series: Dresden Files #3
- Author: Butcher, Jim
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 04, 2001
- ISBN10: 0451458443
- Language: English
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Summer Knight
$10.99 Read moreIn the fourth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring everyone’s favorite wizard for hire, Harry Dresden is suckered into the tangled–and dangerous–affairs of Faerie…
Ever sinc- Series: Dresden Files #4
- Author: Butcher, Jim
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 03 2002
- ISBN10: 0451458923
- Language: English
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Death Masks
$10.99 Add to cartThe Dresden Files have taken the genre of paranormal mystery to a new level of action, excitement, and hard-hitting magical muscle. Now, in Death Masks, Jim Butcher’s smart-guy private eye may have ta… [more below]
- Series: Dresden Files #5
- Author: Butcher, Jim
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 05 2003
- ISBN10: 0451459407
- Language: English
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Lord of the Flies
$12.00 Add to cartGolding’s iconic 1954 novel, now with a new foreword by Lois Lowry, remains one of the greatest books ever written for young adults and an unforgettable classic for readers of any age.
This edition i- Author: Golding, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 16, 2003
- ISBN10: 0399501487
- Language: English
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Blood Rites
$10.99 Read moreIn this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files, Chicago’s only professional wizard takes on a case for a vampire and becomes the prime suspect in a series of ghastly murders.
Harry D- Series: Dresden Files #6
- Author: Butcher, Jim
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 03 2004
- ISBN10: 0451459873
- Language: English
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Proven Guilty
$12.99 Add to cartWizard for hire Harry Dresden has to track down the things that go bump in the night in this novel in Jim Butcher’s #1 New York Times bestselling series.
There’s no love lost between Harry Dresden, th- Series: Dresden Files (ROC Paperback) #8
- Author: Butcher, Jim
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: February 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0451461037
- Language: English
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Dead Beat
$10.99 Add to cart“The wildest, strangest, best Dresden adventure to date…Butcher’s blending of modern fantasy with classic noir sensibilities ensures that there’s never a dull moment.”–SF Site
Paranormal investig… [more below]- Series: Dresden Files (ROC Paperback) #7
- Author: Butcher, Jim
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 045146091X
- Language: English
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Once a King, Always a King: The Unmaking of a Latin King
$16.95 Add to cartThis riveting sequel to My Bloody Life traces Reymundo Sanchez’s struggle to create a “normal” life outside the Latin Kings, one of the nation’s most notorious street gangs, and to move beyond his pas
- Author: Sanchez, Reymundo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: October 01, 2004
- ISBN10: 1556525532
- Language: English
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Capone: The Man and the Era
$24.00 Add to cartIn this brilliant history of Prohibition and its most notorious gangster, acclaimed biographer Laurence Bergreen takes us to the gritty streets of Chicago where Al Capone forged his sinister empire.
B- Author: Bergreen, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: August 05 1996
- ISBN10: 0684824477
- Language: English
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
$21.00 Add to cart#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile comes the true tale of the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago and the cunni… [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 10 2004
- ISBN10: 0375725601
- Language: English
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Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
$17.95 Add to cartOn May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that c… [more below]
- Author: Green, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 1400033225
- Language: English
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A Raisin in the Sun
$20.00 Add to cart“Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people’s lives been seen on the stage,” observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Hansberry, Lorraine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 22 1995
- ISBN10: 679601724
- Language: English
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Perennials for Illinois
$19.95 Add to cartPerennial gardening can be easy, fun and rewarding, especially when you have this beautifully illustrated guide at your fingertips. With detailed accounts of 92 different perennials, along with inform… [more below]
- Series: Perennials for . . .
- Author: Aldrich, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 11 2003
- ISBN10: 1551053780
- Language: English
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So Big
$17.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize
“A masterpiece.” — Literary Review – “A novel to read and to remember.” —New York Times
Widely regarded as the masterwork of celebrated author and Algonquin Round Table ma
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Ferber, Edna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0061859982
- Language: English
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A Season of Gifts
$9.99 Add to cartOne of the most adored characters in children’s literature is the eccentric, forceful, bighearted Grandma Dowdel, star of the Newbery Award-winning A Year Down Yonder and Newbery Honor-winning A Long … [more below]
- Author: Peck, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0142417297
- Language: English
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Studs Lonigan
$25.00 Add to cartCollected here in one volume is James T. Farrell’s renowned trilogy of the youth, early manhood, and death of Studs Lonigan: Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day. In thi… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Farrell, James T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0141186739
- Language: English
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Broken Icarus: The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, the Golden Age of Aviation, and the Rise of Fascism
$29.95 Read more2022 History Book Festival Official Selection.
The 1930s still conjure painful images: the great want of the Depression, and overseas, the exuberant crowds motivated by self-appointed national saviors
- Author: Hanna, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 15 2022
- ISBN10: 163388676X
- Language: English
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The House on Mango Street
$30.00 Read moreA TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK
NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago – Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in sc- Author: Cisneros, Sandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 26 1994
- ISBN10: 067943335X
- Language: English
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Chicago’s Wrigley Field
$24.99 Read moreWrigley Field is the second oldest ballpark currently in use in the major leagues, but it ranks first in the hearts of Cubs fans. Rooting for the home team from the corner of Clark and Addison to smal… [more below]
- Series: Images of Baseball
- Author: Peterson, Paul Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0738533750
- Language: English
