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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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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 Add to cartAlexandra 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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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
$24.00 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
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The Litigators
$18.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0345536886
- Language: English
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The Chicago Outfit
$23.99 Add to cartChicago’s legacy of organized crime is legendary. Through a vivid and visually stunning collection of images author John Binder tells the story of the people and places of the world of organized crime
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Binder, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 20, 2003
- ISBN10: 0738523267
- Language: English
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Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption
$18.95 Add to cartStreet Shadows recounts Jerald Walker’s renunciation of the “thug life” he had embraced as a teenager on the South Side of Chicago in favor of the education and middle-class life his parents had alway
- Author: Walker, Jerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01, 2012
- ISBN10: 0803240953
- Language: English
