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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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Blood Rites
$10.99 Add to cartIn 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
$10.99 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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The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Cubs: A Decade-By-Decade History
$40.00 Add to cartThe 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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Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds: Volume 1
$8.99 Add to cartA 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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The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
$21.00 Read more**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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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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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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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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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
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Runner
$26.00 Read more“Lapel-grabbing and provocative…Clark writes with purpose, her sense of social justice never venturing into dogma but remaining fully rooted in Raines’s actions and personality.” – The New York Time… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Mystery
- Author: Clark, Tracy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1496732014
- Language: English
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The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence
$34.50 Read moreTorture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens–and that the torturers are the police. Three to five new claims are submitt… [more below]
- Author: Ralph, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 09 2020
- ISBN10: 022665009X
- Language: English
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Chicago Stadium
$24.99 Read moreBuilt in 1929, Chicago Stadium was the crowning achievement of local sports promoter Paddy Harmon. The largest sports arena in the world when it was built, the stadium was completed at a total cost of… [more below]
- Series: Images of Sports
- Author: Peterson, Paul Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0738583073
- Language: English
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Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair
$23.99 Read moreStep into the future of the past in Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair
What came to be known as the World’s Columbian Exposition was planned to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s 149
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Di Cola, Joseph M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 08 2012
- ISBN10: 0738594415
- Language: English
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Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago
$18.00 Read more“Chicago is a tale of two cities,” headlines declare. This narrative has been gaining steam alongside reports of growing economic divisions and diverging outlooks on the future of the city. Yet to kee… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Kotlowitz, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 16 2019
- ISBN10: 022661901X
- Language: English
