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1. Chicago Days/Hoboken Nights
by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
The story of a young man who finds himself somewhat unexpectedly a fine arts major in college, a fledgling sculptor in Chicago, a gadabout painter in ... More
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2. Twelve Plus Me
by Pat D Likes
Meet "Pike County Patsie," the youngest of 13 Dunker children, as she relives her growing up years in a farm home just across the shining Mississippi ... More
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5. Outhouses to Computers
by Pearle Lange
A farm girl matures through the Depression. Follow her as she struggles for her education, teaches in one-room schools, becomes a wife and mother. ... More
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6. Good in a Crisis: A Memoir of Divorce, Dating, and Other Near-Death Experiences
by Margaret Overton
My story begins with a divorce During the four years of physician Margaret Overton's acrimonious divorce, she dated widely and sometimes ... More
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7. The Man from Waukegan
by J P Zabolski
The Man From Waukegan is a man born and raised in an industrial town halfway between Milwaukee and Chicago. Thirty years ago he graduated from its ... More
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10. When Corruption Was King: How I Helped the Mob Rule Chicago, Then Brought the Outfit Down
Former Chicago mob lawyer Cooley tells of living a double life in order to turn on his cronies and help the federal government take down America's ... More
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11. My Chicago
by Jane Byrne
From John Kennedy's campaign in 1960 to the violence of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, from the heyday of Mayor Richard Daley's famous ... More
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12. Good in a Crisis: A Memoir
by Margaret Overton
During the four years of physician Margaret Overton's acrimonious divorce, she dated widely and sometimes indiscriminately, determined to find her ... More
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13. Farm on Nippersink Creek
by Jim May
Likened by critics to Garrison Keillor only more deliberate and elegiac Jim May writes the stories of his youth, growing up in the rural Midwest ... More
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14. Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
by George Horace Lorimer
George Horace Lorimer (1869-1937) was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He attended Moseley High School in Chicago, Colby College, and Yale University. ... More
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15. The Cooked Seed: A Memoir
by Anchee Min
From Anchee Min, the author of the internationally bestselling memoir "Red Azalea" -the eagerly awaited sequel, in which she comes to America to find ... More
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16. American Sniper CD: American Sniper CD
by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen
Gripping, eye-opening, and powerful, American Sniper is the astonishing autobiography of SEAL Chief Chris Kyle, who is the record-holding sniper in U ... More
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17. Hurry Down Sunshine: A Father's Story of Love and Madness
by Michael Greenberg
A "Time" Best Book of the Year, this mesmerizing account tells the story of the extraordinary summer when, at the age of 15, Greenberg's daughter, ... More
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18. Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores: How We Overcame Hardship to Raise a Happy Family in the 1950s
by Winifred Foley
After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north ... More
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19. Not Without Hope
by Nick Schuyler, Jere Longman
The true story of the headline-making tragedy that took the lives of three football players, "Not Without Hope" tells a tale of survival against ... More
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20. Twenty-Two Faces: Inside the Extraordinary Life of Jenny Hill and Her Twenty-Two Multiple Personalities
by Judy Byington, Colin A Ross, M.D. (Foreword by)
As the only known survivor-intended-victim of a human sacrificial ceremony, Jenny Hill is living proof that ritual abuse is, in fact, a reality. With ... More
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21. The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss
by Dennis McKenna
Reveals the story of the McKenna brothers' eye-opening expedition to the Amazon in 1971 for psychedelic research. Once introduced by famed (or ... More
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22. Never Tell Our Business to Strangers: A Memoir
by Jennifer Mascia
After years of crisscrossing the country, Mascia's mother finally revealed that Jennifer's early life had been spent on the lam. What had her parents ... More
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23. Flotsam and Jetsam: The Collected Adventures, Opinions, and Wisdom from a Life Spent Messing about in Boats
by Robb White, Bailey White (Foreword by)
A magnificent omnibus of all the nautical writings of Robb White.
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24. A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea
by Mr. Richard Phillips, Stephan Talty
It was just another day on the job for Phillips, captain of the "Maersk Alabama." That all changed when armed Somali pirates boarded the ship. "A ... More
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25. The Taconic Tragedy: A Son's Search for the Truth
by Jeanne Bastardi
On July 26, 2009 Diane Schuler packed up the campsite, piled five children into her minivan and headed for home on Long Island after a weekend of ... More
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