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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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Erik Larson
The story of two men's obsessions with the Chicago World's Fair, one its architect, the other a murderer. "The Devil in the White City" draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke ...
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Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse
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James Wesley Rawles
Already a cult success in the US after publication, reaching the top 40 on Amazon, "Patriots" is a thrilling novel of survival set in a not-too-distant future breakdown of civilization. "Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse" is a thinking man's action-adventure novel set in the near future, as America is torn by a full scale socio-economic ...
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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
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Sudhir Venkatesh
First introduced in "Freakonomics," here is the full story of Sudhir Venkatesh, the sociology graduate student who infiltrated one of Chicago's most notorious gangs.
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Then We Came to the End
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Joshua Ferris
Every office is a family of sorts, and the ad agency Ferris brilliantly depicts in his debut novel is a family at its strangest and best, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks.
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Dead Beat: A Novel of the Dresden Files
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Jim Butcher
As the seventh installment in the Dresden Files opens, Chicago wizard Harry Dresden's biggest problem is that his roommate, his vampire/incubus half-brother Thomas, won't clean up after himself or feed the cat and dog. But things get much worse fast. Harry has three days to find the Word of Kemmler, the supreme spellbook of a powerful and ...
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Lord of the Flies
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Sir William Golding (Read by)
In this now-classic tale--a terrifying variation on the traditional boys' adventure story--the brutal behavior of a group of English schoolboys left stranded on a deserted island after an atomic war is an allegory for the defects of society.
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Proven Guilty
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Jim Butcher
The White Council of Wizards has drafted Harry Dresden to look into rumors of black magic in Chicago. Malevolent entities that feed on fear are loose, but it's all in a day's work for a wizard, his dog, and a talking skull named Bob. Soon to be a major Sci-Fi Channel series produced by Nicholas Cage.
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Death Masks: Book Five of the Dresden Files
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Jim Butcher
Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing wizard, is hired by a mysterious priest to find the stolen Shroud of Turin. But first, Harry must deal with the Red Court of Vampires' champion, professional hit men, and the return of his semi-vampire former girlfriend. Original.
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Summer Knight: Book Four of the Dresden Files
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Jim Butcher
Professional wizard Harry Dresden is approached by the Winter Queen of Faerieto find out who murdered the Summer Queen's right-hand man. Soon, Harry findsout that the fate of the entire world rests on his solving this case.
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Tribulation Force: The Continuing Drama of Those Left Behind
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Dr. Tim LaHaye, Jerry B Jenkins
In this sequel to the bestseller Left Behind, Rayford Steele and Cameron Williams find themselves pressed into services for the man they believe could be the antichrist. Nicolae Carpathia takes over the United Nations, signs a peace treaty with Israel, and begins to lure the nations of earth together to form one global village. Meanwhile, the ...
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Grave Peril: Book Three of the Dresden Files
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Jim Butcher
Chicago's wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden faces the toughest foe of his career: the ghost of an evil wizard who invades people's nightmares, and who uses other ghosts as lethal weapons. Harry tries to figure out why so many victims have ties to him--and if he doesn't figure it out soon, he could wind up a ghost himself.
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Blood Rites: Book Six of the Dresden Files
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Jim Butcher
Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, takes on a case as a favor to his friend Thomas--a vampire of dubious integrity--only to become the prime suspect in a series of ghastly murders. Original.
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The Target
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Catherine Coulter
A young girl who is mute becomes the target of a gang of venomous strangers who pursue her and her mother into the Rockies, and then on to Chicago. The girl and her mother, Molly Santana, become entangled early on with Ramsey Hunt, a judge who is looking to escape the brouhaha surrounding a courtroom shooting.
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House on Mango Street
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Sandra Cisneros
In this novel about coming of age in Chicago, Esperanza Cordero grows up in its inner-city slums and resolves to transcend her background.
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Native Son
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Richard Wright
Bigger Thomas, a young black man in Chicago, murders two women and is condemned to death. Bigger, whose crimes escalate as the story takes its sad and terrible course, feels--like Dostoyevsky's Raskolnikov in CRIME AND PUNISHMENT--that the act of murder is a kind of existential act, and is the only kind of freedom he has ever known. Wright ...
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Jungle
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Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair's classic work of muckraking fiction tells the unsavory truth about Chicago's stockyards at the turn of the 20th century.
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Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year
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Esme Raji Codell
Esme Codell's diary of her first year as a fifth-grade teacher in Chicago's public schools. Ms. Esme's enthusiasm never wavers. Her classroom is an active one, full of projects and activities from storytelling to conflict resolution sessions. Outside the classroom, she endures doubting colleagues, a perplexing bureaucracy, and a principal who at ...
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Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days
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Dr. Tim LaHaye, Jerry B Jenkins
Based on the apocalyptic prophesies of the Book of Revelation, this book tells the harrowing story of commercial airlines pilot Captain Rayford Steele, a wayward Christian who is left behind on earth following the end of the world. The first of 12 books in an astoundingly successful series of Christian action novels shows Rayford's gradual climb ...
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Raisin in the Sun
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Lorraine Hansberry
The award-winning, now classic drama about a working-class African-American family on the South Side of Chicago--their hopes, their dreams, their aspirations.
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Die Trying
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Lee Child
Two armed strangers abduct a dentist, an unknown woman, and ex-military policeman Jack Reacher, who must try to save them all before they simply become pawns in a larger scheme that none of them can fully understand. Reacher must act immediately, though, as the kidnappers plan to act quickly--and lethally.
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
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Karen Abbott
Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history. Culminating in a dramatic last stand between brothel keepers and crusading reformers, this book presents a vivid snapshot of Americas journey from Victorian-era propriety to 20th-century modernity.
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
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William Cronon
An American frontier study, focusing on the fastest growing city of 19th-century America - Chicago. It shows the land as it was when inhabited by Indians and a few white settlers, and the frenzy of development of the meat-packing industry, the grain emporiums and the lumber markets which followed.
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Across Five Aprils
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Irene Hunt
The unforgettable story of young Jethro Creighton, who comes of age during the turbulent years of the Civil War, by the Newbery Award-winning author of "Up a Road Slowly." "An impressive book both as a historically authentic Civil War novel and as a beautifully written family story."--University of Chicago Center for Children's Books.
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If This World Were Mine
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E Lynn Harris
Four college friends form a journal-writing group in an attempt to weather the various storms of life.
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Holler If You Hear Me: The Education of a Teacher and His Students
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Gregory Michie
In this time of narrowed curricula and high-stakes accountability, Gregory Michie's tales of struggle and triumph are as relevant as ever. Since it was first published in 1999, Holler has become essential reading for new and seasoned teachers alike, and an inspiring read for many others. Weaving back and forth between Michie's awakening as a ...
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