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Last Summer on State Street

Last Summer on State Street
  • Author(s): Toya Wolfe
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): 1990s

State Street Chicago, 1999. One summer that changes everything. An unlikely trio: Felicia ‘Fe Fe’ Stevens, daughter of fiercely protective mother; Precious Brown, daughter of a prominent church Elder; and Stacia Buchanan, daughter of a Gangster Disciple Queen-Pin. They...

Once You Know

Once You Know
  • Author(s): Madeleine Van Hecke
  • Location(s): Arizona, Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the dry heat of her Arizona home, feisty, Irish-Catholic Colleen Moretti thrust the letter into the back of a drawer. Her plan: ignore the fault line until the tremors pass. But her husband’s betrayal is far worse than...

The Lily Garden

The Lily Garden
  • Author(s): Barbara Josselsohn
  • Location(s): Chicago, Adirondacks
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She held the letter that she had found in the garden, and noticed the distinctive curls of her father’s handwriting etched on the worn paper. Her life had already been turned upside down by one family secret, would his...

Caramelo

Caramelo
  • Author(s): Sandra Cisneros
  • Location(s): Chicago, Mexico City
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern/20th century

Every year the three Reyes sons and their families drive south from Chicago via Route 66 to the home of the Awful Grandmother and the Little Grandfather on Destiny Street in Mexico City. From the back seat of her...

Chicago: A Novel

Chicago: A Novel
  • Author(s): Brian Doyle
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On the last day of summer, some years ago, a young college graduate moves to Chicago and rents a small apartment on the north side of the city, by the vast and muscular lake. This is the story of...

What The Lady Wants

What The Lady Wants
  • Author(s): Renée Rosen
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Gilded Age, beginning in 1870s

In late-nineteenth-century Chicago, visionary retail tycoon Marshall Field made his fortune wooing women customers with his famous motto: “Give the lady what she wants.” His legendary charm also won the heart of socialite Delia Spencer and led to an...

Deep Dark Night

Deep Dark Night
  • Author(s): Steph Broadribb
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A city in darkness. A building in lockdown. A score that can only be settled in blood… Working off the books for FBI Special Agent Alex Monroe, Florida bounty-hunter Lori Anderson and her partner, JT, head to Chicago. Their...

Disintegration

Disintegration
  • Author(s): Richard Thomas
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2000

Once a suburban husband and father, now the man has lost all sense of time. He retains only a few keepsakes of his former life: a handmade dining room table, an armoire and dresser from the bedroom, and a...

Find Me

Find Me
  • Author(s): Margaret Watson
  • Location(s): Chicago, San Juan Islands
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

After witnessing the murder of an FBI agent in a parking garage late one night, Lizzy Monroe meets with the FBI and agrees to work with a sketch artist. But on her way out of the office, she comes...

Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago

Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago
  • Author(s): Douglas Cowie
  • Location(s): Chicago, Guatemala, Mexico, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s/50s

Sharp and intimate, Douglas Cowie’s reimagining of the turbulent love affair between Simone de Beauvoir and Nelson Algren asks what it means to love and be loved by the right person at the wrong time. Chicago, 1947: on a...

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