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Maya and the Rising Dark

Maya and the Rising Dark
  • Author(s): Rena Barron
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

In 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 Dark world. Perfect for fans of Aru Shah...

The Cost of Knowing

The Cost of Knowing
  • Author(s): Brittney Morris
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the acclaimed author of SLAY, comes a gripping novel, about brothers, grief, and what it means to be a young Black man in America. For fans of Dear Martin and They Both Die at the End. Sixteen year...

Scritch Scratch

Scritch Scratch
  • Author(s): Lindsay Currie
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

For fans of Small Spaces and the Goosebumps series by R.L Stine comes a chilling ghost story based on real Chicago history about a malevolent spirit, an unlucky girl, and a haunting mystery that will tie the two together....

Wild Women and the Blues

Wild Women and the Blues
  • Author(s): Denny S Bryce
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1925, 2015

1925: Chicago is the jazz capital of the world, and the Dreamland Café is the ritziest black-and-tan club in town. Honoree Dalcour is a sharecropper’s daughter, willing to work hard and dance every night on her way to the...

Infinite

Infinite
  • Author(s): Brian Freeman
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From bestselling author Brian Freeman comes an explosive new psychological thriller that pushes the limits of reality as we know it. One rainy night, the unthinkable happens: Dylan Moran’s car plunges off the road into a raging river, his...

The Torrents of Spring

The Torrents of Spring
  • Author(s): Ernest Hemingway
  • Location(s): Chicago, Illinois
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Satire
  • Era(s): 1926

First published in 1926, The Torrents of Spring is a hilarious parody of the Chicago school of literature. Poking fun at that “great race” of writers, it depicts a vogue that Hemingway himself refused to follow. In style and...

This Heart of Mine

This Heart of Mine
  • Author(s): Susan Elizabeth Phillips
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Molly Somerville knows she has a reputation for trouble. She did give away her fifteen-million-dollar inheritance, but, hey, nobody’s perfect. Still, if anyone has an almost perfect life, it’s Molly. While her Daphne the Bunny children’s books could be...

Don’t You Cry

Don’t You Cry
  • Location(s): Chicago, Illinois
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

In downtown Chicago, Esther Vaughan disappears from her apartment without a trace. A haunting letter addressed to My Dearest is found among her possessions, leaving her roommate Quinn Collins to question how well she really knew her friend. Meanwhile,...

O, Democracy!

O, Democracy!
  • Author(s): Kathleen Rooney
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2008

It’s late spring of 2008, and one of Illinois’ two Democratic senators is poised to become the next president of the United States. Colleen Dugan works for the other one — not on Capitol Hill, but in a Chicago...

Atomic Love

Atomic Love
  • Author(s): Jennie Fields
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1950s

Chicago, 1950: Rosalind Porter is unfulfilled, heartbroken and angry. Five years ago her career as a scientist was sabotaged by the man who also broke her heart: former Manhattan Project colleague Thomas Weaver. Now, out of the blue, Thomas...

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