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- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Roe is like any other fifteen year old suburban Chicago teenager. Her only worries are schoolwork, keeping up with her wayward best friend, and whether or not she should sleep with her boyfriend. Then her adoptive father, a locksmith,...
Rico Stays (Pigeon-Blood Red #3)
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
After enforcer Richard “Rico” Sanders stepped in to protect his girlfriend from a local mob boss’s hot-headed nephew, all hell broke loose. When the smoke cleared, the nephew had vanished and three goons lay dying where they’d stood. Fighting...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Late 1800s
The story is of Chicago World’s Fair in 1893 and it is fascinating because the fair ties together the past and the future when it comes to business, politics, architecture, science and culture.
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Charles “Cash” Carmichael traded his high-rise condo and family-firm career for a job coaching soccer for Chicago’s inner-city kids. He’s adjusting to living on minimum wage when his young cousin, newly out and running away from home, shows up...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century
Upton Sinclair’s dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the twentieth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled...
The Last Straw (Pigeon-Blood Red Book #2)
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When a teenage girl witnesses a carjacking gone bad, she is marked for death by a crime boss with no apparent motive. A black lawyer and a white enforcer with an unlikely history forge an uneasy alliance to protect...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Periods in the 20th Century
Chicago 1931. Harper Curtis, a violent drifter, stumbles on a house with a secret as shocking as his own twisted nature – it opens onto other times. He uses it to stalk his carefully chosen ‘shining girls’ through the...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Only available second hand, but still a great novel set at O’Hare aiport. It is an intense, and detailed look at a few people’s lives over a period of a few hours – airport staff, airline crews, passengers, relatives.
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
In Chris Ware’s own words, ‘Building Stories follows the inhabitants of a three-flat Chicago apartment house: a thirty-year-old woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life: a couple who wonder if...
- Location(s): Chicago, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
It’s 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the speakeasies...