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- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
He’s not the guy you date. He’s the one night stand. You’d think the man who sends hot looks my way, who called me succulent, would want to strip me to my skin and spread me out on his...
Make Me A City: a novel of Chicago
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
- Era(s): 1800s onwards
It is 1800. On desolate, marshy ground between Lake Michigan and the Illinois River, a man builds a house and a city is born … This masterful debut novel spans Chicago’s tumultuous first century, showing how a city is...
- 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...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
Set in Chicago, Illinois in the 1930s, Native Son is not a sugar-coated tale. It is a tale of a black man trapped by rules that pin him down, pen him in, force him to live in a certain...
- 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...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Food and Drink, Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
As the executive culinary assistant to celebrity Chicago chef Patrick Conlon, Alana Ostermann works behind the scenes–and that’s just the way she likes it. But with developing recipes for Patrick’s cookbooks, training his sous chefs, picking out the perfect...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can’t get the girl out of her head… Heidi...
- Location(s): Colorado, Chicago
- Genre(s): Graphic Novel
- Era(s): Modern
A MAN BOOKER PRIZE LONGLIST NOMINEE 2018 Where is Sabrina?The answer is hidden on a videotape, a tape which is en route to several news outlets, and about to go viral. A landmark graphic novel, already hailed as one...
- Location(s): South Side (Chicago)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Ruby King’s mother is found murdered in their home in Chicago’s South Side, the police dismiss it as another act of violence in a black neighborhood. But for Ruby, it’s a devastating loss that leaves her on her...
- 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....
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