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Seven for a Secret

Seven for a Secret
  • Author(s): Rumer Haven
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Paranormal, Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern / 1920s

It’s the year 2000, and twenty-four-year-old Kate moves into a new apartment to find a new state of independence in a new millennium. Almost immediately, she starts crushing on a hot guy who lives in her building. Deciding to...

Shadows the Sizes of Cities, A Novel

Shadows the Sizes of Cities, A Novel
  • Author(s): Gregory W Beaubien
  • Location(s): Morocco, Amsterdam, Chicago, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1994

While traveling with friends in Europe and Morocco, the young American reporter Will Clark is drawn into killing a drug dealer. Pursued by other gang members and the police, his bond with his companions broken and his sense of...

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...

The Fairytale Chicago of Francesca Finnegan

The Fairytale Chicago of Francesca Finnegan
  • Author(s): Steve Wiley
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There is magic in the city… In Chicago, a secret L train runs through the mythical East Side. On that train, you’ll discover fantastical truths about the city, alongside the most incredible cast of characters, including one exceptional girl by the...

The Fog Machine

The Fog Machine
  • Author(s): Susan Follett
  • Location(s): Mississippi, Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1954-1964

This exploration of prejudice and what enables and disables change is set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1964 and told from three very different perspectives. To Joan Barnes, 12 years old in the summer...

The Girl Who Came Home

The Girl Who Came Home
  • Author(s): Hazel Gaynor
  • Location(s): Chicago, The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1912 / 1980s

Inspired by true events, the New York Times bestselling novel The Girl Who Came Home is the poignant story of a group of Irish emigrants aboard RMS Titanic—a seamless blend of fact and fiction that explores the tragedy’s impact...

The Great Believers

The Great Believers
  • Author(s): Rebecca Makkai
  • Location(s): Paris, Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s and 1980s

In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup: bringing an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins...

The Light of Paris

The Light of Paris
  • Author(s): Eleanor Brown
  • Location(s): Chicago, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s looking back to 1920s

‘Soulfulness and emotional insight meet laugh-out-loud humour’ PAULA McLAIN, author of The Paris Wife Chicago, 1999. Madeleine is trapped – by her family’s expectations, by her controlling husband – in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted....

The Most Fun We Ever Had

The Most Fun We Ever Had
  • Author(s): Claire Lombardo
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

At a family wedding, the four Sorenson sisters polka-dot the green lawn in their summer pastels, with varying shades of hair and varying degrees of unease. Their long-infatuated parents watch on with a combination of love and concern. Sixteen...

The State We’re In

The State We’re In
  • Author(s): Adele Parks
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What are the odds that the stranger sitting next to you on a plane is destined to change your life? Especially when they appear to be your opposite in every way. She’s a life-long optimist, looking for her soul...

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