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- 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
- 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 Fairytale Chicago of Francesca Finnegan
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....