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Author
Publisher
Agora Books
Language
English
Description
"When Detective Lauren Medina sees the calling card at a murder scene in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood, she knows the Pied Piper has returned. When another teenager is brutally murdered at the same lagoon where her sister's body was found floating years before, she is certain that the Pied Piper is not just back, he's looking for payment he's owed from her. Lauren's torn between protecting the city she has sworn to keep safe, and keeping a...
Author
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sara is terrified. She's doing the one thing she cannot afford to do: fall in love with former pro-football player Adam Black, a man everyone knows. Sara's been hidden away in the witness protection program, her safety dependent on staying invisible-and loving Adam could get her killed! Introducing the O'Malleys, an inspirational group of seven, all abandoned or orphaned as teens, who have made the choice to become a loyal and committed family. They...
Author
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When T'Challa gets special permission to have his friends from America, Sheila and Zeke, come to Wakanda, he can't wait to show them his home for a change. But their tour is brought to a halt when one of T'Challa's peers, Tafari, summons dark forces in order to return Wakanda to the 'old ways' before Vibranium was discovered. Tafari manages to banish the King and Queen along with all the tribal elders to an alternate dimension in exchange for the...
84) The firebrand
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Chicago is burning
And Lucy Hathaway is running for her life. As she rushes past a fine hotel engulfed in flames, a wrapped bundle tumbles from a window into her arms. Seconds later the building crumbles-and Lucy is astonished to discover the swaddled blanket contains a baby.
Five years later Lucy walks into Rand Higgins's bank and knows: the orphan she rescued that day actually belongs to this ruthless financier. Now, to keep the child she's come...
86) Homeland
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
785 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A monumental American novel about one man's rise from life as a penniless immigrant to the head of a family empire In the tradition of great writers like Charles Dickens and John Steinbeck, John Jakes crafts a sweeping family drama. In late-nineteenth-century Chicago, the tragedies and triumphs of the Crowns illustrate the power of the American Dream. As immigrants to America, their turbulent story spans a decade marked by the vicious Pullman Strike,...
87) Gone for good
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Lovelorn Killer murdered seven women, ritually binding them and leaving them for dead before penning them gruesome love letters in the local papers. Then he disappeared, and after twenty years with no trace of him, many believe that he's gone for good. Not Grace Harper. A grocery store manager by day, at night Grace uses her snooping skills as part of an amateur sleuth group. She believes the Lovelorn Killer is still living in the same neighborhoods...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
A hidden key that opens a drawer locked for the past eight years, a mysterious envelope filled with cash, and a threatening note... None of this is what rising radio star Vivian Witchell expects to find in her late father's office. But when Vivian stumbles into trouble, she hardly knows how to steer herself back to safety. With the handsome and maddeningly practical private detective Charlie Haverman at her side, Vivian spends the holiday season uncovering...
Author
Series
Maya and the rising dark volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this highly anticipated sequel, Maya and the godlings must return to the sinister world of The Dark to retrieve the one thing keeping the veil between the worlds from crumbling: her father's soul. Perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky and Willa of the Wood.
The threat from The Dark is far from over. Twelve-year-old Maya knows this. After crossing the veil between the two worlds, saving her father, and narrowly escaping the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Harry has faced terrible odds before. He has a long history of fighting enemies above his weight class. The Red Court of Vampires. The fallen angels of the Order of Blackened Denarius. The Outsiders. But this time, it's different. A being more powerful and dangerous on an order of magnitude beyond what the world has seen in a millennia is coming. And she's bringing an army. The Last Titan has declared war on the city of Chicago, and has come to subjugate...
Author
Series
American heiresses volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Miss Beatrix Waterbury's Chicago-bound train ride is interrupted by a heist, Mr. Norman Nesbit, a man of science who believes his research was the target of the heist, comes to her aid. Despite the fact that they immediately butt heads, they join forces to make a quick escape. Upon her arrival in Chicago, Beatrix is surprised to discover her supposedly querulous Aunt Gladys shares her own suffragette passions. Encouraged by Gladys to leave her...
96) Shadow warrior
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Vittorio Ferraro is a man whose family loyalty knows no bounds. He would die for his siblings and the people they love, but what he really wants is to start a family of his own. Deep down, Vittorio has always known finding a woman who could ride shadows would be nearly impossible--let alone one who could accept his particular needs--and he never expected to find her in the middle of a kidnapping.... Grace Murphy has always been drawn to Vittorio...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Santiago "Saint" Vega gets a second shot at love with Lola Le̤n, but when duty to his family forces him to do something she'll never forgive, will everything he's built come crumbling down? Years ago, Saint walked away from the girl he loved to fulfill his duty. Now he's struggling to build bridges between his drifting family, take on more responsibilities at his uncle's construction company, figure out why his daughter refuses to talk at school...
99) Finding Langston
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
107 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
100) The keepers
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mason 'Mace' Reid lives on the outskirts of Chicago and specializes in human remains detection--that is, he trains dogs to hunt for dead bodies. He calls his pack of cadaver dogs The Finders, and his prize pupil is a golden retriever named Vira. When Mace Reid and Vira are called in to search Washington Park at three o'clock in the morning, what they find has them running for their very lives. The trail of murder and mayhem Mace and CPD Officer Kippy...