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Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
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For childhood friends Leo Kelly, Jane Devlin, and newly ordained "Packy" Keenan, the summers they spent at the lake together were times of pure magic. And no summer was more enchanting than the summer of 1948, until a tragic car wreck killed two of their friends.
The rich and prominent "Old House" families of Chicago banded together to protect their own, the driver, who was drunk, was the son of a local doctor. There was a cover-up and a vicious...
82) Lieberman's law
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Somewhere in Israel Near the Jordan Border, 1973: On a desert road outside a small Israeli town, two Muslim families ride home in a battered van. The children joke and play. The adults argue about money, and Ali Mohammed drives nervously. The night is dark. Suddenly, the windshield of the van shatters. Conversation ceases abruptly as an automatic weapon peppers the careening vehicle, which turns on its side and skids noisily along the road. A lone...
83) Total Recall
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In Paretsky's most mesmerizing novel yet, V.I. Warshawski probes a world of personal crisis, recovered memory, and international fraud with the hallmark grit and moral passion that have made her one of the most admired private investigators in contemporary fiction. distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
Author
Series
Road to Perdition graphic novels volume 1
Language
English
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Michael Sullivan is a professional hit man bound to the criminal underworld of 1930s who learns a viiolent lesson one rainy night when his wife and youngest son are killed. Sullivan and his last surviving child face off aginist the most notorious crime syndicate in history--on a journey of revenge and self-discovery.
85) The lies we tell
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In THE LIES WE TELL by Theresa Schwegel, Chicago police detective Gina Simonetti is keeping a secret from the department: she has multiple sclerosis. Raising her young niece on her own, Gina hides her disease; she can't afford to lose her job. Anyway, she is healthier than most of the cops she knows, and greatly appreciates the responsibility of caring for a child. But Gina's secret is threatened when a colleague calls her in to help trace a suspect:...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
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Description
A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems.
A literary tour de force, here is a novel unlike any other, one in which drug addiction, poverty, and human failure somehow suggest a defense of human dignity and a reason for hope....
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"Jill Wasserstrom, a studious and idealistic eighth-grader at Chicago's Boone Elementary School, is preparing to defend the Ayatollah Khomeini in a school debate, and then sabotage her Bat Mitzvah.".
"Her best friend, Muley Wills, is in live with her, though he can't understand her obsession with Iran. He himself is obsessed with a figure of his imagination: a long-lost cousin, the alluring Soviet defector Peachy Moskowitz, the unpredictable and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Q-Boro Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Protecting sassy Sugar Owens from her husband, a powerful religious leader, arrogant security CEO David Price soon discovers that Sugar is not what she seems when the preacher is murdered and he stands accused of the crime.
90) Political poison
Author
Series
Paul Turner mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Paul Turner is not your typical middle-aged cop. A widower, he lives with his two teenaged sons, and he is gay. He is also trusted by the brass to handle sensitive cases, so when a Chicago Alderman is found murdered, Turner is assigned to the case. The dead Alderman was not only a professor at the University of Chicago, but also a leading liberal gadfly with the media's ear. As Turner investigates, he discovers that jealous professors and old-guard...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
In the City of Meat, Charles Swagger is on the hunt for notorious bank robber Baby Face Nelson when he traces a tip to the Chicago stock yards. While there, he's brutally assaulted and discovers that the madman who attacked him is involved in a nearby narcotics ring with plans to spread its new drug to the residents of the disenfranchised 7th District of Chicago. Worse, this is no ordinary drug, it makes some users happy, drives others insane, and...
Author
Series
Abe Lieberman mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Forge/Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When the target of an extradition case in Arizona is gunned down, detective Abe Lieberman pursues the killer's identity, while priest Bill Hanrahan struggles with a racist and sexist colleague who thwarts a rape investigation.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Dove "Birdie" Randolph's close bond with her parents is threatened by a family secret, and by hiding her relationship with Booker, who has been in juvenile detention.
95) Trigger city
Author
Series
Ray Dudgeon novels volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Investigating the death of a shy, unassuming woman for a grieving father brings Chicago PI Ray Dudgeon into a covert war between private contractors and the darkest sectors of our own government --a war that stretches from the closed-door hearings of Congress to the frontlines of Iraq.
Author
Series
Ron Shade mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Shade's investigation takes a walk on the seedy side, and begins to attract the attention of some very powerful enemies. But whenever Shade gets close to the truth, somebody seems to end up dead, and he suddenly finds himself the prime suspect in a homicide investigation.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1941 Chicago, fifteen-year-old Ruby, a Polish-American girl from the slums, leaves her meat-packing plant job to be a "taxi" dancer, paid a dime apiece to dance with men in a dance hall, and becomes entangled with the mob.
98) Green thumbs-up!
Author
Series
Friendship garden volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Third-grader Anna has had trouble making friends since her family moved from a small town in New York to Chicago, but a group project at school leads to new opportunities, including friendships, a club, and a garden she can work in, just like in her last home.
Author
Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume Related works
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Nine stories on PI V.I. Warshawski of Chicago, mostly involving friends and family. In one, at the request of an Italian cousin she searches for sheet music which belonged to her mother, in another a friend asks her aid in recovering a stolen family sculpture.
100) Officer down
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Knocked unconscious during a police sting operation, police officer Samantha Mack awakens in the hospital to discover that her partner is dead, shot with her gun, but when she embarks on her own investigation, she is suspended.