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1) Native son
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Bigger, a young black man in Chicago, kills his first victim in a moment of panic. He then goes on to kill again. The book describes the feelings of freedom and identity Bigger gains from these acts.
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No one would accuse V.I. Warshawski of backing down from a fight, but there are a few she'd be happy to avoid. High on that list is tangling with Chicago political bosses. Yet that's precisely what she ends up doing when she responds to Frank Guzzo's plea for help. For six stormy weeks back in high school, V.I. thought she was in love with Frank. He broke up with her, she went off to college, he started driving trucks for Bagby Haulage. She forgot...
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"Through an heirloom charm bracelet three women will rediscover the importance of family, love, faith, friends, fun and a passion for living as the magic of each charm changes their lives. Lolly, still lives in the family cabin on Lost Land Lake where her mother gave her the charm bracelet that would become Lolly's talisman and connection to family past and Lolly hopes the present, but her daughter, Arden, and granddaughter, Lauren, haven't visited...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 26
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Sister Carrie is a Theodore Dreiser novel about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream. She first becomes a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later emerges as a famous actress. Sister Carrie is considered as the "greatest of all American urban novels." Theodore Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist who the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose...
5) Innocent
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Kindle County novels volume 8
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"More than twenty years after Rusty Sabich and Tommy Moto went head-to head in the murder trial of "Presumed Innocent", the men are pitted against each other once again. When Sabich, now over sixty years old and the chief judge of an appellate court, finds his wife, Barbara, dead under smysterious circumstances, Molto accuses him of murder for the second time..."--Jacket.
6) Turn Coat
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The search for a traitor in the highest circles of power forms the main plot thread of Butcher's 11th hard-boiled fantasy novel featuring Chicago's wizard detective Harry Dresden. Harry, a warden of the magic-governing White Council, finds himself in an unusual position when Morgan, his fellow warden and frequent antagonist, asks for his help. One of the White Council's leaders has been murdered, and Morgan was found at the scene of the crime holding...
7) Hardball
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Chicago's unique brand of ball is sixteen-inch slow pitch, played in leagues all over the city for more than a century. But in politics, in business, and in law enforcement, the game is hardball. When V. I. Warshawski is asked to find a man who's been missing for four decades, a search that she figured would be futile becomes lethal. Old skeletons from the city's racially charged history, as well as haunting family secrets-her own and those of the...
8) White Night
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Dresden files volume 9
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"Someone is targeting the city's magic practitioners, the members of the supernatural underclass who don't possess enough power to become full-fledged wizards. Many have vanished. Others appear to be victims of suicide. But the murderer has left a calling card at one of the crime scenes - a message for Harry, referencing the book of Exodus and the killing of witches." "Harry sets out to find the killer before he can strike again, but his investigation...
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Kindle County novels volume 3
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"Kindle County, Where skies are generally gray and the truth is seldom simple, is one of the most renowned and fascinating locales in contemporary American fiction. In Pleading Guilty Scott Turow takes us there again, in an edge-of-the-chair story rife with indelible characters and riveting suspense - 1993's most unforgettable reading experience." "Our guide is McCormack A. "Mack" Malloy, fiftyish ex-cop, almost ex-drunk, and partner-on-the-wane at...
10) Body Work
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The Body Artist allows her audience to use her naked body as a canvas for their impromptu illustrations. V.I. Warshawski watches as people step forward to make their mark. One woman's sketch triggers a violent outburst from a man at a nearby table. Quickly subdued, the man - an Iraqi war vet - leaves the club. Days later, the woman is shot outside the club. She dies in V.I.'s arms and the police move quickly to arrest the angry vet. V.I. is hired...
11) The real mother
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Sara Elliott once again puts aside her own dreams, leaving medical school to take care of her sisters after their mother is put into a nursing home. To find her way, and to shape her own and her sisters' future, Sara must discover the full meaning of family--and what it means to be a "real mother."
12) Fire Sale
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"V. I. Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but as she learns, she cannot escape it. When she takes over coaching duties of the girls' basketball team at her former high school, the detective faces an ill-equipped, ragtag group of gang-bangers, fundamentalists, and teenage moms who inevitably draw her into their family woes." "Through Josie, one of the basketball players, V. I. meets her mother, Ms. Dorrado, who voices her...
13) Find me
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Kathleen Mallory mysteries volume 9
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When a children's gravesite is found along Adams Streets, dozens of parents come seeking their missing children, some gone a decade or more, and Kathy Mallory, a feral child adopted off the street, searches for answers about her past.
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On wealthy philanthropist Cecil Wyatt's eightieth birthday, all the money in the world won't bring back his missing grandson, William Wyatt. The family, the police and the media all have tried in vain to discover the young man's fate. Now suspicion has turned shockingly toward William's own half-brother, the rather distant and enigmatic Mitchell Wyatt. Kate Donovan is tagged as a suspect in a high-society murder case, after a chance romantic encounter...
15) Blacklist
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V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 11
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This is a story of secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations-secrets political, social, sexual, financial: all of them with the power to kill. Eager for something physical to do in the spirit-exhausting wake of 9/11, V.I. accepts a request from an old client to check up on an empty family mansion; subsequently surprises an intruder in the dark; and, giving chase, topples into a pond. Grasping for something to hold on to, her fingers...
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William Morrow
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[2003]
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When a famous ego-squashing editor keels over at the speaker's podium at a mystery writers' convention, and a much-hated book-bashing journalist is himself bashed in the parking lot, it seems fairly certain that at least one real-life murderer is stalking the proceedings. Jane Jeffry is on the case, ready to snoop, eavesdrop, and gossip her way to a solution.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 23
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Chicago private investigator V. I. Warshawski plunges into the darkest and most emotionally shattering case of her career when she tries to unravel the mystery of a battered and discarded woman she finds lying in the street.
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Viking
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[1996]
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
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Beth Cappadora finds herself in the midst of every parent's nightmare when her three-year-old son vanishes without a trace from a Chicago hotel lobby, throwing Beth, her husband Pat, and their son Vincent into a turmoil that ravages their lives.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 42
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"With a rare blend of naive and sophisticated candor the hero, Augie March, described as a "runner after good things, servant of love, embarker on schemes, recruit of sublime ideas and good-time Charlie" takes the reader with him on his "campaign after a worthwhile fate." A picaresque twentieth-century adventure tale with an amazingly real assortment of characters, a vast number of episodes ranging in location from Chicago to Mexico, to shipwreck...
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Chicago Stars volume 6
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William Morrow
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[2005]
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Annabelle Granger, a loser in a family of winners, inherits her grandmother's matchmaking business and sets out to capture the richest, most successful sports agent in Chicago for a client. As a crowning achievement, he wants the perfect wife.