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41) Darling
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In a modern reimagining of "Peter Pan," Wendy Darling meets a boy named Peter on her first night in Chicago, where they run through the city's underground and encounter a punk named Tinkerbelle, the lost boys that Peter watches over, and the frightening Detective Hook.
Author
Series
Jane Jeffry mysteries volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Agatha Award winner Jill Churchill has delighted fans for years with her Jane Jeffry mysteries. Jane is finally getting married to longtime boyfriend Mel, who's convinced her and her best friend Shelley to take a self-defense class. But when two people in the class are murdered, all thoughts of learning karate are put on hold. And of course, there's still that pesky matter of a wedding to plan.
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Responding to a domestic disturbance call on the Ojibwe reservation, Tamarack County sheriff Cork O'Connor barely escapes a sniper attack and stumbles into the investigation of a Chicago businessman's murder.
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Three Chicago students, Melissa, Wilf, and Bondi, are unlikely participants in a competition for a ten thousand-dollar scholarship, unaware that there is much more at stake.
45) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
46) Unspoken
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Charlotte Graham's never spoken about her kidnapping. Sixteen years later, she's back in Chicago and she is the only one who knows the truth. But, even now, can she risk sharing it?"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.
49) Hold fast
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
On a cold winter day in Chicago, Early's father disappeared, and now she, her mother and her brother have been forced to flee their apartment and join the ranks of the homeless--and it is up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
The daughter of notorious, high-profile thief Bobby Rose, journalist Sophie Rose leaves her job at a major Chicago newspaper for a small local paper, but when she stumbles into the middle of a bizarre story, she follows the trail of the mystery north to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, accompanied by a bodyguard, Jack Prescott, a sexy FBI agent.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Here, together for the first time, are the shorter works of #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher -- a compendium of cases that Harry Dresden and his cadre of allies managed to close in record time. The tales range from the deadly serious to the absurdly hilarious. Also included is a new, never-before-published novella that takes place after the cliff-hanger ending of the new April 2010 hardcover, Changes.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In an award-winning debut novel, a sharecropper's daughter navigates celebrity encounters, bootlegging and gangster activities in Jazz Age Chicago before sharing her story with a grieving film student nearly a century later.
53) Chicago baby
Author
Publisher
[Duo Press LLC
Pub. Date
c2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Fun things to see and talk about in Chicago, baby!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling “queen of paranormal romance” (USA Today) is back with a sexy series starring a Chicago crime family that hides a dark, mystical secret...
Whether it’s fast cars or fast women, Stefano Ferraro gets what he wants. When he’s not fodder for the paparazzi, he commands Ferraro family businesses—both legitimate and illegitimate.
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Whether it’s fast cars or fast women, Stefano Ferraro gets what he wants. When he’s not fodder for the paparazzi, he commands Ferraro family businesses—both legitimate and illegitimate.
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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When we last left the mighty wizard detective Harry Dresden, he wasn't doing well. In fact, he had been murdered by an unknown assassin. But being dead doesn't stop Harry when his friends are in danger. Except now he has nobody, and no magic to help him. And there are also several dark spirits roaming the Chicago shadows who owe Harry some payback of their own. To save his friends - and his own soul - Harry will have to pull off the ultimate trick...
56) Pumpkin spice
Author
Series
Friendship garden volume 2
Publisher
[Simon & Schuster]
Pub. Date
[2015].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Anna and her community gardening friends are excited for the Windy City Pumpkin Fest but then their prize pumpkin disappears in the second book in the Friendship Garden series.."--provided by the publisher.
57) Breakdown
Author
Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the teenage daughters of some of Chicago's most influential families discover the body of a ritually murdered victim, investigator Warshawski explores theories that the killing is linked to a hostile media campaign against a senatorial candidate or a wealthy patriarch's childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania.
Author
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
After her bachelorette party, Maggie Trueheart wakes up hungover and in bed with a stranger. Then she's hit with the harrowing news of Angie's murder; her friend who had been alive at the party last night. In the build up to the wedding day, more secrets are revealed and the murderer zeros in on another victim. Can the killer be stopped in time?
59) Muse
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
American Royals meets The Winner's Curse in the first book of a dazzling duology from New York Times bestselling author Brittany Cavallaro about revolution, love, and friendship in a reimagined American monarchy.
The year is 1893, and war is brewing in the First American Kingdom. But Claire Emerson has a bigger problem. Claire's father is a sought-after inventor, but he believes his genius is a gift granted
...Author
Series
Knitting in the city volume 1
Publisher
Cipher-Naught
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
After losing her boyfriend, apartment, and job in the same day, Janie Morris can't help wondering what new torment fate has in store. To her mortification, Quinn Sullivan-- aka Sir McHotpants, the focus of her slightly stalkerish tendencies-- witnesses it all then keeps turning up like a pair a shoes you lust after but can't afford. She's a math whiz and a trivia collector, but Janie is more than a little näive when it comes to men and relationships....
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