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61) Tiffany girl
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Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
"When a glassworker's strike threatened Louis Tiffany's dream of creating his stained glass mosaic chapel, he hand-picked art student Flossie Jayne to help complete the task. As an independent "New Woman" she races to complete the Tiffany chapel and make a name for herself in the art world--and learns some important lessons about life and love"--
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English
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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 hermother 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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Series
Black Panther. Young prince volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
"T'Challa is the 12-year-old prince of Wakanda, an isolated, technologically advanced African nation. In order to protect his friends and stop an ancient evil, T'Challa must take on the mantle of a hero, setting him on the path to becoming the Black Panther."--Provided by publisher.
64) Escape
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English
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In this companion to #1 New York Times bestseller The Black Book, Detective Billy Harney chases down a billionaire crime boss and a prison escape artist while a young girl's life hangs in the balance.
As Chicago PD’s special-ops leader, Detective Billy Harney knows well that money is not the only valuable currency. The filthy rich man he’s investigating is down to his last twenty million. He’s also...Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Maya Aziz, seventeen, is caught between her India-born parents' world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil, when a terrorist attack changes her life forever.
Maya Aziz is caught between her India-born parents' world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy, and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil. In the aftermath of a terrorist attack hundreds...
66) Hardball
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Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
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Description
Chicago politics—past, present, and future—take center stage in this complex and compelling V.I. Warshawki novel from New York Times bestselling author Sara Peretsky.
Tracking down missing persons is part of V.I. Warshawski’s job. But Lamont Gadsden has been missing for more than forty years—last seen heading out into the 1967 blizzard, in the midst of Chicago’s racial unrest. V.I. figured the search...
Tracking down missing persons is part of V.I. Warshawski’s job. But Lamont Gadsden has been missing for more than forty years—last seen heading out into the 1967 blizzard, in the midst of Chicago’s racial unrest. V.I. figured the search...
67) Deadlock
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Series
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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“V.I. Warshawski is one of the best . . . smart, tough, sexy.”—Daily News (New York)
“Sara Paretsky makes excellent use of local backgrounds in a carefully plotted tale of murder and great misdeeds in the world of Great Lakes cargo shipping.”—Chicago Tribune
When Chicago Black Hawks hockey legend Boom Boom Warshawski slips off a wharf and drowns in Lake Michigan, his private-eye...
“Sara Paretsky makes excellent use of local backgrounds in a carefully plotted tale of murder and great misdeeds in the world of Great Lakes cargo shipping.”—Chicago Tribune
When Chicago Black Hawks hockey legend Boom Boom Warshawski slips off a wharf and drowns in Lake Michigan, his private-eye...
68) The Black Book
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Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Three bodies in a beautiful and luxurious bedroom. Billy Harney was born to be a cop. The son of Chicago's chief of detectives, whose twin sister is also on the force, Billy plays it by the book. Alongside Detective Kate Fenton, Billy's tempestuous, adrenaline-junkie partner, there's nothing he wouldn't sacrifice for his job. Enter Amy Lentini, a hard-charging assistant state's attorney hell-bent on making a name for herself-who suspects Billy isn't...
69) Critical mass
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
"V.I. Warshawski's closest friend in Chicago is the Viennese-born doctor Lotty Herschel, who lost most of her family in the Holocaust. Lotty escaped to London in 1939 on the Kindertransport with a childhood playmate, Kitty Saginor Binder. When Kitty's daughter finds her life is in danger, she calls Lotty, who, in turn, summons V.I. to help. The daughter's troubles turn out to be just the tip of an iceberg of lies, secrets, and silence, whose origins...
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Series
Anton and Cecil volume 3
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Cat brothers Anton and Cecil team up with a police dog to search for missing puppies at the Chicago World's Fair in the thrilling final installment to the series"--
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Series
Language
English
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Evie Blackwell's reputation as a top investigator for the Illinois State Police has landed her an appointment to the governor's new Missing Persons Task Force. This elite investigative team is launched with plenty of public fanfare. The governor has made this initiative a high priority, so they will have to produce results -- and quickly. Evie and her new partner, David Marshal, are assigned to a pair of unrelated cases in suburban Chicago, and while...
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Windy City magic volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Before setting out for college, magical matchmaker Amber hopes to learn if Charlie is her true match, but consulting a fellow member of the magical community stirs up trouble.
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Series
Language
English
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"Willa Cather's third novel, The Song of the Lark, depicts the growth of an artist, singer Thea Kronborg, a character inspired by the Swedish-born immigrant and renowned Wagnerian soprano Olive Fremstad. Thea's early life, however, has much in common with Cather's own. Set from 1885 to 1909, the novel traces Thea's long journey from her fictional hometown of Moonstone, Colorado, to her source of inspiration in the Southwest, and to New York and the...
74) Dead land
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English
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"V.I. Warshawski is as dogged and ferocious as ever. So is Sara Paretsky, who is at the top of her crime novel game."
— C.J. Box
Chicago's legendary detective, V.I. Warshawski, knows her city's rotten underbelly better than most, but she's unable to avoid it when her goddaughter drags her into a fight over lakefront land use, in this propulsive novel from New York Times bestseller
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English
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"Savvy investigator Vic leaves her comfort zone in Chicago to investigate the disappearances of a young film student and a faded Hollywood star in Kansas, where a university town, the remnants of the Cold War and long-simmering racial tensions are stirred into violence by mysteries and murders."
76) Brush back
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
Reluctantly agreeing to help when an old boyfriend asks her to exonerate his mother for the murder of his sister, V. I. Warshawski is forced to confront ugly politics and violent elements in her hometown.
77) Overboard
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Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In a city emerging from its pandemic lockdown, detective V.I. Warshawski must elude Chicago powerbrokers and mobsters as she tries to find a missing girl who is the key witness to a nefarious conspiracy, which makes Warshawski a target as well.
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Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Just months after the closure of the Chicago World's Fair, librarian Lydia Bancroft finds herself fascinated by mysterious patron who loves books as much as she does. As she endeavors to learn more about him, she becomes a suspect to a murder and must determine whom she can trust"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
This book tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong, not to her run-down neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Capturing her thoughts and emotions in poems and stories, she is able to rise above hopelessness and create a quiet space for herself in the midst of her oppressive...
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Series
Chicago Stars volume 9
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Opera diva Olivia Shore and Chicago Stars quarterback Thaddeus Walker Bowman Owens embark on a nationwide tour promoting a luxury watch brand and must find a way to get along when they are plagued by a series of dangerous encounters with an overzealous fan.
Thaddeus Walker Bowman Owens, backup quarterback for the Chicago Stars, is a man with a low tolerance for divas. Olivia Shore, international opera superstar, has a monumental grudge against the...
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