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"Meet John Nichols. He's 50-something years old, an ex-basketball player, ex-author, ex-philanderer, ex-husband, ex-high school English teacher. And he's father to three: two overachieving adult daughters, and 19 year-old Ethan, who will never be an adult. John's oldest daughter is getting married, and as the whole family travels from their homes in New York and the Chicago area, John is secretly preparing for a life-change that will alter his family's...
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"A Palestinian American woman wrestles with faith, loss, and identity before coming face-to-face with a school shooter in this searing debut. A uniquely American story told in powerful, evocative prose, The Beauty of Your Face navigates a country growing ever more divided. Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the principal of Nurrideen School for Girls, a Muslim school in the Chicago suburbs. One morning, a shooter -- radicalized...
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The story of the ways, both subtle and brutal, that a family falls apart and the intimate struggle to put what remains back together. It asks provacative questions about the nature of love, the corrosive effects of envy and guilt, and the limits of forgiveness. This story is for anyone who has ever slammed out a door with the vow to never return, only to find his or her way back home again--Cover p. [4].
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Sentient bog bodies, living marionettes, deranged tramp clowns, fairies turned human, tooth fairies gone bad, shadowy figures on stilts... these and many other strange characters haunt the pages of this unique collection of fantasy and horror-- Amazon.com
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"Gina Frangello is a long-married fortysomething devoted mom when her life is turned upside down by the sudden death of her closest friend. Worn down from years of caregiving both her elderly parents and three kids, Gina starts to interrogate her own mortality and what she once longed for as a younger woman : a kind of sexual, romantic and artistic intensity radically at odds with her comfortable but emotionally stagnant marriage. Falling into a...
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Chronicles Chicago's architectural tradition for the nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries of the finest buildings from the viewpoint of interior architecture, including Tribune Tower, Harold Washington Library, and State of Illinois building.
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"This book is a candid look at what the Alzheimer's sufferer's family can expect. No two stories are precisely the same, but this is a story about the course of symptoms and the disease more than it is a story of Eilleen's life. This story illustrates the very real challenges countless people will face even with the best of care" -- back cover.
8) The thousand
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Kevin Guilfoile's riveting follow-up to Cast of Shadows ("spellbinding"--Chicago Tribune; "a masterpiece of intelligent plotting"--Salon) centers on an extraordinary young woman's race to find her father's killer and to free herself from the cross fire of a centuries-old civil war in which she has unknowingly become ensnared.
In 530 B.C., a mysterious ship appeared off the rainy shores of Croton, in what is now Italy.
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From Resurrection Mary and Al Capone to the funeral train of Abraham Lincoln, the spine-tingling sights and sounds of Chicago's yesteryear are still with us-- and so are its ghosts. Selzer pieces together the truth behind Chicago's ghosts, and brings to light dozens of never-before-told firsthand accounts. Take a historical tour of the famous and not-so-famous haunts around town. Sometimes the real story is far different from the urban legend ......
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"Breaking the Silence" is a profound depth charge into how the mind can break, and how it can ultimately heal. It is an unabashedly raw memoir of intense introspection which details an intimate personal journey of abject suffering hearing voices day in and day out for years on end. These often horrific experiences are also adorned with the mind-numbing frustration of experiencing myriad, rarely discussed, and even less understood, synchronous phenomena...
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"Reporting on a range of historical and contemporary female builders and designers, this educational book strives to inspire a new generation of girls in the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and math. With many of the profiles set against the backdrop of such landmark events as the women's suffrage and civil rights movements and the Industrial Revolution, and with original interviews from a number of current architects and engineers,...
14) Hafsa's kisses
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Hafsa is a little girl filled with lots of love, and she shows it by giving lots of warm kisses. Some are sweet and others not so neat. Come along and see which of Hafsa's kisses can't be beat!
15) Ride beside me
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A mother and son hop on their bike for a ride through the neighborhood, joining friends and neighbors along the way.
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Do you struggle with negative thoughts? You're not alone. Research shows that the average person thinks 60,000 thoughts per day with over 45,000 of those thoughts being negative. Why? CNN (Constantly Negative News) bombards us all day, every day. In this one of a kind book, learn the 33 fundamental practices to help you maintain a positive attitude despite the odds.
17) Not a bean
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"A Mexican jumping bean isn't a bean at all. It's a fascinating home and food source for a special kind of caterpillar!"--Amazon.com
18) The bodies keep coming: dispatches from a Black trauma surgeon on racism, violence, and how we heal
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"Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all, from gunshot wounds to traumatic brain injuries. In The Bodies Keep Coming, Williams ushers us into the trauma bay, where the wounds of a national emergency amass. Black bodies will continue to be wracked by violence, racism, and healthcare inequities until we enact changes of policy and law"--
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Life is hard enough for twelve-year-old Natalie whenever her mother opens shop as a psychic. But when Natalie starts to "see" things, it gets even harder. When a circus comes to town bringing Beausoleil the Magician, his daughter Louisa and his mysterious doll, Natalie must decide whether to keep her abilities a secret or embrace them and face the growing threat that will change her world forever
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Solitary tales volume 2
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At first, Chris Buckley was simply warned and watched. But as Chris unravels the haunting riddles of the town of Solitary, he finds that much more than the life of a town is at stake. Whether facing a pastor with a house full of skeletons or a cousin he never knew existed, Chris is forced to choose between light and darkness, life and nightmarish death. Every choice he makes reminds him that the unthinkable has already happened, and if he trusts the...
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