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Series
I survived volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In this book of the I survived series, one boy will struggle to stay alive as the great city of Chicago burns.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
The disappearance of her three-year-old son Ben threatens to drive a wedge between Beth Cappadora and her husband, Pat, and transforms her older son into a troubled delinquent, until one day nine years later when Ben comes back into their lives.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"An extremely popular drug, Krayoxx, the number one cholesterol reducer for the dangerously overweight, produced by Varrick Labs, a giant pharmaceutical company with annual sales of $25 billion, has recently come under fire after several patients taking it have suffered heart attacks. All Finley & Figg has to do is find a handful of people who have had heart attacks while taking Krayoxx, convince them to become clients, join the class action, and...
5) 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.
Author
Language
English
Description
The Brushstroke Legacy by Gold Angel-winning author Lauraine Snelling highlights a modern woman's journey of self-discovery. When Chicago native Ragni Claussen grudgingly agrees to take her sullen niece with her to spruce up the family's old North Dakota cabin, she uncovers long-hidden secrets about how her great-grandmother, in 1903, learned to live and paint and love in this very place.
7) Murder list
Author
Series
Buchanan novels (Julie Garwood) volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chicago detective Alec Buchanan is assigned to protect hotel heiress Regan Hamilton Madison, who once attended a seminar where the presenter asked each attendee to make a "fantasy revenge" list of people who they would like to have eliminated, but when the people on Regan's list begin to die, Alec fears Regan is the next target.
Author
Series
Broken road (Richard Paul Evans) volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Chicago celebrity, Charles James can't shake the nightmare that wakes him each night. He sees himself walking down a long, broken highway the sides of which are lit in flames. Where is he going? Why is he walking? What is the wailing he hears around him? By day, he wonders why he's so haunted and unhappy when he has all he ever wanted-fame, fans and fortune and the lavish lifestyle it affords him. Coming from a childhood of poverty and pain, this...
Author
Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
11) Veiled in smoke
Author
Series
Windy City saga volume 1
Language
English
Description
In 1871, as Chicago's Great Fire destroys their bookshop, Meg and Sylvie Townsend make a harrowing escape with the help of reporter Nate Pierce. But when their father is committed to an asylum after being accused of murder, they must prove his innocence before the asylum truly drives him mad--
12) Pleading guilty
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
McCormack Malloy, a fiftyish ex-cop and partner at Gage & Griswell, is sent to find a missing lawyer and the 5.6 million that disappeared from a company fund.
13) Escape
Author
Series
Black book (James Patterson) volume 3
The black book volume 3
Billy Harney thriller
Billy Harvey thriller volume 1
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The black book volume 3
Billy Harney thriller
Billy Harvey thriller volume 1
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Language
English
Description
Chicago's #1 detective, Billy Harney, takes on a billionaire crime boss in this follow-on to James Patterson's highly acclaimed, multi-million selling Black Book. As Chicago's special-ops leader Detective Billy Harney knows well, money is not the only valuable currency. The billionaire he's investigating is down to his last twenty million. But he's also being held in jail. For now--
14) Fire and ice
Author
Series
Language
English
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
15) The red book
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Launching an investigation of his own when his instincts tell him that more is behind a political shooting on Chicago's west side, SOS Detective Billy Harney uncovers a spate of murders connected to his troubled past.
16) Critical mass
Author
Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 16
Thorndike Press large print basic
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 16
Thorndike Press large print basic
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky's brilliant protagonist V.I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp plotting and compelling characters with a heady mix of timely political and social themes. 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,...
17) Notorious
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Gaby Dupont knows some men shouldn't be trusted. Ever. Especially not high-profile lawyer Nicholas Chandler. How can she trust the man who might be helping one of her horrible relatives weasel out of the consequences for their bad behavior? To get the inside scoop on Nicholas's dealings - and protect herself and her beloved grand-mA¨re - Gaby must take a job with the devil himself. Of course, she can't tell him who she really is . . . Nicholas Chandler...
18) Allegiant
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tris must escape with Four and go beyond the wall enclosing Chicago. For the first time ever, they will leave the only city and family they have ever known. Once outside, old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless with the revelation of shocking new truths. Tris and Four must quickly decide who they can trust as a ruthless battle ignites beyond the walls of Chicago which threatens all of humanity. In order to survive, Tris will be forced to...
20) The hostage
Author
Series
Chicago Fire trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chicago, 1871
Deep within the quiet of the night, a city erupts into flames, and a spoiled heiress is soon whisked away.
Deborah Sinclair is a beautiful, accomplished young heiress with a staggering dowry. But her fortune does her no good when, one horrible night, Chicago is engulfed in flames.
Tom Silver will walk through fire to avenge a terrible injustice-and he may have to. But when he makes Deborah a pawn in his revenge, the heat of...
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