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BARBARA BLAKE is a bright, young, attractive, and ambitious defense attorney. Alejandro Soto, an inmate already serving two life sentences for the brutal murder of a drug dealer and the man's mother,...

In 1982 on an island off the coast of South Carolina, the racism and ostracism bubbling just beneath the surface of daily life make it feel more like the Jim Crow South of the 1950s. Cast into this...

Baby MosesAuthor: John CowlinPublisher: Amika PressPublication Date: Nov 13, 2020Number of Pages: 297 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1937484777ISBN-13: 9781937484774

Honorable Mention, Anthology, 2016 Readers' Favorite Book Awards Bob Boone returns to Forest High School in his new book. With his distinctive voice, he gives us another glimpse into the characters...

Bad Reputation: The Complete Collection - 9781937484798Author: Matt HaderPublisher: Amika PressPublication Date: August 16, 2021Number of Pages: 407 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

On a hill overlooking the Aegean Sea in Turkey, an international team of archeologists discovers a stone box that first-century Jews used to rebury their dead. The box's Aramaic inscription: Jesus of...

Donald G. Evans, Founding Director, Chicago Literary Hall of Fame: "Riveting historical fiction set during a seminal time....A precise and loving re-creation." As 1907 becomes 1908, National Base...

NAMED TO KIRKUS REVIEWS' BEST BOOKS OF 2013Ranked #20, Amazon Best Sellers, 14 October 2014Silver Medal Winner, Realistic Fiction, 2016 Readers' Favorite Book Awards 1972. The Chicago Mob stands...

Deeply touching -The Philadelphia Inquirer "Emotionally satisfying" -Kirkus Reviews "A literary joy" -Readers' Favorite Charlie Alessandro is a musician and a marketing executive who ought to be...

A chaotic, sleep-deprived quest to right a murderous wrong. Jakub "Pies" Jakubowski is released from prison after doing a five-year jolt for manslaughter. There's only one simple goal in mind for the...

"A bleak look at a bitter life that may be too much for readers to bear." -Kirkus Reviews Jesusita is the story of immigrants-legal and illegal-trying to survive in California in the years after...

Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune: "Should be on the reading list of every journalism school and law school in this country." In 1983, Anthony Porter was convicted of the brutal double murder of Marilyn...

Author: Ruth Hull ChatlienPublisher: Amika PressPublication Date: September 22, 2021Number of Pages: 477 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1937484939ISBN-13: 9781937484934

Vascular surgery is an extraordinary success story. The ability to reliably repair, modify or replace human blood vessels is very recent on the long timeline of surgical history. In this book an...

Ray Lopez is on the run with a duffel bag full of cash. Both drug dealers and the police are after him. But Ray is not a criminal. His last brush with the law was over traffic tickets. Recently...

Life ain't easy for a regular guy in this town. Just ask Vic Brahm, workaday investigator in a city of monsters. Vic's new client? A three-thousand-year-old Egyptian who suspects his wife is messing...

Silver Medal Winner, Historic Fiction YA, 2014 Literary Classics Awards On a quiet day in 1858, two desperate men hijack a schooner from the Marblehead, Massachusetts harbor. Trapped aboard his...

Originally given by Charles H.C. Kim at The Peace School, this book's 31 talks offer practical yet profound insight into becoming a person of peace amid the challenges we face in today's world. Peace...

From Ken Zurski, author of The Wreck of the Columbia, comes a collection of stories about people and events which helped shape a city and region. Included are profiles of Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham...

Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune: "A remarkable book. An unbelievable pleasure. Stylish. Packs an emotional punch." In Pushing the River, Barbara Monier's third novel, a family crisis erupts when a...

The year is 1962. The family of fourteen-year-old Kevin Collins, caught in white flight, has moved from Beverly, its South Side of Chicago neighborhood, to the city's northern suburbs. The field of...

Gold Medal Winner, Historical Fiction Personage, 2014 Readers' Favorite AwardsFirst Place Winner, Turn of the 19th Century, 2014 Chaucer Awards for Historical Fiction Tell the emperor that Madame...

Author: Pat CamallierePublisher: Amika PressPublication Date: Mar 27, 2020Number of Pages: 363 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1937484726ISBN-13: 9781937484729

A century-old murder mystery...A dangerous ghost...An amateur historian...What binds them together? Cora Tozzi is a retired businesswoman who, after nursing her mother through her final illness,...

The Rocky OrchardAuthor: Barbara MonierPublisher: Amika PressPublication Date: May 12, 2020Number of Pages: 187 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1937484823ISBN-13: 9781937484828

The Story of My Universe and Other StoriesAuthor: Christopher GuerinPublisher: Amika PressPublication Date: Jul 26, 2020Number of Pages: 263 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Who believes, followsWho hopes, leadsWho loves, receivesWho forgives, heals Award-winning journalist Michele Fitzpatrick's engaging debut novel introduces four unlikely heroines in their fifties who...

Part of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library research collection, Springfield On the night of July 5, 1918, a steamboat named Columbia, returning from a moonlight excursion, collapsed and sank...

A twisted love story driven by delusion and ill-fated fantasies. Jakub "Pies" Jakubowski is an expert at what he does, so good that he maintains a clean criminal record. Twenty-eight-year-old Pies is...

Write Through Chicago offers both teachers and students a unique opportunity to connect with Chicago and its remarkable history. Young writers will mourn at Lincoln's Chicago Funeral, marvel at the...