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Published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC--Tltle page verso.Author: Conrad Richter, David...

Author: Robert K. ElderPublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: Jan 01, 2011Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1556528256ISBN-13: 9781556528255

Dallas, Texas. November 22, 1963. Shots ring out at Dealey Plaza. The president is struck in the head by a rifle bullet. Confusion reigns. Special Agent Paul Landis is in the follow-up car directly...

2016 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People List Have you ever wondered what it was like to live during the Great Depression? Perhaps you think of the stock market crash of 1929,...

The Grit, located in the quintessential boho town of Athens, Georgia, is known far and wide as the touring musicians' restaurant of choice. This classic cookbook features 150 of The Grit's most...

Based in part on the recent interviews with more than 125 people--among them Tommy Ramone, Chris Stein (Blondie), Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group), Hilly Kristal (CBGBs owner), and John Zorn--this book...

The Joys of Being a Little Black Boy is a vividly illustrated children's book that brings to life Roy, a joyful Black boy. Roy takes young readers on a upbeat journey through history to meet some of...

Author: Annette WhipplePublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: Aug 04, 2020Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1641601663ISBN-13: 9781641601665

Explores the underground communities beneath New York City, examining the people that live there, the factors that influenced their decision to move below ground, and the sense of identity...

Children's future successes depend on developing the abilities to innovate, be resilient in the face of their mistakes, problem-solve creatively, and collaborate with peers effectively. However,...

Impetuous and attractive, Nicola Ferris has just arrived in Crete for a holiday when she sees an egret fly out of a lemon grove. On impulse, she follows the bird's path into the White Mountains...

Living with Dad was like living with a stranger--as a kid I often had trouble connecting and relating to him. But I was always proud of him. Even before Star Trek I'd see him popping up in bit roles...

Author: Dan Farrell, Donna BamfordPublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: Jun 01, 2017Number of Pages: 144 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 161373915XISBN-13: 9781613739150

Author: Vince WaldronPublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: Oct 01, 2011Number of Pages: 416 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1569768390ISBN-13: 9781569768396

Author: Shawn EngelPublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: Oct 06, 2020Number of Pages: 128 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 1641604484ISBN-13: 9781641604482

An extraordinary yet almost unknown chapter in American history is revealed in this extensively researched expos?. On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend's yacht and was not...

The School's on Fire! follows the path of the December 1958 fire that killed 92 kids and 3 teachers at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago and changed fire safety laws forever. Recounted in a...

The Awakening Land trilogy traces the transformation of a middle-American landscape from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime of one character...

The final novel in the Strugatskys Noon Universe, Waves Extinguish the Wind is told as Maxim Kammerer's final memoir, an exploration trying to find truth and answers in a universe that provides only...

A 2015 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Have you ever wondered what it's like to live and work in the most important house in the country, or what it's like to grow up there? Now,...

When Lucy comes to Corfu to visit her sister, she is elated to discover that the castello above their villa is being rented to Sir Julian Gale, one of the brightest lights in England's theatrical...

What is the allure of the extreme? Who are the women who seek out and excel at sports outside the conventional, such as cave diving, wingsuit flying, or Formula 1 racing? This collection of female...

Author: Karen KnottsPublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: Dec 01, 2021Number of Pages: 272 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1641608439ISBN-13: 9781641608435

Tom Waits, even with his barnyard growl and urban hipster yawp, may just be what the Daily Telegraph calls him: "the greatest entertainer on Planet Earth." Over a span of almost four decades, he has...

Author: Lyzette. WanzerPublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: Nov 08, 2022Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Paperback/Biography & AutobiographyISBN-10: 1641606703ISBN-13:...

Education has become synonymous with schooling, but it doesn't have to be. Schooling is only one method of education, and it may not be the best one for the imagination age. As schooling becomes...

Waylon Jennings, one of country music's most enduring and colorful renegades, shares the story of his explosive life from dirt poor, dirt floor beginnings through his transformation as rockabilly...

Truman and Picasso were contemporaries and were both shaped by and shapers of the great events of the twentieth century--the man who painted Guernica and the man who authorized the use of atomic...

This intimate story of Lynyrd Skynyrd tells of how a band of lost souls and self-destructive misfits with uncertain artistic objectives clawed their way to the top of the rock 'n' roll world. Based...