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Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious woman is kidnapped by a politically motivated fringe group and taken to their compound, Jack Reacher must help her escape with her life--from the inside out...
3) The jungle
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Language
English
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Description
Describes the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young immigrant struggling in America.
4) Escape
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Chicago special-ops leader Detective Billy Harney investigates when six jail inmates escape and leave a taunting note for him along with two dead correctional officers.
Author
Language
English
Description
Jodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at stake, including the affluent life they lead in their beautiful waterfront condo in Chicago, as she, the killer, and he, the victim, rush haplessly toward the main event. He's a committed cheater. She lives and breathes denial. He exists in dual worlds. She like to settle scores. He decides to play for keeps. She has nothing left to lose. Told in their alternating voices, "The Silent Wife"...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Maya Aziz, seventeen, is caught between her India-born parent's 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.
9) Innocent
Author
Series
Kindle County novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"More than twenty years after Rusty Sabich and Tommy Moto went head-to head in the murder trial of "Presumed Innocent", the men are pitted against each other once again. When Sabich, now over sixty years old and the chief judge of an appellate court, finds his wife, Barbara, dead under smysterious circumstances, Molto accuses him of murder for the second time..."--Jacket of book.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.
11) So big
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010, c1983
Physical Desc
252, 26 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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 the cop he claims to be. They're about to be...
13) Hollow fires
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school.
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English
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A wealthy and depressed Chicago man, bound for Christmas in Hawaii, is abruptly summoned home to North Dakota. He arrives just in time to be trapped there by a blizzard. During his stay, he reaches an epiphany worthy of the season and resolves to simplify his life.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
When the sister who delighted their parents by her faithful embrace of Mexican culture dies in a tragic accident, Julia, who longs to go to college and move into a home of her own, discovers from mutual friends that her sister may not have been as perfect as believed.
17) Gods in Alabama
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Language
English
Description
When Arlene Fleet headed off to college in Chicago, she made three promises to God: She would never again lie, never fornicate outside marriage, and never, ever go back to her tiny hometown of Possett, Alabama. All God had to do in exchange was to make sure the body of high school quarterback Jim Beverly was never found. Ten years later, Arlene has kept her promises, but an old schoolmate has recently turned up asking questions. And now Arlenes African...
20) Pretty baby
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can't get the girl out of her head… Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and...
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