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Three Books About The Haymarket Tragedy
Several years ago, I joined a discussion group on Chicago history at my neighborhood library. The...
Extreme: An Anthology for Social and Environmental Justice
An Anthology for Earth Day
This year will mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. (The...
The Last Wish (Introducing the Witcher)
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A lot of people don't realize this series began all the...
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
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Andrew Delbanco—a professor of American Studies at Columbia University—has written an...
Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times
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Amy Sonnie and James...
Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction
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If you love science...
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
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One of the best...
The Black Company: The First Novel of ‘The Chronicles of the Black Company’
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The first novel in...
John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights | David S. Reynolds
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David S. Reynolds' study...
Illuminae | Amy Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
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Told through a series...
I Miss You When I Blink | Mary Laura Philpott
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Contrary to popular opinion,...
Sin City Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye | Frank Miller
ISBN: 9781593072933
A graphic masterpiece that harkens back to...
The Forever War | Joe Haldeman
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This is the best...
Four Friends | William D. Cohan
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William Cohan writes about...
The Outsiders | S. E. Hinton
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This story is for anyone...
Woman in Cabin 10 | Ruth Ware
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The Woman in Cabin 10...
The Hatching | Ezekiel Boone
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This is the first novel...
The Obsoletes | Simeon Mills
The Obsoletes is a novel about two twin robots that tells a...
It Can’t Happen Here | Sinclair Lewis
Originally published in October 1935, this novel describes the rise of a...
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone | Lori Gottlieb
Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist who spends her career trying to help...
The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch | Joseph Delaney
The Last apprentice Revenge of the Witch is my all time favorite young...
The Outsider | Stephen King
I would like to start this review off by saying that I...
Death in the Haymarket | James Green
A dramatic recounting of the early union movement in Chicago and the...
The Marshall Fields | Axel Madsen
The book traces the history of the Marshall Field family from the...
The Valedictorian of Being Dead | Heather Armstrong
Heather Armstrong has struggled with depression her whole...
The Hotel Neversink | Adam O’Fallon Price
In his second novel, author Adam O’Fallon Price tells the gripping saga...
The Kiss Quotient | Helen Hoang
This erotic, drama-filled romance novel will have you falling in love with...
When You Read This | Mary Adkins
Iris Massey loves being a personal assistant to PR wizard Smith Simonyi....
The Last Policeman | Ben Winters
Ben Winters, who wrote the notable Underground Airlines, has a new novel...
All On Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery | Henry Mayer
A wonderful biography of William Lloyd Garrison, editor of The Liberator, the pre-Civil...
The Dakota Winters | Tom Barbash
In the fall of 1979, Anton Winter returns from the Peace Corp...
The Kingdom of Copper | S.A. Chakrabort
The continuation of the Daevabad trilogy goes deeper down the rabbit hole....
My Sister, The Serial Killer | Oyinkan Braithwaite
Korede is the older sister, the more responsible one, the quiet, studious...
One Day In December | Josie Silver
This book is perfect for anyone that enjoys reading tangled love triangles...
The Only Woman in the Room | Marie Benedict
A well-written portrait that captures the resilience of Hedy Lamarr. Stretching from...
The Raven Tower | Ann Leckie
Readers are immersed in a world of ancient gods, their battles for...