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"Fiona and her family moved from Ireland to Chicago to begin a new life. Yet, when the family is struck with misfortune, will Fiona's lace help save them?"--Provided by publisher.

Kate Warne was America's first woman detective. Warne proved that women could be tough, clever, patient, and resourceful---all traits essential to a Pinkerton detective.

Highlights the life, work, and social contributions of First Lady Michelle Obama. Includes a timeline, a glossary, a website for further resources, and color photographs.

In 1871, a tragic fire destroyed a major section of Chicago, Illinois, killing nearly 300 people and leaving more than 100,000 homeless. These are the stories of those who experienced it.

Based on a true story, told with the flow of a novel, spiced with frank wisdom and wit, Holding My Hand Through Hell encourages the reader to immerse themselves into this family?s life and is an inspiration to become an advocate for change in this world we all share. This book will incite discussion, debate, and heightened awareness about hope, survival, abuse, murder, and its impact on our society. In the end, it will leave readers both applauding this woman as well as wondering how she escaped, sometimes at the eleventh hour. Twenty years later, she has realized that God must have been holding her hand through hell, delivering her from the evils of her life in order to save others. [from author's site.

When wealthy Chicago philanthropist Elliot Rosenzweig is accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, he hires attorney Catherine Lockhart to take his case, and to her he reveals his Polish families history involving an abandoned child named Otto Piatek.

Fifteen-year-old Seamus O'Grady thinks his life would be much better if he could just move to London like his punk-rock idol Johnny Rotten, and a horrible day that starts with his being late for school again and ends with his getting beat up by his brother, puts him on the path to realizing his goal.

"It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Speakeasies thrived, gang war shootings announced Al Capone's rise to underworld domination, Chicago's corrupt political leaders fraternized with gangsters, and yellow journalism only contributed to the excesses. The frenzy of stock market gambling was rampant. Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people (who should have known better) to invest as much as $30 million--upwards of $400 million today--in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama, close to the new Canal Zone. When Leo's scheme finally collapsed in 1923, he vanished, and the Chicago state's attorney, a man whose lust for power equaled Leo's own lust for money, began an international manhunt that lasted almost a year. When finally apprehended, Leo was living a life of luxury in Nova Scotia under the assumed identity of a book dealer and literary critic. His mysterious death in a Chicago prison topped anything in his almost-too-bizarre-to-believe life. Empire of Deception is not only an incredibly rich and detailed account of a man and an era; it's a fascinating look at the methods of swindlers throughout history. Leo Koretz was the Bernie Madoff of his day, and Dean Jobb shows us that the dream of easy wealth is a timeless commodity"--Provided by publisher.

A brief biography of professional basketball player Anthony Davis.